Importing .SWF files from Flash
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Hi Everyone,
I'm fairly new to the captivate software. However, I am very familiar with flash. So when it comes to some of the heavier animated slides of my course I want to build them in flash and import the SWF into captivate.
I have a .swf file that is 1 fps and 104 frames (104 seconds). The flash file is only 350 pixels but I have a image on there that is like 600 and it scrolls up during the course of the flash file. I then imported that into captivate.
When I publish the captivate project the whole 600 pixels are showing from flash... even though the animation on the slide is only 350. It also does the animation in like 3 seconds when its published?
Whats going on with my video? It is not synced in the properties menu.
Thanks!
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Check and try use mask layer from flash program, with the dimension that's want to show.
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Yes I did mask in flash and it worked the way I wanted. I had to put the FPS to 30 since thats
what captivate is at so thats why my flash file was running too fast!
I still have a problem because my flash movie is at 30 FPS and needs to be like 4000 frames and flash only goes to 3,000 something... don't know how I'm going to fix it but I'll tinker with it. Any ideas?
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what does the synchronize with project option mean/do?
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Hi,
If you are familiar with Flash, then the only other option I can see is to stop your embedded clip (the one at 1 fps) on the first frame and then create a timer that will advance the frame at 1 roughly 1 fps. This should decouple your embedded clip from the main captivate presentation. In essence, it is the same technique that you can use to make your clip go backward.
And from the Captivate help file:
- Synchronize With Project
- Synchronizes the speed at which the animation file plays with the Timeline speed. If you find that the animation file is not playing smoothly, test with this option selected and cleared to see which setting gives you better results.
HTH
Whyves
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Thanks for your reply. I did go ahead and make a timer in flash. The main
page is 30 frames and on the 30th frame it has a goto next frame. Works great in flash and when I publish out of flash. However when I import it into captivate and plublish from there... it doesn't work at all. I know when I imported the flash file it said that captivate doesn't like actionscript 2.0 and there may be problems... I'm thinking this might be it. I don't know if there is a solution from that. I can't afford to upgrade my flash plus I really am comfortable with the flash I have.
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never mind I had to just sync it with the project. Seems to work just great! thanks for all the help.

