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LEGEND
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Hi Jay
I'm skeptical that you will actually be able to influence this much. But you might try the following:
Click Edit > Preferences... > Project node and adjust the setting for Slide duration. It's normally 3 seconds long. I think this only really governs how long a Blank slide is when you insert it, but may be worth trying.
The other thing you might consider is to click the Settings node of that same Preferences dialog. You may wish to enable the option "Record actions in real time" and see if you like that result better. As I understand it, this option causes Captivate to actually time the slides to match the actions you perform. Where you might have the option off (which is the default setting I believe) if you click Edit > Preferences while recording, that may result in two different slides that are timed too long. But with the option enabled, if you performed the same steps, the timing would actually match how long it took you to perform them.
Hopefully something here helps... Rick
I'm skeptical that you will actually be able to influence this much. But you might try the following:
Click Edit > Preferences... > Project node and adjust the setting for Slide duration. It's normally 3 seconds long. I think this only really governs how long a Blank slide is when you insert it, but may be worth trying.
The other thing you might consider is to click the Settings node of that same Preferences dialog. You may wish to enable the option "Record actions in real time" and see if you like that result better. As I understand it, this option causes Captivate to actually time the slides to match the actions you perform. Where you might have the option off (which is the default setting I believe) if you click Edit > Preferences while recording, that may result in two different slides that are timed too long. But with the option enabled, if you performed the same steps, the timing would actually match how long it took you to perform them.
Hopefully something here helps... Rick
LEGEND
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Hi Jay
I think you are a tad confused, my friend. Here's the deal.
You said:
Record actions in real time creates an animation rather than multiple slides.
Not in my use and observation. What this option actually does is to cause Captivate to run a stopwatch when recording. Normally it doesn't matter if you click an Edit menu, wait 45 seconds and click a Preferences sub menu. The actions will be timed so that it appears more fluid. So you end up with a slide about 3 seconds or so long. With the Record actions in real time setting, Captivate runs a stopwatch. This means if you click an Edit menu, wait 45 seconds and click a Preferences sub menu, the actual playback will be on multiple slides and consume 45 seconds or so to play.
To my knowledge, there are only a few different ways to end up with "animation" slides. (I'm inferring here that you are meaning an Animation slide is a "Full Motion" slide.
* Clicks and drags (when auto recording)
* Starting and Stopping Full Motion recording via the assigned keystrokes. (Normally F9 to begin and F10 to end unless you change them to something else)
* Beginning the whole recording process by configuring Captivate so it records in Full Motion capture.
You then said:
The best I've been able to do is to set Project > Calculate Caption Timing, then select all objects in the timeline and lessen the total time of the slide.
Methinks something in there is a red herring. Here's why. The Calculate Caption Timing setting is something that occurs when you Add or Edit captions. If you have that option enabled, Captivate examines the text inside the captions and configures the caption your are editing for a specific duration. Essentially Captiate looks at the text and says: It would take the average adult this many seconds to read and comprehend that much text. Then it sets the timing for that caption accordingly.
Cheers... Rick
I think you are a tad confused, my friend. Here's the deal.
You said:
Record actions in real time creates an animation rather than multiple slides.
Not in my use and observation. What this option actually does is to cause Captivate to run a stopwatch when recording. Normally it doesn't matter if you click an Edit menu, wait 45 seconds and click a Preferences sub menu. The actions will be timed so that it appears more fluid. So you end up with a slide about 3 seconds or so long. With the Record actions in real time setting, Captivate runs a stopwatch. This means if you click an Edit menu, wait 45 seconds and click a Preferences sub menu, the actual playback will be on multiple slides and consume 45 seconds or so to play.
To my knowledge, there are only a few different ways to end up with "animation" slides. (I'm inferring here that you are meaning an Animation slide is a "Full Motion" slide.
* Clicks and drags (when auto recording)
* Starting and Stopping Full Motion recording via the assigned keystrokes. (Normally F9 to begin and F10 to end unless you change them to something else)
* Beginning the whole recording process by configuring Captivate so it records in Full Motion capture.
You then said:
The best I've been able to do is to set Project > Calculate Caption Timing, then select all objects in the timeline and lessen the total time of the slide.
Methinks something in there is a red herring. Here's why. The Calculate Caption Timing setting is something that occurs when you Add or Edit captions. If you have that option enabled, Captivate examines the text inside the captions and configures the caption your are editing for a specific duration. Essentially Captiate looks at the text and says: It would take the average adult this many seconds to read and comprehend that much text. Then it sets the timing for that caption accordingly.
Cheers... Rick
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