Timing PowerPoint Animations

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October 25, 2007
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I've just imported a PowerPoint presentation into Captivate 3. Most of the 25 slides have bullet-point advances and other animations built in to them. The live presenter advances the animations manually, as she talks to the slides. I've got her voice recorded, and want to trigger the animations in time with the audio. Does Cap 3 allow me to do this? It doesn't seem so.
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CatBandit

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Hi folks!

Actually, not only can Captivate do this, Captivate has no trouble doing it. Just to correct one possible misunderstanding, you wouldn't time the audio to the animations, you would time the animations to the audio (on Captivate's slide-timeline) - the distinction is not a small one.

Adobe Presenter is actually a small feather from the Adobe "Connect" bird. It does allow you to organize and present Power Point files, including the addition of audio and other bells and whistles for presentations. It even presents itself - in the marketing hype - as an alternative to Captivate, but In fact, "Presenter" is closer to being a competitor with Articulate's "Presenter" package.

http://www.articulate.com/
http://www.adobe.com/products/presenter/

Whether it is more right for you than Captivate is up to you, but the decision shouldn't be made because you think Captivate "can't do that", because of course, it not only can, but is quite often used that way.

BTW, Adobe Presenter can be used to display PPTs or Captivate SWFs with equal ease. But again, whether you would want to use it for one, or the other, or neither, is quite another matter entirely, and would depend on a large number of factors.
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Stoker10Author

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Originally posted by: CatBandit

"Actually, not only can Captivate do this, Captivate has no trouble doing it. Just to correct one possible misunderstanding, you wouldn't time the audio to the animations, you would time the animations to the audio (on Captivate's slide-timeline) - the distinction is not a small one."

Just to add to my previous message, in Captivate I cannot "see" the animations on the slide-timeline. I just see the entire slide as a captured animation. I'd love to hear more about how to do this. Thank you, all!