Timing

[Guest]

I have just completed a project, I have text and images timed to come in with the audio, it works perfectly until I pubish it......has anyone encountered a similar problem?

[RodWard]

Did you build this project in PPT to begin with and then import it into Captivate or did you build it from scratch in Captivate using native Cp slide objects?

[Guest]

I built it rom scratch in Captivate 5.5, cut and paste text from word into a 'Insert Text Caption'. Images were imported using copy and paste from the likes of Google images for example.

[AdityaKalania]

Hi there,

Can you share the project with us?

Thanks

[RodWard]

Did you add your audio slide by slide or as one single big audio file?  If the latter, try breaking your audio up and adding it slide by slide, or if you use Slides Audio, do it at least no more than a few slides at a time.

[Guest]

Yes I can, have you an email address so as I can share it through adobe please

Rgds

Fleur

[AdityaKalania]

Fluer, I have sent you a message. Please respond.

Thanks

[Guest]

Whats your email address please?

[AdityaKalania]

I have sent you a reply :

I did noticed that on your project, the audio keeps on playing and the slide remains still.

Reason : you have a continue button which pauses the slide(after 1.5 seconds) , but the audio is started before the actual pause (from the beginning of the slide), so it continues to play.

Solution : You have 1 sec silence in the audio, I edited the audio and removed that silence. Now, place the audio after the slide pauses (after 1.5 seconds). I have placed the audio at 1.6 seconds. Now the slide pauses after 1.5 seconds, as you want, once the user clicks on the button the slide will proceed ahead, and will pick the audio at 1.6 seconds and audio will start playing, in sync with the text and other objects on the slide.

Also on the ‘Continue’ button, you had an action – ‘Go to next slide’, as you only have one slide in the project, so this button does not work. I changed the action from ‘Go to next slide’ to ‘Continue’. Now the project will pause after 1.5 seconds and once the user clicks on the ‘Continue’ button, it resumes the project and picks the audio at 1.6 seconds and start playing it.

[Guest]

Aditya,

Thats Perfect, thanks a million, I totally understand now .......a great help

Rgds

Fleur