Import powerpoint 2007 animation to Captivate 3

[blueharmony]

I've created a single-slide presentation in powerpoint 2007 that has an animated smart art that flys on to the screen. I saved my powerpoint 2007 file as a ppt not pptx. I imported the file to Captivate 3 as animation. but when I preview the project, the animation just shows up as a non-animated object. It doesn't have any of the animated qualities of the original powerpoint.

See this link to see what I'm talking about:
http://screencast.com/t/zgTOYx35Bd

[JLRiley]

I watched the example but am unsure where the animation from the ppt should have been. I did see the process but where is the part that does not work?

What should the viewer see?

When the animation plays in PPT, what speed does it play? Try slowing it down and see if it imports differently into Captivate.

[blueharmony]

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Originally posted by: JLRiley
I watched the example but am unsure where the animation from the ppt should have been. I did see the process but where is the part that does not work? What should the viewer see?

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The PPT animation flys in from all sides of the screen. When it gets imported into Captivate 3, the animation loses its flyins.

The animation and captivate are both set to 25fps. I'll try slowing it down. What makes you think that slowing it down could make it work?

-Marc

[JLRiley]

The animation I have done so far has always worked. I will try something that flys in from all directions to see if I have the same issue.

I had an animation that worked better in a slower mode so that was why I suggested it.

[JLRiley]

Unfortunately I have not been able to duplicate your problem and so I don't have an answer for you. I hope another person in the forum reads this and can help.

[Papillon-ch]

Hi

Haven't had any luck with timing even with the import animation function, but have figured out that if you don't see your flying object on the timeline in captivate, then, don't see how you can modifiy its timing.

Following that logic, is it possible to add objects from an imported PPT slide to the timeline? Don't know.

The other solution is to record in Captivate your ppt show onscreen, with a click b/w each action, so that captivates records each step.

[Papillon-ch]

Hi

Haven't had any luck with timing even with the import animation function, but have figured out that if you don't see your flying object on the timeline in captivate, then, don't see how you can modifiy its timing.

Following that logic, is it possible to add objects from an imported PPT slide to the timeline? Don't know.

The other solution is to record in Captivate your ppt show onscreen, with a click b/w each action, so that captivates records each step.

[Papillon-ch]

Hi

Haven't had any luck with timing even with the import animation function, but have figured out that if you don't see your flying object on the timeline in captivate, then, don't see how you can modifiy its timing.

Following that logic, is it possible to add objects from an imported PPT slide to the timeline? Don't know.

The other solution is to record in Captivate your ppt show onscreen, with a click b/w each action, so that captivates records each step.

[RoboWizard]

Hi Papillon-ch

In this case I would think recording the animation as it plays in PowerPoint would be the solution. Exactly as blueharmony did with creating the Jing that was shared with us.

Cheers... Rick

[JLRiley]

I would agree that recording the animation as it plays in PPT could help. That is how I have done several of my animations rather than import them.

What I have found in the process is make sure you set the Captivate screen to only cover the area of powerpoint where the animation takes place. That is, you can have powerpoint in a slide view and click the play test button to record but only record the slide area.

Another thing you may want to do is be sure the animation in powerpoint has a delay to begin with. This gives you time to first click record (I am using full motion recording here) and let the captivate red box go a way and then click the Play button in powerpoint.

This sounds kind of crazy as I type it here but it works. Trying to record a complete powerpoint slide show was more problimatic to me than doing it the way I describe. For one thing, the resulting animation is very large. I prefer the smaller slide size animation/recording.

I hope this help. Still not sure what else to to tell blueharmony.

[Karzons]

Great post, very interesting to read.