Import powerpoint 2007 animation to Captivate 3

Great post, very interesting to read.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.