auto advance a slide with a captivate demo/swf

[kyle.gonyer@dana.com]

Anybody know a way to have a slide autoadvance after a captivate demo/swf is done playing?

It would be nice for each slide to have an individual timing, but I can't see where this can be set.

I have tried a silent 30 sec narration to pace the slide with the 30 sec. demo, but the demo has narration too and more some reason I get this terrible buzz.

I need to use the audio in the swf too so I hoped the silent articulate narration might be the solution ...but no go

audio imported was .wav because I know articulate is picky about MP3. Have tried mp3 but get a different buzz

any suggestions?

[Rob47]

When you insert your flash movie, you set it to: "Play flash movie and slide in sync" and select "movie to next slide automatically when movie finishes".

Rob

[Spectre]

I have tried a silent 30 sec narration to pace the slide with the 30 sec. demo, but the demo has narration too and more some reason I get this terrible buzz.

If you imported a WAV file, this may be due to the audio having a sample rate/Khz setting not supported by AP. If you aren't already doing so, import only 16-bit/44.1Khz files.

BTW, in case you're wondering, SWFs with audio and imported/recorded audio in AP can work together on the same slide.

HTH,
Phil

[kyle.gonyer@dana.com]

Rob47,

not sure where "play flash movie in sync" is I see start flash movie with slide? but not what you are saying.

also I see where I can advance automatically in slide manager, but not "advance when slide is finished"...maybe that is the same? I am using 5.0d so maybe things are different than a version you might have? Definately going to stick with 5.0 because I just saw it is the only version that will let you format you notes for breaks and boldness. I guess later versions it doesn't work anymore?

found a solution finally from a 2004 blog

....sais to record directly into articualte for the duration of swf demo and then go to import audio and delete what you just did. aparently it holds the duration as a "blank space"

..this worked...but seems like a hidden feature...not very intuitive

Spectre,

I tried the wav thing as well I was using 48khz but with 44.1 it does the same thing but hisses. I am using audition for the silence creation and the swf is a captivate with audio recorded I think captivate compresses to MP3...so you have a 2 mp3s in the end competing with each other. maybe this is the issue?

thanks for the direection though you two.

[russutil]

And another BTW... If you're ever trying to pace something by inserting silent audio to run out the clock, you're creating a needlessly large slide in the process. Instead of padding time with audio, insert a small animation, e.g. make a small square "appear" with the background color after the needed number of seconds. Must more efficient way to do it.

[stumpyg]

Now why didn't I think of that? Excellent suggestion.

[brianosmi]

Originally Posted by russutil

insert a small animation, e.g. make a small square "appear" with the background color after the needed number of seconds. Must more efficient way to do it.

All of this time I've been using dummy audio files... I'm definitely going to try this next time I'm in this spot. Thanks for the tip, Russ!

[russutil]

Glad to be helpful.