Full motion .swf's in Adobe Presenter
This has been one of the most frustrating and time consuming
technical issues I've ever encountered. This is my 3rd posting (2
on a Captivate forum, 1 on a Presenter forum), and no one is able
to help me! Surely I can't be the only one to encounter the blank
screens that appear in my .swf files embedded in Adobe Presenter.
When I publish the Captivate file to .swf, multiple files are
generated. There are around 20 of them called "Fullmotion"... I can
view the main .swf file fine in IE, but when I insert the Flash
file in Presenter and publish the file, the video in the published
presentation plays for a while, then a white screen pops up, goes
back to playing, white screen again, etc... I figured out that
those white screens appear whenever there's a "Fullmotion" .... At
first I thought it was a Flash version issue, but that isn't the
case. Then I thought I had my answer when someone suggested to turn
off the borders. That didn't work.
What's the deal here? We paid a lot of money for these Adobe
products, you'd think they'd work together! Or that they would at
least offer free support ! Please someone help me!!
Hi,
The John Daigle solutions doens´t help me either and I
dont know why. But I
fix it using Flash to import/export each fullmotion in
version 7 with AS
1.0 and "import" this files to the respective slide to change
for the older
one.
I hope that captivate´s team fix it in the next update.
RB
"jpbatB" <[email protected]> escreveu na
mensagem
news:g4dqtb$5m1$[email protected]..
> Many days late and dollars short but....
> I followed the steps (John Daigle via Captv8r) but it
didn't work for me.
> Perhaps it was because I have to resize the captured
session in order to
> fit
> properly in the application in which the movie is
embedded. It looks as
> though
> the "extra" full motion swfs remain at the original
capture size and, even
> though the animations seem to play correctly when run
from the output
> folder,
> they do not run at all when the main swf is relocated.
In other words, the
> "fix" makes no difference from the original result.
> Guess I'll have to re-record that section without using
full motion
> (though,
> since this is a drag-and-drop operation, I don't know
how that will
> appear).
> I haven't yet seen ANY particular useful "upgrade" in
Captivate 3 to
> offset
> the distinct downgrades that have occurred.
>
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