SWF animation issue in Captivate CS4

Hello All...
Okay, I have been working on this for hours, and I am getting pretty frustrated.
I have an swf animation that I need to insert into Adobe Captivate CS4 slide. I have thested the swf file and it opens and plays just fine. I am able to insert it into the Captivate slide just fine, and it plays - however it only plays for about 27 seconds then cuts out. The total swf animation is approx. 40 seconds long.
Why is it cutting out the animation? When I import the swf file, it plays the entire animation before I actually insert it (in the Animation window). However, the "duration" only shows 27.7 seconds. Why is it only showing a duration of 27.7 seconds, when the actual animation is longer?
I extended the slide to be over 40 seconds in length, and I am playing the animation for the "duration of animation" - but it is still stopping early!
Any ideas?
Thanks for the help, it is much appreciated!

Hi there
I'm wondering if the issue might be a mismatch of frame rates. You need to investigate the frame rate the SWF was created at. Captivate typically uses 30 frames per second. So if the SWF animation has a different frame rate, perhaps that explains it?
Cheers... Rick
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I have test page : http://drupal-windwater/windWaterWidget
With two flash banners which are clickable . On click they open bigger window with additional swf animation inside. In any case, neither small or expanded animation is showing up in IE8.
It works perfect in all other browsers and even IE9.
Using suggestions from these places didn't seam helping.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6258258/swf-file-loading-in-firefox-but-not-ie
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5507265/flash-movie-not-showing-up-in-ie8-on-my-pc-can- someone-take-a-look
Please advise
thanx

The link you provided for the test page fails.
Browser issues normally result from embedding code issues. Did you let Flash publish the html for the swf's... if not, give it a try.

Exporting to one .swf when including other swf animations

Hi
When exporting my project to flash, three files are created.
I am not using any skins etc, I am just trying to incorporate two
animations (one per slide) and finish with one overall .swf file.
I have managed to do this in two other slides, though! Which
is most frustrating!
So just to reiterate:
When I publish the file, the two animations I am using are
exported again along with the rest of the publication. So I have
the main swf, which calls in the other two .swf animations when
required. I need to have just one file as a result.
Please help!!

Welcome to our community, t1mmie
Are you referring to the supplied animations? (Arrows,
Highlights, etc)
If so, there are a few that refuse to embed. For those, you
need to edit the source files in Flash and export from Flash as
Flash 6 format. Once you get them in Flash 6 format, add them again
and they should embed.
You may download the source files for animations that don't
have the source from the Captivate Exchange.
Click here to
visit the Captivate Exchange.
Cheers... Rick

When I publish a SWF/HTML5 module with Captivate 8 and try to run it using IE9 - I get the following error "The content you are viewing is not supported in the current Document Mode" - anyone know why?

When I publish a SWF/HTML5 module with Captivate 8 and try to run it using IE9 - I get the following error "The content you are viewing is not supported in the current Document Mode" - anyone know why?

TLCMediaDesign wrote:
I've seen a lot of threads about getting rid of these kind of messages. Those messages are there for a reason most of the time. If you have CSS animations or other HTML5 standards that cannot be rendered in IE9 they won't magically start working becuse you got rid of a message. I use IE9 since that is the minimum standard for the client. I have never seen that message publishing to HTML5 content.
IMO, if your client has IE9 I think that you should develop with IE9 in mind not IE11.
When you say "develop with IE9 in mind not IE11" do you mean use SWF instead of HTML5? I used the standard question types, and a converted PowerPoint presentation. I didn't add anything out of the ordinary.

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