Adobe Captivate 5.0 Frame/Slide Limit

Ok, so i read awhile back (on this forum I think) that there is a frame/slide limit in captivate. if you pass the limit than your project starts acting a little crazy (we think we have seen some of this crazyness).
My question is...Is there a limit? if so what is it? I know it is inheriant in Flash to have a frame limit (which we passed over and over again) but we have kept our slides under the 60 slide count that i thought it was.
Any answer to this question would be a REALLY big help to me and my team.

Hi there
Captivate 4 and earlier had an unstated "best practice" limit of 50-65 slides. We found that to be the "sweet spot" or the spot before you reached the danger zone and your project began acting crazy. But with Captivate 5 being re-architected and all, the engineers tell us you should be able to get away with as many as 400 to 500 slides without issue.
Personally, I believe there has to be some limit we will later discover. But we just don't know what it is yet.
Cheers... Rick
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