Audio Files "Stacking Up" on certain slides

Working on a movie...200 slides...have listened to the audio
file and sounds fine...each slide shows an audio clip attached and
each file can be played slide by slide. However, when I publish the
movie as a .exe file or even F4 to preview the movie, the audio is
a mess...the audio continues while the slides hang up. I printed
the bandwidth summary...and it shows in the audio column (for
example) 940.8 KB on one slide with 0.0 KB on the next 7 slides,
228.6 KB on next slide with following 5 slides 0.0.
I checked the settings..."Pause until user clicks" is
UNchecked. I have numerous click boxes on the slides (and it does
seem to be those that are "collecting" the audio files), but all of
these are displayed for "rest of slide" and do not require a click.
I'm using these in a TOC on the left side to "Jump to" other
slides. And mysteriously...probably something I'm doing wrong...it
is the slides designated as "Jump to" slides that have the 940.8 KB
of audio, etc. Not one of them is 0.0.
Any ideas on how I can unscrew this mess?
Thanks!
B J

Hello B J
quote:
Originally posted by:
bjspeed
Working on a movie...200 slides...
The first thing that I would recommend is to try split the
movie into a series of smaller pieces. I know that this isn't what
you will want to hear but in general, Captivate does not handle
this volume of slides well.
Another point that you might like to consider, is that a
movie of this size and ulitmately length might be considered
information over-load for your prospective learners.
If spliting the movie into a series of movies doesn't make
any difference then please post each of the files and I (or another
of my fellow ACE's) will be happy to take a look.
Regards,
Mark

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