Cannot Import Animated Gif

Hi all. I have been following the Lynda tutorials for Captivate 5 for Mac, and I'm at the point where they are inserting animated .gif files. When I attempt to insert the image via Insert > Animation, and select the file I receive the message that "The file is not an animated GIF file", and then nothing imports to the stage.
I downloaded an animated .gif from the web and tried to import that, but same result. They both open up on Photoshop fine.
Can anybody help me with this issue?

Hi,
In my envirement...
If the animations frames set to "No Delay (0 Sec)" in PhotoShop, once import the GIF file to Captivate will get "The file is not an animated GIF file", if import the GIF file to Media Encoder will have problem too.
Please try set frames to 0.1 seconds at least
Pan Ming

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