Captivate adding extra time to old RoboDemo projects

I am currently evaluating Captivate for my company with the
final goal of advising on whether to upgrade our RoboDemo
application. While there are several nice new features that are
great incentives to upgrade, there is one very annoying problem
that I cannot see a workaround to.
We have several complete RoboDemo projects (*.rd) When I open
these files in Captivate 1.01, it is adding 3.0 seconds to many
slides. On slides in RoboDemo that only had mouse movement and had
timing that I had meticiously edited by hand, it has defaulted all
mouse movement timing to 2.0 seconds and then added 3.0 seconds of
time where it is just the screen capture showing. In a demo where
many slides are like this and originally had times of 1.0 second or
less, it has made our demos 4 or 5 times longer!! VERY
Unacceptable.
I tried locking all of my RoboDemo slides and saving before
opening in Captivate, but Captivate still modified my timing. I
tried to copy RoboDemo slides to Captivate with no help.
Has anyone gone through this experience? I searched the
website and could not find anything. This is a substantial
hinderance to a possible upgrade and we would probably wait until a
newer version comes out for Captivate that resolves this problem.
Thanks!!!!

Hi Marc,
Thanks for the continued ideas. I did try this just now and
it is the same as trying to copy the entire slide. I am unable to
copy an individual caption or mouse movement.
Keep the ideas coming!
doxie_lover
Same result as trying to post the
quote:
Originally posted by:
MarcBosscher
so you tried copying robodemo slides into captivate? what
about copying individual robodemo captions? images? rollovers? etc?
if this works, instead of copying a slide, just CTRL+A and grab
everything on a slide and paste it all in. just one more click and
its the net same result as copying a slide.

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