Captivate Movie Issue

Hi,
I am adding a captivate movie into my project.
I dont want the movie to automatically display in the help
file, like it seems to do when I do "insert RoboDemo". So, instead,
I have a small graphic that I have inserted into the project, and
added a hyperlink. I chose "multimedia" as the hyperlink type, then
selected the webhelp movie from my files.
When I preview the Topic, the link works fine......The issue
I am having is that I recorded the movie at 800x600, and when I
click to view it, it is displaying as full screen, and therefore
looks a distorted because its being enlarged.
Should I re-record the movies at a different size, or is
there a way I can specify how big I want it to display?
Thankyou in advance!

I'm thinking about downgrading to captivate 4 because of this issue.
Does anyone know if this is happanning only in 5?
Thank you,
Keren

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interactive.....I've managed to fix the topics in RH that don't
have a movie inserted on them....but if there's a movie, my fix
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My fix involves a javascript include file......
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Hi again Pam
Hmmm, well I'll see if I can help any. I'm not sure what you
mean with "fixing topics in RH that don't have a movie inserted".
What are you fixing? Why is a fix needed if a movie isn't there?
But on to the actual issue at hand. You are saying that
something is being overwritten? Perhaps it will help to outline the
process as I envision it.
1. You have a topic containing a Captivate movie that is
interactive, meaning the user must click or type somewhere to
interact with it.
2. Before the fix is applied, the user must click or press
the spacebar in order to "activate" the control. This is equivalent
to patting Internet Explorer on the head and saying "It's okay.
Really. The world will, in fact, NOT end if you just show me the
content and allow me to click it."
3. You apply the fix, which means to use an external
JavaScript file (.JS file) to perform a "write in" of the code
needed to present the movie.
4. You generate WebHelp (assuming WebHelp here, as I do not
believe this issue manifests from inside a compiled .CHM file) and
something gets overwritten?
And here is the quandry. I'm assuming you are intent on
asking either how to prevent the overwriting from occurring, or
possibly WHY it's being overwritten. Perhaps both?
I think the first step is to determine if the WebHelp
generation process is actually overwriting files. I'd compare the
HTML code of a topic that works fine prior to genning WebHelp, with
the same topic code after the generation process has occurred. What
has changed with respect to the code you inserted? Is the code just
gone? Or is it possibly an issue whereby the .JS file simply hasn't
survived the WebHelp generation process? I'm guessing the latter.
You may simply need to add the .JS file to baggage.
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Trigger actionscript from end of captivate movie

Hi Guys,
I'm going insane trying to work out how to trigger an
actionscript event from the last slide of my Captivate movie.
Basically I'm doing a product walk through which I am exporting as
a swf an then dynamically loading into my flash file.
I need to be able to detect when the externally loaded
Captivate swf has completed playback so that I can then continue on
with the rest of my flash movie.
I have tried adding a swf in Captivate with actionscript to
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Chris

hi Chris
i created a similar workaround. i ran into a number of issues
when trying to call an actionscript function at the end of a
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contained an animated background and one line of actionscript, and
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figure.
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people consider it bad form, but if it works, it works. i did the
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Hi all
In addition to fellow ACE Steve's good advice, note that you
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Adding a Loading Animation to a Captivate movie for use in a RoboHelp Project?

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I'm inserting SWFs (built in Captivate 5) into Robohelp topics (using RoboHelp 9, publishing to WebHelp Pro output). These topics hold only the SWFs, so I've published the SWFs to autoplay when opened.
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this.addChild(mc);
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I get an actionscript error:
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at Aluminum_fla::MainTimeline/frame1()
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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:23:40 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Spry Accordion Jerky/Jumping movement Issues in IE
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I am frantically trying to figure out how not to get a
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how to I close the swf adn still elt the user navigate to the next
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Hi francie
I have no clue as to how what terrence wood is suggesting
will help here. From what I surmise based off what you posted, you
have inserted an animation or possibly even another Captivate movie
on a slide in an existing movie? And somehow you want to know how
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possible. Why? Well, if you were able to close the .SWF on the
slide, you would probably also close the whole movie. My guess is
that this is why you are seeing JavaScript errors.
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slides. If you are instead placing other animation, I haven't a
clue what to advise, other than to possibly adjust timing.
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I am trying to use Flash methods to control a captivate movie
using procedures documented in the support center article:
http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/publishexport/scriptingwithflash/scriptingwithflash_03. html
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I'm trying to integrate a Captivate (swf) into my Director
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1. When you publish a Captivate movie as .SWF format, you
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in RoboHelp (RoboHelp HTML assumed here) you would right click the
folder where you want the Captivate movie and choose import. Then
you would navigate to and select the .HTM file that was produced by
Captivate.
OR
2. From RoboHelp while editing a topic, you can click Insert
> RoboDemo Movie... (or Insert > Multimedia) and navigate to
the raw .SWF file Captivate produced.
I think the big deciding factor here is whether you want the
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I've managed to get a Captivate movie into PowerPoint
following instructions found at
http://www.flashgeek.com/tutorials/
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If you deselect "Borders" under Project/Skin the navigation
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(sorry it is partly in german because of my program skin)
In Powerpoint open the Toolbar „Steuerelement
Toolbox“ or open it with (View / Symbolleisten / …).
There click on “weitere Steuerelemente“ klicken
(Symbol with a hammer).
In the alphabetical dropdown list select „Shockwave
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a rectangle on the slide. There the video will appear later. Now it
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"false" it just links to it. So you can either assure that the
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presentation by naming a new video identically to the old one and
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Set film3 =
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Each time you enter a slide with a flash-video the video is
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three videos in the presentation. Do not change the order of the
commands or it will not work!
The numbers in ( ) are the number of the slide on which the
movie is appearing (here: the 2nd, the 3rd and the 4th). The name
of the movie which you can find in the properties behind "name" or
"title" is also entered. If you make a mistake here the code cannot
affect your movies. Keep in mind that the numbering of the slides
in the presentation is to be used, not the numbering shown in the
vba editor, which you can see on the left (where you also see your
module)
In this example the movie „Shockwaveflash1“ is on
the second slide.
Then click on "Save" in the vba editor and close the window.
Now test your presentation... It should work just fine!

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