CP5.5 - Import PPT - Sometimes PPT Animations do not finish playing - WHY?

I have CP5.5.
We animate our PPTs and then import them.
Usually the last animated object in PPT does not finish playing.
For example if you use the "Wipe" animation on an Arrow drawn in PPT and it is the last animated object.
I usually put the animation speed on Very Fast in PPT but sometimes it still doesn't finish animating or the tip of the arrow doesn't display all the way.
Has anyone else run into this situation?
I usually end up changing the animation type, however I was wondering what the cause of this is?

Hey Frank. This is a good tip. Ever since Presenter changed the way they handle audio files, we have stopped recording our audio in Presenter; we all happen to have Captivate licenses on my team so we use it to record and edit all audio before we export to Presenter. If we have to make any changes, we also go back to Captivate and import the changed audio again. We tried working with the Adobe "support" for months on this issue and got nowhere. Each time you alter audio, even if you remove your breathing sounds, if divides the audio into two parts at the place where you changed it. So, yes, for longer pieces of audio, you end up with multiple files. Presenter does "merge" them together when you publish; however, it doesn't do a very good job of it. So every time the playbar reaches one of these split sections of the audio, it has a little glitch.
Now that you can record audio in PowerPoint and since the PowerPoint integration is so much better in Captivate, we will be dropping our Presenter licences. We may keep one or two so we can update existing modules. Unfortunately when the product has too many glitches and the support is not good (we had Gold or Platinum support too), you can't afford to stay with the product. We've used it for about 6 years.

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