First slide pausing, without click box to initiate pause.

The fist slide of my project is a title page, that as of recently, has been pausing the entire video.
There are no click boxes or other objects in the slide (that I know of) that would initiate the pause. What's weird is, if I close Captivate, reopen the project and then preview the video the first slide does not pause and properly transitions into the second slide, however, if I preview for a second time the first slide will pause the video. I tried placing a blank slide in front of the first slide, deleting the first slide entirely and recreating from scratch but the same issues occurs.
Please, let me know what I can do to fix this issue.

Are there any advanced actions either on this slide or pointing to this slide?

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First slide pausing, without click box to initiate pause.

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