Huge captivate file sizes

I have been using Captivate to imbed an audio recording of a
presentation into the slides for said presentation. The audio is in
the form of one large mp3 file. When adding the audio, I select the
option to distribute over many files, and line up all the slides to
the correct part of the audio. If i need to edit the slide times or
audio (this happens frequently because captivate seems to be rather
buggy when splitting up the single audio track into one for each
slide) the resulting Captivate Project file rockets in file size. I
believe this is because it is keeping a copy of all audio used in
Captivate, ie an old and new copy of the whole mp3 stream, before
and after editting.
If this happens a few times the file size grows accordingly,
and for a 50min presentation i'm looking at project files of 1.3GB.
These are clearly pushing my (powerfull dual core, 2GB RAM) desktop
to the limit. I have tried removing all unsed items from the
library but this makes no difference to the size of the projects.
To illustrate the problem to a friend I deleted EVERYTHING
from the library, added 1 new blank slide and deleted all the other
slides. The resulting project looked akin to a brand new blank one.
Upon saving (as a new cp file) the project was infact 1.16GB in
size. Eh?
Is there some way of deleting files from captivate projects
other than the library?

If file size is the biggest concern, once you've cleared out
all items
you don't need any longer, try:
1. Doing a Save As, then a Save As again. Often, for whatever
reason,
this finally gets rid of old, unused objects.
2. Create a new project and import the existing project's
slides. This
can have the same effect.
In my experience, the first is better for reducing file sizes
and the
second is better for getting rid of any playback anomalies.
Otherwise, a better approach for what you're doing, again in
my
experience, would be to cut up the audio outside of Captivate
into one
file per slide (using a tool like Audacity), import them all
into the
library, then add each individually. That's our standard
process and
we've yet to experience these huge, bloated CP files (knock,
knock).
Erik
luke@nesc wrote:
> I have been using Captivate to imbed an audio recording
of a presentation into
> the slides for said presentation. The audio is in the
form of one large mp3
> file. When adding the audio, I select the option to
distribute over many files,
> and line up all the slides to the correct part of the
audio. If i need to edit
> the slide times or audio (this happens frequently
because captivate seems to be
> rather buggy when splitting up the single audio track
into one for each slide)
> the resulting Captivate Project file rockets in file
size. ....
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luke@nesc wrote:
> I have been using Captivate to imbed an audio recording
of a presentation into
> the slides for said presentation. The audio is in the
form of one large mp3
> file. When adding the audio, I select the option to
distribute over many files,
> and line up all the slides to the correct part of the
audio. If i need to edit
> the slide times or audio (this happens frequently
because captivate seems to be
> rather buggy when splitting up the single audio track
into one for each slide)
> the resulting Captivate Project file rockets in file
size. ....
Erik Lord
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I've noticed recently that all my background file sizes are huge - over 2 MB each. Earlier projects would vary the size of the background files - most around 60-80K, and a few the same as the current ones 2,257.21K.
I wondered if it has to do with adding more master slides, or the slides in the template (my templates include several example slides, which are removed when the project is completed). I've also noticed that the images etc. in the library are still marked after the example slides are removed, apparently because they are part of the template.
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Is there a workaround other than starting from scratch and copying slides across?

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