Losing Captivate audio in Flash Export

Hi everyone,
>> I'm trying to export my CP project including audio
(voice recording) to a Flash MX project. Notice that my voice
recordings are often splitted between several slides, so that the
voice can run over several slides... No problem with Captivate, my
project runs fine. Troubles begin when I export the project to
Flash...
Here are my 2 problems :
The audio files (voice recordings)
are not imported in the Flash library.
Indeed, only the mouse clic sounds are exported... What's
weird about it is that once in while (let's say 1 on 10 attempts),
it works fine, and I can finally get all my audio tracks exported
to Flash.
When I finally get the import to work
fine with my audio tracks, it appears that Flash cannot handle the
multi "slide audio" (same audio recording running on several
slides), so it only plays half of a sentence for example...
Example
of swf generated from Captivate (working fine)
Example of
swf generated from Flash after Captivate export (audio is
cut)
Here are my 2 questions :
Why can't I
ALWAYS get a "clean" export ?
What's the matter with the recordings
running on several slides and not playing well in Flash ?
I guess I've checked all the points mentionned in the
following article
Exporting
your Adobe Captivate project to Flash , but found nothing that
solved my problems.
Softwares : Captivate 2, Flash MX2004
Link to my Captivate
test project (1.5Mo)
Any idea ? please...
:o)

Hello Mark,
I'm afraid this problem occurs with all my Captivate
projects.
I've submitted a bug last week but still got no answer...
I guess, I'm going to abandon the idea of importing Captivate
projects in Flash and work with another method : Design an HTML
player and just play the Captivate generated swf in it.
Here is an example :
http://cedricsuire.free.fr/demo/demo1.html
Anyway, thanks for your help !
And if this is really a bug, I hope Adobe will fix it soon !
Cédric

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