PowerPoint Animations Import

Hi everyone,
I have a PPt presentation with several slides of Bulleted
points. In PPt each bullet is set to appear 'On Click'. This allows
the speaker to speak to each point as it appears.
After Importing the presentation into CP3 the bullets on the
slide no longer appear "On Click' but appear after about one
second, one after the other with no pause. Am I missing something?
I have extended the time the slide displays but this does not
appear to make any difference to the timing to the appearance of
the bullets.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks
Ken

Even if you've selected "On Click" for all of them in
PowerPoint, there is another setting during the import process.
It's on the screen where you see the slide thumbnails. It's called
Advance Slide and you can choose On Mouse Click or Automatically.
Good luck!

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Hello All. I'm running Powerpoint 2003 and Captivate 3.
Here's my somewhat silly question. When I import a .ppt slide
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the animation, but it fades away once the slide is done.
How do I edit the damn thing in Cap? I've tried different
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Hey there Jimmy
Standard problem is that what you created in Powerpoint from
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cannot be edited in Captivate. The best way is to build each slide
in Captivate from ground up, but I understand the frustration if
you have good powerpoint material and do not want to rebuild. In
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Captivate, then open the ppt file and edit your animations there as
this is probably where the problem lies, remember that Captivate
does not have that "click to appear/disappear" functionality that
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<banging head on desk> <and cursing>
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Do I understand it all right: your issue was originated when you tried to edit one slide with the roundtripping from Captivate to Powerpoint? What is indicated in the Library besides the Presentation? Which version of PPT are you using?
I prefer myself to have everything in Captivate, because imported PPT-animations are just FMR and editing in CP is cumbersome. But the roundtripping is there to be used of course and should work. I hope that your CP-version is up to date?
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Hi guys! My apologies for not responding - when I first
posted, I forgot to "Subscribe" to this topic, so I wasn't getting
any notification of your posts. With that out of the way, I DID
misunderstand the original question. So to avoid having too much
egg on my face, I started experimenting to see if I could actually
accomplish this ... and yes, it can be done.
The question is actually "How do we pause and restart an
animation object?" (to sync it with the audio on that slide). The
answer is in duplicating the click-box on that slide. Let's see if
I can put it into steps for you:
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With the audio inserted, and the PPT animation object on the
slide ...
1) Click the slide preview button (below and to the left of
the timeline)
or ...
1a) Grab the slide Playhead (the red bar) and "scrub" the
timeline
1b) If it's not visible, click the top of the time-line on
the "seconds" bar
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(and stop the 1st one here)
4) Continue from that point, once again pausing when
required by audio
4a) or watch the bullets as they appear and sync to that if
you wish
5) Again, insert another new click-box at that point
(stopping the prior one at the same time-line point)
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Continue as required. There is some work involved, but if you
play with this a little, you'll find that it can be done easily and
accurately. The trick is as simple as stopping playback with
multiple click-boxes at the points you want to pause. When done,
you will as many click-boxes as you have bullets or other
transitions on the slide; just be sure none of the click-boxes
overlap.
This is an answer to a different problem than I originally
thought, but I hope it it helpful. Again, I apologize for not
"subscribing" to the topic after my original reply. Usually I do
that with every post, but "stuff happens".
Ciao ~
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Greetings from Adobe.
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