Slide Duration in Timeline
I am not able to change my slide duration in the timeline of Cativate 5 as I could with other versions. I can see the move arrow and it will move the duration forward but not back. Thanks for any help ASAP.
Cher
Check all the objects on your slide that go right to the end of the slide. One or more of them are probably Timed for a specific number of seconds which will turn out to be the same as the current duration of the slide. Until you change their duration, you won't be able to get your slide duration less than what they currently are.
If you select the objects that currently go to the end of slide and hit Ctrl + E keystroke combination, they will all be set to Display for Rest of Slide. Then you should be able to drag the slide duration at will.
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Cannot change slide duration in software simulation
I'm using Captivate 7 for the first time. I had a much older version, but seldom used it.
I have recorded a simple software simulation that should be a piece of cake to edit and produce, but have come across a problem I don't know how to solve. The simulation includes an item on screen being clicked, then dragged and dropped into a new location. I cannot edit the duration of the slide that shows the drag-and-drop motion. It has a duration of 6.5 seconds, which is painfully and unrealistically slow and there is no way I can find to shorten it.
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I recall this sort of thing being very simple in previous versions of Captivate. Not anymore, I guess...
Thanks,
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Slide duration button greyed out
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Hello - For some reason, I am not able to change the slide duration. The slide is currently 67 seconds. I try changing the slide duration in the properties panel - nothing. I try moving the playhead. It just doesn't every change from 67 seconds. any ideas? (PS - the slide has audio, but the audio is only 49 seconds long - I want to cut the slide length so it ends when the audio ends.
Hi there
What objects are on the slide? Normally when you are unable to adjust slide duration it is because you have an object on the slide that is timed such that you cannot make the slide shorter.
Bottom line here is to check duration of objects on the slide.
Cheers... Rick -
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I've recorded an Automatic Recording using the Custom Mode.
When I preview my recordings I discover that all the slide durrations are 4+ seconds.
I've been manually adjusting the slide durration for each recorded slide (very annoying.)
Is there any way to have the slide duration adhere to the global settings?Hi again
So this is a simulation and not a demo?
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Slide duration - How to make one slide have a different duration to another slide?
Slide duration - How to make one slide have a different duration to another slide?
EG So one slide has 2 seconds, another 4 another 6
All I can see is how to make all slides have the same duration
Any help very much appreciated!
BrianSlide durations are not changeable on a slide-by-slide basis.
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Slide presentation Vs. Timeline Document Based Development
Interested in all opinions or comments concerning experiences
with the limitations or extendability of Slide Presentation Vs.
Timeline Document development using actionscript 2.0 for the
purpose of Courseware/Presentation/Quiz development and
maintenance. Eager to hear all comments small or large.
Topics Points to include but not limited to: - Stability -
Range - Limitations - Preference - Experience - Pros - Cons -
Accuracy - Problems - Errors - Likes - Dislikes - Load Balancing -
Customization - Coding Development/Programming - Controlflashgodx,
> Interested in all opinions or comments concerning
experiences
> with the limitations or extendability of Slide
Presentation Vs.
> Timeline Document development using actionscript 2.0
I'm interested in this, too. (Thanks for bringing up the
topic!) My
guess, however, is that you won't see a flood of feedback.
The timeline
metaphor is deeply engrained in the Flash developer mindset.
Building a
slide presentation-based movie (the relatively new "screens
feature") just
doesn't feel like working in Flash. I don't think many people
use
screens -- though maybe it's too early to tell. I could be
completely off
base, of course, and I welcome friendly dissenters.
I think Macromedia was hoping to appeal to the Visual Studio
crowd with
screens. I'm curious to see how Adobe continues the idea. In
any case, at
present, there's a kind of ActionScript mini-framework that
gets added to
screens-based SWFs. This framework is what allows screens to
behave like
screens rather than timelines. It is important to realize,
however, that
all SWFs are, in the end, SWFs. The screens metaphor is no
more "real" than
the timeline metaphor is. Both are just user interfaces to
translate our
human instructions into something the Flash Player can
understand.
I don't much care for the fact that this framework adds 27KB
to a SWF
before anything else is even added. Start a new Slideshow
Presentation and
immediately test the SWF (Control > Test Movie). In the
resulting Flash
Player window, select View > Bandwidth Profiler to see how
much the SWF
weighs. Do the same with a normal Flash document and compare
the two.
To answer your specific bullet points:
- Stability
I have no opinion here, I'm afraid. I simply haven't
produced enough
screens-based SWFs to make a fair assessment.
- Range
Not sure what you mean, here. Are you asking if
screens-based SWFs can
be bigger, hold more content?
- Limitations
The end result in either case is a SWF, and a SWF is what it
is.
- Preference
I prefer the timeline metaphor because I've been using it
since Flash 3.
I use Flash for everything from applications to cartoons to
video, so in my
workflow, timelines makes more sense.
- Experience
Very little experience with screens (because I don't care
for them).
Plenty of experience with Flash in general.
- Pros
I would imagine -- and I can only imagine -- that some
people prefer the
"slides" format. To me, it feels like PowerPoint, which I
don't much care
for.
- Cons
The aforementioned extra SWF weight. 27KB isn't a deal
breaker, and
it's certainly less bulky than any of the v2 UI Components,
but ehh. For
what that's worth, I think it's a con. My programming skills
have matured
along with the phenomenal advances in ActionScript in recent
years. I
crossed a milestone back in Flash MX, I think, where Flash's
under-the-hood
mechanisms really started "clicking" with me. (To be sure,
the learning
process never ever stops ... I'm *still* learning, and things
are *still*
clicking for me, but I digress.) To me, the screens metaphor
introduces a
new (in my opinion, unnecessary) layer of abstraction to a
lean-but-powerful
environment I already know and love.
- Accuracy
Not sure what you mean here.
- Problems
I don't use screens often enough.
- Errors
Ditto.
- Likes
This is reflected in my views on Pros and Cons.
- Dislikes
Ditto.
- Load Balancing
Again, not sure what you mean.
- Customization
Good question!
- Coding Development/Programming
None of the programming books I've read even touch screens.
- Control
Control of what?
David
stiller (at) quip (dot) net
Dev essays:
http://www.quip.net/blog/
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Hello,
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Lilybiri -
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Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
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I was trying to create a slide show in iDVD 09. But I couldn't select manual slide duration as it was greyed out. How can I select manual instead of the auto run of 5 sec or 10 sec?
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Make slideshow in iDVD6: 'manual' option not avail. in 'slide duration'
In iDVD6, the 'manual' option is not available (it's "greyed out") when I look to choose 'manual' in the "slide duration" pull-down menu. I CAN (if I wanted to) choose "1" to "10" seconds, or even "fit audio," but for some reason the software is not allowing me to choose "manual." Any hints?
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I have been unable to find this in Keynote's help file.
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where 1000 = 1 second.
Thanks to Cyclosaurus for the code
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