Slide edit question

Hi,
I know this is proably a very obvious question; I created a
Captivate demo for showing how to navigate within an application
and I need to edit at least 5 seconds out of the middle of one
slide. While waiting for a selected new screen to appear the word
"processing" flashes. The wait for the new screen is too long. The
wait during these seconds has no audio so that's not a problem but
I'd like to know how to edit with or without audio. I've tried HELP
but could not find anything.
Thank you for any assistance.

Hello and welcome to the Captivate forums!
It sounds like you're trying to edit a Full Motion Recording?
If so, a very basic editor for Captivate FMRs was made
available by a member of the Captivate development team.
It can be found here:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/captivate/articles/fmr_editor.html
Regards,
John

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Joe_Krako wrote:
>
> I know very little about load-balancing, so please
forgive the beginner
> question.
>
> If I don't plan on using ColdFusion's ClusterCATS load
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