Text caption not disapearing?

HI,
I am working on a project that has a text caption to point users to clcik the play bay (video within the project), the text caption is set to appear immediately and to stay on slide for 3 seconds, but when I publish or preview the slide, the text caption stays put....
Seems really strange as other captions on the project disappear fine.....
It only seems to be ones on this slide , as I have deleted the initial caption and replaced with another but ths caption stil l stays...
Is this because of the video inserted on the slide?
Cheers
Rossco

Hi Rod,
yes yo are correct, but the last image I wextended to slide duration and also pulled the caption one to be as long as the slide, but above is how the timeline was originally, however you have just enlightined me to the problem, and that is the whoole slide was only 3 seconds in length, so of course the caption will stay for the duration. I looked everywhere but the timeline and then captiv8tor asked for a screenshot of it.
All working now, just extended the slide duraion beyond 3 secs...
Cheers
Rossco

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