Timing PowerPoint Animations

Question

I've just imported a PowerPoint presentation into Captivate
3. Most of the 25 slides have bullet-point advances and other
animations built in to them. The live presenter advances the
animations manually, as she talks to the slides. I've got her voice
recorded, and want to trigger the animations in time with the
audio. Does Cap 3 allow me to do this? It doesn't seem so.
thanks!

Answer 1

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
2) Watch/Listen for the point you need to insert a stop, and
"Pause" there
3) Insert a new click-box at that point on the time-line
(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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