September 9, 2018
Captivate 2017/19: Make animations and loop animations with advanced actions
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September 9, 2018
Captivate 2017/19: Make animations and loop animations with advanced actions
I have been working as e-learning project manager and instructional designer for many years in Europe. I hold a master's degree in training engineering and multimedia. Prior to this I worked in the edutainment field for software editors.
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This video shows how to make loop animations and various animations with multi-state objects and advanced actions.

It shows:

– an easier way to animate landscapes in loop with the While loop action compared to Captivate 9,

– how to make various loop animations that come in and out of the screen or remain on screen with Multi-state objects and the Effects panel,

– how to make animations without using the Effects panel but with several pictures as in cartoons (e.g. bird),

– how to use the decision tabs to set up all animations in one script only.

This video has been made with Captivate 2017 but it also works with Captivate 2019.

(set the quality of this video to “HD” for a better display).

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2021-07-23 15:56:33
2021-07-23 15:56:33

This walk-through was very helpful. It took me a few (frustrating) minutes to figure out why my animation wasn’t playing on screen, I needed to preview in browser and not just chose to play slide. I am new to Captivate and don’t know if this is the norm, or if my computer is just at the bare minimum threshold to run the program. But now, thanks to this video I can animate loops!

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2021-07-24 07:53:57
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Common confusion for Captivate starting users. The ‘Play Slide’ option should NOT be put under the Preview button at all, because it is NOT a preview method.  To have a real Preview, a temporary output needs to be created either to SWF or to HTML5. That will not happen with Play slide, which can also be started from the Timeline panel with its Play button (arrow) or with the space bar. That option is meant only to be used when editing for synchronisation goals.

Since the demise of SWF and Flash Player, the only temporary output for Preview to be used should be HTML output. However, for a non-responsive projects, that means that only the option F11, Preview HTML in Browser should be used, because the other Preview methods (like from this slide) use temporary SWF output. That is not the case with responsive projects created with fluid boxes, because they can only have HTML output. This may also be confusing…

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2021-07-24 20:30:46
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My very early and rudimentary knowledge of this program translated this as “Preview in HTML” always because it is the best and most reliable option. Thank you for the wonderful response, I just wish I understood more to better appreciate it.

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2021-07-24 20:46:24
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If you are on a non-responsive project, that is indeed a good conclusion.

Have a look at: http://blog.lilybiri.com/challenges-for-starters

I summarized some stumbling blocks for starting Captivate users.

 

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2021-07-25 23:52:00
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Lieve Weymeis
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Thank you for the link! I appreciate the helpful people I’ve encountered here.

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2021-07-26 07:08:43
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You’re welcome!

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2019-01-12 07:45:39
2019-01-12 07:45:39

Happy to know that you are also using Speech Agaent: James.  I also use James in almost all my training Videos.

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2018-09-10 14:04:16
2018-09-10 14:04:16

Loved this. Great to see your walk through of the approach in the video.

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2018-09-10 17:18:26
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Hello Allen, thank you for appreciating my video and the way I have designed it.

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2018-09-10 11:04:25
2018-09-10 11:04:25

May be interesting to add that the While looping itself already adds a delay of about 1 sec to each cycle. Moreover nor the While loop, nor the Delay command will ever be paused by a pausing point or a pause.

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