March 16, 2021
Text animation unable to display when preview or publish project
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March 16, 2021
Text animation unable to display when preview or publish project
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I wanted to make my slide more interactive. So i have added voice over and used the timeline to adjust each text animation. However when i previewed or publish it, it doesnt show. I have read some of the feedback mentioning to shift the pause icon after the animation which i did but it still didnt work out. Anyone can help and advise?

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2021-03-21 08:55:16
2021-03-21 08:55:16

Thanks for posting that solution.

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2021-03-21 04:51:13
2021-03-21 04:51:13

I removed the paused point from my first slide and similarly to the rest of my slides. I only add the paused point at the arrow icon (next slide) as I want my learner to finish listening to the audio before proceed. And everything works fine.

Thanks again!!

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2021-03-18 08:16:30
2021-03-18 08:16:30

That is what I suspected. I checked the Timeline which doesn’t show any problem with pausing points, except what I already mentioned: you should not push them to the last frame.

Other possibilities are, and have to be checked:

  • You have ‘Pause’ as command for the On Enter event; I mention this because several Quick Start Projects sometimes have this (bad idea, since it prevents staggering objects to appear and also slide narration to play). I didn’t mention that immediately because you don’t tell that the audio is not playing.
  • You have a shape button (or an image used as button) on the used master slide, and it is pausing the slide. Not very probable because it would pause the slide at the last frame and not prevent the objects to appear.
  • You have a shape button (or an image used as button) on a previous slide with a timing set to ‘Display for rest of Project’. You need to check that.
  • A complicated advanced or shared action using Delay Next Actions could also be the culprit.

To do some real debugging, please insert a text container on this slide with the system variable cpInfoCurrentFrame. Check at which frame the playhead is pausing. To have the first frame of the slide as reference you can use the On Enter event to populate a user variable v_start with this command:

Assign v_start with cpInfoCurrentFrame

And displays that user variable along with the cpInfoCurrentFrame. If you didn’t change the setting the default frame rate is at 30FPS.

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2021-03-17 13:44:04
2021-03-17 13:44:04

Text animations are not supported for HTML output.  Did you check the HTML tracker?

However I am not sure you talk about Text animations at all.  There are several captions on the Timeline, but that is not telling whether you applied Text animating to them. Can you please be more detailed?

As for the pausing points, which you pushed apparently to the end of the slide, a practice I would not recommend and also unnecessary.  Don’t push move them to the last frame, it is sufficient to have the pausing point after the end of the last appearing timeline and/or effects.  In the Timeline there are no Effects.

Learn about pausing Captivate’s timeline a little bit more, not just applying what you ‘heard’ somewhere, but knowing what to do is much better:

http://blog.lilybiri.com/pausing-captivates-timeline

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2021-03-17 23:29:31
2021-03-17 23:29:31
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Hi,

 

I think I wasn’t clear about the text animation portion. As in animation was not used. I have adjusted the timeline of some text to appear earlier or later. When I preview it, it was fine. But after I published it, the text was paused, it didn’t appear. May I know what can be the issue?

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2021-03-20 15:26:19
2021-03-20 15:26:19
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Lieve Weymeis
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Thanks a lot for your guidance. I am able to resolve it.

 

Regards

Brian Goh

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2021-03-20 16:53:41
2021-03-20 16:53:41
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Which tip did you use to resolve the problem? That could help other users visiting this thread.

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