Newest Version of Captivate Improves PowerPoint Import Process
If you have created a presentation using Microsoft’s PowerPoint, you can import the presentation into a Captivate project. When you import the presentation, you have the option of keeping much of the animation contained in the PowerPoint presentation or discarding the animation. If you choose the latter option, the PowerPoint slides will be "flattened." In other words, if a PowerPoint slide contains 10 objects, those objects will become one object on a single Captivate slide when imported into Captivate.
While PowerPoint animation effects (such as animated bullet builds) can be retained when you import PowerPoint presentations into Captivate, other features that can be added to a PowerPoint presentation (such as navigation buttons, audio, video and hyperlinks) will be lost after the presentation has been imported. You will have to add those features back into the Captivate project.
During the lessons that follow, you will learn how to import a PowerPoint presentation with and without animation, and how to add navigation controls.
Import PowerPoint Animation
- Create a new project (choose File > Record/Create > New Project)
- Select Other from the Select area
- Select Import from Microsoft PowerPoint
- Click OK
- Open any PowerPoint presentation on your hard drive (the presentation you open should have at least a few slides with some kind of bullet-build effect)
- Ensure Maintain aspect ratio is selected (with this option selected, changing either the Width or Height will change the other so that the presentation is kept in proportion)
- Change the Width as appropriate (the Height will automatically change proportionally to the Width you specify)
- Select Animation from the Import slides as area
- Select On mouse click from the Advance slide drop down menu
- Click OK
- Preview the project.
Notice that the PowerPoint fade-in effects have been retained. When you imported the PowerPoint presentation and selected Animation from the Import slides as area, the PowerPoint slides were converted to Captivate animation slides. In addition, a large click box has automatically been added to each slide. If you want to go to the next slide, you can click anywhere on the slide to activate the click box.
- When finished previewing the project, close the preview.
Close the project.
The New project options dialog box appears.
The Open dialog box appears.
The Convert PowerPoint presentations dialog box appears.
The PowerPoint presentation is imported into a Captivate project.
Import PowerPoint Backgrounds
- Create a new project
- Select Other from the Select area
- Select Import from Microsoft PowerPoint
- Click OK
- Open any PowerPoint presentation on your hard drive (again, the presentation you open should have at least a few slides with some kind of bullet-build effect)
- Ensure Maintain aspect ratio is selected (with this option selected, changing the Width will automatically change the Height proportionally)
- Change the Width as appropriate
- Select Background Image from the Import slides as area
- Select Automatically from the Advance slide drop down menu
- Click OK
- Preview the project.
- Close the preview.
- Go to Slide 1.
- Choose Insert > Button
- On the Button tab, select Image button from the Type area
- Select Go to next slide from the If the user clicks on the button area
- Click OK
- Position the button in an appropriate location on the slide
- Right-click the button and choose Copy
- On the Edit tab, click one time on Slide 2 to select the slide
- Press [shift] on your keyboard, scroll down the Edit tab and select the last slide
- Release the [shift] key. Then right-click any of the selected slides and choose Paste Object.
You have not only pasted the button onto all of the slides, but the pasted objects are located in the same slide position.
Notice that the slides move so fast it is nearly impossible to read the text.
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I was able to retain the animation but not all the animation on each page. Some pages stopped playing before the last line or two appeared. Any advice?
I was able to retain the animation but not all the animation on each page. Some pages stopped playing before the last line or two appeared. Any advice?
I was able to retain the animation but not all the animation on each page. Some pages stopped playing before the last line or two appeared. Any advice?
When uploading powerpoint with animation to Captivate, the transitions are choppy. In captivate, I can tell when a new slide begins because it jumps or appears to be. The transitions from slide to slide is not smooth. Can you please help with this?
When uploading powerpoint with animation to Captivate, the transitions are choppy. In captivate, I can tell when a new slide begins because it jumps or appears to be. The transitions from slide to slide is not smooth. Can you please help with this?
When uploading powerpoint with animation to Captivate, the transitions are choppy. In captivate, I can tell when a new slide begins because it jumps or appears to be. The transitions from slide to slide is not smooth. Can you please help with this?
All the timed animations I have in PowerPoint run together (i.e., each bullet point appears in quick succession instead of 3-4 seconds apart as I timed them in the ppt file).
Any way to fix this?
All the timed animations I have in PowerPoint run together (i.e., each bullet point appears in quick succession instead of 3-4 seconds apart as I timed them in the ppt file).
Any way to fix this?
All the timed animations I have in PowerPoint run together (i.e., each bullet point appears in quick succession instead of 3-4 seconds apart as I timed them in the ppt file).
Any way to fix this?
Sorry to say Eric, there is no way to control the timing of PowerPoint animations imported into Captivate. As you have seen, there is no connection between how you time things in PowerPoint and how they appear in Captivate. The good news, there are major improvements with the upcoming Captivate 4.
Sorry to say Eric, there is no way to control the timing of PowerPoint animations imported into Captivate. As you have seen, there is no connection between how you time things in PowerPoint and how they appear in Captivate. The good news, there are major improvements with the upcoming Captivate 4.
Sorry to say Eric, there is no way to control the timing of PowerPoint animations imported into Captivate. As you have seen, there is no connection between how you time things in PowerPoint and how they appear in Captivate. The good news, there are major improvements with the upcoming Captivate 4.
Re: As you have seen, there is no connection between how you time things in PowerPoint and how they appear in Captivate. The good news, there are major improvements with the upcoming Captivate 4.
Sorry. Timings from PPT don’t work in Captivate 4 either.
Re: As you have seen, there is no connection between how you time things in PowerPoint and how they appear in Captivate. The good news, there are major improvements with the upcoming Captivate 4.
Sorry. Timings from PPT don’t work in Captivate 4 either.
Re: As you have seen, there is no connection between how you time things in PowerPoint and how they appear in Captivate. The good news, there are major improvements with the upcoming Captivate 4.
Sorry. Timings from PPT don’t work in Captivate 4 either.