Can't sync animations properly

Articulate doesn't support animations that start with on click events.

http://www.articulate.com/support/presenter09/?p=400

Sorry!

Hi

Should work as you describe (in the brackets), I would check they are all set to on click.  Possible copy everything to a blank slide and try again.

Sorry not much help, but if you have set everything up correctly it should work

Phil

Apologies - misread.

We've had problems before where voiceovers have dropped out of packages.  

If animations have been set to On Click, they need to be resync'd.

We've started to use After Previous, and just work out the correct timings for delays.  Means you don't need to resync.

I know this isn't your current issue, but it's a foolproof workaround if necessary.

If you have powerpoint 2010, try using the animation painter to copy the animation from one to the next, or delete the animations and reapply, I think you may have tried these already though

Phil

My 2 cents:

Personally, I don't use the Synch Animations tool, I find I have to go in and tweak more often than not, and have lost my PPTA file more than once. I do all my animations with the advanced timeline while using an audio editor i can see seconds and 10th seconds on ( Soundbooth, Goldwave, Audacity).

This also seems to time out better on different machines (older/newer) where the SyncAnimations sometimes were off depending on network traffic and processing power.

FYI @Scott: the On Click is what you set the animations to in the Custom Animations window. Each one of those is then timed out to the clicks in the SynchAnimations window.  You can only see this in Preview Mode, if you click the Play in the animation window, it will show you each click as it would in normal PPT view.

Wow, i forgot to click Post and looks like I was too late! LOL

Thanks for all of the replies.  We nearly redid the entire presentation to no avail, double checking every sync command, bullet property, etc...everything looked correct but sync animations was still not functioning properly.  I figured out a work-around and thought I'd post it here in case someone else has a similar issue!

On every affected slide, I added in a small, invisible square shape.  I set it as the first animation and made it "start with previous" using the "fade in" animation (probably can use any animation).  In the animation pane, this put the square in the "0" position.

When syncing animations, the program would auto-start the invisible square and then allow me to click through the rest of the animations like I wanted.  

I've had the same problem, S P, and incorporated a similar, minor, animation in order to get it to get it work.  Articulate immediately initiates the first animation and then you can control the rest.   I guess sometimes you've just got to trick Articulate in order to get it to place nice! 

You've got to be kidding me! This worked fine in Presenter 5, and now I have this issue in 09! Sad thing is it works fine for some and not for others. Looks like I've got a week of adding invisable squares

I'm really sorry you're running into this problem, Rob.

I see that you've been in contact with our Support Team on this, and that Jayem provided you with a link to this article.

Did this help to resolve the problem?  If not, please be sure to let Jayem know right away.  He'll likely ask you to upload a copy of your file so that he can perform some additional troubleshooting.  Thanks!