On Click Animations Help!

Hi Tessa and welcome to Heroes! I would make sure you are using supported animations as not all PowerPoint animations and effects are supported. The only videos that are supported in Presenter would be FLV, SWF or MP4 movies imported via Articulate -> Flash Movie. I would also make sure if you are using SWF or FLV files that they adhere to these best practices. Regarding your hyperlinks, make sure that they are supported hyperlinks and that you are testing in the environment you are publishing for. Hyperlinks don't really work in Preview so if you are going to be hosting the content online or in an LMS or Articulate Online, make sure you publsh for one of those options and view the content in that environment. If you want to test content locally, I recommend doing the steps below:

Thanks. I am still having difficulty with the 'On Click' annotations. The annotations were supported, I was using 'Split', but they still do not seem to work despite syncing them. Any suugestions?

The videos I have used are mpeg, do you know of free converting software that I could use to convert it into any of the formats mentioned above?

Thanks 

Hi Tessa.

Can you send us your project files here so we can check out the animation issue? Let me know what the case number is and I'll take a look. Regarding converting your MPEG files, do you have the whole Articulate Studio '09? If you do, you can use the Articulate Video Encoder to convert the files to FLV.

Hi,

I am very new to this sort of thing so I'm not exactly sure what a case number is. How do I find this? And I am testing out Articulate with the free trial so I do have the Video Encoder.

Also, which tutorials do you suggest to get more to grips with Articulate? I have got to grips with the basics but I would like to start to begin learning how to do some of the more complex things with it.

Thanks,

Tessa

I think I have found the issue, my 'On Click' animations are triggered by clicking on other images. Is there anything you suggest that can help me get round this? Its a simple exercise of 'Click the images to reveal more information about...'.

Thanks

Hello Tessa, from what you describe, I think you'll have to use the "Click on the image..." as a hyperlink to a new PPT screen. 

If you have for example, four images you'd like to be able to click on the learn more, then you'd need a separate screen for each of those. I don't know how you intend to show the additional information, but you can use a "start with previous" animation on the new screen to display text, etc.

Two other things... you can hide the "destination" screens so they don't appear in the navigation panel after you publish. You'll also need to branch back to the original screen from the "more information" screen. Both of these are done within "Slide Properties" in the Articulate ribbon.

I hope that helps!

Thanks a lot! Very helpful!

Hi Tessa.

I would take a look at both the building better courses tutorials as well as the Articulate focused tutorials here. That will really help you feel more comfortable with creating your content and using our software.

Tessa,

I experienced the same on my first course - and, the problem is that triggers are not supported.  You can replace by normal hyperlinks leading to a duplicate of your slide with the expected animation.

regards