Captivate SWF Audio Plays During Course

So the audio is playing before it even displays on the slide?  Have you tried putting the swf on its own layer and have it appear when triggered?

Yep, the audio plays long before the course gets to the SWF file associated with that audio.

Is layering/triggering possible in Studio?

Hi Keith,

If you have a published presentation in which audio from multiple slides is playing simultaneously, it may indicate that there are PowerPoint shapes (text boxes or objects) in your presentation that have been named with special characters. You can correct this issue. Here’s how: 

Audio from multiple slides plays simultaneously – Articulate Presenter ’09 Knowledge Base

If you're still hearing the audio from your SWF files throughout other slides in your presentation, please create a Presenter Package and share the files with us so we can take a look at what's happening. 

Thanks!

Hi Christine!

I went through all of the "audio on multiple slides" suggestions from the forums--including the various "special character" ideas and none of them worked.

Finally, I realized that Articulate was taking the audio from the first slide in the Captivate 3 SWF's and playing them at the wrong time; therefore, I created a fake first slide in Captivate 3 that lasts only .1 seconds. Because that fake intro slide in Captivate doesn't have any audio, the double-audio concern has gone away.

(I do have Captivate 6 and use it when I need a "right click", but inserting web objects into Articulate is manual, cumbersome, and requires more load time compared to inserting a flash file. Looking forward to the next rev of Studio! I'm hoping AS3 support will remedy these issues.)

Keith

Hi Keith,

Brilliant! Nice job

Very happy to hear you were able to get that working. Thanks so much for taking the time to share the steps you took. I'm sure this will help out other Captivate users if they run into the same problem.

Thanks again, Keith!

Christine

I have a related issue but Flash is the program I'm using with Articulate, not Captivate. I imported an SWF file into Articulate Presenter. It has multiple audio files that are synced one after another. It plays fine by itself but when I publish the Articulate file and listen to it, all the audio files play on top of each other.

Hi Brian!

We recommend following these guidelines for Flash Movie best practices. Be sure that you are adding your files as shown here.

How are you publishing and viewing the project?

I added the SWF file both ways - through "Insert > Video" and "Insert > Flash". I previewed both versions and the audio still overlapped.

Hi Brian! Have you tried to publish to see if you still experience the same behavior?

I apologize Brian, I see from your original post and your thread here that you mention you are publishing.

Would you be able to share your Articulate Package for me to have a look?

Hi Leslie,

Attached is my Articulate Package. In the package is just the one slide in question. Surprisingly it's 15 mb but it's just a 500k SWF file embedded in the PPTX so I'm not sure why the file size is so large. Thank you so much for taking a look.

I figured out a workaround. I set each audio clip on the Flash timeline to "stream" rather than "event". This ensures that the audio will play in sync with the inherent timeline and not real-time.

Thanks for sharing Brian and I'm glad to hear that you found something that would work for you. I was out of the office Friday, sorry I wasn't able to assist you sooner.