Hi. Is there a way to control when the play button becomes active during a slide? There is a delay during Powerpoint animations as well as an audio file. How can I allow leaners to proceed before the audio segment ends or immedietly after the last animation ends?
Automatically means that the presentation will move to the next slide on its own, without the user having to click anything. If you've inserted narration or animations on that slide, or if you've embedded a movie, the advance won't happen till these things have finished playing. If your slide doesn't have any audio, animations, or embedded movies, Presenter uses the default slide duration. (We'll look at how to adjust that in a second.)
By User means that the user will have to use your presentation's player controls to move to the next slide. Or, if you've inserted objects on your slide that link to other slides, the user can click on one of those to leave the current slide.
Thanks for responding. It is already set to 'By User'.
Let me be more specific. I have a slide that has a 30 second clip of background music with one animation taking place say at 5 seconds. I want users to be able to hit the Play button after that animation but it won't activate (stays as pause) until the music ends.
Mind letting us take a look at it? First, create an Articulate Presenter Package of your presentation as described here. Then upload the resulting zip file from your computer on the second page of this form, and we''ll attempt to diagnose what's happening when we receive your upload.
I am sharing supports response to Luke below, please let us know how we need to proceed with the issue that you are experiencing:
I reviewed your project and verified that the behavior that you encountered is the expected one. When you set the slide to advance by user, the play button will only show at the end of the slide. Since you inserted a 30 second audio in your slide, then it means that the play button will only show after 30 seconds and not after your 5 second animation.
To correct this, I suggest that you remove the audio from your slide first. Then, insert the audio as a playlist instead and assign the playlist on your slide. Please see the steps here:
The playlist audio is not dependent with the duration of your slide. This means, the playlist will continue to play even if the slide already reached the end.
By any chance the duration of the slide is still more than 5 seconds? I suggest that you follow the steps under the "Use the Sync Animations tool" heading to ensure the duration of the audio is just around 5 seconds:
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Hey Luke!
How do you have the Advance Behavior setup?
Thanks for responding. It is already set to 'By User'.
Let me be more specific. I have a slide that has a 30 second clip of background music with one animation taking place say at 5 seconds. I want users to be able to hit the Play button after that animation but it won't activate (stays as pause) until the music ends.
Hi Luke,
Is there any chance that particular slide has been locked?
Def not locked.....
Mind letting us take a look at it? First, create an Articulate Presenter Package of your presentation as described here. Then upload the resulting zip file from your computer on the second page of this form, and we''ll attempt to diagnose what's happening when we receive your upload.
Thanks, Luke!
Just sent. P.S. Do you think this has something to do with being in Preview Mode? I have not tried it in as a published package.
Thanks, Luke, we'll take a look ASAP.
Shouldn't be related to Preview mode, but I'll be curious to see what the issue actually is.
Thanks again!
I am experiencing the same issue. What was the resolution to this after you looked at the file?
Thanks!
Hi Lisa!
I am sharing supports response to Luke below, please let us know how we need to proceed with the issue that you are experiencing:
I reviewed your project and verified that the behavior that you encountered is the expected one. When you set the slide to advance by user, the play button will only show at the end of the slide. Since you inserted a 30 second audio in your slide, then it means that the play button will only show after 30 seconds and not after your 5 second animation.
To correct this, I suggest that you remove the audio from your slide first. Then, insert the audio as a playlist instead and assign the playlist on your slide. Please see the steps here:
http://community.articulate.com/tutorials/products/adding-background-audio-playlists-to-your-presentation.aspx
The playlist audio is not dependent with the duration of your slide. This means, the playlist will continue to play even if the slide already reached the end.
By any chance the duration of the slide is still more than 5 seconds? I suggest that you follow the steps under the "Use the Sync Animations tool" heading to ensure the duration of the audio is just around 5 seconds:
http://www.articulate.com/support/presenter09/kb/?p=1906
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