Animations not transferring into Articulate
Mar 01, 2011
I am having an issue with Articulate Presenter. I have created a course, roughly around 100 slides, with some very basic animations on a number of slides. Especially the animations where I have created 3D boxes that are supposed to “drop in” at a certain point in the slide using the “swivel animation.” In PowerPoint, this animation plays fine, but as soon as I publish the course, the slide never plays. It just shows up as if the blocks never had an animation. In addition, some of the other animations just do not carry over the same way they do in PowerPoint. I have checked the blogs and I read that these animations are accepted within Articulate, but I do not know hot o diagnose the issue. How can I fix this reoccurring problem?
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Kenneth, can you take out a few of the "offending" slides and post for some diagnosis? Also, what version of PPT are you using? I'm sure we can help if we can see what is happening.
Thanks for your reply. I am using PowerPoint 2007. I have attached the slides to this post. I have only been using articulate and powerpoint for roughly 2 months so this issue really stumps me. Thanks for the help!
Hi Kenneth,
I see your 6 slides and the first thing that I am noticing is that you have some of your initial animations set to "After Previous". If you open up the Animation Pane where you add these effect, you will note that the first animation on some of your slides is set to 0, which equates to After Previous. Set that to On Click instead of After Previous. It will play fine in Powerpoint, but if you try to publish it in Articulate Presenter, essentially, you are trying to tell the animation to play after the last Flash movie has played but Articulate really is set a bit different. Best practice, start your 1st animation with the On Click and the rest should be fine once you Sync Animations. Let me know if that solves your issue.
For some reason that didn't work. Is there another reason this may be happening?
One solution that you might want to try is to "right click" your created objects and save them as a picture. Then reinsert those pictures and try animating them. Many times Microsoft objects to not play as well in an Articulate course as a standard PNG, JPEG, or EMF file. We find this to work more consistently and the images come out cleaner as well.
Hi Kenneth:
Ron's suggestion is spot on, and is one that Tom Kuhlmann has also recommended in past blog posts.
Create a PPT Library File
I have learned an important project-workflow "trick" that will save you time and headaches. I have an old blog post that shows people what to do with graphical elements, and saving them to a new PPT file that will be the "Library" file for your elearning project.
http://ridgeviewmedia.com/blog/2008/10/powerpoint-library-edited-images-for-articulate/
What I do is when I create a graphical element in PPT, I copy and paste it into a blank slide in my project's "Library" file. That way, even after I "right click" and change the graphical element in my elearning course file to PNG format, I can always find the "original" in the Library file.
Why is that helpful? If a client wants to change color schemes or text, I can go to the "Library" file and edit the original element there. Then, I change it to a PNG image file, and import it into the new or revised elearning course.
If this doesn't make sense (I'm fighting a cold today and have "foggy brain"), feel free to ask me questions about this workflow process.
Thanks Ron & Jenise. That was my next suggestion to you Kenneth. Just took another look at your slides and that would be my approach as well.
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