Animations running faster than voiceover - sync not working
Apr 30, 2012
Hello all,
My work laptop was recently upgraded from a Dell D600 (I think) to a Dell E6420, which is an excellent machine.
I re-installed Articulate '09 and continued editing and developing my modules in Presenter, but I notice now that the Sync Animations option is not working correctly.
I sync the animations with the voiceover as I've always done for years, but when I preview the slide (whether locally or online), the animations run and come in faster than the audio and where I sync'd them to appear. This is proving incredibly frustrating at the moment, because I have no confidence in being able to deliver a module on time if the sync'ing option isn't working correctly, and I have no idea what's happen or how to sort it out.
In order to deliver one module last week, I had to sync the animations about 2-3 seconds behind the actually right place on the audio!! What's happened? Has anyone else come across this at all?
Many thanks indeed,
Barry
3 Replies
Are these new files or files you started on one system and moved to another?
I've had an issue where moving to a new machine to work caused some issues that were soved by reusing the slides in a new presentation with the "Reuse slides tool." By doing this, it essentially allowed the slides to re-write the sync data cleanly, then I just reimported my audio to each slide and everything worked normal thereafter. New projects never experienced that issue though, just one or two pre-existing projects in production.
This problem could be caused by moving the data without having the file in an Articulate package. I guess that would likely apply to hard drive transfers too, as they might change the file paths, especially if you changed an OS version in the process.
Many thanks indeed for your reply and suggestion.
I do keep all my source files on an external drive, and don't use the 'Reuse slides tool'. But I will certainly give that a try with one of the modules to see if it makes a difference. Thanks again.
Oh yes, I became a big fan of the "Reuse Slides" after that problem. A plain copy/paste to bring in slides for other presentations didn't quite eliminate all the sync information of the original use. Plus situations such as this...Let us know how it went. Good luck!
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