I have made several presenter courses, many of them using powerpoint animations which have been synchronised. But in my latest course, I have one page with about 15 animations and about 2 minutes of narration, but when I publish it it goes to just over 20 minutes, with 18 minutes of silence after everything is finished.
I have tried to isolate what it is that makes this happen. It seems to be something to do with the animations -> if I click them all really quickly when "sync animations" is done, then the time doesnt get too long. But the longer I wait between the animations, the more "extra time" is added to the page.......
Does this only happen on the one slide, or on all slides? Have you taken a look at the Audio Editor? You could remove the extraneous audio from the slide that way.
It only happens on one slide. And in the audio editor, the extra "time" is not there - the commentary is 2:16 long in the audio editor.
I think I am closing in -> I wonder if its a bug. On some of my animations on this page I have selected the powerpoint effect option "Dim on next mouse click". I noticed that the animations dont get dimmed when the slide is "published" or "previewed", so I added explicit animations to "disappear" the things I wanted to hide. But I think that the "Dim on next mouse click" is the thing that is causing Presenter to go crazy in the publication (or preview) process. I tried a quick attempt at roughly syncing the animations after removing that option on the animations and signs are good so far. I will confirm when I have checked it thoroughly.
Yep - it works now. I think its a bug in Presenter - if you have animations with "Hide on next mouse click" then Presenter seems to get confused in the publishing process, and adds more and more extra time. Can somebody on this forum file a bug report?
Good web page - but it would be a hell of lot more helpful if presenter reported "Hide on next mouse click not supported" when the publish process (or preview) was run, rather than failing in a completely non-logical and apparently non related way.......
I am having a similar problem. I, too, have built many courses with no problems. On two of 40 slides, both with inserted FLV files, once I publish, there is about 20 seconds of extra time after the video finishes. When i open audio editor, there is extra time. I've tried to delete the extra time, but when I publish, it is back.
I am having a similar problem. I, too, have built many courses with no problems. On two of 40 slides, both with inserted FLV files, once I publish, there is about 20 seconds of extra time after the video finishes. When i open audio editor, there is extra time. I've tried to delete the extra time, but when I publish, it is back.
Hi Thomas & welcome to Heroes,
Can you tell me what software you used to create the FLV files? There are some programs that will write the timing data to the END of the FLV file and this is incorrect. Thus, your quickest solution may be to re-encode the file using a different program or convert it to an MP4 file.
I used camtasia to produce the videos. This particular course has 9 over videos. Those slides work fine. I have 14 other courses that have flvs produced in camtasia.
I was able to solve the problem late last night. The flvs have audio, so the slide did not have audio. In audio editor, I cut and pasted a very short segment of very light background noise from another slide to the problem slides. I then deleted the excess time on the timeline in audio editor. This did the trick.
Thanks for finding this workaround, it helped me even though my issue was slightly different than yours. I had no video or audio on one slide of the PPT, but no matter how many times I edited it down (both in the Audio Editor and just in the XML file), the slide would always have about 11 minutes of dead air attached to it.
Editing in a miniscule amount of chatter a few seconds in to this slide allowed it to finally remove the dead air, and the project is good to go!
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Hi Chris- welcome to the forums!
Does this only happen on the one slide, or on all slides? Have you taken a look at the Audio Editor? You could remove the extraneous audio from the slide that way.
Thanks.
It only happens on one slide. And in the audio editor, the extra "time" is not there - the commentary is 2:16 long in the audio editor.
I think I am closing in -> I wonder if its a bug. On some of my animations on this page I have selected the powerpoint effect option "Dim on next mouse click". I noticed that the animations dont get dimmed when the slide is "published" or "previewed", so I added explicit animations to "disappear" the things I wanted to hide. But I think that the "Dim on next mouse click" is the thing that is causing Presenter to go crazy in the publication (or preview) process. I tried a quick attempt at roughly syncing the animations after removing that option on the animations and signs are good so far. I will confirm when I have checked it thoroughly.
Chris
Glad to hear you're closing in, Chris! Keep us posted on what you find.
Hi,
Yep - it works now. I think its a bug in Presenter - if you have animations with "Hide on next mouse click" then Presenter seems to get confused in the publishing process, and adds more and more extra time. Can somebody on this forum file a bug report?
Chris
Hide on next mouse click is not a currently supported animation:
http://www.articulate.com/support/presenter09/?p=400
Good web page - but it would be a hell of lot more helpful if presenter reported "Hide on next mouse click not supported" when the publish process (or preview) was run, rather than failing in a completely non-logical and apparently non related way.......
Thanks for the feedback, Chris.
I am having a similar problem. I, too, have built many courses with no problems. On two of 40 slides, both with inserted FLV files, once I publish, there is about 20 seconds of extra time after the video finishes. When i open audio editor, there is extra time. I've tried to delete the extra time, but when I publish, it is back.
Hi Thomas & welcome to Heroes,
Can you tell me what software you used to create the FLV files? There are some programs that will write the timing data to the END of the FLV file and this is incorrect. Thus, your quickest solution may be to re-encode the file using a different program or convert it to an MP4 file.
I used camtasia to produce the videos. This particular course has 9 over videos. Those slides work fine. I have 14 other courses that have flvs produced in camtasia.
I was able to solve the problem late last night. The flvs have audio, so the slide did not have audio. In audio editor, I cut and pasted a very short segment of very light background noise from another slide to the problem slides. I then deleted the excess time on the timeline in audio editor. This did the trick.
Nice workaround, Tomas! I'm glad that you were able to figure it out.
Thanks for finding this workaround, it helped me even though my issue was slightly different than yours. I had no video or audio on one slide of the PPT, but no matter how many times I edited it down (both in the Audio Editor and just in the XML file), the slide would always have about 11 minutes of dead air attached to it.
Editing in a miniscule amount of chatter a few seconds in to this slide allowed it to finally remove the dead air, and the project is good to go!
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