Syncing text with audio
Jul 14, 2011
By
Tammy Smith
Hi everyone. I'm trying out my first slide in PowerPoint right now with Articulate features. Before, I always just created my video in Flash and just used Articulate as a player.
So, I want some text to fade in and then out at certain points in the video, lined up with the audio. I went to 'sync animation', but it says I have no animations in this slide. I put a custom animation of 'Fade In' with each text box and to happen 'with previous'. I don't understand why it's telling me I have no animation.
Help would be greatly appreciated! 
4 Replies
Hi Tammy,
Did you set the custom animation to "on click"? If not, try that and you should be able to sync.
Nope. I didn't do that. I thought that meant that the user would have to click on the slide if they wanted the text to appear. I didn't know 'on click' would just be for the animation syncing. Thank you very much, Brian!
Brian, does Articulate not support the checkerboard animation? I would probably never use it, but when I was messing around with it just now, I put a checkerboard exit animation on one of my text boxes and it didn't preview with it. It played fine during the Sync Animation process, but when I went to preview the slide, it just faded out instead of doing the checkerboard animation.
Hi Tammy,
We don't support the Checkerboard animation. Rather, we automatically substitute the Fade animation. For more information, see the link below:
http://www.articulate.com/support/presenter09/?p=400
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