Hi all, hoping someone could help me out here. If you take a look at the PPT slide attached, I've built in custom animation using some graphics and PPT's custom animation feature. If I play the animation within PPT's Custom Animation option or do a Slide Show view, everything looks synced up. But when I preview the slide in Articulate or render it with Articulate (dropbox link), the animations are all off. Anyone have a clue why?
That looks really good. I can only offer a suggestion that may or may not help. I see that the first animation is ste to "on click" which presenter will aoutomatically play depending on what you have set as a default. That might possibly be throwing the timings off? Have you tried the first animation set to With Previous or After Previous?
Blair, nice catch. I tried changing it to start After Previous, but the animations are still off. For some reason the hand is still coming in higher in the published version.
Kayla, thanks for the tip. I was trying to avoid doing that as we anticipate having other slides like this in the course and it would be time consuming to do that with each slide. I was hoping to determine if I was missing something when Articulate publishes.
Phil - the problem isn't so much the timing of the animations, but the fact the hand seems aligned in PPT preview, but gets thrown out of whack when rendered in Articulate.
I tried to download your file, but for some obscure reason! My organisation dislikes dropbox and I cannot.
If its a lining up issue like Kayla says you will need to do minor adjustments, it is always good practice to use images instead of shapes as their alignment can be off when rendered also the wipe animation can often renderv incorrect.
Phil, I did the same and rebuilt it from scratch taking your advise and got it to work as well. Lesson learned about using Articulate preview on highly animated slides.
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Hi Paul
That looks really good. I can only offer a suggestion that may or may not help. I see that the first animation is ste to "on click" which presenter will aoutomatically play depending on what you have set as a default. That might possibly be throwing the timings off? Have you tried the first animation set to With Previous or After Previous?
Blair
Blair, nice catch. I tried changing it to start After Previous, but the animations are still off. For some reason the hand is still coming in higher in the published version.
Thanks for the tip.
I know it is not a "solution" per say...
But whenever I have problems like this I just adjust the graphics trial-and-error style till they do what I want.
You don't have to publish the whole slide, the "differences" will show up in preview as well.
In addition if they are on click animations you can use synch animations to ensure they play at the correct time
Phil
Kayla, thanks for the tip. I was trying to avoid doing that as we anticipate having other slides like this in the course and it would be time consuming to do that with each slide. I was hoping to determine if I was missing something when Articulate publishes.
Phil - the problem isn't so much the timing of the animations, but the fact the hand seems aligned in PPT preview, but gets thrown out of whack when rendered in Articulate.
PAul
Hi Paul
I tried to download your file, but for some obscure reason! My organisation dislikes dropbox and I cannot.
If its a lining up issue like Kayla says you will need to do minor adjustments, it is always good practice to use images instead of shapes as their alignment can be off when rendered also the wipe animation can often renderv incorrect.
Phil
managed to play it from home, its jsut as Kayla said you need to do minor adjustments, if you convert the lines to images they may be better aligned
Phil
Phil, I did the same and rebuilt it from scratch taking your advise and got it to work as well. Lesson learned about using Articulate preview on highly animated slides.
Thanks for the help
Paul
Glad you got it working
Thanks
Phil
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