Adobe 65029940 - Captivate - PC, User Manual

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Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting the number of slides in a project
Technically, there is no maximum number of slides allowed in an Adobe Captivate project. The number of slides
depends on the amount of RAM you are using. Some projects created on a 256 MB computer have had more than
300 slides. There is also no limit on MP3 size for audio in slides.
By default, projects are set to 30 frames per second. Therefore, a caption that appears for 1 second requires 30
frames. Dividing the number of frames in a project by 30 gives you the number of seconds the project plays.
There is an easy way to see how many frames are in an Adobe Captivate project.
To determine how many frames are in a project:
1 Open an Adobe Captivate project.
2
In Storyboard view, the number for Slides corresponds to the number of frames.
Troubleshooting publishing projects
Adobe Captivate appears to stop responding for a few moments while publishing a project containing a large size
full motion recording. When a large full motion recording is captured in an Adobe Captivate project, the preview
and publish operations take a long time.
If you frequently want to preview the project that contains a large full motion recording, set the value of the
Compress compiled SWF file option to Off (disabled) in the Preferences tab of the Project Preferences dialog box.
This will reduce the time taken to preview the output. After previewing the output, you can change the value of
the Compress compiled SWF file option to On (enabled), and then publish your project.
Troubleshooting quizzing errors
The user should not be able to navigate to the result slide without answering the quiz in the question slides.
When designing an Adobe Captivate project containing result slides, make sure that you do not allow the user
navigate or jump to the result slide directly without working through the question slides, or the slides containing
interactive objects, and that you enable the Reporting option (set to On). It’s important to design the project to
help the user complete the quiz before navigating to the result slide.