Comments on: Quick Tip: Controlling FLVs with main navigation buttons / playbars

By: Tara

Tara — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 20:07:36 +0000

@Michael Thank you - we'll give that a try.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 20:07:37 +0000

@Tara – I don’t really have any other suggestions to help you other than to upgrade to Captivate 5. That way you can insert it as “Slide Video” which will make it work as you are describing.

/Michael

By: Tara

Tara — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 21:49:44 +0000

Hello,
We have this issue with an 8 minute long flv in 1 slide of a CP4 project. This slide also contains images and text that are timed to match what is being described in the flv. We want to control the flv and the slide elements with the pause/play button in the skin. When we select the options you describe above, we run into the performance issues you also mention (the video gets choppy and skips). Do you have any suggestions to use with a longer flv file?
Thanks for your help.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:08:53 +0000

@ Jennifer – it wouldn’t hurt to try this setting, but as Danny wrote it probably isn’t the reason why you are experiencing the problems. If it should work please let us know ;o)

@ Danny – thx for the comment and tip about “duration of project”. I didn’t experience any problems in CP4 so far, but it never hurts to be on the safe side.

By: Danny

Danny — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:12:12 +0000

@Jennifer it likely is due to not selecting “Synchronize with project” in your settings.

However, one other word of caution, Michael (and maybe Jennifer too) that I had problems when using the “duration of video” for my display for setting. If I was playing my flv in slide 1 using this setting, then when Captivate went to slide 2 the flv may have stopped playing but the video window was stuck on the slide (and all subsequent slides).

The fix for this issue I found was to change the display for setting to “specific time,” then just make sure to have it last on the slide for the length of the video. For instance, if your video is 45 seconds then make sure it lasts on the timeline for that length of time (or longer if you want to be safe).

FYI, this was in Captivate 3, so not sure if it changed in Captivate 4.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:02:35 +0000

Hi
Do you know if this will help a related problem/ We have a wrapper for our CP files developed in Flash rather than using the CP toc. When we try to play video in a CP slide and jump from it to a different CP file while the video is playing, the previous video doesn’t stop playing.

I don’t think we ever tried the Synchronize with Project option. Is this the silver bullet?