From the course: Adobe Captivate Essential Training [2017]

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Use the timeline

Use the timeline - Captivate Tutorial

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Use the timeline

- In the previous movie we added some animation to objects on the slide, add some visual interest. When we previewed the slide we saw all of those animations happening at once and then they seemed to disappear. There may be an issue with timings, and that's what we're going to talk about in this movie, including using the timeline to set things up. Let's do another preview here, let's go up to the preview drop down and play the slide. Sure enough all those animations happen at once and then they seem to disappear, in fact everything seems to disappear for 12 seconds or so, and then they reappear at the end of the preview. Something's going wrong. And we're going to start with our slide timing. So with the slide selected over here in the filmstrip area, and properties selected, go down to slide duration and there it is, that's the issue. The slide lasts for 15.1 seconds, each of these images only lasts for the default three seconds that we saw. That's why they seem to disappear. So we…

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