How do you pause the presenter (flash) when pausing the presentation?

Hi Bruce-

If you want Presenter to pause your inserted slide video, just use the default synchronization setting (“Play Flash movie and slide in sync”) when inserting a Flash movie, and the Presenter player controls should also control your inserted video, including pausing it.

For video inserted in the presenter panel, it should also pause via the Presenter player controls, assuming you’ve followed our guidelines for inserting Flash movies.

If you have an eLearning course that has for example 50 PowerPoint slides, each of which has custom animations set in Powerpoint like bullet points that reveal down the page, and added to that you have one long video of a talking head that is covering the slides point-by-point, how can you perfectly synchronize the in-slide animations created in PowerPoint to the talking head video? Will there be a timeline synch tool similar to that in Microsoft Producer 2003 that will allow you to synch the in-slide animations and the transition of one slide to another with the talking head video naration?

Hi Charles- If you have video that spans across slides, you’d need to splice it up to one video per slide. It’s currently not possible to synch bullet points to anything but recorded or imported audio (other than to estimate based on your video as it plays).

You can also submit a feature request if you’d like.

Hi Gabe

Thanks for the tips. I found out that my presentation is dull and intended to add in talking head just to start off the contents of each slide.

Sure thing, K Azam! Glad you like the video feature.

So, I don’t have 50 PPT slides. I have only one that features a two-minute SWF video in a speaker’s panel along with bullets that reveal in the slide area throughout the two-minute video.

The SWF file plays fine when it appears in the presentation; however, the text animation on the slide never begins. For example, this slide is slide #3 in the sequence. So, you launch the presentation, and slide #1 appears automatically, then #2 automatically, the #3 automatically. When #3 launches, the SWF plays, but the text does not. However, if the presentation proceeds to slide #4 or beyond and you click back to slide #3, the video and the text work perfectly – in sync and amazingly professional. I just can’t figure out how to make this play properly from the get-go.

I am using Presenter 5.2.113 Pro with PPT 2003 and Windows XP.

Thanks.

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I like the video option. I have two questions 1: in one of your reply’s you indicate the video can’t span several slides except “(other than to estimate based on your video as it plays).” Am I to understand from this that you can synch slides to the a single video presenter file within a second or two?

2: Is there a way to vary the size of the presenter video? I would like to make it the same size as the slides occasionally.

Hi Ed- with Presenter ’09, when you insert the video, your default option is to synchronize slide and movie to play together. You can also adjust the size and placement of the video placeholder, which will be respected when you preview or publish.

Thanks for the info on the video / presenter option, I’m looking to use this on an upcoming project. I have Studio ’09 and I am wondering if there is any sync capability between animations and the video? or do I have to set the animations through manual timing?

Hi Dee- you can only sync animations to recorded or imported audio, so you could record a dummy track of audio while you play the video in another window and sync your animations while you go.

I’ve inserted videos into the presenter panel for each slide… when I publish- the video flashes grey when moving to the next slide. Is there a fix to this?

Thanks!

Hi Susan,

Would you mind uploading your project files to us so that we can take a closer look at the issue?

Please create an Articulate Presenter package, then upload the zip file to our server. You can review how to do this here:

http://www.articulate.com/support/presenter09/?p=457

Upload the resulting zip file from your computer to our server using this upload form:

http://upload.articulate.com

In the case subject, include a link to this blog post.