Animated Captivate Effects - Advice and Questions


as growing in comfort , skill working captivate, wanting little more motion in there. have played around animating in flash , it. however, have target set of working toward eventual goal of being mobile friendly standard matures, figure design using effects in captivate , captivate/html5 gets animated effects exportable html5 republish instead of significant build change.i trying use limited set of animations spice content @ point. motion effects ease left , ease right since supported. bit of skew , scale since support sare arrive relatively html5 output. have 'test of concept' playing around animated parts , add content later. can see @ http://justabitmoore.weebly.com/adobe-captivate.html

 

advice sought -

 

general questions:

with using effects, of course, animations stop @ end of slide duration. there way using effects (maybe advanced actions) keep captivate effect's based animations playing short part of animated effect loop?

 

this project 1 of first forays in adding sound mood setter instead of narration. figured out how useful loop , thrilled works had hoped. wanting sound in on other slides, maybe subtle bubbles goldfish. had heard multiple sounds can cause trouble @ point in html5 due standard not being mature yet in area. read shouldn't overlap sounds. corect in understanding long sounds on separate slides there isn't problem html5 output @ point? if have two, correct in undrestanding play sound listed higher in stack order not crash presentaion on mobile device. hoping advice before purchasing sound effect instead of trial , error after , not able use it. appreciate patience caution , penny pinch. work volunteer building these, purchases come out of family budget. pinch pennies until blue. lol

 

opening slide:

i have bit of lead in animation grand first thing viewer see, when returning slide after each branch visited, recommend having alternate slide skips animations viewer gets clickable questions faster or think since there 5 slides return animations not old point them full animated intro slide?

 

i used scale effect butterfly's flight. @ first, slight jar upon landing on b error, think working give suden stop feel landing. working or distracting , has caused jaring? looks scale not overlapping. because of dual motion paths? have 1 bringing in b , in place flight out. understand can use when desired , prevent when don't. in instance, happy accident , sort of it.

 

schedule slide:

do have advice animating goldfish on schedule slide? used skew body , tail seperately animated. there better choice? think effect worked ok?

 

feel free critique , offer suggestions. work in progress open suggestions make better , want pretty handy effects because motion reach age groups work (k 12th grade).

hi tammy,

 

i can't answer of questions looking forward responses when them. however, have few comments:

 

i set variable or determine if has been initial screen , if so, remove animation them when return main screen. gets annoying have sit through again. if bugs came on screen quick animation, better.

 

the goldfish looks pretty on animation thr drop shadow looks out of place. there isn't wall or behind shadow fall on looks weird.

 

that's it. haven't experimented animations yet soon. there pages can provide links me started?

 

thanks posting. great see others doing , each other knowledge, tips, , tricks.



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