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Hi there, I am a complete novice with opus and been fumbling my way around. My query to anyone that may be able to help is...

I have created a video in Adobe Captivate which I want to bring into opus. The video in captivate opens a PDF and turns on the automatic scroll for the document to scroll and be recorded.

In opus, I click a link, it takes me to the video skin and opens into Swiff Player. When recording in captivate, its pretty fast eg the scroll, on a scale of 1-10, I would say the speed is 5.

When I open this in Opus via the hyperlink, the scroll, on a scale of 1-10 for speed, is 1. Does anyone know how I can speed this up. It does not seem to matter how much I increase the automatic scroll in the PDF or captivate, when it comes into Opus or is played via Opus, its real slow??

Any help would be much appreciated

Sorry Fi,

Slightly confused.

Firstly add your Opus version as newer editions handle things different and people hate waste time on solutions to find it's an older copy.

Secondly, I'm guessing that this is either SWF or FLV or F4V? In theory, if the link is simply opening the file into the player then it should play at the same speed as it would if loaded directly into the player - which you don't make clear as you seem to have said that it plays correctly in captivate but not whether it was running okay just in swiff or I missed something .

Or are you actually playing the file using Opus' video object in which if it's one of the above formats, then yes, it may be slower.

Can you post this?

Regards,

Mack

Hi Mack

Apologies, I am using Opus Pro, Dev Edition, v7.04. Secondly, it is SWF and the file plays at a different speed on Opus to Captivate. I play the file by launching the [nameoffile].swf from Opus. This opens in IE via Swiff player. Apologies if this doesnt make a lot of sense, I am just trying to learn the software as I go!


Thanks

Not a problem Fi, that's what the forum is for.

There's a user control panel at the top where you can add a profile so your Opus version / hardware will appear on all posts.

Can I confirm, have you actually loaded the SWF directly into IE without use Opus? And does it run at the same speed as it captivate.

I wonder this because it seems likely that Captivate may well play it's own native files quicker depending on the encoding settings of the SWF file you've created. And it seems odd that Opus would be the problem if all it's doing is launching IE and this is process handling the SWF.

Mack

Hmm yeah it didnt make a lot of sense to me when it is just loading but I will check this out and if it is not, will make sure that its captivate that is playing its own files. Many thanks for your help.

Hi Mack

Just to let you know that I got the videos to play via captivate control and it is all OK

Cheers

Hi Fi,

I'm not going to claim to understand what is going on yet, but I'm assuming, that you're using a different player in IE to display the SWf file?

Glad it works anyway.


If it's video navigation your looking for, you can do it in Opus: See our VCR module.

http://www.live.interaktiv.co.uk/index. ... &Itemid=19

Regards,

Mack