Adobe Community: Message List - Delay audio to speed loading?

Re: Delay audio to speed loading?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 14:40:51 GMT

Thanks Rod.

Re: Delay audio to speed loading?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 00:35:54 GMT

Just do it Phil. Himanshu is referring to something entirely different. He's talking about preloaders and how they help your content to begin playing faster.

Your question relates to Captivate's tendency to 'stitch' all of the slide audio clips together if the audio on those slides starts right at the beginning of the slide.

I've not seen any indication from Adobe that this behaviour has changed in recent versions. So just do it anyway to avoid issues.

Re: Delay audio to speed loading?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 20:18:22 GMT

Hello Phil,

I dont think it will make any difference .

When you link any audio with your project it becomes part of your project . So it wont make ay difference if you adjust it anywhere in the timeline.

Thanks,

Himanshu

Re: Delay audio to speed loading?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 20:15:10 GMT

When I'm developing slides, do I still need to move the audio over slightly or can I stop doing that?

Re: Delay audio to speed loading?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 20:11:47 GMT

Hello Phil,

Try setting the preloader to 0% and see if that makes any difference or not.

Thanks

Himanshu

Re: Delay audio to speed loading?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 20:00:20 GMT

I want my projects to load quickly. I am putting in slide audio. I understand from other forum posts (Re: Module takes ages to load) that it is helpful to add a brief delay before each slide audio starts. Otherwise, Captivate will download ALL the audio in one file, regardless of what the preloader is set at. At least, that seemed to be the suggestion a couple of years ago.

I'm wondering if this was addressed at some point and I don't have to worry about delaying the slide audio on each slide.

Re: Delay audio to speed loading?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 19:48:44 GMT

Hello Phil,

Welcome to Adobe Forums!

Can you please elaborate what exactly you are trying to achieve?

As the workflow which you have shared above can be achieved if we play with the preloader settings in Edit > Prefrences > Start and End .

For eg : If you set preloader % to be 30% browser will download 30% of your project and then it will start playing your project.

Hope this helps !

Thanks,

Himanshu

Delay audio to speed loading?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 18:40:44 GMT

I've read in other posts that you should put a short delay on the slide audio in order to speed loading. My understanding is that if you don't do this, Captivate will download all of your audio before it starts, which can slow the loading process.

But, the posts that I've found are several years old. Is that still the case?