Time interval for displaying the slide

[rafal-klimek]

Hello Master and Standard Authors.

Is it possible to change the time interval on the finished simulation so as to set a common interval on all slides, for example 7 seconds?

Until now, each change was made separately and was individually changed on each slide.

Regards

Rafał

[Anton_Mavrin1 · Accepted solution]

Faster way to change all the bubbles' duration. While in the Project Editor view: Tools - Bulk Changes - Set Bubble Duration.

[DirkManuel]

You can change the default in the Authoring Settings under Macro Initialization. But those defaults are applied at the time of recording. If the simulations exist already, you will need to update them in the simulation. You can change it for all the interaction macros in a simulation at the same time by using the Edit > Select macros by Type feature.

But bear in mind that the Display Duration should give the user time to read the text in the bubble and review any pertinent information on the screen, so you will find that you need different durations on different screens anyway. I usually leave the default of 4 as a minimum, but change it for 90% of my steps during editing.

(Also 7 seconds is a long time to just sit there if the text is only "Press Enter"...)

[former_member780585]

I would like to remind you that when you add Text-to-Speech audio to simulations, don't worry about display duration. The duration of a slide is picked up automatically depending upon the size of bubble text.

[DirkManuel]

If you have audio (whether this is text-to-speech or recorded audio), the Step will be displayed until the end of the audio, or the Display Duration, whichever is longer. If, in Rafał's case, if his audio lasts 3 seconds, but the Display Duration is 7 seconds, the Step will still be displayed for 7 seconds.

[former_member780585]

Dirk, can you please tell me if below idea will work ?

To avoid duration issues, Rafal can bulk change the display duration for all slides to -1 and then add TTS. From now on, the Step will be displayed until the end of the audio.