In the screenshot you see that the topmost object, the shape button on the master slide, is missing in the Slide timeline. They will be visible and keep their interactivity in output. Shape buttons on the master slide will be visible on the stage, but not in the timeline.They will be visible in output, with their formatting on the master slide (there is no such object in this case) Static objects on the master slide, will be visible on the stage, but not in the timeline.Rollover caption/image (green), if inserted as Placeholders, will appear but they’ll move to the bottom of the stack as you can see on the screenshot (compare with the screenshot of the master side above).Content placeholder (blue timeline) acts the same way.The icons did keep the surrounding square brackets which you discovered in the master slide. Placeholder objects (beige timeline) will appear in the timeline panel (I renamed them) if you don’t use them (example: you don’t add text, content, image), they will not appear in output.If you create a slide, based on a master slide, not all objects inserted on the master slide will be visible in the Timeline have a look at this screenshot which is from a slide based on the master slide shown above: You see that no values are displayed for those tiny icons. The tiny icons between the control panel (with play button etc) and the zoom slider, which I explained in the intro of this sequence of posts, do not have any value because Time has no meaning for a master slide. This shape button is a normal object, the shape two tracks below is a placeholder (look at the brackets surrounding the star icon). This is the case for the uppermost object in the screenshot: look at the Pause symbol, the pause itself is exactly at the end of the shape button timeline. If Pause Project is checked in the Actions tab, the pause will be visible at the end of the timeline. The only interactive object allowed on master slides, is a shape button (shape used as button). There are some exceptions (look at the Rollover Caption/Image in the screenshot which are also placeholder objects). The icons for Placeholders usually are included in square brackets, to differentiate them from normal objects (no brackets). That type is also visible through the description inside the object timeline itself. Objects on master slides never have an ID, which explains why you seen only icons in the first column to identify the object type. Here is an example screenshot of the timeline of a Master slide, where I inserted mostly Placeholder objects of all type: It is necessary to show and allow editing of the stacking order (vertical positioning of the object timelines). The displayed duration for master slides in the timeline is the default duration (normally 3 secs). The Timing Properties panel is not available for them. The timing/duration of a master slide has no real meaning because master slides nor master slide objects have any timing. Be careful with covering interactive objects by static objects: depending on the output, the interactive objects will remain active even though they are not visible. The vertical arrangement of the timelines, also called the ‘stacking order’, is important when you have overlapping objects. Result is that the Eye/Lock buttons will affect only one object, that each track can have the name of the object on that track. There are differences in look and features between Master slide timelines and Slide timelines.Ĭontrary to the Timeline in a cpvc project, each ‘track’ in a cptx project can have only one item:the (master) slide has its timeline, audio has a separate timeline stacked under the slide timeline, each object, whether static of interactive has its own timeline. The Timeline panel in a cptx-project is shared by Master slides and Normal slides (Filmstrip), depending on which panel is active at that moment. The common features for cpvc- and cptx projects were explained in the introduction, if you missed it please take a look at that blog post. After this introductory post, and the post about the typical Video Demo timeline this article will explain the specific features of the timelines in a cptx project: both for master slides and normal slides.
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