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Walt Hamilton started a new discussion Philosophical Question - More slides or more layers
"Say I have 50 options. Will I be happier if I put them all on one slide with 50 layers, or if I make 5 slides with 10 layers each, or 50 ..."
  • 9 years ago03/03/15 at 2:51 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Storyline Video - Animation syncing
"Greg, I think you can do what you want. The thing to remember is that SL is not changing your timings. What happens is that when you try..."
  • over 9 years ago02/10/15 at 4:17 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Storyline Video - Animation syncing
"This is a pretty well know problem.  The ONLY accurate method of playback is to preview the slide from the beginning. If you even move th..."
  • over 9 years ago02/10/15 at 2:28 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Quizzing Do's and Don'ts
"The point in occasional detractor answers that are obviously wrong is that it helps keep a low achiever from being completely demoralized..."
  • over 9 years ago02/02/15 at 3:53 pm (UTC)
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"If your buttons are on a slide, you can create a presentation with one slide with the buttons on it.  Save it and when you start a new pr..."
  • over 9 years ago01/27/15 at 8:18 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Timeline lagging when editing/viewing
"Shaun, It is not a problem with your equipment, nor with your video.  When you try to start preview from the timeline when you are editi..."
  • over 9 years ago01/27/15 at 2:34 pm (UTC)
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"Debi, Your desktop already has a pretty long path. (Nothing personal, they all do. It seems like the desktop should be the closest locat..."
  • over 9 years ago01/27/15 at 2:04 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion HTML, iPads & LMS
"I've had users complain that they can't enlarge the content on ipads, and others that when they click on a link to an external video have..."
  • over 9 years ago01/19/15 at 4:04 pm (UTC)
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"Edit the video in Windows Movie Maker. The 2012 version (and maybe others) allows you to speed videos up.  Save and import into Storyline."
  • over 9 years ago01/19/15 at 3:28 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion HTML, iPads & LMS
"If your LMS requires a login with password, you cannot use the ipad app.  It will run (with some quirks) on an ipad using the latest Safa..."
  • over 9 years ago01/19/15 at 3:15 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Need help with variables
"My experience is that the built-in visited state is not reliable if the viewer needs to view several slides in the new location, and does..."
  • over 9 years ago01/19/15 at 3:07 pm (UTC)
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"I am a lot more comfortable doing all my zooming in PowerPoint. I can control the exact zoom percentage, I can choose to zoom in or out; ..."
  • over 9 years ago01/19/15 at 2:56 pm (UTC)
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"Ashley, I am current on my updates to SL2, and am losing the pause/play on ipad in html5 from Blackboard. I also find that my storyline ..."
  • over 9 years ago01/05/15 at 3:42 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Interactive map - feel free to download
"Joanna, This is fabulous. I would change the action of the names on the left to be more consistent. I suggest either: 1. When the slid..."
  • over 9 years ago01/05/15 at 3:17 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Lesson Status - Turn off - What is this?
"I may be way off base here, but if you answer each question, you have completed whether you answer right or wrong. completed/not complet..."
  • over 9 years ago12/18/14 at 3:43 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Syncing video and slide timeline
"Brute force. Start the video when the slide appears. If you want to give the user options before the video starts, when they perform the ..."
  • over 9 years ago12/18/14 at 3:24 pm (UTC)
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"You can cover the slide with a rectangle with no fill. When user clicks on that rectangle, change the state of the object. . You can use ..."
  • over 9 years ago12/18/14 at 3:21 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Appear Animation in Storyline 2
"Jill, Choose none, and when the timeline reaches the item, it will appear. "None" is the default for appear."
  • over 9 years ago12/18/14 at 3:16 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion Insert shapes funny behavior
"Emily, Thanks for the quick response. It turns out that the behavior in question is "not a bug, it's a feature." It only happens when Sn..."
  • over 9 years ago12/16/14 at 1:59 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton started a new discussion Insert shapes funny behavior
"I try to draw a new shape. Now matter where I start, or how large I draw, when I release mouse button, the shape is placed at the spot I ..."
  • over 9 years ago12/15/14 at 8:13 pm (UTC)
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Walt Hamilton replied to the discussion show two layers simultaneously
"Thomas, I place the video and the content as two objects on the same layer, and that way they both use the same timeline. I shrink the v..."
  • over 9 years ago11/25/14 at 3:04 pm (UTC)