I have recently been working on a project that involves capturing screen recordings as video. When I publish the project (or preview, either one) and move my cursor over the screen recording, my cursor turns to the hand icon. There is nothing that happens when I click, and I've been getting the feedback that this is distracting for the user.
Is there some setting that could make the cursor stay as an arrow when hovering over the screen recording? Any help would be fantastic!
The hand does nothing in preview mode, but once the training is published the hand allows you to pause the video and play the video when paused. Unfortunately, the audio and other timeline actions continue when the video is paused.
Still am hoping to disable this cursor somehow. Any suggestions?
Jesse, I believe you could get the affect you're looking for by overlaying a transparent shape on top of the video and set the shape's fill to transparent. To do this, add a shape, such as a triangle, right-click over the shape and select Format Shape. From the Fill tab, set the transparency to 100%.
Hi Jesse! If you were recording in Try Mode, you could disable that cursor as shown in this tutorial, but not in the video on a single slide mode. Perhaps Lu's suggestion will work for you or someone else in the community will have a creative work-around.
Thanks Lu! The transparent box over top of the video did work to disable the hand cursor. That will have to do as a work around.
I do understand that these cursor options are all editable in the step-by-step or "Try Mode", but unfortunately that mode does not give the desired end effect.
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The hand does nothing in preview mode, but once the training is published the hand allows you to pause the video and play the video when paused. Unfortunately, the audio and other timeline actions continue when the video is paused.
Still am hoping to disable this cursor somehow. Any suggestions?
Jesse
Jesse, I believe you could get the affect you're looking for by overlaying a transparent shape on top of the video and set the shape's fill to transparent. To do this, add a shape, such as a triangle, right-click over the shape and select Format Shape. From the Fill tab, set the transparency to 100%.
Sorry, Jesse, I meant to add a rectangle shape, not triangle. Crazy!
Hi Jesse! If you were recording in Try Mode, you could disable that cursor as shown in this tutorial, but not in the video on a single slide mode. Perhaps Lu's suggestion will work for you or someone else in the community will have a creative work-around.
Thanks Lu! The transparent box over top of the video did work to disable the hand cursor. That will have to do as a work around.
I do understand that these cursor options are all editable in the step-by-step or "Try Mode", but unfortunately that mode does not give the desired end effect.
Thanks for the update Jesse!
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