I got a question from a client - is it possible to have the time remaining / duration / length show either on the built in Seekbar, or a way to custom make a seekbar that does that? In this case, the student is watching an embedding video, if the video is 10 minutes long, is there a way to show after 2 minutes have passed and 8 remaining, etc? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
You can enable the play bar in the video settings through one of the menus. This allows for play pause functionality and skip through the progress. It has time settings too. However you cannot customize it much more than those features.
The built in player provides that functionality as Tim says. See image . The video exists on the timeline so you could manually put, start stop pause buttons and 1 minute markers on the stage that and show total length numbers. Or have we misunderstood ?
From that image it looks like the video controls - not the seekbar itself, which wouldn't indicate an actual time - but just overall length till completed. Just want to be clear for Stephanie about what the options are.
Can u please help me. ? suppose when mouse over a seekbar of video then how to show thumbnail image of video and time ?? like you tube functionality? refer below image
HI Bruce. How could I show "time palyed / total tieme" as in your example, in the standard player's seekbar of SL360 and both for video files or audio files (TTS audio files as well)?
I attach the print scree of what I see on the player config in SL360. Sorry for the stupid question, but I'm really new to Articulate tools.
Bruce's screenshot shows the video control bar, which is different than the player seekbar. Although there isn't a feature to display time played/total time for audio and videos in the player, that would make an excellent feature request!
Thanks for letting us know how we can make things better. 🙂
Alyssa or any staff. So isn't there any control variable or method that we can do like we do with name. Like if we new the Seekbar ID we should be able to code and connect a countdown duration or something to mimic the same effect.
I'm not such which name variable you've used before, but the seekbar doesn't have a variable value associated with it.
Storyline isn't currently designed to expose system variables for user interaction.
We do always want to better understand your needs so we can build even better software. Could you share a bit more on what specific system variables you'd like to see and examples of how they could be used? If you wanted to post here, please feel free - or send those ideas to our Product team here.
I would like this so our reviewers can tell us where items should come in for our animations. All of the resources we produce are translations, and we mainly use text and images timed to appear alongside audio. As the audio is completely different to the English originals, the translated text needs to appear and disappear at completely different times. I don't speak the languages, and without a timeline reviewers struggle to tell us where each line should come in. External timers don't help as they need to pause, jump back, etc to work it out. Manually inserting a custom solution for each slide and layer would be way too much work for what we need, also! Will submit a feature request, too :)
Thank you for sharing how helpful this feature would be in Storyline 360! I've added your comments to our feature request report so that we can continue tracking this request. We'll keep you updated if this makes it on our feature roadmap. Here's more information on How We Manage Feature Requests.
Thanks Lauren! It's probably not fair to just say I don't like the built-in video player without some explanation. By "built-in video player" I mean when you pick "Show Video Controls: Below video." on a video.
I don't like is that it introduces a second seek bar that can go out of sync with the default seek bar. If the user jumps ahead on the "Video Controls" seekbar, the regular seekbar does not also jump ahead. However, if you move the original seekbar, it does move the Video Controls seekbar. So, if I want to use Video Controls I pretty much have to turn off the original seek bar. This seems like it would be confusing to the user, e.g. "Why is there suddenly a different seek bar on this slide?"
It would be much simpler to just allow a timer to show on the original seekbar:
Yes, several years later; how is that feature request coming? There really NEEDS to be a way to see the timeline time counter in the player UI, full stop. Its a huge weakness vs the competition.
Not the least of which is for reviews. I automatically assumed that the review360 environment would automatically link reviewer comments and feedback to the exact place/time in the presentation that is active when the reviewer pauses it to make a comment.
Since it doesn't do that, the player UI really needs to have a timestamp for the reviewer to make note of.
Now, it would be great if storyline would have an option for a slide to 'lock its timeline' to a single placed video and - for that slide - the player scrubber controls would inherit the videos exact timeline. Other objects could be placed on the timeline but its length would be locked to the video's length. This would allow for the display of timeline time counter in the player UI
I don't see very many possible use cases where showing the videos own playback controls is any kind of useful - Changing the video's playback time position relative to the overall timeline position is a really bad idea as implimented. It only makes sense if the video is A: tied to the timeline as I described - in which case, why not just keep it hidden anyway. B: if the overall playhead is paused whenever a particular video on the stage is playing.
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You can enable the play bar in the video settings through one of the menus. This allows for play pause functionality and skip through the progress. It has time settings too. However you cannot customize it much more than those features.
Mmmm....
The built in player provides that functionality as Tim says. See image . The video exists on the timeline so you could manually put, start stop pause buttons and 1 minute markers on the stage that and show total length numbers. Or have we misunderstood ?
Hi Bruce,
From that image it looks like the video controls - not the seekbar itself, which wouldn't indicate an actual time - but just overall length till completed. Just want to be clear for Stephanie about what the options are.
I was wondering the same thing as Stephanie so thanks for the response guys!
Thanks, Ashley! I enabled the Show Video Controls for the video, not the seekbar, to show duration of the video.
Is there a way to make the video seekbar read only?
Hi Sajna
you can put a shape over it and then set a fill with 100% transparency.
Thank you so much Wendy. You made my day!
Wow you're easy to please Sajna - glad to help.
:)
Hi All ,
Can u please help me. ? suppose when mouse over a seekbar of video then how to show thumbnail image of video and time ?? like you tube functionality? refer below image
Hi Indrajeet,
This is not a feature of Storyline currently - although you can share your thoughts on including this in the form of a feature request here.
HI Bruce. How could I show "time palyed / total tieme" as in your example, in the standard player's seekbar of SL360 and both for video files or audio files (TTS audio files as well)?
I attach the print scree of what I see on the player config in SL360. Sorry for the stupid question, but I'm really new to Articulate tools.
Hi Daniele!
Bruce's screenshot shows the video control bar, which is different than the player seekbar. Although there isn't a feature to display time played/total time for audio and videos in the player, that would make an excellent feature request!
Thanks for letting us know how we can make things better. 🙂
Alyssa or any staff. So isn't there any control variable or method that we can do like we do with name. Like if we new the Seekbar ID we should be able to code and connect a countdown duration or something to mimic the same effect.
Hi Doug,
I'm not such which name variable you've used before, but the seekbar doesn't have a variable value associated with it.
Storyline isn't currently designed to expose system variables for user interaction.
We do always want to better understand your needs so we can build even better software. Could you share a bit more on what specific system variables you'd like to see and examples of how they could be used? If you wanted to post here, please feel free - or send those ideas to our Product team here.
I would like this so our reviewers can tell us where items should come in for our animations. All of the resources we produce are translations, and we mainly use text and images timed to appear alongside audio. As the audio is completely different to the English originals, the translated text needs to appear and disappear at completely different times. I don't speak the languages, and without a timeline reviewers struggle to tell us where each line should come in. External timers don't help as they need to pause, jump back, etc to work it out. Manually inserting a custom solution for each slide and layer would be way too much work for what we need, also! Will submit a feature request, too :)
Thanks Tamara for sharing here and submitting a Feature request! That's a really good interesting use case, so it'll be helpful for our team to have.
Hi Doug!
Is this issue is resolved now? I'm also struggling with the same. Our Client mandate this feature to be provided in all video based learning.
Hey, Saikat!
I just replied to you over here; we can continue the conversation there if you like! 🙂
On slides where the entire slide is a video, this would be so nice. I don't like using the built-in video player.
Hi Will!
Thank you for sharing how helpful this feature would be in Storyline 360! I've added your comments to our feature request report so that we can continue tracking this request. We'll keep you updated if this makes it on our feature roadmap. Here's more information on How We Manage Feature Requests.
Thanks Lauren! It's probably not fair to just say I don't like the built-in video player without some explanation. By "built-in video player" I mean when you pick "Show Video Controls: Below video." on a video.
I don't like is that it introduces a second seek bar that can go out of sync with the default seek bar. If the user jumps ahead on the "Video Controls" seekbar, the regular seekbar does not also jump ahead. However, if you move the original seekbar, it does move the Video Controls seekbar. So, if I want to use Video Controls I pretty much have to turn off the original seek bar. This seems like it would be confusing to the user, e.g. "Why is there suddenly a different seek bar on this slide?"
It would be much simpler to just allow a timer to show on the original seekbar:
Yes, several years later; how is that feature request coming? There really NEEDS to be a way to see the timeline time counter in the player UI, full stop. Its a huge weakness vs the competition.
Not the least of which is for reviews. I automatically assumed that the review360 environment would automatically link reviewer comments and feedback to the exact place/time in the presentation that is active when the reviewer pauses it to make a comment.
Since it doesn't do that, the player UI really needs to have a timestamp for the reviewer to make note of.
Now, it would be great if storyline would have an option for a slide to 'lock its timeline' to a single placed video and - for that slide - the player scrubber controls would inherit the videos exact timeline. Other objects could be placed on the timeline but its length would be locked to the video's length. This would allow for the display of timeline time counter in the player UI
I don't see very many possible use cases where showing the videos own playback controls is any kind of useful - Changing the video's playback time position relative to the overall timeline position is a really bad idea as implimented. It only makes sense if the video is
A: tied to the timeline as I described - in which case, why not just keep it hidden anyway.
B: if the overall playhead is paused whenever a particular video on the stage is playing.