Screencasts on multiple layers in one slide
Oct 01, 2018
Hello,
I made a presentation, and added zooms to the slide presentation (which was made up of slides converted from a screen recording). It looked great in preview mode, but when published, the zoomed in views were blurry and out of focus.
So then I thought I'll do manual zooms that are high resolution and not blurry on the sections I want to zoom in, save those as separate recordings, and then insert those separate recordings on different layers in one slide, set triggers for them to show layers at specific times in the timeline, and create the effect of zooming manually, by using these other layers with zoomed sections.
Ultimately my presentation would have slides with 4-6 layers, each with a different screencast on them.
But I can't get even one layer with a screencast to display at a certain time in my test project (attached). The base layer shows, but the second layer doesn't, even though there is a trigger for it to display.
I need help with this issue, or suggestions for how to work around this problem.
Thank you.
NB
10/1/18
5 Replies
On slide 1.1, you need to move the trigger to show layer 1 to the baselayer. It currently sits on Layer 1, which is never displayed.
Ok. The real problem is actually that the zooming works great when I preview it, but when I publish the file, the zoomed in image is blurry, even though it is perfectly clear in the preview. Which is why I have to try and use this workaround in the first place, when I would much rather have the zoom working to show a clear image. Do you know why that would be?
Thanks,
NB 10/1/18
Hi NB,
I took a look at the project file you shared above, and it seems to look the same to me in preview and when published.
Can you take a look at my published output here and let me know if you see any blurriness?
This file I attached doesn't have the zoom effect in it. This is a sample file documenting the type of error I was getting. It seems it depends on how much you're zooming as to whether or not you see blurriness in the zoom of the preview versus the zoom of the published file.
Hi NB,
I didn't see any errors viewing that file, so I'm not clear on what I'm looking for.
Scaling an image or zooming in will cause a change in quality, and the size of your image and how much you zoom in will determine how noticeable that is. I'd start by taking a look at our best practices here on working with media in Storyline.
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