Hi, I make some video-tutorial by using screen capture. I had a wish to highlight a part by part of image (screen), like title bar, pull-down menu, form, buttons... and rest of screen make blurred or less visible in order to het visitors attention on right place. Is it possible, I did it before in DemoBuilder with special ability of box or frame where is space inside box clear and image out of frame is less visible?
I solved it for now by transparent box and thick red border and caption... but too much work. Some better and faster solution, please?
Hi Bruce, yes it would help.... thank you. I thought that there is some option build in Storyline and I don't see it. I'll try it so... but it will take more memory and increase project size... but... that's a price, I guess.
You COULD try using the "Frame" shape, playing around with the size and position, (you may have to go outside the slide borders, as below), and then set the opacity levels to make it see-through, but it is not a very elegant way to do this. Might work for you.
You COULD try using the "Frame" shape, playing around with the size and position, (you may have to go outside the slide borders, as below), and then set the opacity levels to make it see-through, but it is not a very elegant way to do this. Might work for you.
How you achieve it? You have put an shape with transparency 70%, then you have put another shape over with tarnsparency 100%,,, or? I can't get it to true based on your suggestion, please explain!
I also do what Bruce does with Snagit. The reason I'm jumping in is to ask y'all if you wouldn't mind submitting a feature request to Articulate, asking for the blur feature to be included in the next release of Storyline. I've done so...it would make life so much easier!
When we talk about some future features of Storyline I would suggest also better "preview" option when a user edit and processing single slide; I noticed that some object on slide during preview appears differently than it 's on timeline and even on timeline is a little gap some objects are visible always on screen even during scene preview they are "on the right place" For "noobs" it's very "disturbing" and force them to correct something what is already OK but not visible so in slide preview.
When we talk about some future features of Storyline I would suggest also better "preview" option when a user edit and processing single slide; I noticed that some object on slide during preview appears differently than it 's on timeline and even on timeline is a little gap some objects are visible always on screen even during scene preview they are "on the right place" For "noobs" it's very "disturbing" and force them to correct something what is already OK but not visible so in slide preview.
The main thing here, (if I have interpreted you correctly...), is to always make sure your Zoom is set to 100%, (View > Zoom).
If you do this, the 2 x views should show up the same.
I landed on this page trying to find ways to blur text/images within SL2 . Thanks for the SnagIt suggestion, it worked out great. I have also submitted a feature request for blur effect.
Just want to point out that all the suggestions for obscuring sensitive text in a video with an image overlay of some sort can only be done with a video file that's imported directly into the project. Video that is embedded as a link from an external server can't be placed behind other layers. If there is a way for Articulate engineers to enable layering on top of embedded video, that would be HUGE!
Web objects and website video will always appear as the top most item as detailed here - but you're welcome to share your thoughts in the form of a feature request.
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Hi,
I use SnagIt to do this on a regular basis, then save as a .jpg and bring it in.
Is that what you are looking for?
Hi Bruce, yes it would help.... thank you. I thought that there is some option build in Storyline and I don't see it. I'll try it so... but it will take more memory and increase project size... but... that's a price, I guess.
You COULD try using the "Frame" shape, playing around with the size and position, (you may have to go outside the slide borders, as below), and then set the opacity levels to make it see-through, but it is not a very elegant way to do this. Might work for you.
How you achieve it? You have put an shape with transparency 70%, then you have put another shape over with tarnsparency 100%,,, or? I can't get it to true based on your suggestion, please explain!
Hi Bruce and Leslie,
I also do what Bruce does with Snagit. The reason I'm jumping in is to ask y'all if you wouldn't mind submitting a feature request to Articulate, asking for the blur feature to be included in the next release of Storyline. I've done so...it would make life so much easier!
Leslie,
Just do Insert Shape, (see image below).
Then right-click > format shape and set the Transparency to about 60%
@Rebecca - done.
Have asked for select an area then blur, OR select an area and blur everything OUTSIDE that selected area.
Perfect and thanks! Have a great rest of the W/E! We (in the states) have a few more w/e hours left then y'all
Thank you to both of you...
When we talk about some future features of Storyline I would suggest also better "preview" option when a user edit and processing single slide; I noticed that some object on slide during preview appears differently than it 's on timeline and even on timeline is a little gap some objects are visible always on screen even during scene preview they are "on the right place" For "noobs" it's very "disturbing" and force them to correct something what is already OK but not visible so in slide preview.
The main thing here, (if I have interpreted you correctly...), is to always make sure your Zoom is set to 100%, (View > Zoom).
If you do this, the 2 x views should show up the same.
Hi Leslie,
I just wanted to welcome you to the Heroes community and it looks like you've gotten some great help from the community here.
I landed on this page trying to find ways to blur text/images within SL2 . Thanks for the SnagIt suggestion, it worked out great. I have also submitted a feature request for blur effect.
Could you also zoom to the area you want to highlight and pause the timeline?
Thanks BJ for submitting the feature request.
Just want to point out that all the suggestions for obscuring sensitive text in a video with an image overlay of some sort can only be done with a video file that's imported directly into the project. Video that is embedded as a link from an external server can't be placed behind other layers. If there is a way for Articulate engineers to enable layering on top of embedded video, that would be HUGE!
Hi Dan,
Web objects and website video will always appear as the top most item as detailed here - but you're welcome to share your thoughts in the form of a feature request.
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