At a recent Articulate workshop a community member asked me: how do I add multiple cue points to pause a video at several points, which display different slide layers with additional informat...
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thank you so much! this helps with what I am trying to do right now. I do have a question: what if I do want the student to be able to pause the video at any time. My video is quite long (it's a class) and i would like them to be able to pause at any time they need to if they have to step away. thank you in advance!
Amanda – I have the same question. I would also like allow users to pause the video at their convenience. If I turn on the show video controls, the video pauses but not the timeline which will make the cue points and the appearing of the layers out of sync with the video. If I use the seek bar on the slide itself instead of the video controls, the user can adjust the volume within the course and pause the timeline in addition to the video -- which is nice. However, the downfall to using the seek bar is that it always looks a little funny if you’re using layers to do something similar to this example since the layer has its own timeline. What would be great is if it were possible have the option of continuing to show the base layer seek bar instead of showing a separate seek bar for each layer. Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
- Hi Maria -
I was looking for something that would help this as well. What I do is use a video that plays automatically in the slide timeline, and then I cover that with a transparent shape to make sure they can't interact with the video other than through the player buttons and seekbar.
I also use a shape appearing for .25 seconds on the timeline, rather than a cue point to show my interactive elements, because when I do things this way, I find the Storyline is inclusive of previous cue points if you jump ahead of them, so it will show the interactive elements, even if you don't want them to. I set the trigger to show the element when the state of that shape is normal.
Here's an example: http://wkelearningdemos.s3.amazonaws.com/InteractiveVid/story_html5.html
The content is all over the place, but the functionality is what I'm talking about. You'll notice at points there are square, orange outlines that appear in the bottom right. Those are the manual "cue" points- Thanks for the suggestion! Am I correct that it looks like you are hiding and showing objects on the base layer instead of using a separate layer?
- I have some objects lightboxed (questions) and some objects on the timeline so I can control exactly how long they appear without triggers (images, pop ups that are more informational and less interactive).
Layers would work just as well, but depending on whether you wanted the video content to continue playing, you would edit the layer accordingly (choose to pause main timeline or not)
- Hey Bill, I was about to consider this path. Link isn't working.
Are you using "trigger shapes that span e.g.: 4-5 seconds or 8-9 seconds as "cue points"
and then on enter slide do this if shape_1 = normal, do that if shape_2=normal?
