Maximum # of videos in an Engage interaction
Feb 14, 2011
Is there a maximum # of videos that you can include in an Engage interaction? We are doing a project with the Process interaction. Each step has a video that is <2GB (about 2-3 mins). 8 of the videos go in the interaction without any problem. The last 2 are not working correctly. What happens is they look like they are accepted into the interaction but the interaction application locks up when I try to close it. When I force it closed, the videos which had been loaded and saved do not appear once the course is packaged. Are we bumping up against system limits?
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Hi Debbie & welcome to the forums,
It sounds like you're reaching a limit on your machine. You might check with your IT group to see if there's a limit on your temp folders. Also, you'll want to make sure that you have a lot of RAM and hard drive space.
Hello and welcome to the forums! I would strongly discourage you from using files that size in an Engage interaction. If your video is really 2 gigabytes for only 2 to 3 minutes, they really wouldn't be playable in any real world scenario. Take a look at this calculator and redo the videos so that they are a more reasonable size:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/apps/flv_bitrate_calculator.html
A 2 to 3 minute video might be several megabytes but should never be 2 gigabytes. If you are using the Articulate Video Encoder to create your videos, you can customize the dimensions and the audio and video bitrates to create a more user friendly video:
http://www.articulate.com/support/video-encoder09/?p=28
Whoops - typo on my part! The videos are less than 2GB for the entire group - not each individual video. Thanks for the info - we divided the videos into 2 Engage modules and they worked ok.
2 Gigabytes is still pretty big for multiple videos. If you plan on hosting the content online, I would probably test it out and make sure they actually work. That's an enormous amount of data that needs to be downloaded.
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