16:9 video suggestions

Feb 14, 2013

James Willcox
By James Willcox

Hi all,


I am still seeing whether or not our company will purchase this product and there seems to be a major issue that I can't get past.  In all the training courses that I am required to make I need to have them integrated with a series of 16:9 1920x1080 videos.  Is there a good way to include these videos in the presentation without having to open them in a new browser to see them? Or is there a way to make the browser close its self after the video is complete to allow it to advance to the next slide? 

This is of the upmost importance as when i scale down the videos to fit into the powerpoint slides I miss out on key features of the video because it is too small to see the detail that is required.

So in summery all I want is a way to be able to play my 16:9 video, full screen, then proceed to the next slide automated.  Can this product do that and how?

Thanks James

P.s. If any admin see this, this is the 3rd account I have had to make for this forum because the fist two emails I tried to sign up with after reciving and confirming the emial and then clicking "lets rock" or whatever i was given the error - "

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5 Replies
Steve Flowers
11 years ago02/14/13 at 3:38 pm (UTC)

Hi, James - 

I'm assuming all of your participants will have a screen with that resolution? You can set Storyline's "stage" size to any dimensions. What other features do you require besides the display of video at that resolution?

You might be able to do what you're looking for in Storyline. I haven't tested with video at that frame size so I don't know what the performance side-effects would be. 

James Willcox
11 years ago02/14/13 at 3:56 pm (UTC)

Thank you for your fast responce!  I am glad that Storyline can be changed to fit my videos.  I also require to make a menu of sorts.  In the training course there are 5 modules and I only want them to watch one module at a time or select a module that they want to watch.  In studio i did this with branching and hyperlinks within the document so that they would go through a module and then return to the menu without seeing any of the other slides that were made in the same presentation that weren't appart of that module.  Is this possible in storyline?

As for the video size, i probably wouldnt want to go under 1080x720 but because these will only be going on the intranet/ a DVD I have no concern about the file size.

Can storyline presentations be run as an exe off a DVD as well?

Steve Flowers
11 years ago02/14/13 at 4:00 pm (UTC)

Hi, James - 

The menu and logic is really easy in Storyline. The built-in logic and supports like states, triggers, and variables make Storyline a bit more powerful than Presenter for that kind of thing. Presenter is great but it's great at a fairly narrow pattern of things. All kinds of interaction possibilities with Storyline.

The DVD should run your Storyline files through an EXE. Again, I haven't tested performance of larger format videos. That's the only thing I'd worry about. The EXE publish gives you a player launcher that wraps a browser window and prevents security warnings (Flash / IE) from getting in the way. It's still HTML but runs more reliably from a local drive like a CD / DVD.

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