I've got a bunch of presenter courses that open up a video in a new browser window. I would like these to have player controls so users can pause, rewind and such.
If you were to create an Engage interaction for each video you can easily add player controls to the video and you could style the colors in your engage interaction to match your presenter course so that it all looked uniform. Just open the link in the new browser window to the Engage interaction rather than your video. Do you think that might work?
Thank you for your responses Brian, the thing is I am really looking for it to be full screen otherwise the size it has when I embed it in presenter would work. Hope there is another way. Anyone?
Inside of presenter, you can't really do this with just regular video because the "player" in Presenter is just not built that way. HOWEVER, here's a potential option. Take those videos, upload them to a youtube account. Then go to youtube, play the video, hover your mouse over the video and right click. Select the pop out option. Once that pop out window opens, copy the URL that's at the top. Use this URL as your hyperlink inside of presenter and a window will pop open that has player controls.
I don't know if that's a perfect solution but its a workaround that will get you the controls you want. Of course, this only works in an environment where the internet is accessible.
The second option is instead of hyperlinking this, follow the same steps as above and insert the pop-out URL as a web object and set it to open in a new browser window. You can also set the SIZE of the web object window which is what I assume you want as well.
Thank you for your reply. The thing is that we don't want the videos hosted publically (on Screenr or YouTube). We created the videos using Screenr and downloaded the files. So somehow I need to get a player around it without hosting it publically.
The other option then might be to insert the movie into an interaction as Brian suggested and then bring that interaction in as a web object, but setting the web object to open up in a new window. So you would get something like below. I did a quick test with it in Quizmaker on a blank slide. Of course you will have to tweak the Quizmaker player to get rid of some of the unnecessary skin items but you might be even able to find a better option using one of the Engage interactions that doesn't have a button. Worth a shot.
You should be able to use QM or Engage in a web object, opening in a new window as Robert said, and adjust the HTML file of your QM or Enage published content to open full screen.
Here is a screenr that walks through modifying the Engage HTML file, and I'm sure there is something comparable for QM: https://player.vimeo.com/video/143915670
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If you were to create an Engage interaction for each video you can easily add player controls to the video and you could style the colors in your engage interaction to match your presenter course so that it all looked uniform. Just open the link in the new browser window to the Engage interaction rather than your video. Do you think that might work?
Another option might be to use QuizMaker, which also enables you to easily add player controls, with a transparent quiz player: http://community.articulate.com/tutorials/products/making-your-quiz-look-seamless-with-your-presenter-project.aspx
Publish your QM content, upload it, then open the QM content in your new video window...
Thank you for your responses Brian, the thing is I am really looking for it to be full screen otherwise the size it has when I embed it in presenter would work. Hope there is another way. Anyone?
Hi Jeffrey,
Inside of presenter, you can't really do this with just regular video because the "player" in Presenter is just not built that way. HOWEVER, here's a potential option. Take those videos, upload them to a youtube account. Then go to youtube, play the video, hover your mouse over the video and right click. Select the pop out option. Once that pop out window opens, copy the URL that's at the top. Use this URL as your hyperlink inside of presenter and a window will pop open that has player controls.
I don't know if that's a perfect solution but its a workaround that will get you the controls you want. Of course, this only works in an environment where the internet is accessible.
The second option is instead of hyperlinking this, follow the same steps as above and insert the pop-out URL as a web object and set it to open in a new browser window. You can also set the SIZE of the web object window which is what I assume you want as well.
Let me know how that works for you.
RK
Hi Robert,
Thank you for your reply. The thing is that we don't want the videos hosted publically (on Screenr or YouTube). We created the videos using Screenr and downloaded the files. So somehow I need to get a player around it without hosting it publically.
#featurerequest?
Jeff
@akzonobelgld
The other option then might be to insert the movie into an interaction as Brian suggested and then bring that interaction in as a web object, but setting the web object to open up in a new window. So you would get something like below. I did a quick test with it in Quizmaker on a blank slide. Of course you will have to tweak the Quizmaker player to get rid of some of the unnecessary skin items but you might be even able to find a better option using one of the Engage interactions that doesn't have a button. Worth a shot.
You should be able to use QM or Engage in a web object, opening in a new window as Robert said, and adjust the HTML file of your QM or Enage published content to open full screen.
Here is a screenr that walks through modifying the Engage HTML file, and I'm sure there is something comparable for QM: https://player.vimeo.com/video/143915670
Hope this helps
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