Flash Movies in Articulate Presenter
Mar 05, 2012
Hi
I am building a e-learning program on Feedback that uses a lot of short video clips that have been prepared in Xtranormal State Desktop animation tool. In each case, I get a black box saying something like video placeholder on the slide. I am now reworking all of this to resize my flash (.flv) files to 360 by 640 to both reduce the file size and improve the fit. However, I am finding it hard to track what is where. Is there any way to get the file name appearing on the video placer holder or seeing in with a right mouse click or something like that. There are about 30 of these short video clips in this program, and not having an easy way to know what is were is making it hard to update them correctly.
Roelf
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Hi Roelf. I created a screencast I thought could help you out. I typically just put a text box off the side of the slide and type in the name of my movie file so I know which movie corresponds to which slide. Check it out:
Thanks Justin
I will do that
silly of me to forget that you can create a text box off the slide area
we get so focused that we forget the obvious
It would be neat if you folks could automate this process though in a future release
when you start having more than a video or two in an interactive learning session
you can easily mistakes in the manual tracking
What's the best way to add this to the the suggested features list
Thanks
Roelf
Thanks for the feedback, Roelf. You can share it with our development team here.
Hi Roelf,
Justin's text box method will probably save you time in the long run. Another option would be to right-click the video placeholder, and select Properties. When the Properties window opens, your movie name will display in the Movie field.
Let me amend my right-click method. This works with SWF movies. MP4 and FLV movies will display "blank.swf" as the file name. So, for these file types, you'd need to use Justin's text box method.
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