I have a couple large video files that I want to make available in Presenter. One is about 35 minutes long (~400 MB), and the other is about 55 minutes long (~700 MB), both at 720x480. After I import the movie and publish it, though, none of my added content from any slide is displayed, nor is the movie contained in the published directory. If I strip the movie and republish, at the least the content on the other slides shows up. I've tried using both an FLV and an MP4 format, with the same results for either. I assume I've exceeded a limit for allowable movie sizes. Any thoughts? Am I just out of luck trying to run them from Presenter?
Hi Tracy and welcome to Heroes! First, I don't know that an Articulate presentation is the best place to host that size of a file. You would be better off linking to that file on a dedicated Flash streaming server or something like that.
I don't know if you have ever tried looking at a movie that is 720 x 540 on a computer for that long. It's really not a good experience. Can you go into a little more detail about why you want those movies in your presentation? What are they about as they relate to the content? Is this an e-learning presentation or something else? Maybe if we know some more about what you are trying to do, some of the folks here can offer some advice about how to better tackle your project.
These video files are recordings of mandatory safety training lectures (talking head) for industrial semiconductor fabrication equipment. They need to be viewable anywhere across our intranet as we have employees around the globe. I was hoping for a solution apart from publishing and distributing DVDs or have them download the files to their local computers in order to view them. I was planning to use Presenter as a simple wrapper to stream the video.
HI Tracy. That's not really what Presenter was designed to do. You could certainly use Presenter as a means of tracking activity in a Learning Management System or Articulate Online but the movies are honestly not going to play very well in Presenter. What move format are you using? Can you tell us a bit about how you created them? Perhaps if you hosed them externally you could incorporate them as web objects and do it that way.
Yeah, I figured I was stretching Presenter a bit past its intended purpose.
The video clips were shot live with a standard def camcorder in their proprietary format, then edited and saved as .mpg's, .flv's, and .mp4's. I'll investigate the web object approach to see if that may work.
I have had great success in building Flash/HTML/JavaScript solutions to track Video views in an LMS. You can mark the 'course' complete and even bookmark if they exit the video before getting to the end.
There are a lot of open source Flash video players floating around that broadcast 'events' to the HTML page.. You need some JavaScript to listen for these events (like video done playing) and send the appropriate data to the LMS.
An LMS has been a long-standing request for our department, but it doesn't look like we'll be able to implement one in the immediate future. I did find that I'm able to deploy my video using Adobe Captivate. I don't have tracking, but I'll take what I can get at this point. Thanks very much for your input.
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Hi Tracy and welcome to Heroes! First, I don't know that an Articulate presentation is the best place to host that size of a file. You would be better off linking to that file on a dedicated Flash streaming server or something like that.
I don't know if you have ever tried looking at a movie that is 720 x 540 on a computer for that long. It's really not a good experience. Can you go into a little more detail about why you want those movies in your presentation? What are they about as they relate to the content? Is this an e-learning presentation or something else? Maybe if we know some more about what you are trying to do, some of the folks here can offer some advice about how to better tackle your project.
Hi Justin,
Thanks for your prompt response.
These video files are recordings of mandatory safety training lectures (talking head) for industrial semiconductor fabrication equipment. They need to be viewable anywhere across our intranet as we have employees around the globe. I was hoping for a solution apart from publishing and distributing DVDs or have them download the files to their local computers in order to view them. I was planning to use Presenter as a simple wrapper to stream the video.
Tracy
HI Tracy. That's not really what Presenter was designed to do. You could certainly use Presenter as a means of tracking activity in a Learning Management System or Articulate Online but the movies are honestly not going to play very well in Presenter. What move format are you using? Can you tell us a bit about how you created them? Perhaps if you hosed them externally you could incorporate them as web objects and do it that way.
http://community.articulate.com/tutorials/products/inserting-a-web-object.aspx
Hi Justin,
Yeah, I figured I was stretching Presenter a bit past its intended purpose.
The video clips were shot live with a standard def camcorder in their proprietary format, then edited and saved as .mpg's, .flv's, and .mp4's. I'll investigate the web object approach to see if that may work.
Tracy
Great! Let us know how things work out. I'm sure there might be some other suggestions out there if that doesn't work for you.
Hi Tracy,
I have had great success in building Flash/HTML/JavaScript solutions to track Video views in an LMS. You can mark the 'course' complete and even bookmark if they exit the video before getting to the end.
There are a lot of open source Flash video players floating around that broadcast 'events' to the HTML page.. You need some JavaScript to listen for these events (like video done playing) and send the appropriate data to the LMS.
Hi James,
An LMS has been a long-standing request for our department, but it doesn't look like we'll be able to implement one in the immediate future. I did find that I'm able to deploy my video using Adobe Captivate. I don't have tracking, but I'll take what I can get at this point. Thanks very much for your input.
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