What's the best format to insert videos on Articulate Presenter?

Check out this how-to:

http://community.articulate.com/tutorials/products/video.aspx

Hi Dwayne, thank you for your response, that's great information. Is there a way that I can add a (perhaps separate) player controls/frame just for the video inserted? How does the user controls the video? I want to add other information on the screen and I would like the user to be able to click to play/pause/replay the video.

Thanks again,

Luana

Luana, if you are using a player template with Articulate's standard player controls at the bottom (pause/play and scrub bar), the user can control the video using those controls.

Thanks for the comment Brian. Yeah, I'm using the player controls for the course to move between pages, I'd rather have a player just wrapping the video in which it's separate from the course controls - that would be consistent with the controls of some of our other training modules developed in Flash.

Gotcha!  There are a couple of good solutions here in this thread, although I'm not sure how well some of them will work if you want to add other info to your slide along with the video (the QM option may be one of your better bets): http://community.articulate.com/forums/t/882.aspx

If you have the ability to add a .swf player to your video, like with Flash, it's always possible to import the .swf instead of the movie file.  After publishing from Articulate, place your (I assume) FLV or MP4 video into the correct folder directory of the published output and the .swf will call the video file and play it.

Hope this helps!

Hi Brian, that's great! Exactly what I needed Thanks!

Hi all--

I am trying to insert a .swf file on a slide that has text that can be updated via an .xml file--I can't seem to get it to work.  Is it possible to do this, and if so...how is it done?  In case it helps, I have both the .swf and the .xml file that contains the text in the same directory as the .pptx/.ppta files.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated! Thanks.

Michelle

Hi Michelle

as long as its as 2 it possible insert via articulate menu then after publish you need to add the xml to the root directory of the published files

Phil

Hi,

is it possible i want my video play after my narration? (video in the same slide)

Your help is appreciated.. Thanks..

Hello Eugine,

I haven't used it much so I'm not sure how easy it would be to sync the video start time with the end of your narration, but when you insert a Flash movie in Presenter you can set a delay for the start of the movie (screenshot below). 

Another easy option would be to have the slide with narration automatically advance to the slide with video.  If the two slides were identical in appearance it might be a fairly invisible transition to the end user.

Hope this helps!

Ha Brian. SWe were both thinking the same things this morning. I posted a screenr earlier where Eugine had commented at the end of this tutorial. I'll add it here too, in case anyone else is interested - it shows the duplicate slide method you mentioned above:

The other method you mentioned (making the movie independent of the slide and setting a delay so that it appears after the audio) could work well too...  the only thing is, if you go that route, you'll also need to add some silent audio to the end of your narration track, equal to the length of the video. Otherwise, Presenter will think the slide is done as soon as the narration finishes, and that would mean that the video won't appear because the slide would end before the video has a chance to start.

aha, you know what they say, great minds and all

Great screenr, and also good pointers on setting the delay.  I had wondered if the slide would advance after the narration was over but hadn't had a chance to play around with it.

Thanks Jeanette!

the other problem i have is how to make my video play silently because i need to insert narration?

Eugine, you would need to remove the sound from your movie before you add it to Presenter, since Presenter doesn't have a built-in feature to do that. If you have Articulate Studio, you could use Articulate Video Encoder for this... you can decrease the volume by 100% and then publish the video as an FLV, and insert that FLV into your course. Here's a tutorial that shows how to use Articulate Video Encoder to adjust the volume.