I had thought that Replay would allow me to create screencasts similar to what I create in Storyline. For instance, in Storyline, when I record (and send to screen-by-screen), text boxes and clicks are automatically generated, at which point I just quickly edit them.
I notice this didn't happen in Replay and I've searched everywhere to figure out how to turn it on. A screencast isn't useful for us unless we can add those effects, and then save out to MP4.
Hi Michelle, Replay does not work the same way as the screencasts in Storyline. When you record a step-by-step screencast in Storyline, you are getting a video in the background. The callouts, cursor animations, highlights, and hotspots are not part of the video. They just sit on top of the video in the Storyline timeline. This is intentional as it allows us to manipulate these objects on the timeline. The downside is that when you try and export the video you do not get all the stuff that sits on top of it.
With Replay, you are just doing a video recording. The intent was more that you could record your screen along with a presenter and show the screen demo and the presenter in a split panel.
To get around your particular dilemma, I would recommend developing your step-by-step screen recordings in Storyline and then use Replay to record the published output. It is an extra step or 2 but it will save you the cost of having to purchase Camtasia or Captivate.
I've noticed many people on the forums have requested (officially feature requested) the Publish to MP4 feature in Storyline. With that much need, I'm surprised it hasn't made it into an update yet. I know that we're now going back to Captivate (we own both at this point), because as much as we hate that software, it publishes to the file formats we need to make interactive PDFs with embedded MP4s.
If you'd like to share your thoughts on features you'd like to see, I'd encourage you to do so in the form of a feature request as those go right to our product development team.
Thanks for the fast reply Alyssa! That is helpful, thank you. I was more after a run down of the purpose behind each product and Ashely's response filled me in.
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Hi Michelle, Replay does not work the same way as the screencasts in Storyline. When you record a step-by-step screencast in Storyline, you are getting a video in the background. The callouts, cursor animations, highlights, and hotspots are not part of the video. They just sit on top of the video in the Storyline timeline. This is intentional as it allows us to manipulate these objects on the timeline. The downside is that when you try and export the video you do not get all the stuff that sits on top of it.
With Replay, you are just doing a video recording. The intent was more that you could record your screen along with a presenter and show the screen demo and the presenter in a split panel.
To get around your particular dilemma, I would recommend developing your step-by-step screen recordings in Storyline and then use Replay to record the published output. It is an extra step or 2 but it will save you the cost of having to purchase Camtasia or Captivate.
Nancy,
Your right. Replay is roundabout way to "publish to MP4" from Storyline.
A Storyline feature we don't have, yet!
I've noticed many people on the forums have requested (officially feature requested) the Publish to MP4 feature in Storyline. With that much need, I'm surprised it hasn't made it into an update yet. I know that we're now going back to Captivate (we own both at this point), because as much as we hate that software, it publishes to the file formats we need to make interactive PDFs with embedded MP4s.
I have also noticed a small amount of lag when recording with Replay.
Also Replay has no options on the quality of the output, yet !
Hi Michelle,
If you'd like to share your thoughts on features you'd like to see, I'd encourage you to do so in the form of a feature request as those go right to our product development team.
Hello All! Has much changed in the four years since this post was started? Is replay still more of a way to 'publish to MP4' from storyline?
Hi Libby,
Did you know you can now publish your Storyline 360 content to MP4 directly from Storyline?
Let me know if that's what you were after, or if you had something else in mind!
Thanks for the fast reply Alyssa! That is helpful, thank you. I was more after a run down of the purpose behind each product and Ashely's response filled me in.
Happy to have helped, Libby! A bit of a tag team effort here. 👏
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