I am wondering if anyone can help me with the quality of my videos when I insert them into my Articulate Presenter Project.
Any recommendations on how to improve the quality.
The main function of my projects include creating videos, and power points to train people. The video quality becomes degraded when I insert the videos into the Power Point, and then when I export the document to create an online training on a LMS.
Ah, I encountered this problem once too and have found a solution for it! Here goes!
Now, when you look into the output folder, it'll show lots of things, but one thing here is of importance right now; the story_content folder. Open it and in there you'll see some video files. These are the videos used by Articulate, these are the ones that have a so-so quality. Now, navigate to the videos that are of good quality and copy/paste them to some place where you can easily access them, your desktop for instance. Then, rename the copies to the corresponding name of the videos in story_content, and then replace the videos in story_content with the good quality videos.
There are some problems this might give, for instance:
You can easily mistake a video for an other video, ending up in the videos you see being switched around. But no problem, once you know which ones have swapped, just swap their names and it'll be fixed.
You must have the exact same name when doing this, otherwise it won't show anything at all.
Articulate does the quality compressing for a reason. It's so you can quickly upload your content and so it won't take too long when loading your project. Naturally this means that the higher quality videos you have, the longer uploading will take and the longer loading it will take. If you're running tests, I would advice you to use the Articulate quality videos until you are actually going to release your content.
EDIT: WHOOPS! I thought you were talking about Storyline! Hah! My bad!
Phil is right Studio 13 Update 2 has just been released and it outputs a better video quality.
Another thing that might effect your Replay videos is if you add lowres images or lowres powerpoint video within your high quality screen recordings or inserted videos. Replay scales down to the lowest quality of inserted items. If you use powerpoint to create title slides or videos you want to double the size of your slides first before creating your content. Check out my screencast on that process here.
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There is no option to set the quality of videos when you export from Replay (yet).
When you are publishing on Presenter 2013 you can set the quality of the video.
http://www.articulate.com/support/presenter-13/video-compression-in-articulate-studio-13.
There is also the question of what your recording in Replay and quality of that.
Hope I helped and did not just add more information.
Ah, I encountered this problem once too and have found a solution for it! Here goes!
Now, when you look into the output folder, it'll show lots of things, but one thing here is of importance right now; the story_content folder. Open it and in there you'll see some video files. These are the videos used by Articulate, these are the ones that have a so-so quality. Now, navigate to the videos that are of good quality and copy/paste them to some place where you can easily access them, your desktop for instance. Then, rename the copies to the corresponding name of the videos in story_content, and then replace the videos in story_content with the good quality videos.
There are some problems this might give, for instance:
EDIT: WHOOPS! I thought you were talking about Storyline! Hah! My bad!
Update 2 has been released, this has improved handling of videos.
Hi Alison, welcome to the forums,
Phil is right Studio 13 Update 2 has just been released and it outputs a better video quality.
Another thing that might effect your Replay videos is if you add lowres images or lowres powerpoint video within your high quality screen recordings or inserted videos. Replay scales down to the lowest quality of inserted items. If you use powerpoint to create title slides or videos you want to double the size of your slides first before creating your content. Check out my screencast on that process here.
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