Animation in Storyline
Feb 10, 2013
I am converting an e learning programme originally developed in captivate into storyline. I am really impressed with storyline so far, particularly as I have been able to do everything I have done in captivate quicker and better. However, I have one slide with a background picture and four png images I made in photoshop showing an ECG trace to replicate a heartrate rythm typically seen on a monitor. I also have the sound inserted which is in sequence with the animation. I originally animated the images in powerpoint using the wipe animation and it looks very effective. Unfortunately the choice of animations look a little more limited in story line and fade or fly in doesn't give the same effect. Does anyone have any ideas how i may replicate the original animated effect?
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Hi Paul;
indeed SL is a bit lmilited in animation capabilities and there is no straight forward solution to your question. Nevertheless, as you used captivate can you extract the animation and save it as a webobect. You can then embed that object into your SL ?
Just an idea
Cheers
geert
Geer, thanks for that I will have a look at that option. Worse case scenario i may just have to manage without the animation.
Could you not just save the PowerPoint animation (if you have PPT 2010) as a WMV video file format, and then just bring straight into LS?
Bruce
Bruce, in answer to your question, yes I can as I have just done it and it works a treat. Never thouht of that because in all the years I have used powerpoint I didn't realise i could save a slide as a video and even if I did I wouldn't have thought it would play so seemlessly in the programme...thanks for tip.
LOL.
Think video may be a relatively recent addition to the .pptx outputs, but you are correct, it is completely seamless with SL, and remember, you can also add images, text boxes etc. over the top.
It's a great way to get over the currently limited animation list in Storyline, (a list that I do understand is being worked on for the future releases...).
Bruce
Hi Paul, is it a looping animation? You can loop one of the layers in Storyline and get a frame-by-frame animation possibly
Sasha, may I ask how that works? I put in loop layers as a search but didn't come up with anything.
Hi Paul, Jeanette Brooks posted an example near the top of the thread here, an "undocumented" thing...
http://community.articulate.com/forums/p/14543/135337.aspx#135337
Basically show the layer then hide the layer as the timeline ends. You will need to put your images on different timeline layers and animate them that way using the type-in "start time" value (or maybe you can do something with the existing animations)..
Sasha, thanks for that i'll give it a try.
I'm used to animating in Flash. As far as I've seen in storyline, all objects that are present in the animation appear at all times (regardless of when they appear in preview mode). It is sometimes confusing with animations with many parts/layers. Does anyone have a good work around or solution to this? Right now, we just turn on/off visibility of layers and preview.
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