Base slide audio/animation plays over layer audio - how to stop it
Nov 16, 2012
Hi - new to Storyline - currently running with the trial version. In general I like it a lot -but struggling with one thing today.
I have created a base slide with two layers.
On that base slide I have two triggers - that when clicked - take you through to those layers.
My issue is this (and - as a beginner - I suspect it's easy to solve!).
Tha base slide has audio on it - as do both of the layers. The base slide also has animation.
If I click the triggers to go through to the either of the two layers while the audio/animation is running on the base slide - the base slide audio and animation continue to run - interupting and intruding on the layers.
If I wait until the all the animation and audio completes on the base slide - it all works as it should.
My question is this - when I click on the triggers - is there any way to freez/stop the audio/animation on the base slide?
10 Replies
Alec;
If you click on a layer name in the slide layers list area you will see a little cog on the right side. Click it for layer properties. There is a checkmark for pause timeline of base layer there. Do that on each of the layers you add above the base layer. The animation and sound will continue when you return to the base layer That is not always a good thing so there are ways around that if you want but this will get you started.
Tim
Tim - genius!
Many thanks. This solved it straight away.
Feel a bit of a numpty for not spotting this in the first place - my only excuse is that I'm new to Storyline and the 'pause timeline' terminlogy did not make sense to me.
It does now - so very happy.
Hey Tim,
So how do you stop the base layer audio from resuming? I have tried everything my very limited knowledge (first few days with SL) includes. Many thanks!
Becky,
Could you share an example of how you'd like to implement this? What would the use case be for having the audio not continue? There are several approaches, but I'd like to target it to your particular needs.
Thanks!
Mike
I've done this, but I also have sub layers w/in a layer that I use to pop up different information on the screen. Using the properties tool and having the base layer audio stop doesn't work for the sub layer audio clips. I also can't set a trigger to stop a layer's audio b/c the audio file is not w/in that layer. (I used hot spots to pull up these sub layers). Help?!?!
Hi Debbie,
I'm not sure I'm following in regards to the sublayers within layers. Could you post a sample .story file so we can take a look?
Thanks!
Mike
I'll try, I haven't had any luck so far trying to post it - let me take some of the content out so the size is smaller.
I've made it as small as I can and it still won't upload. Is there a maximum? Is there an email I can send it to?
Did you figure it out?
Debbie,
Sorry, just getting back to this after being at a conference this week.
Your challenge is that you're trying to get your LOTO layer to act as a new base layer with the other layers appearing over the top. There are several approaches you could take but here are two:
1. You only use the LOTO layer and use a series of triggers to hide/show the text and play/stop the audio. It would look something like...
When user clicks the first definition hotspot, play media 1, stop media 2 and media 3, change state of text 1 to normal and change state of text 2 and text 3 to hidden. And then do something similar for the other two hotspots.
2. You could keep your slide layers as they are and then duplicate the background, hotspots, etc. on the LOTO layer and duplicate them on each of the other layers, then set each slide layer to hide other layers.
Mike
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