Change timeline from seconds to minutes?

lame

Honestly, I find it amazing that this issue has still not been resolved. Given the age of the request and the painful nature of the issue, this should be a priority.

I use a lot of voiceover that I've to cut out between multiple Storyline slides, and this stupid problem is wasting my and my teams' time.

Oh my goodness, please update this feature. I am fighting with this right now. I am trying to convert 2:34 into 154 seconds and Storyline keeps reverting what I'm typing to 5 seconds. I don't even know what to do. If I could just enter 2:34 that would be great. 

Hi, Angela.

I'm not sure if this is what you're attempting to do, but if you're using a trigger that jumps to a specific time (154 seconds, for example), but your timeline is not that long, Storyline will change it to the ending time of your timeline:

I hope this helps!

That would make sense...except that my timeline is 522 seconds long so it should allow me to add a trigger at 154 seconds...and the software shouldn't force us all to convert video timelines from minutes and seconds into seconds, even still. Sigh...

Dear support team,

I also think that it is not very customer-friendly when customers are stalled for years when a simple feature is requested and we are fobbed off with standard answers.

Can you give us the specific status on this feature request? 

I agree. I have talked to support over this as well. So much time trying to "fit" things where they belong. 

Hello Everyone!

I'm excited to share that I connected with the Engineering team, and this feature is now under review. We'll be sure to circle back here to share additional information as soon as possible!

Thank you for the update. We look forward to receiving further information.

Hi, Everyone!

I have some great news to share! We just released a really cool feature that now displays minutes and seconds in Timeline. You’ll find out more about this feature here.

To take advantage of this update, launch the Articulate 360 desktop app on your computer and click the Update button next to Storyline 360. You'll find step-by-step instructions here.

Please let us know if you have any questions by posting here, or reaching out to our Support Engineers directly.

Oh, good. This basic feature was updated.

If we expand the timeline further, will minutes and seconds convert to years? Looks like we need a slide that is 9+ years long to reflect the history of this comment thread asking for this adjustment.

(To the current staff, thank you for listening and making this happen. Sorry for my heavy dose of sarcasm in the above comment).

Is there anyway to change it back to seconds now? I am aligning videos, but all the triggers for choosing the correct time are in seconds, and the timelines are all in Minutes: Seconds. So you have to do the math to get the correct time. Am I missing something?

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for reaching out! There isn't a way to change the timeline back to seconds. I understand it can be a challenge to mentally convert seconds to minutes and vice-versa when working with triggers. To alleviate this, I created a converter in Google Sheets that you may find helpful. Here's the link for it:

• Minutes to Seconds Converter

Here's a quick Peek recording showing how to use the converter.

Let me know if that helps!

Hi Eric,

That is helpful as a work around, but shouldn't the triggers have been adapted to the new minute-second format? It seems like this was missed in the update that brought this new time format for the timeline. There is now a mismatch in the formats between the triggers and timeline. Either the triggers should match the minute-second format, or we should still have the ability to see the timeline in seconds.

I agree with you, Andrew! It would be nice if there were an option to display the timeline in seconds for those working with triggers. Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts!

I have passed this suggestion on to our product team. We'll be sure to update this thread if any adjustments are made to this feature in the future.

Wouldn't it make more sense to add support for minutes and seconds to triggers?

Hello everyone!

Good news! Today, we just released Storyline 360 Update 74 (Build 3.74.30180.0) which includes a new feature to easily create time-based triggers in minutes and seconds.

Now all you need to do is update Storyline 360 in your Articulate 360 desktop app!

If you have additional questions, don't hesitate to reach out in this discussion or in a support case. 

Woohoo! 🥳

Hi there, I'm still facing this issue. Timeline still shows seconds and not minutes. Can anyone do something about this issue?

Hi Apoorva,

Thanks for reaching out, and I'm sorry you're having problems with the timeline. What you're seeing may be something expected, as the timeline will only display minutes-seconds if your timeline is at least a minute long. This is what I see on my end:

I attached the sample Storyline project used in that screenshot so you may test on your end. Do you see the same thing? If not, and you're working on your local drive, try running these steps to fix possible installation issues.

Please let me know if you have any questions.