Concerning Embedded Videos in Storyline 2

Hi Eric! 

Are you working locally from your hard drive?

When creating, editing, and publishing Articulate Storyline courses, be sure you're working on your local hard drive (typically your C: drive). Working on a network drive or a USB drive can cause erratic behavior, such as file corruption, an inability to save changes, and loss of resources. See this article for more information.

We have seen some reports of the file size changing as you mention, but not to that extreme. 

Have you tried to import into a new file?

Thanks Leslie! I'm working from the C: drive. Importing the slides looks like I'm able to salvage the work in the story file that won't open.

I wonder if Storyline is still embedding the original video files that were changed out. Do you know if this is something that Stoyrline 2 does in the background?

I cannot say for sure what is going on and our QA Team is aware and actively working to resolve.

Thanks again Leslie. Something strange is going on. I rebuilt the course which came out to be about 400mb. I was able to save the course, then 'Publish'. After publishing an asterisk appears in the title signalling the need to save again...when I did the story file became 4gb.

Oddly enough Storyline seemed to be able to Publish for LMS with relative ease from this story file...or so I thought...I've just attempted to upload to our LMS and it did not take citing a missing "imsmanifest.xml" file in the zip that I attempted to upload.

I'm working with the video editor on my team to find workaround solutions, potentially compressing the videos further might help minimize the file size.

Thank you for the ongoing help with this. Working with the video editor we've got the video files compressed down and the Story file is down to under 300mb. Thanks for the help and suggestions!

Glad to hear it Eric! Thanks for the update :)