I have created a scene based on a recording. Since the screen contained somewhat sensible data on some screens, I added a layer and draw some boxes over the data that I wanted to hide.
This works very well and the editing features such as align left and distribute vertically are quite handy when anonymizing a screen. But the problem is that, when published, the .jpg and .mp4 files naturally doesn't contain the layers, as these might be added based on a user initiated trigger. So if these files are accessed directly, the sensitive data can be seen.
Is it possible, when a layer is shown in the entire slide, somehow easily to merge the layer into the published .jpg and .mp4 files? Or must I instead do the recording, use another video editor to add the boxes covering sensitive/un-relevant parts of the screen, and then add the video file to the Storyline project?
Hi Thomas. You make a great point about "redacting" information from media that you're including in your Storyline courses. The actual media files themselves are not being edited, even though you're obscuring parts of them with other slide objects.
Your workaround is probably the best bet at this point - if you can record the "redacted" version and use that video in your course, the media file will be exactly what you see on the slide. I'm not sure how to break that down into step-by-step slides, so that might take some inventing on your end.
Thanks for starting the conversation, though. An important one to have!
Interesting to see if others have simular needs and/or other solutions on how to ensure anonymization parts of the screen. But I do hope that you now have this registered as an idea and that you perhaps will address it in future versions/updates :-)
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Hi Thomas. You make a great point about "redacting" information from media that you're including in your Storyline courses. The actual media files themselves are not being edited, even though you're obscuring parts of them with other slide objects.
Your workaround is probably the best bet at this point - if you can record the "redacted" version and use that video in your course, the media file will be exactly what you see on the slide. I'm not sure how to break that down into step-by-step slides, so that might take some inventing on your end.
Thanks for starting the conversation, though. An important one to have!
And thank you for your reply.
Interesting to see if others have simular needs and/or other solutions on how to ensure anonymization parts of the screen.
But I do hope that you now have this registered as an idea and that you perhaps will address it in future versions/updates :-)
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