Help - Videos and powerpoint

Jan 24, 2018

Hi, I'm new to Storyline and need to work out how to have a video running and a PowerPoint presentation at the same time, progressing the slides as the presenter talks. Can't seem to find any tutorials to assist.

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Walt Hamilton

I break the video up into chunks that correspond to the size of the slides, or smaller, if I need to. That is, I have a new video chunk each time I have a new slide.

I import the slide from PowerPoint, and set the slide to advance when the media completes. That way, I can switch between the lecturer and the slide, show both, add points of emphasis, pause for enrichment material, or add interactions.

The most helpful thing I can tell you is: do not put video controls on the slide. Start and end the slide timeline when the video starts and ends. That allows you to use the slide seekbar as the video seekbar, yet keep everything synchronized.

Walt Hamilton

I use the free Movie Maker from Microsoft. It's not a professional editing program, but it's free, doesn't damage the video, and works really well for splitting videos. It also is my preferred method for finding out what time something happens in the video.

I always set the properties of the original to read-only, then save for computer, which gets me an .mp4.

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