How To Show Full Screen Video when Its Inserted in Portrait Mode

May 18, 2012

Gary Wong
By Gary Wong

I am using Portrait mode for all of my presentation.  I normally insert a blank slide for inserting my video because I add trigger events (Action Buttons in PowerPoint) to control what I do after showing the video.

When I insert my video into Portrait mode, and it fills the width of the presentation, during preview I see white spaces becasue of the height of my side is 11" and the width is only 8.5"

How can I insert video into a blank side such that I can get a full screen in Articulate.   I also size the video to be 11" hight and 14.23" wide and in slide shows of MS Powerpoint, it shows as a full screen, but in Articulate if only shows the width of 8.5".

I think if I can change the size of individual slides, I can solve it.   This is not allowed in either articulate or powerpoint.

Any suggestions that anyone can offer.   I would like to be able to implement the solution in PowerPoint because in importing it into Acticulate, I don't need to make changes.

I would appreciate any suggestions.

Thank You,

Gary

2 Replies
Adrian Dean
almost 12 years ago07/09/12 at 5:01 pm (UTC)

Hi Gary,

Don't know if you found your answer for this.

Have you imported your PowerPoint slide into Storyline? I read your post a few times just to make sure you hadn't. If you did, did you still get the same issue?

Did you play around with your video sizing for Storyline to see if you get what you want that way? It seems you did that for PowerPoint but didn't change it for Storyline.

If you did figure it out, could you post your solution here.

Thanks,

Adrian

Gary Wong
almost 12 years ago07/09/12 at 6:22 pm (UTC)

Hi Adrian:

I was not able to do exactly what I really wanted, so I made a compromised.  I wanted my video to be landscape and the text presentation to be portrait mode, so I made my ppt template to be 14.23 inches wide and 11.0 inches in height.

I use VBA to generate my PPT slides so everything was still in MS Powerpoint.   I try to minimized anything on the Storyline side because I have many slides to do every week.

Gary

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