I don't want the seekbar to start automatically! How can I do this?

Do you mean you don't want a slide to play automatically? You can add a trigger to the slide to do that when the timeline starts.

Or are you asking how to get rid of the seekbar so it's not visible?

Hi Andrea,

Once you've visited the slide, the timeline will start. What you could look at doing is adding a layer to your slide that appears at the start of the timeline, and there is a checkbox within the layer properties to pause the timeline of the base layer. If you don't enable the seeking on the layer as well, that should also stop the seekbar on the base layer. 

You'll need to look at how you'll hide that layer (either a user interaction or after a set period of time, say when the layer timeline of 5 seconds ends?). 

Hope that helps!

Another option is to pause timeline when timeline starts. I'm not sure what benefit you gain from this, so could you please explain why you want to do it? It may be that there is a much easier way to accomplish what you want.

Thanks to all of you for your help! I finally used a layer and set it up so
that the timeline on the base layer is paused and that the user can't click
on it either until it clicks on a button on the layer on top of it.

Thank you!

Glad you were able to figure out a way to get this to work for you Andrea!