Per the suggestion in "Best Practices for Quality Images and Video" article, for a course involving a screen recording, I set the Player Size to Lock at Optimal size (story size is 1280x720) to improve the sharpness of the screen images. I've been asked what type of impact the setting might have for users with different size devices. Will they have scroll bars to see an entire slide? Might part of the slide be cut off? Although I've done reading on this I can't find an example of what it might look like.
Hi, recommend you select 'Scale player to fill browser window'. This means it will optimise for the screen the learner has - if they have a large monitor, it will go out to maximum size, if they have a small laptop screen, it will resize to fit that screen.
If you set to 'lock at optimal size' some learners may end up having to scroll to see all the screen. I have had this issue with learners using laptops so have switched to scale player to fill browser window.
I also use a story size of 1600 x 960 - so this means that even on your larger monitors, when it scales to fit the browser window, the quality of the images will still be good.
Yes, if you use a small story size, the images get locked into that size and when viewed on a larger monitor can be blurry.
If your story size is designed for a large monitor, e.g 22 inch 16:9, then when it optimises to the screen the quality holds (as long as you've used good resolution images).
These days you need to build for the bigger monitor size because it's becoming standard.
We use that size (1280 x 720) for almost all our projects. I always select 'Scale player to fill browser window'. That way, users can see the whole screen without any difficulty. When using images, I try to only use large, good quality images. We haven't had any feedback about poor image quality.
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Hi, recommend you select 'Scale player to fill browser window'. This means it will optimise for the screen the learner has - if they have a large monitor, it will go out to maximum size, if they have a small laptop screen, it will resize to fit that screen.
If you set to 'lock at optimal size' some learners may end up having to scroll to see all the screen. I have had this issue with learners using laptops so have switched to scale player to fill browser window.
I also use a story size of 1600 x 960 - so this means that even on your larger monitors, when it scales to fit the browser window, the quality of the images will still be good.
The down side I notice with scaling is that images can display at a poorer quality.
Yes, if you use a small story size, the images get locked into that size and when viewed on a larger monitor can be blurry.
If your story size is designed for a large monitor, e.g 22 inch 16:9, then when it optimises to the screen the quality holds (as long as you've used good resolution images).
These days you need to build for the bigger monitor size because it's becoming standard.
Thank you both for your perspectives!
We use that size (1280 x 720) for almost all our projects. I always select 'Scale player to fill browser window'. That way, users can see the whole screen without any difficulty. When using images, I try to only use large, good quality images. We haven't had any feedback about poor image quality.
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