Jumbo Videos Not Purging

Jul 13, 2012

I am creating a series of short, two slide Storyline projects and am experiencing an interesting "bug". On slide 1, I import a video file (60-150MB) and on slide 2 I have a "thank you for watching" slide.

When I import the video into storyline and save, the .story file balloons up (as expected). 169MB video + storyline contents = 219MB file.

Now that I have it working the way I want it, i want to save this as a template file. I remove the video from the Storyline project file and save as template.story.

To be clear, i have a blank slide 1 (where the new videos will be swapped in and out) and slide 2 which is the Thank You slide. The .story file is still 219MB! The VIDEO has been removed, a new file created through Save As and the file size is still Jumbo.

Is the original video file still stored in a hidden library or something? How can I purge it from this location so my template file is tiny?

I could rebuild the template file from scratch, but that's no fun...

Thanks!

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Gerry Wasiluk
Hero

almost 12 years ago07/13/12 at 8:07 am (UTC)

Hi!

Try this--not sure it will work but is worth a try. First save the story file with the video removed as a new story file. Then from the new story file, save that as a new template.

Thomas Toth
Author

almost 12 years ago07/13/12 at 8:09 am (UTC)

Still Super Jumbo...

Annie Jean

almost 12 years ago07/13/12 at 8:10 am (UTC)

Hi Thomas,

I had a similar problem and had nothing to do with videos, it was because I was working on a network drive.

As soon as I have copied the file to the local drive, opened and saved, the file size decreased dramatically.

Could that be the case for you?

Have a nice day!

Annie

Brian Batt
Staff

almost 12 years ago07/13/12 at 8:15 am (UTC)

Hi Thomas,

After you've removed the videos, publish your project for the web. When it's done publishing, save your project & then close Storyline. That should return the file to the expected size.

Thomas Toth
Author

almost 12 years ago07/13/12 at 8:16 am (UTC)

Trying that now Annie...thanks for posting...

Gerry Wasiluk
Hero

almost 12 years ago07/13/12 at 8:22 am (UTC)

Brian Batt said:

Hi Thomas,

After you've removed the videos, publish your project for the web. When it's done publishing, save your project & then close Storyline. That should return the file to the expected size.

That's . . . different.

I suppose one could also--which I strongly don't recommend doing since it's too easy to mess things up and is probably not supported--is open a copy of the story file with 7zip and remove the video manually.

Brian Batt
Staff

almost 12 years ago07/13/12 at 9:01 am (UTC)

Gerry Wasiluk said:

Brian Batt said:

Hi Thomas,

After you've removed the videos, publish your project for the web. When it's done publishing, save your project & then close Storyline. That should return the file to the expected size.

That's . . . different.

I suppose one could also--which I strongly don't recommend doing since it's too easy to mess things up and is probably not supported--is open a copy of the story file with 7zip and remove the video manually.

Same thing in Presenter '09. When the PPTA file is big, publish to the web to clear it out.

Regarding 7zip, I would never recommend that on a .story file. You may be able to remove the video, but the reference to the file may still be in the project. Thus, you'll end up with a corrupt file that can't be opened.

Bill Harnage

almost 12 years ago07/13/12 at 10:43 am (UTC)

+1 for what Brian said.. Although I didn't remember publishing, just saving and close.

Jumbo Videos Not Purging

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