Keeping slides but replacing the screen recording displayed as background

Jan 04, 2021

Is there a way to re-record, and replace the screen recording on a given slide(s)? Because I'd like to be able to keep the layers, triggers, screen captions, click boxes, etc, just have a different background. I haven't found a way to do this without essentially rebuilding a training when the developers make changes to an application screen.

2 Replies
Lauren Connelly

Hi Mary!

Great question! It sounds like you've created a screen recording that you'd like to keep the layers, triggers, and captions but replace the actual recording. Screen recordings are used to track interactions based on the window, so the screen recordings and interactions are grouped. Unfortunately, we don't currently offer a way to reuse one or the other. 

I'm interested to hear if other community members have created a workflow to reuse interactions from screen recordings! I'll hand it over to them to share their tips and tricks.

Ashley Green

Hi there - I'd be interested in something like this as well! This would be for software simulations where only minor updates now necessitate an update of the screen recording but very few of the other elements on the existing layers (Hint caption layers, captions on the main layer, etc.)l. Would be amazing if we could copy the triggers/elements and layers from the old slide to the new slide having the updated screen recording background.

Any quick way to make such updates now? It's basically multiple cut and paste actions I'm having to take to rebuild the new slides so a little tedious.

Thanks!

Ash