Layer Pause

Hi Phil,

Have you seen David Anderson's example on How to pause the timeline of a slide? Depending on what you have in your layer and set up you'll also find some similar scenarios within the following forum threads and screenrs:

• Dennis demonstrates an example
• Gerry echoes David's method, and additional discussion ensues
• Mike comes through with some cool ideas on pausing and resuming a video
• Another awesome Screenr from Mike on interactive video

Hi Ashley

Thanks for the reply, yes I had seen these examples but it doesn't really help on this occasion. I'll explain what I'm trying to achieve and maybe that will help.

I have a slide showing the features of a system, as the timeline finishes on the base slide I want a layer to display with one of the features, as the timeline finishes on the layer the next layer will be displayed and so on.

However the reason for the pause is, that my audience is multi-national and a couple of them are struggling to read the information in time before the slide moves on. I realise I could just use a button to advance through each layer but wanted to move away from this way of the user interacting with the course, which is why I was hoping that I would be able to add a pause function to each layer.

Thanks for any help

Phil 

Hi Phil,

I can't think of a method I've seen to pause the individual layers as you've described, but I wonder if you'd want to make them look like layers by using new slides for each. You could then use the method to pause each individual slide's timeline. 

Hi Ashley

I now managed to find a way of doing what I wanted and pause each layer where necessary.

Thanks for the help,

Phil

Thanks Phil - if you're able to share what you've figured out, I'm sure it'll help someone in the future.