Matching slide timeline length to video length in SL2

Hi Daniel. You could also have your next slide advance after the media completes if seekbar accuracy isn't of concern.  Of course this also depends on how you are using your templates.  

Thanks for popping in to share Daniel and for submitting the feature request.

Thanks, Richard. Yes, you're exactly right. I use the When Media Completes trigger. However, I must either turn the seekbar off, which gives my students no idea of how much training time remains, or I must follow the above process.

If you have a sample slide you use for repeated use, I know a lot of people save that in an unused scene without the video. Duplicate it, then add the video, and avoid the problem.

Even if you have to replace a video, when you add a new video, and before you do anything else, right click it and deselect show until end, sometimes it shrinks its timeline to the correct length. Delete the old video, and jump directly from step 1 to step 9.

I have had the exact same problem. and I also used the same "workaround" as you. Calculator then drag until the length is correct. Didn't know about the Left-arrow trick though, I must test that!

Here is a video if you need assistance Jonas :)

Thanks for your help. I can't watch those videos at work though. Access is denied for security reasons. I will try from home instead.

Jonas, just a heads up that replying via email attaches your email signature with contact information.  You're welcome to come back in and edit your post if you'd like.

Thanks Crystal! :-)

2018 now, the problem still exists. Maybe people don't think of it as a problem. But my experience said otherwise. I wasn't aware of this weird design and ended up having multiple videos with stretched length. The SME told me, "there is a bug in your video" and I went back to change all of them. Huge waste of time!

So my conclusion is:

There should be a feature that adjusts the timeline to the longest video on slide; and this should be default.

But before that happens (maybe in 10 years), my workaround:

What I did is to use a short video (start with the shortest video) as template. If you duplicate that slide, then any video longer than it will expand to the right length of the video. No extra work is needed! JUST REMEMBER to start with the shortest video.

I haven't seen any new features on this in Storyline 360. I'd love for Articulate to add this to the right-click menu on media files. Along with "Show Always" or "Show until End", we should also see the option to "Snap Timeline to Media Length."

yes, please!

If you agree, please submit a feature request. The staff here is always very friendly and helpful, but they need to hear from us in that official manner to know that a request is a priority.

Here's the link to the feature requests.

Thanks for the kind words, Daniel!  I just wanted to let everyone know that we are tracking this feature request to make sure it gets prioritized correctly.  Here's a look at how we manage feature requests.

Thank you each for sharing your thoughts!

Hi

This is (yet) another issue with SL360 that does not seem to have been addressed.  Please add my vote to getting this fixed.

The best work round seems to be Dong Liang's.

Please can we see some progress on these bugs/feature requests?  I appreciate it takes time to make changes and there are priority issues, but we seem to be constantly making these observations and requests for features that disappear into the abyss.

This problem has been noted for 'over three years'.

Please can we have a review of all the requests and some insight into the plans to address, defer or ignore them?

PLEASE?

Martin, I agree with you completely, but please know that Articulate does have a request review process. For them to review our requests, however, we need to submit the request with the official Feature Request: http://www.articulate.com/support/contact/submit.php?form=feature. Of course it doesn't mean they'll fix this...just that it's more likely to pop up on their radar. 

Hi Daniel

Yes, I fully appreciate that and have always submitted feature requests in the official way.  The issue is that the requests vanish from view; no feedback or updates.

My heart sinks when I look for an answer to a question; find it in the discussion but then notice that the conversation was 'x years ago' and nothing has progressed.

I do realise also that just because someone requested it, it is not necessarily a priority, or indeed even possible.  I would however like to know what decisions have or are being made. 

I would welcome a forum for the requested features whereby we could actually vote on those that we are most interested in and to get some feedback from Articulate as to which, when or whether they can or will address them.

I shall now take that new suggestion and feed it in to the official site. :-)

Again, agreed completely. I just bring it up every time in hopes that more people will submit the requests.

Hi all!

I am jumping into this discussion to share that we just released Storyline 360 (Build 3.63.27628.0) which includes changes to the timeline.

New: Create slides faster with time-saving upgrades to the timeline. Multi-select objects and move them all at once. Choose where pasted objects appear in the stacking order or even paste them into an existing group. Align objects to the playhead or vice versa. And when the timeline is too long, you can instantly reset it to five seconds or shorten it to the object with the longest duration.

Now all you need to do is update Storyline 360 in your Articulate 360 desktop app!

If you have additional questions, don't hesitate to reach out in this discussion or in a support case.