New Articulate 360 Feature: Content Library Media
Mar 07, 2017
Hi everyone,
We’ve just released a major expansion to Content Library – your subscription now includes over 1.5 million beautiful photos, illustrations, icons, and videos for use in your Storyline projects!
The catalog covers a wide range of subjects from professional and office environments to people, the natural world, and a range of every day objects. All are royalty free with no attribution required.
Once inserted onto your slide, they behave just like normal images, videos, and shapes, so you can apply effects, re-color them etc. This makes them incredibly flexible and the easiest way to make visually rich, engaging courses.
Check out Arlyn’s video for more info:
And here's the full Content Library Media Documentation.
To get started, just update your 360 Desktop App and then update Storyline 360.
For an overview of everything in the March ’17 update, see our What’s New Page.
Thanks,
Simon
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Two words, "Vector Images"!
Are we able to create our own vectors and import them?
Very excited. Thanks!
This Content Library Media would be an amazing addition to Rise (hint, hint!)
Not to worry Kelly - we're working on the integration of the stock images from the Content Library into Rise! We'll let you know once that feature rolls out!
Can we find out where the Videos are downloaded to on a users computer?
Hi Darren,
Are you looking for information on where it'll download to when you go to insert an item from Content Library into your course, or for what will happen when a user goes to view the course after you've published it?
If the first question, you can find that information documented here.
The latter doesn't download to the users' computer unless you've shared with them a CD published output - and then the media files will be included in that output folder. If you've got the web or LMS output, and a user chooses to download a media file, it'll be controlled by the browser
Great to hear... can't wait!!!
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These are great! Thank you for a fantastic resource.
My team 360 is having trouble with the videos that come from the New Content Library through Storyline 360.
They let us preview, but when importing it just gives and error over and over. After Storyline restart, after computer restart, after March 7, and March 8 upgrades.
Anyone else with this issue?
Thanks,
Kyle
Oh, also the first reply on this thread that is talking about Vector images is a big deal. No one has replied that I saw. Scaling graphics is a big plus! File size is smaller too. I know Flash can handle this with ease. I'm not sure if the wait is because of HTML5 and all browsers not being able to display .svg or other vector formats. would be nice to know
Hi Kyle! I'm sorry to hear you're having this issue. Can you open a case so our support team can take a closer look?
Thanks for your quick reply. I was hoping it was human error on my part that other people my have experienced. I'll open a case.
Let us know once you open the case Kyle and we can follow along to share any updates here as well.
I used this feature for the first time yesterday when needing icons and let's just say, you probably ended up saving me at least an hour looking around the internet trying to find icons I wanted, having to recolour them etc.
Thank you Articulate!
Thanks Troy for the feedback - glad you're enjoying the new parts of Content Library!
We have been updated to 360 and I do not have the option to download Photos, Illustrations, Icons or Videos. I only have the Characters option under insert. Can you please advise? Thank you!
Hi Angela,
Are you looking at a slide within Storyline 360? If so, you should see the Content Library options as shown here.
Take a look at that, and if you're still not seeing it, can you send us a screenshot or a Peek recording of what steps you're going through? That often helps us figure out where the misstep is!
Update - The Content Library videos are downloading to Storyline without anymore issues!
Thanks Articulate!
Thanks Kyle for that update - glad to hear it!
Any idea what caused Kyle's problem to get fixed? Our IT dude is working on firewall issues that were blocking the downloads. Case has been opened, Eloisa has been helping. Mostly resolved by now but at least one very odd one still unresolved - I am only getting some of the photos. For example, when I search Photos for "Nurse" I get three pics - a mom nursing, piglets nursing, and a chimpanzee nursing. Cute, but not useful when you work in a hospital. Thought I would throw it out to the community for ideas while waiting to hear back from IT.
I'm sorry, my issue was magically resolved, but only for a short while. It happens on and off in the same building. I can preview the video files, but I can't download them at times. I've always been able to download ALL of the other asset types.
Sorry this is not helpful Steve.
I'm very happy with the Content Library, even when the videos don't download.
When I have downloaded a couple videos, I going to edit the video with special effects using Adobe After Effects, but I'm not sure how to get the video out of Storyline like we can do with images to make edits.
I am able to use Replay 360 and Snag-it to record the video while playing on the monitor, and then save and take that into After Effects to edit.
I'm hoping there is a feature with 360 that lets us do more than basic edit/cropping/trimming without the workaround.
Thanks,
- Kyle
Definitely odd Steve, although those are the first three photos I get, I then get a bunch of other photos of nurses, doctors, first aid kits, etc. I saw the last thing Eloisa sent you was the ports and endpoints to open, so let us know if those help resolve any of the odd behavior.
FYI I was having something similar happening last week as well, and my IT department had previously established all the endpoints properly. It's not an issue now; it was just happening that one day.
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