I have a slide that is about a minute and a half long and some that are longer. I have started to break the longer slides up into smaller pieces to make animating them easier. Is that the best approach or is it better to keep content on one screen to keep file size down?
Hi Bill, sometimes you can get away with having longer slides if you have a lot of animation going on but a minute and a half is a long time to hold a persons attention (sad but true). I would break up the content into smaller chucks.
My general rule is to use one slide to make one point- a bit like paragraphs. Obviously sometimes this results in really short slides that you'll need to use your own discretion on but by and large it helps me to avoid having very long slides.
Hi Bill! Looks like you're getting a lot of good (and consistent) feedback from your fellow heroes I agree with them as well. Good luck with your project!
I appreciate everyone's responses, but, I don't think I worded my question very well. I never have a static item on screen for longer than 15 to 30 seconds. So in my longer slides there are multiple animations occurring synchronized with a voice track. And, I don't use the scrub bar as I feel that it can be distraction. In my opinion the scrub bar can make a presentation seem choppy as it resets at each slide.
What I am trying to figure out is - is there a difference in overall published file size when a course is designed with lots of content on a few slides versus less content on lots of slides? For example, I have some pieces on my story board that have multiple paragraphs. I generally create one slide per paragraph. Is doing that making my overall published file larger than it needs to be?
By the way, I find that breaking the content into the smallest pieces as possible makes the animation and synchronization process much easier.
Hi Bill, it should not make much difference in the presentation if you use one or many slides for the content. If you find that you have to use the same image on multiple slides just copy and past it that way storyline only stores it once in the published output.
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Hi Bill, sometimes you can get away with having longer slides if you have a lot of animation going on but a minute and a half is a long time to hold a persons attention (sad but true). I would break up the content into smaller chucks.
Hi Bill,
If you are using Storyline maybe consider slide layers instead of many slides, so you get the one seek bar.
Hi Bill,
My general rule is to use one slide to make one point- a bit like paragraphs. Obviously sometimes this results in really short slides that you'll need to use your own discretion on but by and large it helps me to avoid having very long slides.
Hi Bill! Looks like you're getting a lot of good (and consistent) feedback from your fellow heroes I agree with them as well. Good luck with your project!
I appreciate everyone's responses, but, I don't think I worded my question very well. I never have a static item on screen for longer than 15 to 30 seconds. So in my longer slides there are multiple animations occurring synchronized with a voice track. And, I don't use the scrub bar as I feel that it can be distraction. In my opinion the scrub bar can make a presentation seem choppy as it resets at each slide.
What I am trying to figure out is - is there a difference in overall published file size when a course is designed with lots of content on a few slides versus less content on lots of slides? For example, I have some pieces on my story board that have multiple paragraphs. I generally create one slide per paragraph. Is doing that making my overall published file larger than it needs to be?
By the way, I find that breaking the content into the smallest pieces as possible makes the animation and synchronization process much easier.
Hi Bill, it should not make much difference in the presentation if you use one or many slides for the content. If you find that you have to use the same image on multiple slides just copy and past it that way storyline only stores it once in the published output.
Thanks Nancy. Good to know about using copy and paste of repeated graphics - I had wondered about that.
Good tip Nancy! Thanks for jumping back in. Sorry for missing your response Bill, but glad it seems you found what you were looking for.
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