Optimize video before importing into Storyline?

Oct 12, 2012

Robin W
By Robin W

Hello,

I'm spending way too much time encoding my videos in Storyline right now. It feels like the encoding engine in Storyline is ineffective. Inserting a 3 minute video takes an hour with the encoding. I'm having a hard time charging my customer for time spent looking at my computer screen. 

I'm shooting my videos in 1280x720 @ 50fps AVCHD (panasonic GH2) and converting the video in Premiere CS6 to 923x519 @ 30fps AAC. I'm running Storyline in Win7 32-bit Pro via Parallells in a Mac Mini Mid 2011 (i5, 16GB, SSD).

I've been using the default media quality settings in Storyline + now I've tried maxing out the quality and it just goes on and on. 

Any suggestions on how to make the encoding faster?

- Robin

1 Reply
Gerry Wasiluk
over 11 years ago10/12/12 at 9:13 am (UTC)

I've been using Adobe Premiere Elements lately to convert videos into AVI before importing into Storyline.  A couple have been around 2-3 minutes.  Does take a bit longer to import the longer they are but usually under a minute.  But I've got a pretty high-powered PC.  The conversion by Storyline to MP4 has been splendid.

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