Is there a way of pausing the timeline when you pause a video? I have built in zoom regions etc. on my video but when I pause the video, all the added features then fall out of sync. Anyone know of a workaround for this please?
did you mean to but the shape on a new layer? then add a trigger? I am using this particular storyline as part of a presentation. So if someone wants to ask a question about what's being shown and i need to pause the video how would this work? Thanks :)
The shape covers the video. Because it is filled, it intercepts any attempt to click the video (clicking a video pauses it). Because it is transparent, the video can still be seen. That means the video can be paused only by pausing the slide timeline.
Whatever mechanism you use to pause the video should be changed to pause the slide timeline (which also pauses the video).
thank you for the reply, as its a presentation i wont have the timeline visible to be able to pause. This will be in preview mode. So not sure how this would work?
Oh, I thought your problem was with learners pausing the video. As it is a presentation, forget everything I said.
The problem is that if you want to zoom on the video, you will need to pause it, but if you pause the slide time line, the zoom won't work, and if you don't, you lose synch, so you will need to be a bit creative. You can pause the media and the timeline, and put any animations on layers, which still run even if the base timeline is paused. The drawback to that is that you can't put zooms on layers.
Here's what I would try. Say you want to zoom in at 10 seconds in the video. Set a trigger to pause the media at 10 seconds. Set the zoom for 1 sec (make the math easy). Then show a layer when the timeline reaches 10.9 sec. Create it to pause the base timeline. Everything should be stopped, with the correct area zoomed. Set the layer to hide when its timeline ends. Set the timeline to as long as you want the zoom area to show. Create a trigger on the layer to resume the media when the timeline of the layer ends. Everything should restart together. Any animations or zooms that occur later in the slide will need to start one second later than they are now.
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Start the video when the timeline starts. Do not put video controls on it.
Cover the video with shape that is filled, and set to 99% transparency.
These are steps to prevent the video from stopping while the timeline runs.
Use the slide seekbar to pause the video.
That way when the timeline stops, the video stops, and everything stays in synch.
did you mean to but the shape on a new layer? then add a trigger? I am using this particular storyline as part of a presentation. So if someone wants to ask a question about what's being shown and i need to pause the video how would this work? Thanks :)
The shape covers the video. Because it is filled, it intercepts any attempt to click the video (clicking a video pauses it). Because it is transparent, the video can still be seen. That means the video can be paused only by pausing the slide timeline.
Whatever mechanism you use to pause the video should be changed to pause the slide timeline (which also pauses the video).
thank you for the reply, as its a presentation i wont have the timeline visible to be able to pause. This will be in preview mode. So not sure how this would work?
Oh, I thought your problem was with learners pausing the video. As it is a presentation, forget everything I said.
The problem is that if you want to zoom on the video, you will need to pause it, but if you pause the slide time line, the zoom won't work, and if you don't, you lose synch, so you will need to be a bit creative. You can pause the media and the timeline, and put any animations on layers, which still run even if the base timeline is paused. The drawback to that is that you can't put zooms on layers.
Here's what I would try. Say you want to zoom in at 10 seconds in the video. Set a trigger to pause the media at 10 seconds. Set the zoom for 1 sec (make the math easy). Then show a layer when the timeline reaches 10.9 sec. Create it to pause the base timeline. Everything should be stopped, with the correct area zoomed. Set the layer to hide when its timeline ends. Set the timeline to as long as you want the zoom area to show. Create a trigger on the layer to resume the media when the timeline of the layer ends. Everything should restart together. Any animations or zooms that occur later in the slide will need to start one second later than they are now.
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