Hopefully the community Heroes will chime in and give you a few good suggestions for making your background audio a little smoother. In the meantime, I did find a thread that touches on this a little and it mentions a method that might work for you. Check it out.
I recently was asked to create a showcase kiosk presentation with animations, video clips and graphics that ran for about 1.5 minutes. Had the same problem of a single background music track that ran through the whole thing. I ended up putting everything on just one slide. I had a firestorm of stuff on the timeline. To get it right I needed to play the timeline regularly (where you see just the stuff that's at the playhead), and when I was constructing it, constantly click hide and unhide various things.
I'm used to Flash where you just see on the stage what's at the playhead position. I wonder if this is a good idea for a feature request for an option. Haven't really thought it through yet!
I had a similar experience. My solution was to build out my presentation slide by slide to keep it organized. I then grouped all of the Videos/Images per slide and placed each grouping on a single slide with the desired audio. This worked pretty well.
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Hi Dan!
Hopefully the community Heroes will chime in and give you a few good suggestions for making your background audio a little smoother. In the meantime, I did find a thread that touches on this a little and it mentions a method that might work for you. Check it out.
Hi Christine,
Thanks, I've tried those solutions and was hoping someone had figured out something since then.
My next solution was to edit the story.html file after output to play the audio but that's my solution of last resort...
Hopefully someone has figured out something, possibly using a javascript trigger?
I dont think there is any simple way to add a background track across slides
I recently was asked to create a showcase kiosk presentation with animations, video clips and graphics that ran for about 1.5 minutes. Had the same problem of a single background music track that ran through the whole thing. I ended up putting everything on just one slide. I had a firestorm of stuff on the timeline. To get it right I needed to play the timeline regularly (where you see just the stuff that's at the playhead), and when I was constructing it, constantly click hide and unhide various things.
I'm used to Flash where you just see on the stage what's at the playhead position. I wonder if this is a good idea for a feature request for an option. Haven't really thought it through yet!
I had a similar experience. My solution was to build out my presentation slide by slide to keep it organized. I then grouped all of the Videos/Images per slide and placed each grouping on a single slide with the desired audio. This worked pretty well.
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