Poor video resolution in Storyline
Jun 08, 2013
We are publishing a course that include video clips (mp4s). The video clips are sized to fit the course window and have good resolution when played outside of Storyline. My developer selected the highest quality settings for publishing and the end results are terrible! The still graphics are affected as well. Example screen shots attached. Is there a setting we missed that can improve the resolution? We are creating this course for a large corporate client and the current results will not be acceptable. We may have to use different software?
Original video
How it looks in a published Storyline course - Video has NOT been resized
Thank you in advance for your help.
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You can set the video, audio and image quality in the publish dialog. Have you tried to set this? But in my opinion even if you set the quality to maximum, Storyline compresses the media to much, especially the audio.
Hi Jill,
By any chance have you seen this Screenr by Mike Enders? Not sure if it will work for - and it's for videos, not images - but thought it was worth throwing out there.
Thank you for the Screenr Rebecca. I haven't seen it before.
Thanks Rebecca! This is the best lead on fixing the problem.
I guess we can all thank Mike...
So, thanks, Mike!
Just wanted to update everyone on this issue. The course we are developing contains over 40 movie clips. Storyline assigns a "random" new name to the files, so identifying which optimized video matches which original video, when there are 40 of them in a single course is problematic. This is obviously compounded if it needs to be done after each version publish. (We didn't test this.) So - we are still dealing with how to get better quality videos.
If the original video size is larger than the Storyline story size, then Storyline automatically resize the video size to fit into Storyline. That, I assume, is the reason why the video gets poor quality in Storyline.
So if you adjust the story size to match the video size, and set the storyline player to display at its optimal size, the video will display at its original size with the best quality.
hi , still I am not able to fix the resolution, I have done the steps as recommended to improve the quality of video capture from other tool
Hi Bernard and welcome to E-Learning Heroes!
This thread is a bit dated and there is more information as it relates to Storyline 2.
Check out this link on how to adjust video compression in Articulate Storyline or even turn it off.
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