I want to start the playback of a video 53 seconds in. I don't want to edit the video, because in a previous slide I am playing back the video from 0 seconds in. Is it possible to do this without having two separate video files?
What I am trying to do here is play a single video file, "pause it", ask a few quiz questions, "unpause it", play it back for a while, "pause it" again, ask a few more quiz questions, and so on. If I can avoid it I would like to leave the video file as one file instead of cutting it into segments first.
Add a shape off screen at 53 seconds with a trigger to pause media when timeline starts. ask your question and on the submit or feedback close set a trigger to play the media. All on one slide.
I'm puzzling over whether it is possible to add a quiz question on the same slide though. Maybe in a different layer? I can't figure out a way to do this. Maybe it would require creating the questions by hand?
I'm thinking what I'm trying to do may just require me to stop being lazy, fire up a copy of Sony Vegas Movie Studio and chop the video up. (There are actually 4 different pause points in the video where I want to ask questions).
That is the problem you could put one question on the slide, first create the question then add the video. If you created the questions manually you could have more than one on a slide, but you would not be able to use the built in results slides. Or report the score to the LMS.
You can trim directly in Storyline just choose edit video and then trim
Good point - I was just hoping not to have to do "destructive" (and time consuming) video editing when this seems like a simple problem (play from a point other than the beginning). I'll request it as a feature...
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What I am trying to do here is play a single video file, "pause it", ask a few quiz questions, "unpause it", play it back for a while, "pause it" again, ask a few more quiz questions, and so on. If I can avoid it I would like to leave the video file as one file instead of cutting it into segments first.
Add a shape off screen at 53 seconds with a trigger to pause media when timeline starts. ask your question and on the submit or feedback close set a trigger to play the media. All on one slide.
Or you could trim the video on your second slide
Thanks Phil! That is a creative idea.
I'm puzzling over whether it is possible to add a quiz question on the same slide though. Maybe in a different layer? I can't figure out a way to do this. Maybe it would require creating the questions by hand?
I'm thinking what I'm trying to do may just require me to stop being lazy, fire up a copy of Sony Vegas Movie Studio and chop the video up. (There are actually 4 different pause points in the video where I want to ask questions).
That is the problem you could put one question on the slide, first create the question then add the video. If you created the questions manually you could have more than one on a slide, but you would not be able to use the built in results slides. Or report the score to the LMS.
Really depends on what you need.
You can trim directly in Storyline just choose edit video and then trim
Good point - I was just hoping not to have to do "destructive" (and time consuming) video editing when this seems like a simple problem (play from a point other than the beginning). I'll request it as a feature...
Would be a good feature
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