Problem with text box appearing after video

Jan 25, 2019

Hello,

I'm having a problem setting up a box to appear after a video.

I have the video in a layer and I want the text box to appear after the video has played.  I can set the text box to appear when the video starts but when I change it to appear when timeline ends, the text box does not appear.

I have posted the story file below which will hopefully make more sense than me!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Michael

3 Replies
Michael Donnelly

Thanks for the reply and advice Matthew.

Yes, I had tried that previously but couldn't get the message in the layer to appear once the timeline in the video had completed which is why I thought putting it all in the same layer would help.

I have now went back and put the text into its own layer as you have suggested but I still can't get the text message in the new layer to appear once the timeline finishes.

 

 

Crystal Horn

Hi Michael!  I made a couple of changes to your .story file to make the layer with text appear:

  • I shortened the timeline of the video layer to end at the same time as the video.  There was about a 40 second difference.
  • I changed the layer properties for the Video layer to pause the timeline of the base layer so that it had its own unique timeline.
  • I also added a seekbar so that I could scrub to the end of the layer timeline for quicker testing.

To make synchronizing a little easier, you can have the video play automatically on the layer.  By clicking on the base layer, the learner is consenting and preparing to watch the video.  When a video plays automatically, it will be controlled by the slide (or layer) timeline.  I didn't make this change in your file, but I thought it might be helpful to consider!

Attached is your modified file.  I hope that helps!

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