Hello - great discussion and learning points today during the Go-Webinar event. I have a question - how do you use this functionality when there is an audio clip included on the slide that makes the slide length be longer than the animation?
For example, I created an animated image and in my preview it worked as expected. But then I added a 30 second audio clip and of course it can't work because the timing of the animation is only 1.25 secs. Right now the trigger is set to Jump to Time 0 when timeline ends and if I change that to "when timeline reaches 1.25 sec" then the audio keeps restarting as well (which makes sense).
What would I do differently with that animation to loop continually while the audio plays?
Depending on what you used to create the GIF, you'd put a setting in there to have the animation loop. For example, here's a screenshot of an animated GIF I've created in Photoshop, and as I go to save the GIF, I choose what happens to it...run through once or loop. So it's the GIF itself that does this, not Storyline.
I was using the Storyline functionality we learned in yesterday's session with Sarah. But it sounds like if I also want to include audio I cannot use this functionality?
Hi Esther! Thanks for posting your question! The audio and the animation would need to be on two separate layers so that the jump-to-time trigger makes the animation loop every 1.25 seconds and the audio clip to loop every 30 seconds. Make sure you uncheck 'Hide other slide layers' for each layer as well. On the base layer, have triggers to show each of those layers when the timeline starts. I hope that helps!
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Depending on what you used to create the GIF, you'd put a setting in there to have the animation loop. For example, here's a screenshot of an animated GIF I've created in Photoshop, and as I go to save the GIF, I choose what happens to it...run through once or loop. So it's the GIF itself that does this, not Storyline.
I was using the Storyline functionality we learned in yesterday's session with Sarah. But it sounds like if I also want to include audio I cannot use this functionality?
Hi Esther! Thanks for posting your question! The audio and the animation would need to be on two separate layers so that the jump-to-time trigger makes the animation loop every 1.25 seconds and the audio clip to loop every 30 seconds. Make sure you uncheck 'Hide other slide layers' for each layer as well. On the base layer, have triggers to show each of those layers when the timeline starts. I hope that helps!
Got it! Ok thank you very much Sarah!
Happy to help, Esther! 😊