Is there a way to use the zoom function to zoom into a certain area on one slide, then keep that zoomed area over the next few slides, and then zoom back out?
If I click on the zoom area, I can't copy it to another slide.
If I put all the screenshots on a single slide, there is only one mouse cursor, and I would need one for each screenshot.
If I create a blank slide with the zoom area and make 5 copies of that slide, I can't copy the mouse from the original slides.
There isn't a way to keep the zoom across multiple slides - but it looks like a few other community members posed the same question a bit ago and shared a few ideas on how to set this up here.
I have Storyline 3 and this issue still isn't fixed 3 years later. My answer is to do a video of recorded screens and putting the zoom region on the video, that way the zoom region stays the same, but I lose all the cool circles and rectangles around my clicking areas.
I know this has been an old issue for you, but if use video then just add other layers with the desired shapes etc. You can create cue points on your timeline or just create a trigger that on a specific timeline point, another layer shows and then it will disappear. This was my best solution because for some course I stayed with the video and it was needed to have explaining captions going with the zoom :)
But in this case, you should hide video controls under the video because otherwise, it won't go the same as a timeline. To leave an option for the learner to go forward and backward in the video, you can show a timeline for them.
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Hi Jim,
There isn't a way to keep the zoom across multiple slides - but it looks like a few other community members posed the same question a bit ago and shared a few ideas on how to set this up here.
I have Storyline 3 and this issue still isn't fixed 3 years later. My answer is to do a video of recorded screens and putting the zoom region on the video, that way the zoom region stays the same, but I lose all the cool circles and rectangles around my clicking areas.
I know this has been an old issue for you, but if use video then just add other layers with the desired shapes etc. You can create cue points on your timeline or just create a trigger that on a specific timeline point, another layer shows and then it will disappear. This was my best solution because for some course I stayed with the video and it was needed to have explaining captions going with the zoom :)
But in this case, you should hide video controls under the video because otherwise, it won't go the same as a timeline. To leave an option for the learner to go forward and backward in the video, you can show a timeline for them.
This could help others as well.
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