Same video... multiple locations... keep publish size small
Hi,
I'm working on a course that contains a dozen videos. These have been added directly to SL360 and each video lives on its own slide (alongside some other relevant info).
Later in the course, I need to allow learners to refer back to the earlier videos. First thought was to lightbox the slide... however then all of the 'other' stuff on the slide is shown, not just the video.
So then I tried adding the video to a layer on the slide where it may be needed. This works fine... however... it means that there are multiple copies of the same video in the published output.
As each of these videos needs to be available from numerous places in the course, this means that the published output would end up containing over 100 videos rather than just the dozen that is actually needed.
Then I started thinking about popping these videos on a slide master layer and using that to display the videos... however, this creates other issues in the course (e.g. the CC and pause buttons live on the slide and would need to communicate with the slide master layer to interact with the video. Definitely doable, but as this project is almost complete I really want to avoid having to rework all of the slides in this way).
Does anyone know if there is a way that I can add a video to Storyline multiple times, but then only have one copy of that video in the published output? Or any other ideas on how I can get this working would be appreciated.
Thank you.
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Hosting the video external to the project and leverage a service like embed.ly, or a third party video player like JWPlayer with a web object an option?
I've used JWPlayer extensively in the past, but not sure it's an option this time around for a couple of reasons.
Thanks for your input Brian. I wish SL could check for identical files (video or image) and only include one instance in the published output.
Not sure why you can't have these videos existing on their own individual slides (within a separate scene) and simply have the user jump to each video when required?
Single instance. Reused any amount of times.
What about having the videos on the feedback master instead of the slide master?
Matthew, are you required to keep the videos private, is that why you can't use a 3rd party player or are there other reasons?
Diarmaid... there be reasons mate.
Rais, good idea, I'll have to explore that. I rarely use the feedback master so tend to forget it exists.
Michael, there were a number of reasons why I was trying to avoid JWPlayer, but I think it's the way I'll have to go.
Thanks for your input all.