Screencasting and swf files

Hi Billy,

If you've inserted an SWF file direct into Storyline that shouldn't be encoded as a part of the publishing process as detailed here. If you've inserted it as a video as detailed here, it will encode it as it's not relying on the interactive SWF file elements any longer.

Hi Ashley,

Many thanks for this but I've tried inserting as video and inserting as flash.  Both resulted in conversion to flv and returned an unsuccessful playback.  I'm still at a loss. :'(

Hi Billy,

Was it a screen recording you did in Storyline or another product? Are you able to share a copy of the .story file with us here so that we could take a look at how it publishes?

Recorded in AS2. Story file already uploaded in original post.

Hi Billy,

Thanks - I must have missed that when I first read your post. I took a look and saw it was a screen recording conducted within Storyline and then inserted as a step by step slide but that there were additional SWF files on the slides? I couldn't trace where those were coming from based on your set up as reinserting a step by step screen recording didn't create those video files. I do see that upon publishing it there are a series of MP4 and FLV videos which is expected for the basic screen recordings as they're not built in as SWF files -but I'm curious if you could share one of those video SWF files that are on the slides - I'd like to try inserting that on it's own in a project?

Hi Ashley,

Thanks for your continued support on this in the meantime.

Yes - the order of doing things was screencast with no audio - inserted as step by step view mode.  Then I recorded audio files using separate software in order to create an output file as swf. I had to add an image and make it a video so just used a speaker icon.  The three files in the uploaded .story file are attached.  Theses were originally inserted as videos because that's technically what they are but as per your first response re inserting flash rather than inserting video, I then tried that.  Unfortunately, that didn't work either.  Upon publication, there is no evidence of any swf files in the story content folder of the zipped file.

Thanks Billy for sharing those files - I'm downloading them now to take a look at how they'll behave in a Storyline file. 

Hi Billy!

I took a look at the file you shared here and see the behavior you are reporting within your file.

If I utilize the 3 files you shared above in a new file, I do not see this same behavior.

I removed the files and re-inserted them as Flash files and I'm not seeing the same issue.

Can you take a look and be sure I'm not missing something.

Thanks Leslie,

Where in the removeaudio.story file will I find the actual .story file so that I can look at the authoring of it?  At the moment, the audio is looping so the .swf file needs to end before the timeline, even if it's only by 0.25 secs,  I want to amend this and see if it works for me.  Also - I am confident that the files were inserted as Flash files so can you advise what settings you used when publishing incase this something else I need to adjust?

Hmmm. The removeaudio.story file is the .story file? Is it not downloading as expected? If it's not downloading, could you try in a different browser perhaps? I think that will address all of your questions if you could take a look at the file :)

yep - was a browser edge - would have thought MS Edge would have been best but worked better in chrome - will get back to you - thanks again

No problem Billy :)

Hi Leslie,

When I download your .story file and publish it, I can see the 3 swf files in the story content folder within the zip file so that is the first step to success (and this was also the case I after I removed the 'play till end' flag which is the cause of looped audio.  When I try it with a different file (or even original test file) I am unsuccessful.  Can you possibly advise exactly what steps you took, in order, re the .story file and three .swf files I uploaded.  I'm convinced there is an order to doing things that is more successful than others.  I can then try replicate it.  Thanks.

Hi Billy! 

I simply utilized the same files you shared in a new story file. I didn't make any edits or change any settings. 

If you add the file into a new file, with no setting changes - does it work as expected? Perhaps there is a setting that is making the issue occur and I would be happy to continue assisting so we can better understand.