Seek bar and Layers
Aug 18, 2013
By
Niall Watts
I have slides of several layers with audio on the base layer and full screen images on the other, upper layers. I would like to be able to pause the audio while viewing the upper layers. While viewing the upper layers, I can pause the display on the upper layers but cannot pause the base layer audio. Is this possible?
I have set 'allow seeking' to yes for the individual layers. The base layer is always visible and the other (not current) layers hidden.
Hope you can help
I think making individual audio files for each layer would work - but that would be very time consuming. So I am hoping for a better solution
5 Replies
Niall,
You should be able to accomplish this by clicking the Properties button (little wheel) for each layer and then selecting Pause timeline of base layer. If you'd like to see screenshots, there's a handy article here that includes them.
I hope this helps!
Keepin' the joy,
Patti
Patti
Thanks for your suggestion. That pauses the base layer audio on the other layers which is not what I'm trying to achieve. I want the audio to play on all layers and the user to be able to pause it on all layers.
Hi Niall! So, you do not have the box checked for 'Pause timeline of base layer'? Would you be able to share your .story file either here in the forums or here privately so that we can have a look?
For those who have this issue, I had the same question and have a more precise answer.
Patti was correct in clicking the Properties wheel to the right for each layer, but to activate the seekbar for each layer yo uneed to clic kthe drop arrow for ALLOW SEEKING and change the default AUTOMATICALLY DECIDE to YES.
I tried this in my newest presentation & it works great.
Hi Richard!
Thanks for popping in to share your findings and experience with this as well Richard. It will certainly assist others in the future that may run across this thread.
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