SL Layers & Audio

Hi!

Does this work?  On each of your layers, open their properties, and choose to pause the timeline of the base layer.  Then the audio on the base layer will stop playing when you select a layer.

Hi Gerry,

I tried that, but it doesn't stop the audio from playing on the content layer when I select the narration layer (if that makes sense).

Hi, Brandy!

I think I understand.  Here's a published version of your slide.  Can you outline what steps to take to hear/see the problem? 

https://s3.amazonaws.com/GJW-SL/DAS/story.html

Hi Brandy and Gerry,

@Brandy, I have looked at your file and thought of a workaround but when I tried to apply it I ran into another problem so submitted a bug to Articulate.

@Gerry, when on the main screen, select one of the tab. Then, click on the "sheet" icon at the bottom to see the narration appear. This narration is on a new layer with its own audio since we cannot have the audio of the previous layer play continuously on multiple layers. The audio starts over which is a bit annoying.

My suggestion was to have the narration and the scrolling panel including it being "hidden" as the initial state. However, it looks like the scrolling panel doesn't have states, which I reported to Articulate. This would have made it quite easy to achieve.

Have a nice day!

Annie

Thanks, Annie!    Finally got it.

I'd probably not have two separate layers to do this.  I'd look at doing the narration and script on one layer.  The content on each layer would just be hidden and toggled on and off.

Agree with you Gerry,

But since the script is in a scrolling panel, I can't find a way to achieve this. You can hide the text without any problem but the scrolling panel... ;-(((

Not the best idea but maybe the best way to do it would be to cover the script and "hide" that cover to show the scrolling panel...

Yeah, you're right, the scrolling panel is a bugger since it has no states. 

I'd look instead to put a rectangle (and mirror the design of what it was covering--maybe use screen capture to capture that) over the scrolling panel and show and hide the rectangle to mimic "showing and hiding" the scrolling panel.

Ahh, Gerry beat me to it. Here's a screencast on using a cover image to hide the scrolling panel:

Thanks Gerry and Annie,

It sounds like I need all the content on the same layer so the audio doesn't start over on the narration layer. 

Instead of using the scrolling panel, if I create a shape with the text over it would I then add states to those and put them as hidden until the user clicks the narration button?

Thanks David,

That's a good option.  I'll give it a try!

Exactly! This is what I was trying until I got into the scrolling panel issue.

Happy we could help you. Have a nice day!

Annie

Worked like a charm.  Thanks everyone!

I am having the same initial issue with the audio playing over top of eachother. I used the instruction to "hide other slide layers" but I would like the content to remain on the screen and not hide when a new button triggers a different layer.