I'm new to Storyline (aren´t we all...?) and I really like what I see. It took me a week to make up my mind and buy it, but now it´s mine! =)
I´ve been working i Studio 09, so many features are familiar to me. The scenes and the layers are new. I understand how the layers work (more or less...), but the scenes...?
I can´t find any tutorial about the scenes. Is there one? If not - would someone help me out, please?
I think of SCENES as "groups of slides related to a common concept".
So - I might have:
Introduction Scene
Navigation Scene
Menu Scene
Topic1 scene etc.
For me, they are a way to arrange my work, and I can also open multiple scene tabs at once, so I can flit between them and cross-reference while working.
Hope that helps.
PS - "flit" is not a word that a grown man uses very often, but no matter.....
The key thing about scenes is that the do not show up as part of your published output. They are merely a way of organising your slides while working in SL.
Although having said that, they do show up in your menu structure. Each scene title will appear in the menu with the slides in the scene listed below. I also believe there ia a key line above and below each scene in the menu. Even though you use scenes, you can still rearrange your menu in any order you please and you can turn off the scene titles.
Scenes are useful for grouping slides that you do not want to include in the regular course navigation. (light box slides are a good example of this - if you put them in your main scene and are using the standard next button for navigation, they will be included in your navigation path by default. Putting them in their own scene that is not connected to the min scene will prevent this from happening.
Slides = pages (best similarity is same as PPT slide)
Layers = paragraphs on the page - you can have multiple layers in a slide, just like multiple paragraphs on a page. The power w/ slide layers is that you can have something unique displayed on each.
To make it more confusing, there are both timeline and slide layers however most ppl will use slide layers.
Hi guys. Bit new to this all too. If you are importing old slides from Powerpoint into SL, can you turn them into layers? I have a PPT project that had multiple slides to simulate 'clickable options' (like the new layers concept in SL) and now that I have Sl (!!!) I'd like to clean it all up. Any suggestions?
SL will not do it "automagically", however, once you have the content into SL, it's all very simple to do, and depending on what you are trying to achieve, layers may not be the best thing to do. You could keep the slides as separate entities, put some clickable custom buttons on the "source" slide, and have the buttons trigger the slides as, (for example...), Lightboxes.
Hope that helps you start to think about the options.
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These graphics might help.
HI.
I think of SCENES as "groups of slides related to a common concept".
So - I might have:
For me, they are a way to arrange my work, and I can also open multiple scene tabs at once, so I can flit between them and cross-reference while working.
Hope that helps.
PS - "flit" is not a word that a grown man uses very often, but no matter.....
Is flit not the sign of an active mind?
This might help as well:
http://www.gostoryline.com/downloads_free/sl_anatomy.pdf
The key thing about scenes is that the do not show up as part of your published output. They are merely a way of organising your slides while working in SL.
Although having said that, they do show up in your menu structure. Each scene title will appear in the menu with the slides in the scene listed below. I also believe there ia a key line above and below each scene in the menu. Even though you use scenes, you can still rearrange your menu in any order you please and you can turn off the scene titles.
Scenes are useful for grouping slides that you do not want to include in the regular course navigation. (light box slides are a good example of this - if you put them in your main scene and are using the standard next button for navigation, they will be included in your navigation path by default. Putting them in their own scene that is not connected to the min scene will prevent this from happening.
Hope this makes sense.
Hey Phil, Steve and Russ -- looks like you guys have been busy at http://www.gostoryline.com/book-overview.html; what a great resource!
Thanks for compiling so much info!
Michael
Thank you all for responding!
I understand more now, but I think a tutorial would help future customers (and me!) =)
Think of an SL project as a book.
Scenes = chapters
Slides = pages (best similarity is same as PPT slide)
Layers = paragraphs on the page - you can have multiple layers in a slide, just like multiple paragraphs on a page. The power w/ slide layers is that you can have something unique displayed on each.
To make it more confusing, there are both timeline and slide layers however most ppl will use slide layers.
Here's a tutorial that might be helpful:
http://community.articulate.com/tutorials/products/using-story-view.aspx
Hi guys. Bit new to this all too. If you are importing old slides from Powerpoint into SL, can you turn them into layers? I have a PPT project that had multiple slides to simulate 'clickable options' (like the new layers concept in SL) and now that I have Sl (!!!) I'd like to clean it all up. Any suggestions?
Hi Jeanette,
SL will not do it "automagically", however, once you have the content into SL, it's all very simple to do, and depending on what you are trying to achieve, layers may not be the best thing to do. You could keep the slides as separate entities, put some clickable custom buttons on the "source" slide, and have the buttons trigger the slides as, (for example...), Lightboxes.
Hope that helps you start to think about the options.
Bruce
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