Hey Susan! If you'd like to use your Screen Recording in other projects, you can follow these steps for exporting the recording and making it available for use again and again.
If you go to the Home tab > select the layout dropdown you will see all the master slide layout that you have. You can then select the one you want to apply.
I had previously looked at all these tutorials. I must be missing something basic as I cannot get my screen recording to record onto one of my layouts.
I am not able to insert my step by step recording on to the background layout. My step by step view seems to have it's own plain white screen in the background.
You won't record onto the layout...you will apply the layout to the recording screen using the image I pasted above.
Highlight the slide > Home tab > Layout then select the layout that you want.
If of course your recording size is the size of the story file you won't be able to see the layout behind it. Is your recording a smaller size so that it doesn't take up the whole screen?
One of these pics shows that the background is white. One shows my layout background which I manually inserted on each of my white backgrounded step by step slides. How do I get my steps on to my layout?
are you unchecking the option 'hide background graphics' on the layout. Right click the slide that has your master layout applied, then format background option.
This is a sample I just did - I'd definitely need to tweak my layout to match how the screen recording sits on the slide but it does work
I'm sorry for the difficulty that you've had here - and the screen recording slides can be a bit tricky as they do become a part of the background in the sense that they can't be moved or rescaled and cause issues with the screen recording. With that in mind, as Wendy mentioned if it's recorded at the same size as your story size - you won't be able to see things from behind such as what's on a master slide.
As Wendy mentioned, when you insert screen recording as a step by step slide, you'll need to go to the slide and uncheck the box on the Format Background window for "Hide background graphics." Your information from the master slide should appear than (as long as it's not underneath the screen recording itself).
You can select all the slides (using the shift key) and then right click, find the "Format background" option and then uncheck the "Hide Background graphics".
A step by step screen recording can't be resized after you've conducted the recording and inserted it. Also it will always exist on the main slide base layer, as it becomes a part of the background.
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Hey Susan! If you'd like to use your Screen Recording in other projects, you can follow these steps for exporting the recording and making it available for use again and again.
Also, if you wanted to keep the entire project you're working with (including the screen recording slides) as a template, you save that project as a template as described here!
I hope that information is helpful!
Thanks but that doesn't answer my question. I want to put my View mode slides onto a master that I am currently using for my project
Hi Susan
can you explain why you want to put the screen recording onto the master?
Sorry I am not explaining myself very well. I want to put the step by step screen recording on to a slide that has my master background settings.
Ok - that makes sense.
If you go to the Home tab > select the layout dropdown you will see all the master slide layout that you have. You can then select the one you want to apply.
I am not sure how I get my step by step recording onto that layout.
Ths tutorial should help you
https://community.articulate.com/series/4/articles/using-slide-masters-in-articulate-storyline-2
I had previously looked at all these tutorials. I must be missing something basic as I cannot get my screen recording to record onto one of my layouts.
I am not able to insert my step by step recording on to the background layout. My step by step view seems to have it's own plain white screen in the background.
I am finding this process frustrating. Before I come to the discussion I have usually looked at as many related tutorials as I can.
You won't record onto the layout...you will apply the layout to the recording screen using the image I pasted above.
Highlight the slide > Home tab > Layout then select the layout that you want.
If of course your recording size is the size of the story file you won't be able to see the layout behind it. Is your recording a smaller size so that it doesn't take up the whole screen?
One of these pics shows that the background is white. One shows my layout background which I manually inserted on each of my white backgrounded step by step slides. How do I get my steps on to my layout?
Wendy - thank you for you patience but what you suggest above isn't working for my slides.
Hi Susan
are you unchecking the option 'hide background graphics' on the layout. Right click the slide that has your master layout applied, then format background option.
This is a sample I just did - I'd definitely need to tweak my layout to match how the screen recording sits on the slide but it does work
Hi Susan,
I'm sorry for the difficulty that you've had here - and the screen recording slides can be a bit tricky as they do become a part of the background in the sense that they can't be moved or rescaled and cause issues with the screen recording. With that in mind, as Wendy mentioned if it's recorded at the same size as your story size - you won't be able to see things from behind such as what's on a master slide.
As Wendy mentioned, when you insert screen recording as a step by step slide, you'll need to go to the slide and uncheck the box on the Format Background window for "Hide background graphics." Your information from the master slide should appear than (as long as it's not underneath the screen recording itself).
You can select all the slides (using the shift key) and then right click, find the "Format background" option and then uncheck the "Hide Background graphics".
So how do I resize the screen recording then. I wish to move it to another layer too. Please help
Hi Neena,
A step by step screen recording can't be resized after you've conducted the recording and inserted it. Also it will always exist on the main slide base layer, as it becomes a part of the background.
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