Forgive my lack of file type knowledge. I am trying to get a presentation published in Storyline 2 put onto a CD for employees who are not connected to our intranet. I have published the file in Storyline 2 using the CD output and sent the file to our media team. Their response was they need the file in AVI, WMV, MOV, Mpeg2 or Mpeg4 format. How do I do this?
I think you and your media team are looking for two different things. The Publish to CD option takes the course as-is and makes it available offline. Users can still interact with the course (click on buttons, have layers pop up, etc.). Your media team wants a video, which would eliminate all of those interactions.
Storyline 360 just added a publish as video option. I would read through that doc so you're aware of all the considerations you'd need to make in order to have a successful learning experience. Personally, I'd explain what users would be missing to your media team so they're more willing to figure out how to make the Publish-to-CD option work on your intranet.
Unfortunately we have Storyline 2 and not 360. The employees we are trying to reach cannot access our intranet page at all - so I'm not sure an "offline" format would work either. Is there a way to make the CD version available to these offsite employees?
You could put the Publish-to-CD output on a CD or USB drive and send it to them. I'm guessing your media team is probably planning on doing that with a video output.
Yes, they are putting the file on CD, but they have stated they can't use what I gave them (the CD published output from Storyline file) and they need it in an AVI, WMV, MOV, Mpeg2 or Mpeg4 format. Is there a way to select one of these formats when publishing from Storyline 2?
The CD version is designed to be put on any sort of portable media, and to run from there as a stand-alone version. So if you can burn the CD version on an actual physical CD, or flash drive, or external hard drive, then all you have to do is put the media in their hands. Send it by mail, pony express, sneakerNet, whatever.
If they can access the internet, publish it for the web, and put it somewhere they can access it. A lot of people use Amazon's S3 service.
The key here is what Allison said: "I think you and your media team are looking for two different things. The Publish to CD option takes the course as-is and makes it available offline. Users can still interact with the course (click on buttons, have layers pop up, etc.). Your media team wants a video, which would eliminate all of those interactions."
Sounds to me more like a job for mail services than media team.
You would want to copy all of the files over. If it's published to a CD, the user's operating system should automatically launch the project when the CD is inserted into the computer.
If your media team insists on you providing video, you could try downloading the trial version of 360 and use Storyline 360 to publish your presentation to video. This will only work if your presentation does not have any user interactivity but who knows maybe once you try it you will want to use 360 all the time.
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Hi Emily,
I think you and your media team are looking for two different things. The Publish to CD option takes the course as-is and makes it available offline. Users can still interact with the course (click on buttons, have layers pop up, etc.). Your media team wants a video, which would eliminate all of those interactions.
Storyline 360 just added a publish as video option. I would read through that doc so you're aware of all the considerations you'd need to make in order to have a successful learning experience. Personally, I'd explain what users would be missing to your media team so they're more willing to figure out how to make the Publish-to-CD option work on your intranet.
Allison
Hi Allison,
Unfortunately we have Storyline 2 and not 360. The employees we are trying to reach cannot access our intranet page at all - so I'm not sure an "offline" format would work either. Is there a way to make the CD version available to these offsite employees?
You could put the Publish-to-CD output on a CD or USB drive and send it to them. I'm guessing your media team is probably planning on doing that with a video output.
Yes, they are putting the file on CD, but they have stated they can't use what I gave them (the CD published output from Storyline file) and they need it in an AVI, WMV, MOV, Mpeg2 or Mpeg4 format. Is there a way to select one of these formats when publishing from Storyline 2?
The CD version is designed to be put on any sort of portable media, and to run from there as a stand-alone version. So if you can burn the CD version on an actual physical CD, or flash drive, or external hard drive, then all you have to do is put the media in their hands. Send it by mail, pony express, sneakerNet, whatever.
If they can access the internet, publish it for the web, and put it somewhere they can access it. A lot of people use Amazon's S3 service.
The key here is what Allison said: "I think you and your media team are looking for two different things. The Publish to CD option takes the course as-is and makes it available offline. Users can still interact with the course (click on buttons, have layers pop up, etc.). Your media team wants a video, which would eliminate all of those interactions."
Sounds to me more like a job for mail services than media team.
Okay, so when I publish to CD in storyline, these are the files I get (image attached). Which file do I copy onto a CD?
Story_Content (file folder)
autorun
Launch_story
loader
meta
story
story
You would want to copy all of the files over. If it's published to a CD, the user's operating system should automatically launch the project when the CD is inserted into the computer.
If your media team insists on you providing video, you could try downloading the trial version of 360 and use Storyline 360 to publish your presentation to video. This will only work if your presentation does not have any user interactivity but who knows maybe once you try it you will want to use 360 all the time.
Thank you all - the media team was able to put the unzipped files on a CD and it plays! You're all awesome!!
Great news Emily! Glad you were able to get the assistance that you needed here and I appreciate you chiming in with an update.
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