I have just finished creating a system demo for our sales staff to use when out selling products. It includes voice over and a few animations, highlighting particular parts of the screen. I have handed over the final 'video' as the product team call it and have now been asked if I can't supply one file rather than a folder with the .exe and all the supporting files! Is this possible? I don't want to have to redo the demo in Flash if I can avoid it. Please help...
I have just finished creating a system demo for our sales staff to use when out selling products. It includes voice over and a few animations, highlighting particular parts of the screen. I have handed over the final 'video' as the product team call it and have now been asked if I can't supply one file rather than a folder with the .exe and all the supporting files! Is this possible? I don't want to have to redo the demo in Flash if I can avoid it. Please help...
Lisa,
Using Camtasia, it is possible to "capture" Storyline, both video and audio (system audio), to a single MP4 video or other file format. This assumes you don't have any student interactions which is a big presumption. The resulting video will play start to finish without any play / pause or other viewer interaction.
Thanks Peter, that's how I explained it to the product team. I've also been trying to explain to them that running the video from a CD or from the sales person's laptop is the way they will be using the video in any case and therefore it shouldn't matter that it is not one single file. It is not something that will be given to clients to keep. Using a published link could work although I wouldn't want to be dependent on an internet connection to access the link.
Sam - thanks for your reply. Unfortunately I have built in buttons to control the playback but otherwise that would have been a good option!
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Hey Lisa!
Storyline doesn't currently support publishing a single file. The various different files that Storyline includes in its published output are all necessary to ensure fast and reliable playback.
Out of curiosity, does your product team need to see the entire output folder, or would simply sending along a published link to the "video" suffice?
Lisa,
Using Camtasia, it is possible to "capture" Storyline, both video and audio (system audio), to a single MP4 video or other file format. This assumes you don't have any student interactions which is a big presumption. The resulting video will play start to finish without any play / pause or other viewer interaction.
Thanks Peter, that's how I explained it to the product team. I've also been trying to explain to them that running the video from a CD or from the sales person's laptop is the way they will be using the video in any case and therefore it shouldn't matter that it is not one single file. It is not something that will be given to clients to keep. Using a published link could work although I wouldn't want to be dependent on an internet connection to access the link.
Sam - thanks for your reply. Unfortunately I have built in buttons to control the playback but otherwise that would have been a good option!
Hi Lisa,
Yeah, it sounds like publishing to CD might be the best option for you and your team.
Let us know if you need any help with that if you decide to go in that direction
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