Hi, I am flummoxed. I can't see how to set timing of animations to fit audio anywhere.
Surely Articulate haven't dropped all ability to set timing on the fly with Storyline? I know it has other features but if we have to use the timeline to set all timings, that's simply a pain.
The timeline is pretty good for synchronization. Using cuepoints will help you to line things up since you can't scrub through audio and quickly / fluidly preview and line up objects. Hit play to preview audio and keep your trigger finger over the top of the "C" key. When it hits a point in time that you want to line up animation, hit C to drop a cuepoint. Your objects, when dragged on the timeline, will snap to this new cuepoint guide.
Ahh - thanks, Steve, that was super helpful. I'm 6 hours into teaching myself how to use SL with the tutorials and forums as my guide. Love the timeline.
In that case, the timeline is still there, but you just set things up slightly differently, not having anything specifically on the timeline that affects slide movement.
For example, set things up as per this image on the slide level:
The timeline is always there, it's all just a question of what you are doing with it.
Hope this helps - shout if you have any more questions.
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Laurie,
Timeline is the way to do this unless I am misunderstanding something.
I am surprised that you find it "...a pain". I think it is fresh, innovative and allows for a remarkable level of synchronisation.
Bruce
I Love the timeline, it givesyou much more flexibility than using the ppt tools for synching animation
A lot of tools use timelines for synching - Flash, and Captivate to name a few.
The synch option in Articulate Presenter was easy to use but I found it was often hard to get the precision that I can get using a timeline.
For my final comment on this see http://community.articulate.com/forums/t/15070.aspx
Bruce
The timeline is pretty good for synchronization. Using cuepoints will help you to line things up since you can't scrub through audio and quickly / fluidly preview and line up objects. Hit play to preview audio and keep your trigger finger over the top of the "C" key. When it hits a point in time that you want to line up animation, hit C to drop a cuepoint. Your objects, when dragged on the timeline, will snap to this new cuepoint guide.
Ahh - thanks, Steve, that was super helpful. I'm 6 hours into teaching myself how to use SL with the tutorials and forums as my guide. Love the timeline.
Thanks Steve... great tip
What if there is no timing needed and the user determines when to move on to the next slide. How do do that with the timeline??
Hi Kyle and welcome to Heroes.
In that case, the timeline is still there, but you just set things up slightly differently, not having anything specifically on the timeline that affects slide movement.
For example, set things up as per this image on the slide level:
The timeline is always there, it's all just a question of what you are doing with it.
Hope this helps - shout if you have any more questions.
Bruce
Thanks heaps Bruce. Is there a way of setting this as a default for the whole course?
Kyle,
You can go tp the Scene Level, select CTRL-A for multiple slides and do this - see image below.
Bruce
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