Hi, I'm having a problem with the size of a zipped story. The Story size is 173 MB before publishing. I'm using the storyline in built zip button after I have published he file. The resulting zip file is 293 MB so 120MB larger than the original file. I'm having problems loading this large file onto our LMS.
Thanks Phil for your comment - the file is packed full of images - screen recordings to be precise, not sure that compressing these will enhance the view in the published product. I've set the publishing settings as per other lessons and it's just this one where the file size increases.
Leslie - do I just add the story file as an attachment here for you to look at it?
I do see what you are reporting, but I agree that your course is video/image heavy.
I see the same numbers as far as file size that you mentioned above. I took a look at your publish settings and it seems that you were utilizing a custom setting for your images. When I changed that to standard, the size reduced to 256291, so as Phil mentioned some tweaks can happen there if needed.
Hello! I got the same problem here but there's no customized version! My storyline file is 13 MB while my zipped one is 17! Any ideas where else to look? Thank you :)
If the issue persists, would you be willing to share your project file here or through a support case so we can check what's causing your file size to increase? We'll delete it afterwards!
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Do you have videos in there, if you have the same video in different places these are added more than once in the published output.
You could compress the video, audio and images in the publish optimisation dialogue this may help
Hi Janet!
Looks like Phil has popped in to assist you here. Let us know if you need us to take a look at your .story file.
Thanks Phil for your comment - the file is packed full of images - screen recordings to be precise, not sure that compressing these will enhance the view in the published product. I've set the publishing settings as per other lessons and it's just this one where the file size increases.
Leslie - do I just add the story file as an attachment here for you to look at it?
You certainly can do that Janet. Just utilize the 'Add Attachment' button in the bottom left of the reply window.
Here's the file
Hi Janet!
I do see what you are reporting, but I agree that your course is video/image heavy.
I see the same numbers as far as file size that you mentioned above. I took a look at your publish settings and it seems that you were utilizing a custom setting for your images. When I changed that to standard, the size reduced to 256291, so as Phil mentioned some tweaks can happen there if needed.
Hi, I have similar problem with my published file. Could you please guide me where to find the option 'publish optimisation dialogue'.
I got the option, thank you!
Glad you were able to find what you needed here Jasodha :) For any others following along, this tutorial will assist.
Hello! I got the same problem here but there's no customized version! My storyline file is 13 MB while my zipped one is 17! Any ideas where else to look? Thank you :)
Hi Sarah,
Sorry to hear that you ran into this issue. Have you tried importing your project slides over to a new project file to see if this helps?
If the issue persists, would you be willing to share your project file here or through a support case so we can check what's causing your file size to increase? We'll delete it afterwards!
Thank you @Joe for your response.
I did import it to a new project but the problem persists.
I'll file a support case, thank you so much :)