Strange Video Looping Issue
Feb 18, 2016
By
Matt Smith
I have a short 3 second video I would like to loop. I have set it up to play a 0.1 second silent sound file after the video is complete. Then play the video again after the sound file is complete.
This kinda works however when looping the video doesn't start from the beginning but from second 2. I have attached the file in case anyone would like to see or my description is bad (offending video can be found on the 4th slide).
Has anyone had any success with looping in storyline 2? It seems odd that it is not a feature.
p.s I have seen the threads on looping and tried all the suggested ideas. This is the only one that seems to sort of work.
9 Replies
Thats a strange issue. I am trying on it too. Facing same problem
Hi Matt,
I found a small trick see if it works for you. I've duplicated the video on the top layer and have set the play video to "When clicked" and have set the video below on automatic.
I've given trigger saying that the slide would replay as it reaches the end of the timeline and the output is what you desire. This is the only solution I could find for now. I would love to know some one has a better solution to it. :P
Regards,
Yusuf
Hi Yusuf,
Your fix works for me as well. Nice trick so thanks a lot! As you say it would be nice to know if anyone has any other ideas as well. Or maybe looping video files should be a feature request if it is something people are interested in?
Regards,
Matt
Hi Matt! You are welcome to share your thoughts with our product development team here.
Hey Matt,
Glad it worked for you.
I don't get the same problem with my video as I do with yours.
Does it change things if you insert your video as an mp4?
Walt,
I thought that but when I tried with MP4 as well. I got the same issue.
Hi Walt,
I don't have the issue with other video files, just the one it seems. I re rendered it as a few different file types and codecs as you suggested but it always bugs out. Weird.
Hi Matt,
If it's just this one video file, there may be an issue with the file as a whole - but you could also look at converting it using another tool such as Handbrake. That would allow you to change the codec or element associated with it and see if that works normally.
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