timelines and .gifs
Apr 27, 2016
Ok, so I have this object that has a notebook theme. I wanted the cover to peel away but there are no peel animations/transitions in sl2, whatever, I opened up after effects, made what I wanted, put the png sequence into photoshop and turned it into a gif, cool.
But it's not behaving as expected in storyline. I have it as the top layer, pulled the time on it down to 1s, timeline set to pause on timeline start and resume on clicking this image.
The idea is basically that image stays until clicked on then peels away leaving the content underneath so the user can then get on with it.
What's happening though is the gif is just repeating over and over until it's clicked on. The timeline doesn't seem to pause at all, I've also tried getting it to pause at 0s and at a cuepoint but no dice. It seemed like a really good idea at the time but I can't figure out why it's doing that. Previous gifs have worked as expected.
Any clues why this isn't working right?
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So it seems the timeline is pausing but because the gif is right at the start it gets stuck in a loop. Moving the gif out a bit and putting in a still of the first frame seemed to sort it. The animation still seems a bit wonky but it's working
Thanks Bruce for the update - and our team has been investigating some GIF looping issues - so in the meantime you may want to look at using an MP4 file as well. But it seems like this method you described works for your needs?
Yeah I needed the gif for the transparency? Does sl2 support transparency on video files? It seemed to just black out when I tried that on a previous thing.
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seems like the gif is still looping away and making the animation inconsistent. I tried .mp4 and .mov and .flv as formats that would let me export RGB+Alpha. mp4 and mov both blocked the transparency with black but it looks like .flv is the winner. Smooth animation via video format with the transparency to show the behind contents as they are revealed.
It did export in a really crummy resolution and in sl2 design view it shows up as an oversized white box but hey, we cant have everything, right?
Hi Bruce,
It looks like you figured some of this out before I got back here - but you can use the FLV video files as detailed here. Storyline does conduct some compression of media files upon publishing, and you can change the publishing quality to reduce the level of compression as a part of the publish settings to help with that.
Hope that helps!
Thanks for that.
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