To Compress Video or not?
Mar 24, 2016
Team,
Informal survey here...We're publishing a full curriculum across our company where about 2,000 people will take the courses. In our company, like most, we have laptops from PC to Mac from 5 years old to the latest models.
I mention that because it has to do with my question is on Video Compression within Articulate. Our videos are HD quality that converted to MP4 already. I made a course where I set compression to None to retain quality and when we tested most videos went smoothly as expected but one colleague's laptop is about 4 years old and the videos had behavior consistent with if you were to play an HD video with high bitrate locally on an older laptop/computer..(video goes grey here & there - cant keep up with bitrate) that was my thought that it was due to age of the machine/video card, etc & being high bitrate videos.
Should I not take the risk and set compression to "Automatic" to assure everyone has the same positive experience no matter the age of their laptop?
Thanks for your help & experience.
Nick
3 Replies
Hi, Nicholas -- Thanks for reaching out, and while I will defer to your fellow community member to share their specific recommendations and advice, I did want to share the following in case you'd like to take a look:
Video Compression in Storyline 2
Best Practices for High Quality Images and Videos in Articulate Storyline 2
Hope that is helpful! :)
Thanks Christie...just want the best experience for the user knowing there are many different models & ages of laptops out there.
thanks!
Absolutely, Nicholas, and I certainly understand! In addition to the articles I have already shared, I wanted to pass along this info sheet for our System Requirements (just so you have it handy), and also mention that you are welcome to reach out for additional feedback in our Building Better Courses forum, as well. :)
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