Using Storyline 2 to create a marketing style or overview "commercial"

Hi Jared!

I'm sure that this could get the task done, although the interactivity is what users love about the software so that the learner is engaged.

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Hopefully someone in the community will be able to chime in and assist with your design questions :)

Good Morning Leslie,

Thank you very much for taking the time to reply and offer helpful suggestions.  I agree, the software can likely be manipulated to make this style of commercial and agree about the interactivity is what benefits the learner.  My bosses aren't into the interactivity part or ISD and we don't track who takes our training or score it or measure success -- this is more of a straight 4 minute marketing video and all we have is storyline so I'm tasked to now make this commercial lol. 

Hi Jared, 

It all sounds doable - and I'd look at the following items to help ensure it's a smooth "video" feel:

• Create a chromeless player, so it's just your content 
• Set the slides up to advance automatically based on the length of the timeline
• Add animations and transitions when and where appropriate

Good Morning Ashley,

Thank you very much, I followed your directions and have set up a chromeless player, which looks great.  I am getting the hang of the timeline as well and seem to be doing ok.

My hangup now is I want an audio file, music, to play in the background during the entire length of the slideshow.  I inserted audio on slide 1 and set it to play until the end, however when it jumps to slide to the audio stops.

Do I have to inset audio on every slide?  I don't want the music to start over each time, I want it to play from the beginning to end for 4-5 mins.

Thank you all so much for your help,

JAred

Hi Jared, 

Yes, audio is dealt with on a slide by slide basis as there isn't an overarching audio or playlist option for Storyline. 

Ok, thank you for your reply. So I could use the audio editor and snip pieces of the master audio and insert that to each slide as a band-aid?

Thanks so much for your time!

Jared Surdin
Program Analyst
Risk Reduction Branch/Risk Analysis Division
Office of Intelligence and Analysis
Transportation Security Administration
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Email: jared.surdin@tsa.dhs.gov

Hi Jared,

Yes, you could break it up as a slide by slide audio. There are others in the community who have set up similar things or created  a "playlist" of sorts - so you may want to search other threads to see if those ideas may help you as well.

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