While we don't have any guidelines around video or file size limits in our authoring tools, Articulate Online has a maximum per-content item limit of 500 MB. Be sure to also check out this Best Practices for Lengthy Courses discussion, as it has lots of great advice!
Hope that helps, and let us know if you have any more questions! 😊
You can see the file size of your .story files and the published output by looking within the file explorer of your Windows setup:
That will allow you to see the overall size prior to publish and after publishing as shown in these two images.
Storyline will compress your content, so you'd get the highest possible quality at the lowest possible file size. You can look at the options here to modify the video compression.
Ashley, thank you for your reply. Do the images here show the size of a file published to Articulate Online?
I know the file size shows for a brief moment towards the end of the publishing process, but I don't know where to find that number before or after publishing.
Hey Alison. Thanks for clarifying. Since the published output for Articulate Online automatically uploads, you're right - you don't normally get to see how big that file is.
If you publish for manual upload to Articulate Online, you'll have an output file saved to your local drive that you can inspect. Unless you're getting an error message when publishing to Articulate Online, or it stops working without uploading your content, you shouldn't have to worry about your file size.
If you are having any trouble, please let us know!
6 Replies
Hey, Alison. How exciting!
While we don't have any guidelines around video or file size limits in our authoring tools, Articulate Online has a maximum per-content item limit of 500 MB. Be sure to also check out this Best Practices for Lengthy Courses discussion, as it has lots of great advice!
Hope that helps, and let us know if you have any more questions! 😊
Thanks for that info, Katie! How do I check the size of my lesson?
Also, should I compress video files before I embed them, or does Storyline automatically compress the files?
Hi Alison,
You can see the file size of your .story files and the published output by looking within the file explorer of your Windows setup:
That will allow you to see the overall size prior to publish and after publishing as shown in these two images.
Storyline will compress your content, so you'd get the highest possible quality at the lowest possible file size. You can look at the options here to modify the video compression.
Ashley, thank you for your reply. Do the images here show the size of a file published to Articulate Online?
I know the file size shows for a brief moment towards the end of the publishing process, but I don't know where to find that number before or after publishing.
Hey Alison. Thanks for clarifying. Since the published output for Articulate Online automatically uploads, you're right - you don't normally get to see how big that file is.
If you publish for manual upload to Articulate Online, you'll have an output file saved to your local drive that you can inspect. Unless you're getting an error message when publishing to Articulate Online, or it stops working without uploading your content, you shouldn't have to worry about your file size.
If you are having any trouble, please let us know!
This discussion is closed. You can start a new discussion or contact Articulate Support.