Video levels
Sep 05, 2018
Hello, I am working on a course that has a few video clips that I need help with. My MP4's have a white background to match the Storyline player and I have set the video options tool Compression to None. When I preview or publish the course the video brightness drops down (in video terms I'm losing about 20 IRE) and the colour shifts a bit too. The project file size doesn't seem to make a difference, the video file size doesn't seem to matter, nor does it matter if there is an audio track. The strange thing is that it happens mostly on Internet Explorer, intermittently in Firefox and not at all in Google Chrome. Unfortunately I am required to use Internet Explorer at work.
Has anyone seen this before?
I should also mention that we are no longer publishing with flash, but when I did a test publish as Flash/HTML5 it looks much better in IE11. (using the most recent version of Storyline 360)
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Hello Marie-Claude. It's always tricky when you are encountering some inconsistency with a problem. But we'd be happy to help you troubleshoot and figure out solutions!
Can you share an example .story file with our support team here? We'll have a look and let you know some next ideas.
Thanks so much for your reply. I've attached a file that contains a few slides with video. Sometimes they work fine in IE11 (Windows 7) and sometimes they don't.
Thanks for sharing your .story file so that we could take a look Marie-Claude.
I published the course and it looks the same for me in Chrome, IE11 (Win 10 and Win 7), Edge, and Firefox. Here's my output if you'd like to take a look.
How are you publishing and sharing the course?
Hi Leslie, here are my publishing properties:
LMS: Scorm 1.2
Format: HTML5
Video Quality 9, Image quality 100%
Here's my Articulate Review output of the project.
https://360.articulate.com/review/content/f2a0bc17-38a1-4fac-a518-a717820f0df7/review
Take a look at Transmission Contaminated Water and the slide after.
I found this thread, https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/storyline-360-launching-in-google-chrome-firefox-but-not-in-ie
could that be part of my problem?
Thanks so much for sharing that link so that I could take a look.
I am able to replicate the behavior in Windows 7 with IE 11, but it works as expected in Windows 10 with IE11.
I do see a similar issue reported to our team regarding HD videos.
I'm adding this conversation to the report as we track user impact and so that we can update you here when we can.
Thanks Leslie, I look forward to any updates.
Hello Marie-Claude,
As promised, I wanted to pop back in and share the solutions that are working for others running into a similar issue.
Possible ideas:
Hope that helps you as well :)
Thanks for the update Leslie.
Because we work in HD 16:9 aspect ratio, your first suggestion isn't an option for us, and your third suggestion is one that I've already implemented. But I'll try a scaled down version to 998 or less in my next course.
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