Video Looping and Control

Hi Stephen,

Regarding your first question, how exactly do you plan on running the videos? Are they going to be in the same slide? Are there any navigation controls on this "group of videos"? If all you are looking for is continuous loop on multiple videos sharing the same position and size, then I would use layers to control this behavior. Say for example you have 3 videos (A,B,C) :

1) Create a layer for each video, and position each video inside the corresponding layer.

2) Set a trigger on Layer A to show Layer B when timeline finishes. Set a trigger on "Layer B" to show "Layer C" when timeline finishes. Finally set another trigger on "Layer C" to show Layer A when timeline finishes.

This way you can achieve a continuous loop.

Regarding your 2nd question, just use a transparent hotspot on top of the video, and the hand cursor will go away...

Hope it helps,

Alex

Is it possible to embed / link to video players from vendors like BrightCove.

We use BrightCove video player on most of our sites.

Just wanted to know if we can be consistent and use it here too.

Alex,

Thanks for your prompt reply.

Regarding the first question: each video appears on a screen and should just contnue to loop as long as the user is on that screen. The video would not automatically advance to the next screen.

As for the second answer: your solution worked great. I put a transparent box over the video and the hand went away.

Thanks again Alex.

Your reply led me to the solution for how to loop a video.

The problem I was trying to solve was how to have single video continue to loop no matter how long the user stayed on that screen.

The solution was to create a trigger for the object representing the video and set it to "Play media  video name when the media completes" and have it point to the same media file.

Thanks again!

Hi quick question, I was able to you use the layer method to create a loopable video.  However when I exported the project to play on my ipad, the video's don't play correctly.  It seems as though the ipad is unable to handle the quick transition from layer to layer that makes the video appear to loop.

Hi Ben, 

Are you able to send us the .story file to see if there's anything that can be done? 

Stephen, as for the hand icon, create a rectangle around the movie, set it to be 100 percent transparent and remove the border. Make sure it is above it on the time line and you'll block anyone from click it.

In the piece I was working on, I was demoing a security system where there is a thumbnail video for each video camera. When the user clicks on a thumbnail, a larger video image appears in the main window.

I placed each of the larger videos in a layer, and the thumbnail videos on the base layer. It works great in a windows-based browser, but does not really work on the iPad. One of the issues is the same Ben mentioned above. It is very slow and doesn't seem to respond to a tap, or if it does it is very slow.