video which is used for multiple time in course after publishing course then it creates multiple copies for same video?

if you inserted it 20 times then it will do this, if you insert once and copy and paste it will treat it as a single video

Hi Phil,

You're right !

But if you resize video on stage (which I did) it will render a video file for each new size.

I suppose Pranali did the same ?

Hi Pierre and Phil

Thanks for reply .I have tried both solution given by you but unfortunately its not working for me.

can you suggest me any another way to tackle this?

Thanks for sharing Phil! Hope this helps Pranali.

Pranali, do you resize your videos on each slide ?

If not, it should work as Phil described : just copy and paste your video from slide to slide.

No, I don't resize videos on each slide. I have inserted one video in slide and copied that video and pasted that from slide to slide.

Hi Pranali, 

Are you seeing all the copies of this one video in your published output folder or somewhere else? Did you change any of the video settings after copying/pasting? That may be treating it as a entirely new instance than, just as Pierre mentioned resizing it would. 

Hi Ashley,

Yes, I am seeing all copies of this video in publish output only and I didn't change any of the   video settings after copying/pasting.

Hi Pranali,

I get the same behaviour as you.  I inserted a video onto a slide and then duplicated the slide.  The publish folder has 2 copies of the video.  I then inserted a third slide, copy and pasted the video from slide 2 to slide 3 and the publish folder now has 3 copies of the video.  I made no changes to the size of the video.

Duplicated slide then published

Copy/Paste from slide 2 to slide 3  then published

Hi Wendy,

Hope we will get some solution for this here.

The same test in SL1 gives 1 video file regardless of whether you duplicate a slide with a video or copy past video to another slide.

This is from publish folder with 3 slides each with the same video.

Is it a trade-off with the "no video compression" settings in SL2 ?

Hi all,

Thanks for the additional images and screenshots and I'm seeing the same behavior. I haven't seen where this was reported to our QA team, so I'll be sharing it with them - since the behavior is different than with SL1. 

Pranali, I don't know that it's connected to the compression settings, as in the example I tested I didn't use the "no compression" setting - and I still saw three separate video files. 

Hello everyone, I have the same problem.

 In my project, on 5 slides, I have dupliacte a big swf file (3 Mb). In Publish Folder, I see 5 times the same file.

Thanks,

Lionel

Hi Lionel, 

This is something we've reported to our QA team for additional review, and it seems that using the same video on a slide master and then applying that slide master allows it to not be duplicated in your output files. I'll include this thread in the report filed with our QA team so that I can share any additional information and updates with you here. 

Hello,

Is there any additional information on this issue? I am in a situation where several videos are used and are referenced multiple times in the program. At the moment we have 3 copies of each video and they are quite large.

Hi Tuwanna,

I checked in on the issue and it's still with our QA team, but as I shared above using the video on a slide master and then applying that slide master to the slides you need allows the video to not be duplicated. I would suggest using that workaround as I"m unable to offer an ETA in regards to when I'd hear back from our team with any updates. 

Thank you Ashley.

Ashley,

I am using SL2 and have my video in the master and it still is repeating the video in the published files.  Please tell me how it was avoided if the video sits in a master slide.  Thanks.

Hi Lori,

I'm sorry to hear that workaround did not give you the proper set up. I unfortunately don't have another update to share in regards to this issue, but once I have any additional information I'll be certain to let you know in this thread. Thanks for your patience as I'm unable to offer an ETA in regards to hearing back from our QA team. 

Thanks Ashley. If I figure something out, I will be sure to post my
solution.

I've stumbled on this thread.  I also have 1 video (using SL3) that the learner can view on multiple slides.  ie:  "Please review the video again"  has anyone came up with a solution for this?  I started using a lightbox but when the Closed Caption triggers, it's just WAY to small, so I can't do this ether & I don't want to bloat this course with multiple videos when exported.

I believe this is fixed with the addition of the media library in 360, but I have to be honest I have not checked in a published file.