I am working on a project that will be incorporating many video files.
The video would be of a spokesperson whom would be shot in front of a chroma key screen, I would then process that video taking out the background, saving it to a file with a transparency in hopes of bringing that video into Articulate Storyline 2 via a Web Object. This would would greatly reduce the file size of the Storyline file because it is pulling the video in from a web server.
The question is can video with transparency keep there transparency when being pulled into the storyline project via Web Object?
Hi Tom! If the video is on a website and is simply being shared as a web object, I would imagine this would work just fine.
We support FLV Alpha Channel Transparency in added videos as well. There was an issue in earlier builds of Storyline where alpha channel transparency wasn't working as expected in published courses. This issue was corrected in Update 5 for Storyline.
If you have something you would like us to take a look at, let us know.
If someone in the community has some experience hopefully they will chime in to assist.
Let me ask do you think there is an advantage to bringing video into Storyline via Web Objects or inserting Video from a Website? From what I can tell all the video that you import into Storyline when Published get rendered into an external MP4 or SWF.
I'd say linking to the web objects gives you more flexibility and options, as they'll work in Flash, HTML5, and Articulate Mobile Player output. Also, it's less load on your course file size and loading of the course from the website/LMS - but would allow for it to play off of Youtube for example.
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Hi Tom! If the video is on a website and is simply being shared as a web object, I would imagine this would work just fine.
We support FLV Alpha Channel Transparency in added videos as well. There was an issue in earlier builds of Storyline where alpha channel transparency wasn't working as expected in published courses. This issue was corrected in Update 5 for Storyline.
If you have something you would like us to take a look at, let us know.
If someone in the community has some experience hopefully they will chime in to assist.
It seems to only work with HTML5, do you think it should work with HTML4?
Do you have an example .story file that we could take a look at? I'm assuming you are saying that it does not seem to work in Flash.
Let me ask do you think there is an advantage to bringing video into Storyline via Web Objects or inserting Video from a Website? From what I can tell all the video that you import into Storyline when Published get rendered into an external MP4 or SWF.
Hi Tom,
I'd say linking to the web objects gives you more flexibility and options, as they'll work in Flash, HTML5, and Articulate Mobile Player output. Also, it's less load on your course file size and loading of the course from the website/LMS - but would allow for it to play off of Youtube for example.
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