what is the best way to... (happy to pay for a 30 minute call)

Hi.  I am new to storyline.  Heard great things and am committed to using it.

I'm trying to figure out how to organize things.   We are new to e-learning, learning as we go.  We want to start using fairly basic functionality for now, then after some content alpha testing do more sophisticated things around triggers, variables, etc. 

*** what I could really use is 20-30 minutes on the phone with someone experienced  - happy to pay ***

We wrote a long 4,500 word script (~30 minutes) and then had it narrated, recording the audio into 10 approximation 30 minute segments. We can of course break up the audio into smaller chunks.

The script is the "master".  We created a bunch of images.  images will be adjusted to suit the script (now recorded) rather than adjusting the script to given image.  we expect to upgrade images as we go, swapping out lower quality images for higher quality ones, keeping the script (and recording of it) pretty much the same.

Basically I'd love to be able to lay down an audio segment on a timeline and then add images accordingly (increase/decrease image duration, slide them left/right, etc.- rather than break up the audio, but we'll do what ever makes the most sense as it's fairly easy to break up the audio)   

Each segment has a top-level topic containing several concepts.  We created a bunch of images, one per concept.. 

In some cases, we'd like chunks up to a minute or so just play like a "movie" with no user interaction during that time. (would consist of a bunch of  images with the audio, some being separate images, some could be builds)   So they'd watch that piece until it's end.

In other cases, we'd chunk up a segment smaller where there were a few detailed technical diagrams with audio, and the learner would control the pace by clicking next in the player to go to the next diagram (and its corresponding  audio)

In between segments or chunks we'd intersperse quizzes, using the quiz slide templates.

Trying to figure out how to organize this .

Looks like slides are the basic units.   I am trying to understand  when to add visual objects to a slide timeline vs. when to use layers, and/or  when to create a segment using multiple slides vs. just one.  

I see that I can have one slide play right after the next with no user interaction by using "when the timeline runs out" as the trigger.    So the "movie" can be one slide with multiple objects (shapes, pictures, screen shots, etc) inserted along the time line (across that audio track) or (I'm guessing) multiple layers, or multiple slides using end of timeline as a trigger to play the next.  

A few questions:

- I see in the player preview mode that the menu consists of scenes -> slides.    In the case where we have two slides running back to back with no user intervention, can we suppress the second one from appearing? (or is the menu handled in the LMS

If I have a minute of audio and I want to snap a few images to the timeline, can I use layers?  (I can see how to do it adding objects to a time line, but not sure how to do it with layers.  (have a layer revealed for just a period of time on the timeline) .  Layers are appealing because on text slides/builds we can leverage the slide template to easily have things align.  (where inserting text as an object would take some eyeballing against the grid lines to get it aligned) 

Anyway, I have some high level questions around how to organize things.  Anyone interested in a 30 minute Q&A call?  Happy to pay for someone with good general course design using storyline.    We have tenitivily selected Docemo as the LMS)

Thanks,

Tom