I am curious to know if there is a way in Storyline to loop a single background avi across all scenes in a single Storyline presentation (or at least a single scene). It appears that I need to have a background avi file for each slide in a scene (versus laying a single avi file across all slides in a scene).
Any thoughts or strategies would be most appreciated.
There is a work-around that does allow for background music to be continually looped. But its shortcoming is that the music, unless designed with this in mind, will skip or stop for a second when switching scenes or slides. Check out my example file.
I wonder if you could make a small music player (I think 100 X 100 is the smallest you can currently go in StoryLine) that autoloads and plays your music. Publish it and add it to the published files of your main course. Then modify the html launch page to launch both stories in the same browser with the music story below the main story.... I wonder.....
The title of this thread reads Background Music but in your description you are talking about an AVI (video). If the former is correct, then have a look at these posts :
If you are talking about video, then you could place your video loop on the master slide. Then you can soften any skipped frame discrepancies between slides by setting your regular slides animation to crossfade.
A short loop generally looks much better than a longer one. Better still, if you can do without the sound, convert to either SWF or AniGIF.
Check out the attached story to get an idea on how to achieve this...
I published my project and then did a screen capture of my slides I wanted music on and put that movie file onto a slide and added music to that slide. Not a very pretty workaround but it worked for my needs. I would love to see a continuous music option in the program though.
Yeah. Sorry about that. I did mean music files - not AVIs. Thanks though.
Alexandros Anoyatis said:
Hi A S,
The title of this thread reads Background Music but in your description you are talking about an AVI (video). If the former is correct, then have a look at these posts :
If you are talking about video, then you could place your video loop on the master slide. Then you can soften any skipped frame discrepancies between slides by setting your regular slides animation to crossfade.
A short loop generally looks much better than a longer one. Better still, if you can do without the sound, convert to either SWF or AniGIF.
Check out the attached story to get an idea on how to achieve this...
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Hi AS,
Unfortunately, not possible at the moment in SL.
Bruce
That's too bad. :(
Any strategies for clean cuts from one slide to the next?
I just fade out fade in if required
Bruce
Hi Bruce,
How do you do fade out and in?
Strong beer...
Oh...you mean in SL.....not personally.......
I create all my audio in Audacity, and then use the Fade In/Fade Out effects.
On 11 seconds I do 3 at each end - here's my "Signature Tune" which I use at the front of many courses.
Really simple.
Bruce
There is a work-around that does allow for background music to be continually looped. But its shortcoming is that the music, unless designed with this in mind, will skip or stop for a second when switching scenes or slides. Check out my example file.
Thanks Daniel.
I wonder if you could make a small music player (I think 100 X 100 is the smallest you can currently go in StoryLine) that autoloads and plays your music. Publish it and add it to the published files of your main course. Then modify the html launch page to launch both stories in the same browser with the music story below the main story.... I wonder.....
Hi A S,
The title of this thread reads Background Music but in your description you are talking about an AVI (video). If the former is correct, then have a look at these posts :
http://community.articulate.com/forums/p/23539/129065.aspx
http://community.articulate.com/forums/p/25873/143142.aspx
If you are talking about video, then you could place your video loop on the master slide. Then you can soften any skipped frame discrepancies between slides by setting your regular slides animation to crossfade.
A short loop generally looks much better than a longer one. Better still, if you can do without the sound, convert to either SWF or AniGIF.
Check out the attached story to get an idea on how to achieve this...
Just my 2 cents,
Alex
I published my project and then did a screen capture of my slides I wanted music on and put that movie file onto a slide and added music to that slide. Not a very pretty workaround but it worked for my needs. I would love to see a continuous music option in the program though.
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