New to layers and quite frustrated
Nov 01, 2016
By
Jane Gire
I have added 6 layers to a slide but I don't see them showing up all together on the timeline. And none of them show up in the preview. I can only see the individual layers when I click on each one in the layer window. I want to sync my audio to each layer but don't see how to do that. I'm really frustrated looking through tutorials and youtube videos where it looks so easy. What am I doing wrong?
I attached the base layer timeline view and the layer window timeline view to show you what I'm talking about.
4 Replies
Hi Jane,
You have to set triggers so that the slide-layers will show. Appears you have set slider-layers of your base layer and not actual slides. If you understand how to set triggers on the timeline and coordinate them with your audio, then they will appear at the point which you set.
Have a look at this to re-freshen the trigger concept.
Triggers concepts
Hope that helps.
I think your Show Layer triggers are in the wrong place. From the second screenshot it looks like you have the Show Layer trigger on the layer you are actually trying to display. The Show Layer trigger(s) should be ON THE BASELAYER, e.g. 'Showlayer Values when timeline reached 1 sec.', etc.
Got it - thanks. I still don't see my layers on the base layer timeline
though - I only see them as individual layers when I click on them.
Correct, you won't see layers being represented on the baselayer timeline. If you still have issues, you can always share your .story file here and someone will help you.
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