I'm hoping this is an easy fix. We have done a screen recording in Articulate Storyline2 and added audio afterwards. When you play the video and choose to pause it the audio keeps going. I have tried to group the files together, didn't work. Hoping this is an easy fix. Temporarily I've disabled the pause feature in the video so the end user cannot pause the video, but that's not the ideal.
You can create a shape off-stage and set triggers to pause the screen recording timeline when the shape timeline starts, and then resume the screen recording when the shape timeline ends.
Another thought would be to edit the video and layer in the narration (slide soundtrack) into it. That way there is no chance for them being out of synch. Lots of good cheap little video editors that can do this... including the AVS4You suite for around $50 total. Even though I have Sony Vegas, I still use the AVS4You video tools (and the others) for odd little jobs like this.
thanks for the suggestions.. I'm going to give Lisa's method a try. I assume you mean place an 'invisible' shape over the video that has two triggers, one that pauses the video and one that pauses the audio when clicked by the user.
Bob.. I haven't found where articulate stores its video footage yet but I will keep that in mind for future use (I have adobe premier) so it shouldn't be an issue
You don't want to put a shape over your video, just add a random shape off to the left of the stage so it doesn't show on the screen. It won't show on the screen but will still be on the timeline, and that's what you need. You can add more shapes if you need to pause multiple times. It's easy and works like a charm. I do it all the time to sync the audio with the screencast.
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Hi Donald,
You can create a shape off-stage and set triggers to pause the screen recording timeline when the shape timeline starts, and then resume the screen recording when the shape timeline ends.
Lisa
Donald,
Lisa has an innovative idea above.
Another thought would be to edit the video and layer in the narration (slide soundtrack) into it. That way there is no chance for them being out of synch. Lots of good cheap little video editors that can do this... including the AVS4You suite for around $50 total. Even though I have Sony Vegas, I still use the AVS4You video tools (and the others) for odd little jobs like this.
thanks for the suggestions.. I'm going to give Lisa's method a try. I assume you mean place an 'invisible' shape over the video that has two triggers, one that pauses the video and one that pauses the audio when clicked by the user.
Bob.. I haven't found where articulate stores its video footage yet but I will keep that in mind for future use (I have adobe premier) so it shouldn't be an issue
Hi Donald,
You don't want to put a shape over your video, just add a random shape off to the left of the stage so it doesn't show on the screen. It won't show on the screen but will still be on the timeline, and that's what you need. You can add more shapes if you need to pause multiple times. It's easy and works like a charm. I do it all the time to sync the audio with the screencast.
Lisa
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