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TobyLockyer-64d's avatar
TobyLockyer-64d
Community Member
2 years ago

Action Fine Tuning slow any tips?

Hi all,

I am in the process of editing a large amount of Try simulations. 

I am using action fine tuning to try and reduce the "death by clicking" effect. However, I am finding that the "saving changes" is taking an unreasonably long time (3 -4 minutes per 10 second tweek). 

I know my machine has enough ram and a decent enough graphics card to do video editing etc. Is there anyway I can boost the performance of SL360? maybe a way to adjust ram allocation?

any help would be greatly appreciated as this is really slowing down my project.

Kind regards

Toby

storyline 360
  • Jürgen_Schoene_'s avatar
    Jürgen_Schoene_
    Community Member
    2 years ago
    • more memory does not help, storyline is a 32bit application and therefore can only use 2 GByte RAM
    • important is a very fast system drive, best a NVME SSD - storyline writes a lot (!!!) in the tmp directories on the system disk
    • maybe you could experiment with a RAM disk, you would have to get storyline to put the temp directories into the RAM disk
      @articulate: this would be a temporary solution until a 64bit version is available
    • whenever possible - compress all videos outside of storyline (e.g. with handbrake) and then set compression to "None" in storyline
  • TobyLockyer-64d's avatar
    TobyLockyer-64d
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Hi Jurgen, 

    Thank you very much for the quick response!

    Thats a shame regarding the 32bit ram maximum, I was secretly hoping that I was being stupid and had left it on a low allocation. 

    My new machine has an SSD, but my old PC had a HDD so I know exactly what you mean regarding slow write times.

    In regards to compression, I totally agree that compressing the video before bringing it in to SL is an essential task and handbrake is by far the best option out there (speed and quality).

    However, I recorded the simulation within SL360. I figured that if I export it and then compress it then I will lose the interactive options (Try mode)? If I am wrong then I will be very very happy as this will open up options to easily convert externally recorded videos to sims.

    Thank you again for the guidance

    • JoseTansengco's avatar
      JoseTansengco
      Staff
      2 years ago

      Hello Toby, 

      Compressing screen recordings isn't a possibility in Storyline 360, but if you feel like your Storyline 360 installation is working slower than usual, feel free to open a case with our support team here and we'll be glad to take a look at what's happening!

  • TobyLockyer-64d's avatar
    TobyLockyer-64d
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Hi Joe,

    I will do that as I have 400+ slides to edit and I am not enthusiastically looking forward to the edit as it currently stands ;)

  • EricSantos's avatar
    EricSantos
    Staff
    2 years ago

    Hi Toby,

    I went ahead and submitted a support case on your behalf so we can investigate further. Please expect one of our Customer Support Engineers to reach out to you shortly.

    Thanks for your patience!

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