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Add Chapters to Video Output
We have created a course Articulate Storyline 360 that we will be publishing as a video. The team would like to allow users to jump from one scene to another and not watch the video linearly. Is there a way to add chapters to the video output in Storyline that will allow the users to jump from scene to scene or re-watch a particular scene?
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Videos by nature aren't interactive. You'd need a player or wrapper that allows that. You could just not publish as video and let them jump from scene to scene.
If you did publish as video, you need to load it into something that allows you to create cue points and the navigation. Is there a reason it needs to be video and can't be in Storyline? I ask because you can modify the experience for the end user so it seems more video like than a series of stiched together slides.
Thanks, Tom. I appreciate the quick response. I understand that videos can't be interactive. I am trying to replicate the cue points similar to YouTube. I may have selected the wrong terms to describe what I was looking for. The reason for not Storyline is because I was hoping to share one MP4 file and not a full Storyline package. In essence we are replicating a webinar, but would like the ability for the user to go back to specific scenes without user the scrubbing the Seek Bar. Any other suggestions will be appreciated.
To create that you'd have to load it into a player such as the one you mentioned in YouTube which jumps to points in the timeline. Vimeo (or other video services may provide that).
In either case you wouldn't be able to share a single MP3 file. Regardless of what you choose, the video has to be in a player that can control the cue points. Then you'd have to share a link or embed it on a page where the player sits that can play the video.
If it were me, I'd leave it in Storyline and set it to auto advance which would function like the video and then create some sort of "player" that looks like it's jumping around.
Here's a really simple demo to give you an idea. The slides auto advance at 3 seconds. I added little buttons on the bottom that jump to different sections. Depending on how you show the line at the bottom it could look like one single path.
