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Adjusting the size of slides to match screen recordings?
Hi all.
Does anyone know if it's at all possible to properly match the size of your slides to screen recordings and give me a dummies guide?
I've tried to adjust the slide size after importing a screen recoding tutorial, and that doesn't work as the screen recording then sits half way off my slide i.e. it's locked to some point somewhere and I can't figure out/ adjust whatever it's locked to.
Same with setting the slide ratio before importing the screen recording, it then sits centred in the slide but with whitespace all around it as if i've not set the correct slide size and then when I again try to adjust the slide size it stays locked to some point and doesn't sit correctly within the slide - similar to pic 1.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
- KendalRasnake-1Community Member
Hi Laura,
I'm not sure what sizes you are using, but I recently learned that you cannot resize a screen recording in Storyline after you have recorded it. I recorded a screen recording at 1920x1080 and brought it into a 1280x720 Storyline project and had a similar effect to what you had in Pic1.
In order to fix this, I believe I will need to re-record the video on a monitor set to 1280x720. Then, I should be able to import the screen recording into my 1280x720 project.
I believe I did a test of this and it worked. If the monitor I was using for screen recording was set to 1280x720, then the screen recording I did on that monitor worked fine in my Storyline 1280x720 project. In other words, matching your monitor's raster (screen size) to your Storyline's project raster should make the screen recordings you do on that monitor fit nicely in your Storyline project.
- Laura_TaylorCommunity Member
Hi Kendal,
Thanks for the great advice!
I'd originally asked for the screen recoding to be 1920x1080/ 16:9, and had tried to import that into a 1920x1080 or varying different sizes of 16:9 slides, and still have that whitespace on varying sides.
I'll ask the client to confirm the size they'd sent, and perhaps ask them to record a few different variations and try to get them matching and to the bottom of it that way.
Thanks again!