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Anyone else always having to go to the end and shorten timeline?
As I make modules, I am forever finding that for strange unknown reasons, my slide timelines' overall lengths get lengthened way out like 60 seconds long or so, and I am constantly having to scroll to the right, drag it back, scroll a little more in, drag it left again, over and over again just to get it to come back to the end point of my audio track.
Anyone know what causes it to get pushed so far to the right somehow?
Anyone have a fast trick for automatically snapping it back as far left as the last chronological item in the timeline?
- JeanetteBrooksCommunity Member
Hi Eric! What's probably happening is, if you paste an object from another slide, that object's duration comes with it, which might end up altering the duration of the new slide where you've pasted it. Example: let's say you have a shape on slide 1, and that shape is set to display till the end of the slide's timeline. Let's also say that slide 1 is 60 seconds long. If you copy & paste the object to slide 2, which is only 5 seconds long, the timeline on slide 2 expands to accommodate the same 60-second duration the object had on its previous slide.
- Chat54Community Member
Happens to me all the time and I agree with Bruce they is something else going on here. Some times it is dependant on where the time line is when you are pasting or inserting either picture or audio file and that seems to create that effect. I always try to remember to make sure my time is set to where I want it, but it does not always seem to work? Chat54
- JeanetteBrooksCommunity Member
Thanks guys for chiming in! We're not aware of issues with the timeline extending unexpectedly like that, other than due to a pasted object as mentioned earlier. But definitely, if you do experience other instances and are able to reproduce it, we'd love it if you can submit a case so that we can investigate. Thank you!
- LisaStruebingCommunity Member
So back to the original question as I have this one as well...if I have several objects stretched out to say 20 seconds, but they can truly be trimmed back to 10 seconds, is there a way to adjust the timeline to the left for all items in the slide? Do I need to continue to adjust every object individually, then move the timeline to the left? Can I create a single cutoff time for all objects in the slide?
- PhilMayorSuper Hero
you should be able to just drag the edge of the timeline back
- JodyFrederickCommunity Member
Yes, you can do that, but the timeline in my .story file keeps extending to 217s for my quiz questions. This happens every time I save, and then reopen the .story file. All of my objects are set to "Show until end". Although I've found a quicker way to shorten the timeline (rather than just dragging), it is still annoying and time-consuming.
- LisaStruebingCommunity Member
I've tried that...I hover over the the edge of the end line on the right, ge the vertical bar with horizontal arrows, and it doesn't move...I have tried it both on the time line and the vertical section of the timeline where the end of the slide times out...I got it to work once, but I don't remember if there were more than 5 objects in the slide or anything like that. Are there conditions where you can't adjust the timeline to the left for all objects?
- JeanetteBrooksCommunity Member
Hey Lisa! It sounds like maybe one or more of your objects are not set to "Show until end"... see if this helps: https://player.vimeo.com/video/145579608
- LisaStruebingCommunity Member
Thank you Jeanette...that is EXACTLY what I was looking for.
- MeryemMCommunity MemberEric, this is exactly the question that I have. The "scroll to the right, drag it back, scroll a little more in, drag it left again, over and over again" procedure gets old, slide after slide. I keep thinking that the heroes must know a quick trick to snap the end of the timeline back to some designated point. Surely the heroes don't do the "scroll a little, drag a little" dance?
Anyone have a fast trick for automatically snapping it back as far left as the last chronological item in the timeline?
- EricStephanCommunity Member
Actually I just recently realized that if you grab the rightmost edge and pull it all the way to the left so that while holding the mouse you have moved the mouse leftward beyond the leftmost edge .... the screen automatically starts to scroll, and if you've pulled over fairly far (not just a short bit beyond) it scrolls quite quickly and you don't have to do the repeated steps.
Load up a test module you don't care about and give it a practice drag or two...