I know this has been asked before but I can't find an answer... Is it possible to adjust a slide duration without dragging the end point? I have a slide that is 900 seconds long. It contains 10 seconds of audio and 890 seconds of silence. When using a seekbar the audio ends and the seekbar is only 5% full. Every slide in my course is the same and it takes forever manually dragging the end point back to 10 seconds. I just want a box where I can type in the number of seconds for slide duration, or to right-click on the time line and select "set end point".

Here's a video that I made of super quick fix for this issue. It's manual, but super easy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYBdFB9VmJA

Thanks again. I've read all the responses and watched all the videos. Unfortunately, none of them contain a method to shorten the time line, except by manually dragging it. Changing the duration of indidual objects only helps if you're trying to make the time line longer. Here is the challenge! Make a new side Create an object with a very long duration, eg. 900 seconds (Right-click and use the 'timing' controls to do this) Delete the object Figure out a way to reduce the timeline back to 10 seconds without having to drag it manually. And then, post the solution here for instant fame and glory.

Adding to Robert's suggestion, if you create a cue point on your timeline, when you drag the timeline and press the left arrow, the timeline will adjust to that cue point. This technique allows you to more easily set the exact time you want with minimal over/under shooting.

Just to clarify, when I say "shorten the time line" I am referring to entire slide duration, not individual objects. Cheers

Hi Ed, There is not a feature to "snap to longest object" although it sounds like a good feature request.

Can you adjust a slide duration without dragging the end point?

LaurenConnelly
Staff
3 years ago
Hi everyone!

You can read about the recent changes we made to the timeline here: Storyline 360: Enhanced Timeline Management

Please let me know if you have any questions!
- AlexanderYoung-
  Community Member
  5 months ago
  Thank You.
GeertDe-Rycke
Community Member
12 years ago

Hi Andrew,

Hmmm.... yes it is posbible to do this... yet why 900 seconds...

Here is how.

right mouseclick on an object on your timeline

select timing

un-tick show until the end of slide

change the duration

Cheers

Geert
- JoshuaVrooman
  Community Member
  6 years ago
  Hi Geert,
  
  I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this method (it's the best I've come across in my work):
  
  Begin dragging the timeline backwards to shorten it, while dragging, press the left arrow key, and this will jump the timeline to the longest element within it.
  
  Note: this is somewhat buggy, but should work after a few tries.
Fiona-Telford-S
Community Member
12 years ago
I would like to know the answer to this too. I've had several slides where I've pasted an object from somewhere else onto a layer, and only want the layer to last a few seconds, but because the object came from elsewhere and was many, many minutes long, I couldn't find a way to shorten the time line of the layer without spending forever dragging it backwards.
GeertDe-Rycke
Community Member
12 years ago

Hi andrew,

how about creating a phantom (hidden textbox...) object, put is as show until the end and give it a duration of 900 seconds?

By this the timeline will be extended to 900 secs and all your other object will keep their duration...

Cheers

Geert
DavidAnderson
Staff
12 years ago

Jeanette has a couple great Screenrs on ideas for working wtih timeline duration.
EdGen
Community Member
11 years ago
I too would like to know a solution to this. If only there was a way to simply right click the time line and snap to longest object.
AshleyT-Pollard
Staff
11 years ago

Hi Keithia,

There isn't a feature within Storyline currently to adjust the overall slide timeline length, but if you haven't done so already - please share your thoughts in the form of a feature request here.
EmilyBurnett
Community Member
10 years ago

Hello Robert!

Thanks for sharing that!
DianaMyers
Community Member
10 years ago
Oh, Brilliant! Thank you so much Robert!!!

(Now if only we could figure out how the slides end up at 400+ seconds.... oh well, one thing at a time!)
EmilyBurnett
Community Member
10 years ago
Hello Diana!

For the slides that have the long length added, are there any audio/video files in them? Are they being made as duplicates from another slide? You may want to go over the steps listed here if you continue to have the issues. You could also import the file into a new file and see if creating a new slide still created the long timeline.