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Custom Video Control
Morning Heroes!
I was wondering if it is possible to customise the video controls in SL2?
I would like to change the colour to match a colour pallete but cannot seem to find the correct section under the player settings.
Is there anyway to change the colours or to use entirely custom video controls?
- MichaelHinzeCommunity Member
There is no option to customize the colors for the built-in video controls. Yes, you can create your own video controls (start, pause,continue) with buttons, except for a seekbar that lets you jump to a specific frame in the video.
- HarriCCommunity Member
Hi
Is there a work around for this for instances where you need a custom seek bar?
Thanks
Harri
Hello Harri!
If you'd like to customize the built in Storyline seekbar in the player, you'll need to do so using something like the Storyline SDK.
If you're looking for something more in line with a progress bar, you might want to take a look at this thread for samples and ideas.
- HarriCCommunity Member
Hi Alyssa
Its not the slide seekbar i'm looking to customise, it's the video controls (video seekbar/transport bar). I looked at the SDK but I'm sure I read somewhere that it is dependant on flash so that wont work for us i'm afraid.
Thanks
Harri
Hi Harri,
Sorry to hear that the Storyline SDK won't work for your purposes (it is limited to Flash only output, and won't work with HTML5).
There isn't another built in method that would allow you to edit and/or customize the video seekbar so we'll have to defer to the community.
- SamHammondCommunity Member
Hi Harri,
I understand the player seekbar isn't exactly what you want, but you could try using it in combination with a trigger/variable set that pauses the timeline when a user clicks to pause the video (and vice versa), to make sure the slide timeline and the video timeline are always in lockstep.
Alternatively, I sometimes add a 99% transparent shape above my videos to prevent the user from doing a pause-click, and forcing them to use the slide timeline seekbar to control the video instead.
HTH
Always what I think of using too, Sam!
- HarriCCommunity Member
Thanks guys but that isn't what I'm looking for - I want people to be able to scrub through the video but the current video controls are just visually really not very nice and jar significantly with our visual design. And we don't use the slide seekbar in our design at all...
The closest I've come up with is splitting the video into 15-20 second segments and allowing people to jump to the next or previous segment. Not great, but it kinda works.
- JillHardy-4ac0dCommunity Member
Harri, another option is to host your video on vimeo and embed it in your slide as a Web Object. I don't know if that fits your visual theme, but at least it enables you to have the video controls inside the video rather than floating below.
Hey Jill - Thanks for chiming in to help out here :)
- SaiedMardomi-f7Community Member