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does everyone else find that exporting content as a video takes too long?
Hi
I don't know if this is an Articulate issue or because I need an IT upgrade. But every time I export content from Articulate 360 as a video it takes a huge amount of time.
At the moment I'm exporting 21 slides as a video and so far it has taken 55 minutes, and there is still a fair way to go.
Could someone please tell me about their experiences exporting videos, and whether this is a known problem or not.
Thanks
Bex
- CathySchmaltz-3Community Member
I'm having this issue as well! I have a 5 minute video I am trying to export as MP4 (it is saved on my local drive, not a cloud drive), and I've tried it four times so far, but had to cancel because it was taking 8+ hours and it slows down my computer. I'm on my 5th attempt so far and it's been 6 hours! GEEZE
- SaraHunterCommunity Member
I am having this same issue! I've tried different video lengths and it's taking forever to get the completed video file. Help!!
Hi Sara!
Referencing the support cases above, it looks like we took file-specific approaches. If you're comfortable with sharing the file, we can run through this publish option for more tailored support:
In the meantime, we have these tips for preparing courses for video publishing in Storyline 360.
- ClaudineCaroCommunity Member
The time it takes for a video to render is really long. Is there a way to decrease the render time?
I recorded a screen capture that is 48 slides with some audio. The encoding portion took over an hour. The total length of the video is 04:33.
My Storyline version is 3.43.
Hi Claudine!
Thank you for sharing your project with us! I've tested your project and also noticed that publishing to video does take quite awhile. I've opened a case on your behalf so that our Support Engineers can investigate the project. You'll hear from our team shortly!
- ShaunDowCommunity Member
I am currently experiencing this issue. I recently imported a 14-minute .mp4 so I could overlay some .png images in a few select spots throughout the video. When I publish to video it is taking about 2.5 hours. I have tried twice now, and each time the export takes this long, and to make matters worse the video freezes at about the 1:38 mark - but the audio continues.
I am using the most recent version of Storyline and have verified with my I.T. team that my computer has the chops to be able to handle it. Can anyone help me work through this?
- CathySchmaltz-3Community Member
When this happened to me, it's because I had accidentally created a loop. Pointing one slide back to an earlier slide, so it kept going in an endless loop trying to resolve it. I would check for that issue first!
- ShaunDowCommunity Member
Thanks for that suggestion, Cathy. I only have one slide though.
- MariaCSStaff
Hi, Shaun.
I'm sorry you're experiencing slow publishing times from Storyline. Would you feel comfortable either sharing your project here publicly or privately through a support case so we can see what's going on and help you troubleshoot?
- ShaunDowCommunity Member
I'll share the Storyline file through a support case. Thanks, Maria.
- JasonMorseCommunity Member
Just took 4hours to render out a 33min video from 22slides. My pc is a R9 3900x with 64gigs of ram, with a 1tb NVME drive. The performance of storyline 360 is abysmal, this would have took 3-4 mins top using afterFX or animate. The encoder was only using .1 to .6 of my cpu the entire time. Its WELL past time that storyline move on from 32bit to 64bit.
Hello all!
We released another update for Storyline 360 (Build 3.52.25156.0) today, which included a fix for the bug where projects with screen recordings took an exceedingly long time to publish as a video file.
Update Storyline 360 in your Articulate 360 desktop app to take advantage of the newest fixes and features.
If you have any questions, you can reach our team in this discussion or in a support case.
- VidhiBangoriaCommunity Member
Hi, is the issue of exporting a video in the storyline resolved?
finding it even now, is there any solution to it?
Hello Vidhi!
I see that you've reached out to our Support Engineers for extra help! Great call. It looks like my teammate, Cleo, is working with you. We'll continue the conversation in your case, so we have all the information in one spot.