Full screen video content

Thanks for chiming in to share your thoughts, Chris. You are in the right place for notification of any updates that we have to share.

Welcome to E-Learning Heroes as well :)

This would be a great addition - currently adding mp4 to storyline but no option to view full screen is creating extra work and it's not user friendly.  Looking forward to this feature being added soon.  Thanks!

I'm struggling with a related issue...even if users are unable to play a video in full screen in Storyline, I can't figure out how to make the video fill the full frame of the Storyline player. I've read the tutorials and threads here and made the recommended adjustments, but I still get a relatively small video on a relatively large slide in Storyline's modern player. Please see attached; I want the video to fill the black areas that I've scribbled over in red. My current settings are:

Story size: 1000x750px

Player: resize browser to fit screen (although the issue is the same regardless of this setting)

On the slide with the video file (also attached as a screenshot): The video size is 1000px wide, which is 52% scale of the original size of 1920px. I would think that that would fill the slide but it still displays with all the gray area around it, as a small video in a large browser.

Any tips of simply creating a Storyline file with a video that fills its slide size? I can restart this project easily at this stage, but I want to get it right before adding all the videos.

TIA!

Thanks Crystal, that's very helpful. One more clarification if I may:

My original video size is 1920x1080. 

What would be the ideal story size, and what would be the ideal size and position for the inserted video, to achieve my goal of having the video fill the player for all users?

This story will be hosted in our LMS (Schoology), and users will view it primarily on laptop screens.

Thanks again.

Hi Ben, 

You could always set your slide size to match that of your video, and that would limit the amount of white space surrounding your video. You could also limit the player controls you've included, as that contributes to the added grey area around your video. 

That may not be "ideal" for all users if they're on different devices, screen sizes, and browsers but should get you as close to a full-screen view as possible. 

To add to this discussion, I just found out that if you make it so your video plays in a new browser window there is an option to go full screen. This should be added in the video controls!

I'm seeing that this question has two years and I'd like to know why until today the Storyline video player doesn't have something so simple like a fullscreen button on its player. Is this so difficult to implement? For the users, I think that would be something handy.

Hi Marcelo, 

It's not something we've added yet, but we'll let you know if that changes.  Here's a bit more about how we work to prioritize feature requests.

Hi Ashley, any news on adding Full Screen video playback yet? We predominantly use embedded video files in our Storyline projects and don't want to go the route of external embedding for a number of reasons, I know there are work arounds e.g. adding a full screen layer, but this is cumbersome in terms of project size - Lack of a Full Screen video playback option is is a seriously lacking feature in our opinion and I think may end up sadly forcing us away from Storyline.

Kind regards

Terry

Adding myself in as someone who would like more player controls, including a full screen option.