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CoCo_Cliff
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8 hours ago

Having issues getting video/timeline to pause using triggers

First, some background. I created several interactive videos using Camtasia. They are software walkthroughs with hotspots at key points that viewers click to continue the video. I rendered them as SCORM files and uploaded them to my LMS. Users don't like the navigation through the different modules in the LMS, so I am recreating everything in Storyline 360 so it can all be self-contained. To start I simply rendered the video as a normal mp4 video from Camtasia and imported it into a Storyline 360 project as a video on a slide. I added my first hotspot and created a trigger to pause the video when the timeline ends on the hotspot. I created another trigger to play the video when the user clicked the hotspot. It worked perfectly. I moved on and created the next hotspot and set up the same triggers. This time, each time I previewed it, the video paused too early and cut off the audio. I went back to the timeline and confirmed I had the hotspot lined up exactly where it needed to be, but it still paused too early. So I started digging in this forum and found a post that said rather than pausing the video, I should pause the time line. So I edited my triggers to pause the timeline rather than the video. Again, the first hotspot worked flawlessly, but when I got to the second one, nothing paused and the video blew right past the hotspot despite not clicking it. So I dug some more and found I can just set a trigger to pause the timeline at a specific point and not use the trigger at all. Still didn't pause. I then tried adding a cue point and pausing there. Still not pausing. The first instance works, but the second one just blows on by. What am I doing wrong? This seems like it should be such a straightforward issue.

I attached my .story file. This is the last set up where I have it set to pause at the cue point.

 

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  • Silverfire's avatar
    Silverfire
    Community Member

    Hi, it looks like your triggers aren't set up correctly, except for the cue point. 

    Change the Name Menu triggers to these:

       Pause timeline on this slide / When the timeline starts on Name Menu

       Resume timeline on this slide / When the user clicks Name Menu

    Then do the same for Predict Preferences. 

    • CoCo_Cliff's avatar
      CoCo_Cliff
      Community Member

      The Name Menu triggers always worked as is. That's the first one. You said the cue point trigger was set right, but it wasn't pausing. That's the second one.

      I did make the changes as you suggested and it still works the same. The first one pauses and waits for me to click, the second one never stops.