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Help -- text box won't show over video
Good afternoon! I'm trying to sync up three text boxes to show for about 3 seconds each, layered over a 4-minute video in a Storyline slide. I have moved the text boxes to the front, moved the vid...
I see this is an old thread and I'm a little embarrassed to admit this, but in the spirit of sharing learning from failure:
Another possibility relates to slide timing vs video timing. I was pulling my hair out in frustration until I was realized I was expecting my SLIDE timing to be the same as my VIDEO timing when they operate independently from each other. ::smacks forehead::
For example, I had a text box pop up 42 seconds in on the slide timing to highlight something that occurs within the video at that time. I used the playbar on the video when previewing the scene to skip ahead 42 seconds into the VIDEO, expecting my text box to appear, and it didn't until the SLIDE had run for 42 seconds.