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DavidQuackenbus
Community Member
13 years ago

Inserting GIF files into Storyline

Hello!

I am working on an eLearning projext that requires a lot of GIF files from the client to be integrated into the learning.

While searching the forums I found several posts where people got help in making GIF files work and a few saying that GIF files need to be converted to SWF files.

Which is correct?

Can I insert a GIF file into Storyline? If so How?

If not - how can I convert the GIF to SWF?

Thanks 

storyline 360

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  • GillianDelvigne's avatar
    GillianDelvigne
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    I have the same problem : I have this animated gif who works fine in my browser and on Windows viewer (see attachment), but when I insert it in storyline it becomes a static picture.

    Any idea ?

    I created it with Photoshop. What are clearly the correct options for exporting gif working in storyline please ?

  • AlyssaGomez's avatar
    AlyssaGomez
    Staff
    8 years ago

    Hey Gillian,

    Thanks for your post and for including that GIF file. When I inserted it onto a Storyline 360 slide, I saw the same problem you did. Strange thing is, I can insert other GIF files without a problem. 

    I'd like to share this with our Support team to get some further insight. They'll reach out as soon as they have more to share with you!

  • GillianDelvigne's avatar
    GillianDelvigne
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    Hi Alyssa,

     

    Thanks for your reply.

     

    As I told to your the support, I tried to export my gif again by changing some parameters (the size of the image) and strangely, it worked fine.

    It would be great if the articulate support wrote an article about the properties that gif must have to work in the software.

     

    Best regards,

    Gillian

  • AlyssaGomez's avatar
    AlyssaGomez
    Staff
    8 years ago

    Hi Gillian,

    Thanks for letting me know how you were able to solve it! I'll definitely pass along that feedback to my team. 😊

  • RenGomez's avatar
    RenGomez
    Staff
    5 years ago

    Hi Amilcar,

    I tested your gif in Storyline 360 and published it to Review 360. I was able to view the gif both while previewing and in the published format.

    Take a look at this Rise 360 link. Did you try to insert the gif as a picture?

  • MariaGuevara-35's avatar
    MariaGuevara-35
    Community Member
    4 years ago
    Hellow the problem with the .gifs when you make the preview is this:
    player tab / player style, it must be the classic, the modern does not allow you to run the .gif or preview, nor does it allow you to publish a project that contains a .gif
  • MariaGuevara-35's avatar
    MariaGuevara-35
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    The problem has a solution, if you want to use the modern environment, simply, you go back from classic to modern and run preview and now if it works, maybe when you move it to classic it takes some feature that is missing in the modern environment and when you take it back it already acquires that characteristic. the fact is that it works. 

  • MariaGuevara-35's avatar
    MariaGuevara-35
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    to run the preview close the file after you change the environment again open the file and run the preview

     

  • DianeBrochu's avatar
    DianeBrochu
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Hi, I'm going to add to this discussion. I just updated my Storyline 360 and I still don't see where or how to add a gif.  I have several video types, but no gif option. I've included an image of where I "believe" I need to be to add a gif with the gif showing in the folder.

    I've also attached the gif. 

    Can someone tell me what I am missing?