Inserting videos that have a shorter duration that the timeline

Hi Leslie, you're awesome for making your Peek video!

I didn't see is how you first inserted the video and (if you) moved it below other objects on the timeline to try to replicate my conditions. I made a Peek video showing a success and a failure of truncating a video on the timeline.

The premise of the issue I'm raising is when somebody forgets to truncate the video immediately after insertion. That moment becomes the only opportunity to do so to take advantage of Storyline "knowing" the video's timing/duration. Afterward, one has to know the length of the video to reset its timing which is a bit cumbersome but not impossible. A person would either have to manually type in the video’s original runtime, or would have to drag the video’s tail to match its actual ending (hard to do, especially with very long videos).

• Imagine a project where videos get edited a few times during development and you have to re-insert a new version (shorter or longer).
• In some of my project’s cases, there may be up to 8 videos per slide, all along the timeline.
• The timelines where me/my client have had this issue can be 5+ minutes long with many assets & videos.

My expectation (feature request?): that Storyline should be able to know a video’s duration, and allow easy resetting of its timing. It shouldn’t “forget” a video’s timing or require me to know or lookup the length of the video to reset it myself.

Going through this discussion, I certainly realize there is a “best practice” for inserting videos and truncating their ends immediately. But this isn’t always known or followed by people, and it's comforting to know that there is (or could be) a quick way to remedy a video's timing to make it its actual duration without knowing its length ourselves.