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New to Storyline: Playhead issue
Hi Christina,
Thanks for reaching out and sharing the feature that would be helpful for you in your project. The ability to scrub the timeline while you're developing is one that we're tracking and I've added this conversation to the report.
In the meantime, it sounds like you are already aware of cue points, which is what I would advise and hopefully others in the community will be able to chime in and share their best practices as well.
Hi Leslie,
I'm pretty baffled, to be honest. Perhaps we're talking at cross purposes.
Cue points only help you with TIMING of objects. I'm interested in how you suggest objects are POSITIONED on the slide.
Only this week there was a link to interactive video ideas including shapes on the video in the eLearning Heroes weekly email. So it can be done and indeed, I've done it on countless projects over the last two years. I put a software screencast on a slide, I move the playhead to the desired point on the timeline, I wait and the slide updates to show the frame of video relative to that point in the timeline, I add my shape/zoom region. But this feature often stops working inexplicably.
The feature is already there, it just doesn't work well.
Bamboozled,
Christina
Hi Christina.
I completely agree with you!
There seems to be no effort in actually solving the timeline position issue that has been open for years now.
The ability to stop at any point and actually seeing what goes on at that exact frame is crucial for any e-learning building software, no matter what type of elements that is on the timeline.
As you, I'm also baffled with the "solutions" that staff come up with.
Please, dear developers: Make the timeline work as it should do. This is what I would call basic functionality and should have been working from the very first version of this software.
