I just noticed that when a video in a slide is paused the timeline keeps moving along. It does not pause in unison with the video control pause. I have some screencasts that I made and inserted into my project. I added some zooms onto the slide, so that there would be some good closeups on stuff in my screencasts. When the user stops the video, the zooms continue to display, which looks totally crazy. Then, when the player resumes the video, the zooms have finished playing and the user no longer has the benefit of any video closeups. Is there a way for me to get the whole timeline to pause whenever my user clicks pause on the video controls? Thanks, Gillian

Hi everyone Thanks for your attention to this. This is something that's still being discussed internally as to how we can handle it better. In the meantime, David put together a great video demonstrating how to prevent pausing a video independently of a slide and disrupting synced annotations. See if it's something that will work for you:

Hi All, I figured out a workaround. Use the player built-in seekbar. Create a "do not click" layer that has a trigger to show that layer as soon as the timeline starts. This layer should have a transparent rectangle that is exactly the size of the slide (this will keep users from clicking on the video, which would pause the video, but not the timeline). If you have buttons that need to pop up, make them additional layers and add them to a specific point on the timeline and then hide the layer again at a specific point on the timeline. I really wasted a lot of time coming up with this workaround. I can't believe that Articulate still can't allow us the option to sync the timeline with a video. This is basic stuff. When will it happen?

I think I can help. I did it this week You can create a layer without nothing on it an call this layer like "pause_timeline"Than u set this layer config to pause base timeline when the layer is show.Now, everytime u call the video player to pause, u call the layer too. :DHere an example attachedIn this example I made some buttons OUTSIDE of the stage just to call other layers and hide other layers in a specific time.So when u reach 5 seconds of the video you will see a marker and if you click on it, it will pause the video AND the base timeline (because I call the "pause_timeline" layer)At 10 seconds the marker desapear, at 15 seconds a new marker apear and at 20 seconds desapear again.

I realize this thread is very old- but wondered if there were any fresh solutions? With the addition of the 4/2023 Transcript accessibility feature- my team really wants to use the video controls- but need a solution so the timeline will not keep going if the video is paused. Any help appreciated!

Hi Gillian, Would you be abe to submit a case on this? You'll also have a chance to record a screencast of what you're describing during the case submission which would be really helpful. Thanks!

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RobynSerum
Community Member
11 years ago

Hi All,

It's been over a year since the last post on this thread, so I wanted to check whether there are any new features have been added that prevent the user from clicking on the video to pause it. Currently, we are using transparent objects to prevent this for every video. Is there an easier way to prevent this, yet?

Thanks,

Robyn
AshleyT-Pollard
Staff
11 years ago

Hi Robyn,

There hasn't been such a new feature added, and if you'd like to see documentation of all the items added or fixed in each update you can find that in the release notes here. If you'd also like to see a similar feature, I'd encourage you to also share your thoughts in the form of a feature request so that our product development team can appropriately track how many requests we receive.
AndréRodrigues
Community Member
11 years ago
I think I can help. I did it this week

You can create a layer without nothing on it an call this layer like "pause_timeline"

Than u set this layer config to pause base timeline when the layer is show.

Now, everytime u call the video player to pause, u call the layer too. :D

Here an example attached

In this example I made some buttons OUTSIDE of the stage just to call other layers and hide other layers in a specific time.

So when u reach 5 seconds of the video you will see a marker and if you click on it, it will pause the video AND the base timeline (because I call the "pause_timeline" layer)

At 10 seconds the marker desapear, at 15 seconds a new marker apear and at 20 seconds desapear again.
pausevideoandbasetimeline.story7 MB
- VickiKunkel-fff
  Community Member
  10 years ago
  I know it has been over a year since you posted this, but.....Bravo, Andre! Thanks so much for this, as it's the only solution that works for interactive and game-based videos where synching annotations isn't the issue, but rather overlaying interactive game elements (elements that do different things to the characters, the scene and the game scoring) are important. Hopefully in future versions there will be an intuitive, easier fix. But for now...YOU ROCK!
- juliWaldenGroup
  Community Member
  9 years ago
  
  André Rodrigues
  
  I think I can help. I did it this week
  
  You can create a layer without nothing on it an call this layer like "pause_timeline"
  
  Than u set this layer config to pause base timeline when the layer is show.
  
  Now, everytime u call the video player to pause, u call the layer too. :D
  
  Here an example attached
  
  In this example I made some buttons OUTSIDE of the stage just to call other layers and hide other layers in a specific time.
  
  So when u reach 5 seconds of the video you will see a marker and if you click on it, it will pause the video AND the base timeline (because I call the "pause_timeline" layer)
  
  At 10 seconds the marker desapear, at 15 seconds a new marker apear and at 20 seconds desapear again.
  
  Check out Andre's unique solution to a common problem of pausing the video on the base layer. It is brilliant!
  - marinaraynis
    Community Member
    9 years ago
    Thank you very much! I should have looked at that file more closely. It looks pretty challenging, but I am going to try!
RobSkeet
Community Member
11 years ago

Hi folks. We're in a bit of a pickle.

We have a suite of courses produced in Storyline 2 that have embedded video with a number of text and graphic cue points layered over top. All of this worked great with the embedded video. however , The server that these are hosted on can't handle the amount of video through the HTTP server. We wanted to stream the videos via Vimeo but they appear to run independently of the timeline. if you pause, the video keeps going and then you lose sync with the graphics.

We tried using youtube and it appears to work fine (If you put a transparent cover over the video so people don't click to stop it)

but I can't get the "YOUTUBE" watermark to go away which looks horrible. We chose Vimeo because you can pay to take the logo off. there appears to be no such solution for Youtube. (You can remove it from the player which we aren't using)

I would much prefer it to work with Vimeo. Is this a bug? has it been documented?

Help!!!!

Rob
AshleyT-Pollard
Staff
11 years ago

Hi Rob,

If you're streaming the videos, as a web object, there isn't a way to sync them with the timeline. You mentioned a transparent shape over a youtube video so that the user couldn't click on it to pause - have you tried that with the Vimeo version as well? It's a common method to allow the user to see the video timeline, but not be able to click on it.
RobSkeet
Community Member
11 years ago

Sorry, the problem is that SL doesn't sync to the timeline with inserted videos from Vimeo but they do from YouTube.

yes, I can cover the video with a transparent box but it will not help as the Vimeo video keeps playing when you hit pause or scrub the seekbar.

This works fine with YouTube videos but not Vimeo.videos.

does anyone know how to remove the YouTube super from embedded YouTube videos?

(Not from the Youtube Player but from the YT video itself.)
AshleyT-Pollard
Staff
11 years ago

Hi Rob,

You'll see we have information here about embedding the Youtube videos and special parameters that could be included, but that's when using it as a web object - which would not sync it with the timeline.
LyubaHalacheva
Community Member
11 years ago
Hi Rob Skeet and Storyline community. Have you figured out a solution to the vimeo / timeline issue? I am having the exact same problem.
PeterMannicheRi
Community Member
11 years ago
Hi Ashley & Rob, we're still having the exact same timeline issues with storyline & vimeo .. Are there any forecasts on when this can be fixed?
ParashuramVhava
Community Member
11 years ago
Hi everyone,

I too having some troubles with video and slide timeline. Please look at it in more detail at my post on below link.

https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/resuming-to-saved-state-issue