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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PeterMannicheRi
Community Member
10 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
10 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
AshleyT-Pollard
Staff
10 years ago
Hi all,

As mentioned before, if you're inserting the video as a web object, it's independent of the timeline and you can't pause both using the seekbar, as that will only pause the slide timeline (not the video). You may want to look at downloading the video from Vimeo and inserting it directly into your slide.
Li-AnBrown
Community Member
10 years ago
Hi everyone,

Sorry to use this old thread but I'm having similar issues with syncing annotations with video in Storyline 2. All the annotations and animations are timed with the slide timeline to coincide with the correct timings in the video. I have successfully disabled the video control and used the covering hotspot technique shown by Peter above so the users have to use the slide timeline seek bar to navigate around if they want to recap any points in the video.

However, the annotations only stay correctly synced if the user only wants to pause & play the video. If the users seek around on the seek bar either ahead or behind, the video correctly jumps but the annotations stay where they were!

I wonder if this has something to do with the way I have made the annotations. They are each on separate layers which are triggered to be shown when the timeline ends on the previous layer. The problem occurs both on slide preview, and when published.

Any advice would be much appreciated!
JillMcNair
Community Member
10 years ago
Hi Li-An,

I recently built something similar to what you described in your post, and I tried everything I know, but could not get the timeline and video to sync properly if the seekbar was clicked. In exasperation, I ended up turning off the seekbar for that slide. Since there was not seekbar, I put a replay button at the end so users could replay it. Not sure if this idea will work for you, but I thought I'd share it in case it would!

Hope it helps!

Jill
Li-AnBrown
Community Member
10 years ago
Thanks Jill! That is very helpful. If I can't find another solution then I will turn off the seek bar and make my own pause/play/replay buttons. Hopefully that should work.

I think for my next similar project I will record shorter video clips which are each associated with one slide. Then the users can navigate to the correct slide for the bit they want to recap, instead of having to re-watch the whole video.
LeslieMcKerchie
Staff
10 years ago
Glad that Jill was able to assist you here Li-An.
LeslieMcKerchie
Staff
10 years ago
Glad to see that this thread was able to assist you as well Vicki and thanks for popping in to say so :)
LeslieMcKerchie
Staff
9 years ago
Hi Lacey!

Would you be able to share your .story file so that we could take a look?
LaceyCribb
Community Member
9 years ago
Hi Leslie,

I have this working now, I am not sure what I was doing wrong but at least it is working! One other issue I am experiencing with David's hot bar and seek bar solution is:

- I have a layer show up at a certain time in the video that requires interaction to resume the video (I added a resume video button to the layer that will activate once the learner completes the interaction); however, if the learner clicks the play on the seekbar it will resume the timeline and the layer will stay there. Any thoughts? I really like the hot spot and seekbar solution but if I can't disable the play button somehow when showing the layer I will have to add pause layers to all of my slides instead and remove the seekbar.