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Pausing timeline when pausing a video
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 Lacey!
On your layer properties, you should be able to choose to prevent the user from clicking on the base layer.
You can read more in this tutorial.
Hey there, so I did this and they can still click on the play/pause button on the seekbar. I put an example slide here to show you what I am trying to accomplish. Let me know if you have any ideas! Otherwise, I will probably remove the seekbar and do the play/pause layer with a added button.
Hi Lacey! Thanks for the example and further explanation. The seekbar for the base layer is still applicable for the layer and I think I misunderstood previously. Your workaround for this situation sounds good. Although with the base layer showing through and the user still needing to access the layer looks good with a video as well, unless the information is pertinent to that 'time' in the video of course.
Hi Dana!
I've seen a similar request in the forums and invite you to check out this thread that may be able to assist you.
I am having trouble adding shapes on top of a video I embedded in storyline 2. I created a video that explains how to use a certain website, and I am trying to add rectangles and lines to point out certain actions I make in the demonstration. However, everytime I pause the video to add a shape, the video goes back to the beginning scene, and the slide shows all the shapes in that slide. Though I could figure out when I wanted to add shapes, I can't figure out where to put them, because each time I pause the video in the timeline, the video and slide just go back to the beginning. Is there anyway to stop this from happening? Or is there another way to accurately add shapes to a video?
Thank you,
Marina
I just wanted to add that really, the problem is that when I pause the video, it doesn't stay on that paused scene, it goes back to its opening scene. Because of this, I can't find the right spot to place shapes. Thank you!
Marina
...sorry for all the posts...I hid a bunch of objects so that I could focus only on the video, and now when I pause the video, it just goes back to a previous point in the video, not necessarily the beginning, so I really don't understand what is happening anymore. :(
I'm sorry, just one more thing, I also forgot to mention that the video in question is in scene 3
Hi Marina,
The timeline preview has been something that users have shared has not worked as expected or as they'd prefer so we've shared that feedback with our product team. Perhaps instead of using the timeline preview you may want to look at gathering the time stamps from the "video editing" set up within the Video Tools tab on the top ribbon. That way you could use the time stamp of the video to match up with the timeline element.
Hi Ashley, thanks for replying. Unfortunately that is not enough because even if I could figure out when to put the images, I could not figure out where (since every time I pause the video, it returns to the opening scene).
Thanks,
Marina
