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Pausing video doesn't pause timeline
Hi everybody!
I'm stuck with a little problem my tester found.
I've placed many videos in different slides with automatical advancing. The tester discovered that if you pause the video by clicking on it, the video pauses while the timeline keeps going on.
So, what happens?
As the timeline is set in order to have the same duration of the video, if you pause the video to take some notes, the story goes on...
Any idea? 
I've managed to solve the problem by creating an invisible object on the video. Once it's clicked, a transparent layer that pause the timeline opens. Then I created another invisible rectangle in the layer that close the layer itself.
So, in order to pause the timeline you can:
- use a layer with the "pause the timeline" option
- insert the seekbar
Right?
Hi Mauro. I haven't experienced your problem because I usually disable the player controls for videos, and let the user operate the timeline controls to pause etc.
Your solution has been discussed before, and according to the below thread, improvements are under consideration. Good to hear you found a way through this.
Thank you Steve!
I searched the forum for that post, but couldn't find it.I submitted a feature request, let's see...
Thanks again
Hi Mauro! Thanks for updating the community on your progress as well as submitting the feature request.
I am currently having the above mentioned timeline issue. When a slide is paused, the seek bar continues to progress. This is impacting the alignment of the animation and the video on the slide once the video resumes. Has this issues been resolved yet?
Hi Lucia,
Thanks for reaching out and sharing what you are experiencing with your project.
If the video has it's own controls, it does not have to stay in sync with the timeline.
There are some great ideas shared here for how to work around this and prevent the user from pausing the video separately.
Hello,
I am having the same issue as Lucia and Mauro, also checked this discussion (https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/pausing-timeline-when-pausing-a-video?page=2) that didn't solve my problem.
Is there a way to trigger the timeline to pause when the user presses pause on the video?
Thanks in advance!
Hi Camille!
I'm happy to help! Since the slide timeline and the video timeline are different, I'd recommend using a transparent shape to control both the slide and video timeline.
I've created a sample project for you where I've added a transparent rectangle that is hidden when the video is playing and set to normal when the video is paused. Please take a look at the .story file and let me know what you think!
Hi Lauren,
Thanks very much, this seems to work fine for play/pause but I also need to have the seekbar displayed below the video to allow users to go back or fast forward to a time of the video. And this transparent shape wouldn't help if the user goes back/forward, the timeline would be unsynched with the video.
Hello Lauren,
Is there a way to solve my issue? Please see my previous message unanswered: "this seems to work fine for play/pause but I also need to have the seekbar displayed below the video to allow users to go back or fast forward to a time of the video. And this transparent shape wouldn't help if the user goes back/forward, the timeline would be unsynched with the video."
Thanks in advance!
+1, also just discovered this issue. There should either be a trigger that allows us to pause the timeline if media is paused (instead of having to do workarounds with transparent shapes or layers), or a setting that synchronizes the video and slide timeline.
There is another problem regarding video and seekbar. As you can see in the attachment, when I click on an earlier position in the seekbar, the video does not play accordingly.
