Scrubbing the timeline : actual view ?

Hi Pierre,

It's definitely worth sending in a feature request for that type of behavior, as those go to our product development team to review. 

Hi Ashley,

I will request this feature but I would also like to known if others are interested and if not, why.

Here's a mockup of what I would like:

I absolutely would love this feature.

I'm currently working on my first Storyline project, and having come from a Flash and Director background, not to mention Premiere, Logic, Final Cut Pro, etc., I'm surprised that Storyline doesn't work this way. Logically, where the current time indicator is located in the timeline should show the appropriate things at that moment in time in the preview window like this:

http://www.mediacollege.com/adobe/premiere/pro/workspace/current-time-indicator.html

It's nearly essential to have this functionality to make sure things happen when I want them to happen. The lack of this ability is going to add serious production time and frustration while I build this course. I mean, for a long slide with several elements, having to show and hide them like Pierre states, and then previewing the slide to see if it all works as I intend it to every time I make a slight tweak is extremely counter-productive and time consuming.

PLEASE implement this scrubbing feature, or play from current time indicator type of thing with Preview!

I'd like to think you folks are already working on it, but haven't worked the kinks out yet.

Thanks,

Kevin

Hi Kevin and welcome to Heroes! 

If you haven't done so already, you'll also want to log this as a feature request as those go to our product development team. 

I do know that our team is hard at work on some exciting new things which we are looking forward to sharing with the world, just not right now. If you would like to be the first to know about updates and product releases, I would encourage you to subscribe to Gabe Anderson's blog:

http://www.articulate.com/blog/

Hi Ashley:

Thanks for the response.

I'll log the feature request and have followed Gabe's blog.

-Kevin

From someone that does a lot of video editing work in Final Cut Pro, this would be something that would be very useful from a production point of view.  Being able to scrub back and forth over a small portion of the timeline to make sure that graphics, text etc are appearing when expected would be invaluable.  Yes you can place the playhead where you want it and play from there but it is a very clunky way to do it.

Incidentally  and with all due respect to the Articulate staff that post on here, I really wish that every comment was not answered with the stock "log this as a feature request" response.  Quite honestly I have little faith that the majority of 'feature requests' will ever see the light of day especially when we're still waiting for fixes to basic things like animations, text box fixes etc.   Sorry if this causes offense, but it's just the way I feel.

Scrub is an absolute must have!! Synchronizing visual events to sound events is excessively cumbersome as it is. I am opening up my sound files in Audacity to write down the timing events (or memorize the sound wave image) and approximate them in Storyline.  When you consider all the editing and flash/swf software that uses scrubing..... well you get it.

I would move this to the TOP of the to-do list.

Thanks all for your support.

Don't forget to request this feature !

Without the scrub feature it makes editing time consuming because one always has to start from the beginning to review, make a change, start from beginning to review, make another change...I'm sure you get the picture. 

Hi Mary! Be sure to share your thoughts with our product development team at the link below :)

Don't forget to request this feature !