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Scrubbing the timeline : actual view ?
Hello,
I think it would be great if you could scrub the timeline in Storyline.
Being used to Flash, I find having all object at once confusing (and actually I don't see the point apart from a visual mess).
The problem is you can't see what you actullay get under playhead unless you play your scene.
Could you consider having a mode where you only see on stage what's under the playhead ? I recently had a busy timeline with many speech bubbles and I spend my time hiding/unhiding layer to get everything in place.
What do you think ?
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.
- PierreJouanCommunity Member
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:
- KevinDarbroCommunity Member
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/
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Hi Ashley:
Thanks for the response.
I'll log the feature request and have followed Gabe's blog.
-Kevin
- AndyKayCommunity Member
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.
- JohnMorley-b701Community Member
Agreeing with Andy: Despite Articulate tech support being excellent otherwise, how is posting to a forum not a "feature request?" And when a staff member obviously recognizes it as such: by replying "suggest this as a feature request," why don't the dots get connected within Articulate with the staff member entering the feature request?
Articulate--Your customers are busy using your products. Expecting us to both point out a problem and then make the additional effort to log in somewhere else to essentially repeat the same post is annoying, a waste of your customers' time, and a sure-fire way to keep you from learning all you could about how your products can be improved.
- MarkBrownCommunity Member
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.
- PierreJouanCommunity Member
Thanks all for your support.
Don't forget to request this feature !
- MaryYanesCommunity Member
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 !