Scrubbing the timeline : actual view ?

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. 

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 Darrel, I'd like to know too... What can we expect after FOUR years?

Hey all!  Wondering if perhaps we could get an Articulate Engineer to pop on this thread and explain why this hasn't been (or perhaps why it is now, but is not yet ready) a priority?  I think even just knowing that someone thinks it's real and is progressing towards a solution - or alternately that Articulate have determined this functionality should not be incorporated and we should just stop harping on it? 

4 years in, I know I'm just looking for acknowledgement and a status update.

Alternately, I guess I could just unsubscribe from this thread.  Every time someone chimes in it's like when Facebook reminds you that "4 years ago today" you were out doing something really great with your dog who is now dead.  "Aw man!  I forgot about that timeline request.... wow, it's still going on...".

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

Thanks all for your support.

Don't forget to request this feature !

Hi John! This thread is a bit older and we are working better to handle this now.

You have made a great argument and I totally understand and agree.

We now have an article here that explains how we handle feature requests internally. 

I can tell you, that we do place feature requests on behalf of our customers when we can. I say 'when we can' because honestly there are times that the customer is able to explain a feature better than I could. If I need more information to file a request, it seems reasonable to allow the customer to submit directly. 

I appreciate you sharing your thoughts and perspective on this matter. 

A proper scrubbing timeline should be considered essential for any modern product.

I'm glad I didn't have to wait 5 or 6 years to find out that this feature is not being implemented. I also come from a video and audio editing background and I really thought I was doing something wrong when my canvas/screen kept showing objects that were not lined up with my play-head. But I guess this is a feature and not a bug. Too bad.

But just in case, I'll fill out a feature request for scrubbing AND playhead honesty (showing what is currently in the timeline based on the playhead instead of showing all objects in a layer).

Just going to throw this out there, this missing feature is the sort of thing that would cause me to recommend some other software solution to my team such as Captivate. I am new to Instructional Design after 10 years of teaching digital media. Maybe Articulate doesn't really care about the type of user I am and background I have, but I think there are more of us beginning to use these types of tools and this might be a missed opportunity on your part.