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 ?

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...".

Scrubbing the timeline : actual view ?

NickPowell
Community Member
3 years ago
Oh, what a difference this would make. How disappointing it's not implemented. :(
KellyAuner
Staff
3 years ago
Hi, Everyone!

I have some great news to share. We just released another update for Storyline 360. In Update 66, we’ve included important fixes and new features.

One of the features we’ve included is:

Scrub the timeline to quickly see when timed elements appear and disappear on the stage without previewing the entire slide.

To take advantage of this update, launch the Articulate 360 desktop app on your computer and click the Update button next to Storyline 360. You'll find our step-by-step instructions here.

Please let me know if you need additional help!
AshleyT-Pollard
Staff
11 years ago

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.
PierreJouan
Community Member
11 years ago

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:
AshleyT-Pollard
Staff
11 years ago

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:

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KevinDarbro
Community Member
11 years ago

Hi Ashley:

Thanks for the response.

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

-Kevin
LeslieMcKerchie
Staff
10 years ago
Hi Mary! Be sure to share your thoughts with our product development team at the link below :)

Don't forget to request this feature !
KatheirneMurphy
Community Member
9 years ago
In definite agreement, this is pretty basic. I'll add to the feature request to make this time-based application actually show the time... However it's been 2 years. Why would this very basic option be so difficult to implement? When I used Director (ahem) a bajillion years ago you were able to scrub the timeline... I don't think it's a feature requiring the greatest minds of our time to implement. 2 years?
GregEales
Community Member
9 years ago
Holy Cow! Give me some scrubbing action! :P

But seriously, I think being able to scrub the timeline (graphics and audio) would take Storyline to the next level for development. Every program I use for animation has some sort of timeline that I can actively scrub through. I think it's time for Storyline to stand up and become all it can be...SCRUB-TASTIC!
GregEales
Community Member
9 years ago
Just sent a request to the product developer team for this feature! The people have spoken...we need a basic timeline scrubbing ability! :)