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Text To Speech w/Video controls
Hi, I tried adding buttons with triggers and it works fine, but it doesn't look as nice as the video controls. Progress information and information about how long the video is not visible. Is it possible to insert information about the length of the video with a variable?
Hello MariHijer,
Thanks for following up with us in this thread! I want to confirm that accessing the built-in video controls and assigning them to triggers is not possible.
I'll open this discussion up to our fabulous community for any possible custom workarounds or suggestions they'd be willing to share!
Hello LucianaPiazza! Can you please tell me how to add a button to fast forward in the video? I have created buttons to play, stop and restart using triggers, but cannot find a triggers for fast forward or rewind.
Hi MariHijer,
Happy to help!
Assuming your video is in sync with the timeline, if you'd like to add custom fast forward buttons to your Storyline 360 slides, you can use the "Jump to time/cue point" trigger and select the forward/backward option.
By entering a value here, objects in the timeline, including the video, will adjust by the number of chosen seconds when the trigger is activated. Feel free to adjust the object in the When section to your preferred object.
It might be too late for you for this project, but for our projects we never use video controls, so I think you could implement what we do with your video.
I would turn the video controls on so they are visible. I would set the video to autoplay, then set the timeline to pause when the slide starts. Then I would place a rectangle with no outline or fill over the video, with a trigger to change its state to normal when the user clicks on the rectangle. This way they can't actually reach the controls of the video. Their clicks trigger the rectangle to change into itself.
Then I would add a hotspot over the buttons with triggers to play/pause the timeline. That way the audio files and the video files will play and pause together.Thank you for your answer! Right now both the stop and pause buttons are working fine. Both audio and video are stopped at the same time. But fast forward does not work for the sound, only the video. Have you got fast-forward and rewind to work in your solution?
I hadn't ever tried the fastforward and rewind buttons before, so I created a dummy project and tried. Both work for me correctly. The audio and the video both remain in sync for me. I'm not sure why your audio would be desynced from your slide as the jump forward and backward apply to the slide and cannot be set to just the video. I'm sorry I don't have more help for you.
