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Video compression option greyed out - did not edit in Storyline
Hi,
The option for uncompressed video is greyed out. It is a separate MP4 I uploaded and haven't touched it with any Storyline editing tools as suggested in another article.
The video as-is is ...
Articulate, please provide us the option to turn off compression regardless of profiles and the usage of the built-in editor. The current limitations are horrible as the videos looks fine during a preview, but looses far too much quality when published, even if you set static quality to max.
We have videos explaining to students where to find certain information. It's crisp and sharp during a preview, and now we've discovered that when we publish the course it's so blurry it's impossible to see what's going on on some of them.
We've already compressed them beforehand in professional software with functionality that provides the control to actually finetune this process, and I would believe many professional designers do the same.
Not being able to control if the videos are compressed or not is tragic, having to redirect students onto different platforms to view videos due to the loss of quality is counterproductive, and takes away from a seamless learning experience.
This becomes extra problematic seeing as we're having to use more videos in our training to avoid whole chapters being just a powerpoint with more functionality.
I was having major issues with this , going way back , like 4 years ago.
Ever since Storyline 360 Update 75 (Build 3.75.30269.0), I have not had an issue where the option to turn off compression for a slide inserted video was grayed out. Are you still seeing this in the newest version of Storyline 360 ?
I was glad I did not have the issues, as my last Storyline Project had 26 slides with videos (mp4s) for a total run time of 1hr and 22 min. Thankfully , I was able to leave all uncompressed at the slide level.
I did find that when publishing for LMS, I prefer the " Static" video quality option ( set to 9) over the " Adaptive"
