Video Quality bad when publishing in Storyline

Hi Deborah!

I too have faced the same problem but did not got time to put it here on forums. Thanks for bringing out the problem, although I was able to improve the quality a bit by changing the publish quality setting. But, that was not so good. Hope, we could get any clues here.

Thanks

Good Afternoon, all.

There is always a bit of optimization performed to make for smooth delivery to learners. At this time, an option of "No Compression" is not supported. If you'd like to see an option where videos are left untouched, please submit a feature request.

In the interim, there are two possible workarounds you could pursue:

1. You could upload your video to a service that allows uncompressed formats (such as YouTube or Vimeo), then use our Insert Video from Website feature to embed the video.
2. You could insert your source video into your published output by following the unsupported method in Mike's Screenr above. Please note that using this technique will improve the quality but the loading time will be longer.

Please let us know if you need anything else, and have a great day!

Looking for suggestions. I like Mike's work around but.... not sure it will work for me without a few additional steps.

I have a series of short animation videos that were created in PowerPoint with a 5 Inch X 5 Inch slide dimension. For these to be usable in my StoryLine project, they have to be set to 174 px X 174 px. Works fine but because of the compression at publication, the short animations loose quality and look fuzzy.

How do I start by converting my larger dimension (5 inch X 5 Inch) WMVs down to a smaller 174 px X 174 px MP4 so I can replace the published output videos with these new files? Am I just going to have to "suck it up" and recreate all of these from scratch in PowerPoint at a smaller size? If so, can anyone tell me what 174px is in inches so I can size the PowerPoint canvas correctly?

I found the utility that saved my life. Not only let me convert my WMV files to MP4, but let me change dimensions and bit rate at the same time. Online-Convert.com did the trick. Tested the results using Mike's work around and it looks so much better than before.

Owen, that looks like a great resource. Tx so much for sharing. Oh, And glad you found something that worked for you.

Thanks Owen for the update and sharing the solution here with others.

LOCK PLAYER AT OPTIMAL SIZE

Hi Guys

just a reminder that the videos will look a lot better if the player is locked to the optimal size, if not (scale to fill browser window) the video is dynamically scaled and therefor looking a lot less sharp when enlarged.

Thanks for the temporary work around solution above we will give it a go.

Regards

Byron

Thanks Byron for the reminder and I'm glad that the work around mentioned above will work for you!

Workaround worked, but it's a pain if you need to swap out multiple videos. I generally optimise my videos in Adobe Premiere and the rsult has a lot of fine tuning options. It's a shame that Articulate does not have a no compression option, or even better an option to autodect the connection speed (or let the user choose) in the browser and offer a suitably compresed file. Added a request for this feature!

Hi Chris and welcome to Heroes!

Thanks for sending along a feature request, I know of a number of other users who would like to see similar, so the more feature requests the better!