Editing Storyline Screen Capture
Jun 25, 2012
Hi,
I just had someone sit down and record to SL screen capture for 4-5 hours. I went to go into the resulting file to edit and it seems I can only trim the video. I was thinking I could edit out segments and such, but it doesn't seem to be the case. I had them record the audio simultaneously, and I might have to back track and use that audio now if I can, but I will still need the captured screen.
I wanted to use SL for this project and didn't have them do it in Camtasia because I was assuming (yes I know what happens when ones does that) that I could edit out segments as this seems to be basic functionality to things like screen capture (especially in a new product).
I saw some posts saying you have to use a third party tool. Which ones work the best? And how you I get at the video source to edit it. If I tell them they have to do this again it might end up in some loud levels of audio I'd like to avoid.
Thoughts?
Thanks,
Geo
8 Replies
Hey, George!
Yes, you can only trim but you can make copies of your video on a slide and trim them each differently to get what you want and them combine them on the timeline if you wish.
Yes, a bit bare bones but it works.
Hi Gerry,
I need more that trimming. Basically I have to edit out ums and such from the audio.
My approach now has been to:
1. Convert the capture in SL
2. Go into the result and get the .mp4s
3. Edit those in FCP
4. Export back to H264
5. Add them back as slides in the project
6. Publish
We'll see how it goes!
Thanks,
Geo
I had similar needs. I tried a process similar to the one you describe but lost a lot of quality with the conversions. I found that AVS4YOU's Video Remaker product served reasonably well. It facilitates edits and never converts the file format so you avoid some of the conversion/compression artifacts. It does not have the power of Adobe Premier but it supports both trim, cut, and splice edits. It's not ideal, but until Storyline supports edits other than trim it is the only solution I could find.
Hi, I took the original .mp4s and then exported them out to QT PhotoJPG, then edited and then added them back into SL, they look fine and it worked well.
geo
@Brent and @George: Thanks for the updates and your solutions. I'll have to keep these in mind if I ever have to do more intensive video editing myself.
Hi everyone.
Let's hope the cutting feature will soon be added to the software. It is a very useful functionality that would be more than welcome.
So are you saying that one need to:
1. Publish the project (pretty time consuming)
2. Take the mp4 from the output folder
3. Trim the video from another editor
4. Add back the video to the Story?
Is there a way to take the video files without having to publish the project? This would help a bunch.
Thanks.
Hi Julien and welcome to Heroes!
If you haven't already, here is where you can submit Feature requests.
Here are directions on how you can export the screen recording as an MP4 prior to publishing.
I just ran into this same issue. I can't believe this thread is from 5 YEARS AGO and they still haven't fixed this issue.
Looks like I'm going back to Camtasia.
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