"I thought I'd share a fun project I completed recently for a community and technical college. I always try to find a personality to host ..."

"Unfortunately, I haven't worked with Storyline much, so hopefully someone else in the community with more knowledge can weigh in. Here ar..."

"Allisun, You can absolutely use Articulate in creative ways to superimpose a green-screened narrator over your PowerPoint slide. The link..."

"First, keep in mind that no matter how big your source files in After Effects are, your AE export settings will dictate the size of the f..."

"I suspect that Steve is right. All of your settings sound reasonable except the bitrate. I usually cap video at around 400kbps, audio at ..."

"Kat, 10MB seems a bit on the high side. A PowerPoint slide is 720 x 540 pixels. Is your composition in After Effects 720 x 540 or smaller..."

"I'd probably start by looking at Adobe Premiere Pro, or Elements if it meets your needs. That said, I've been using Final Cut Pro for abo..."

"I'm aware of their suite of programs but haven't used any of them. My projects are usually pretty customized, and I've been working with ..."

"Final Cut Pro can export directly to Flash video format (.flv) and include an alpha channel. I used After Effects for chroma keying but b..."

"Correct. A Flash video with an alpha channel slapped on a PowerPoint slide lets the content underneath show through. The Articulate Sync ..."

"Susan, Your initial understanding was correct. PowerPoint Slide: Flash Video: It would be possible to insert the slide background into ..."

"I do this with all my presentations now. This one was just featured on the Articulate blog. See Slide 2 or complete any of the quizzes fo..."

"Projects like this seem to be in the range of 75-100 hours. Andy"

"That is correct."

"Thanks for the compliments. The needs of our training delivery system are rather modest (sell registrations and log lesson completion). A..."

"Zara, Estimating video production costs is always tricky. For industrial projects in smaller markets like mine, it's common for projects ..."

"Thanks for the kind words and great thoughts and discussion, everyone! As for the tools used, I'm lucky in that I come from a video produ..."

"I've always liked the technique of using a host/instructor to put a human face on training presentations. On my last project I had the go..."

"This tiny tool opens a whole lot of creative doors and is very much appreciated!"

"eeswar - My certificate-printing system is nothing more than a hand-coded webpage with two external CSS stylesheets. There's a tiny bit o..."

"Mr. James Kinsley, you are truly an eLearning Super Hero. Thank you SO much for scripting up that Flash file for me! It works perfectly. ..."

"Thanks for experimenting with this! It's great that Articulate allows for embedded web objects (and makes one question why the seemingly ..."

"Unlocked. The goal is to send someone to a webpage at the end of a presentation, so I'm not sure how the size of the player would be a fa..."

"Unfortunately, there's no way to include a target="_top" in a meta refresh, so the destination webpage ends up being framed inside the Ar..."

"Sounds good! A developer creating such a system would make use of the Articulate Online API to pass user information from Articulate Onli..."