Looking for a way to design a slide with video synced side bullets
Hello everyone,
I am trying to find my way with the new captivate.
My objective is to create a slide that includes a Video on one side (left) and text with few bullets on the other side (right). This is easily done with adding a video media block and selecting the fitting design option. No problem here.
The problem is that I would like to sync the appearance of the bullets with some points on the video. What I found out that the bullets within a component can not be ‘separated’ from the timeline perspective. Is there a work around this, or am I missing something.
I do realize that if the bulleted text would be BELOW the video block – each in its own block, it would be easy to do. However, there are few advantages – one is that the bullets are in the same viewing horizon and the slide has the second that there is not too much empty space besides the video.
To that end – is there a way to include more than one type of component in the same block – i.e. 2 body components?
Any help would be much appreciated. THANKS!
Hi Lieve,
Thanks for your quick and kind explanation. I did not realize that in Captivate 12 I have either slide video or event video. I just used the ‘slide video’ block and interested a regular mp4 video. My intention was that this video will be there for the duration of that slide only and various text elements will appear as the video progressed but on the right side of the video, as part of the same block . I will look carefully into your blog for learning about using bookmarks.
Not being an expert on the previous Captivate version, it is indeed clear that Captivate 12 is much more constrained, in part for making sure it is fully responsive.
Thanks again!
The block with multiple videos: those are event videos which play independently of Captivate’s timeline. Slide video is synchronized with that timeline and allows to add bookmarks for its original goal and as triggers for frame events. You need slide video for your goal.
Not fully responsive to me. Vertical scrolling is a nice feature, but losing the smooth transition for font sizes which was available in Fluid boxes workflow is lost: you need to define a static font size for each device again like in the first workflow with Breakpoint views.
Except for the possibiity to trigger frame events, there are still lacking features for the original goal of bookmarks, which were easy to realize in each former version: leaving a slide video to go to another slide, and come back to continue the video is impossible in the new version.
The big problem is the too limited official documentation. Most of what you can read on my blog is impossible to find in the Help document and result of hours of exploration.
Thanks for the clarification Lieve. There are many differences between the two versions. I agree with every point you made. I was looking for much more documentation. Thanks for sharing the wealth of information on your blog. Highly appreciated!
Due to the limitation to publish only to responsive projects, this is one of the consequences.
You do not tell which type of video you used: slide video or event video. If it is slide video you could try out the bookmarks in combination with a multistate objects. I uploaded an example of that type of static bookmarks (dynamic ones are impossible) weeks ago, but for some reason it is not accepted yet as happens mostly. So I have to send you to my personal blog:
https://blog.lilybiri.com/static-bookmarks-in-new-captivate
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