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Working with Audio and Video in Articulate Storyline 360

Working with audio and video in Articulate Storyline 360

eLearning plays an important role to enhance learnersā€™ skills starting from the very basic to the most advanced one. To achieve the goal of any eLearning course, developers invest a lot of time to design and build a course that will engage the learner. In addition to the educational goals and scientific material for any eLearning course, visual and audio material play an important part in delivering educational goals.

The video and audio creation process can be very complicated and time consuming. Thanks to some authoring tools like Storyline, the process can be less complicated and affordable. In this article we will go through the audio and video features in Articulate Storyline 360.

 

Working with Audio

There are many ways to insert audio in Storyline.

audio menu - storyline 360 - GPI blog

1. Import file from an existing audio file

This option enables you to insert any audio from your device to your timeline. Storyline supports .mp3, wav, wma, and many other audio extensions.

2. Import audio file from Media library

This is the same as the import from file. It enables the user to import from the media library of the current project or any previous projects.

3. Record from mic

This option enables the user to record directly from his personal microphone. To do this you have to set the recording options to ā€œOptionsā€.

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4. Text-to-Speech

This is a very distinguished feature because it can save a lot of money and effort. All you must do is to copy the text you need to convert to audio and choose the suitable language and voice type you want. The steps are as follows:

  • Copy the text you want to convert to an audio
  • Go to Audio > Text-to-Speech
  • Copy the test to the window belowText-to-Speech - storyline 360 - GPI blog
  • Choose the language and voice gender

TIP: You can also choose to add Closed caption in the same step by checking the ā€œGenerate Closed Captionsā€.

  • Click ā€œOKā€

Now you have an audio with subtitle generated in the same step. Below is the output of this step.


Working with Videos

Working with videos in storyline will not enable you to create advanced videos, but it can help you create simple videos.
There are many ways to insert video in Storyline.

working with videos - storyline 360 - GPI blog

1. Import video from file

This option enables you to insert a video file from your device to your timeline.

2. Import video from Website

This option enables the user to embed video from popular video hosting websites like YouTube and Vimeo

3. Import video file from Media library

This is the same as import from file. It enables the user to import from media library of the current project or any previous projects.

4. Record a video from Webcam

You can record videos using your personal webcam following the below steps:

  • Go to the Insert > Video > Record Webcam
  • Make sure to adjust the device settings before you start.
    Record Webcam - storyline 360 - GPI blog
  • Click the red Record button to begin recording
  • When done, click the ā€œStopā€ button.

You can preview the output of the recording before inserting it to the timeline by clicking the Play button.

 

Tips for Dealing with Audio and Video in Storyline

Storyline has an audio editor that enables you to delete parts from the audio, control the volume by increasing or decreasing it and add silence where needed.

audio editor - storyline 360 - GPI blog

You can export audios from Storyline to mp3, wave, and both mp3 and wave at the same time.

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You can choose a poster frame for your video by right clicking on the video frame and choose ā€œSet Poster Frameā€.

set poster frame - storyline 360 - GPI blog

Recorded or imported videos can be controlled by the timeline and the video editor. Video editor enables you to trim, crop, adjust volume, add logo, and control the brightness and contrast of the video.

Articulate Video Editor - storyline 360 - GPI blog

Videos imported from websites canā€™t be edited in the video editor. It also plays separately from the slide and canā€™t be controlled by the timeline.

Storyline is not a video and audio advanced producer, but it has the essentials that enable course developers to polish and enhance the quality of the final eLearning course.

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