Okay, here's how you typically edit a video within Articulate Storyline 360.
You can edit videos directly within Articulate Storyline 360, primarily for trimming their duration on your slides. The built-in video editor allows you to easily adjust when a video starts and ends.
Accessing Video Editing Tools
When you insert a video onto a slide in Articulate Storyline 360, it appears as an object on the slide and also on the slide's timeline. To edit the video, you'll typically interact with it directly on the timeline.
Trimming Your Video Using the Timeline
The main way to edit a video in Articulate Storyline is by trimming it using the timeline controls. This is useful for cutting out unwanted parts from the beginning or end of your video clip.
Here's the general process:
- Select the Video: Click on the video object on your slide or locate its representation on the timeline at the bottom of the screen.
- Access Timeline Options: Once selected, the video object's entry on the timeline becomes active. You might see specific handles or controls appear.
- Use Draggable Markers: As highlighted in Articulate tutorials, including the Storyline 360 tutorial on editing audio and video, you will see two draggable markers appear on your timeline. These markers represent the start and end points of your video clip within the slide's duration.
- Adjust Start and End:
- Click and drag the left marker to set the new starting point for the video.
- Click and drag the right marker to set the new ending point for the video.
By dragging these markers, you effectively trim the video clip that will play on the slide. The parts of the video outside the markers will not be shown.
Important Considerations:
- Trimming Only: The built-in editor in Articulate Storyline is primarily for trimming the start and end points of a video. It does not support more complex edits like cutting sections out of the middle, adding effects, merging clips, or adjusting audio tracks separately from the video.
- External Editing: For more advanced video editing needs, you should use dedicated video editing software (like Adobe Premiere Pro, Camtasia, or free options like DaVinci Resolve or OpenShot) before importing the video into Articulate Storyline.
- Timeline View: Ensure you are viewing the video object on the slide's timeline to access the draggable markers for trimming.
In summary, editing a video within Articulate Storyline means using the draggable markers on the video's timeline entry to define the portion of the video that will play on that specific slide.
