Working with visual media

Media comes in many flavors; we've already touched on images in Chapter 2, Adding Content into your Story and in Chapter 4, Adding Characters and Audio, now we'll shift the focus to video. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then video is priceless. Video is one of the most effective tools to create an emotional impact. That is, if video is done well, produced properly, and for the right reasons (to support learning objectives).

Storyline handles a video well. There are a variety of options that allow you to bring video into your courses, and also perform basic editing tasks like trimming and cropping. Storyline also handles video compression very well, dramatically reducing the size of imported videos after publishing a course without degrading quality.

But that's not where things stop. You can use Storyline's video features to bring in elements that you have created in other tools, such as Articulate Studio, Quizmaker or Engage, as well as Adobe Flash and Captivate...