{"id":449,"date":"2014-07-17T22:46:39","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T22:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/?p=449"},"modified":"2014-07-17T22:46:39","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T22:46:39","slug":"why-i-use-scenes-in-articulate-storyline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/why-i-use-scenes-in-articulate-storyline\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Use Scenes in Articulate Storyline"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alrighty – A few weeks back, I hopped on a new project that I’ve really been enjoying. The only downside was that I married into an Articulate Storyline file that was organized in such a way that it quickly became unruly.<\/p>\n

Unruly? How?<\/strong><\/p>\n

This one particular aspect of the project involved creating a sort of library to house seminar videos. Each month, a 4-5 hour seminar would be recorded and I would use Camtasia to break the videos up into more manageable chunks. Each seminar ended up having 18-24 videos…for a duration of 6 months.<\/p>\n

The original file quickly became unruly because I think there wasn’t as much understanding of how quickly 130+ videos\/screens could get out of hand. What transpired was one scene within the Storyline file; this one scene contained all 130+ videos, which made it incredibly difficult to hunt down individual screens when making to the file later on.<\/p>\n

I know it doesn’t look too unruly from this screenshot, but note the horizontal scrolling. Oof.<\/p>\n

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We ended up resolving to leave this file as is, after all revisions had been made, but I explained that I would be a bit more purposeful and organized in my development of the next 6 month period.<\/p>\n

But, Ashley…How did you tame the unruliness?!<\/strong><\/p>\n

I used scenes! Scenes are basically boxes which contain slides; you can link to scenes just as you would like to slides, but it creates a more organized look and makes managing your Storyline file a biiiiit more manageable. Now, different strokes for different folks – some people might use scenes for different reasons, but for this project – the scenes were set up for ease of use from a development perspective.<\/p>\n

The starting scene houses the Main Menu. From here, each ‘button’ trigger links to a new scene (which is a Menu for the relevant seminar). All seminar videos are housed within these new scenes. The outcome is this:<\/p>\n

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Phew! SO MUCH easier to look at, eh?! If you don’t give me a resounding ‘yes’, I might cry. In this project, we have 2 seminars (1 of which has yet to be populated). At the end of the 6 month period, there will be 7 scenes: 1 that houses the main menu, and 6 that house each of the seminar videos. I can easily locate the relevant seminar that requires revisions, and life is a lot easier.<\/p>\n

I realize that talking about scenes may seem incredibly basic, but when you’re a first-time user of Storyline, tasked to find a way of organizing 130+ videos, you will likely end up with an story view as illustrated in the first screenshot, only to realize you’re causing a lot more heartache than necessary. Trust me. If you need to organize a vast amount of slides, USE YOUR SCENES!<\/p>\n

Hopefully this was relatable and\/or helpful to someone! If you have any other questions about using Scenes in Articulate Storyline, definitely reach out to me, and I’ll help out as best I can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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