Pause and replay audio and animations in Lectora

Can you post a one page simple example of a Lectora Project that you are trying to do this with?

The solution to this depends on a lot of factors and instead of trying to ask a lot of questions it would be easier if we could see exactly what you are trying to accomplish. For example, what is triggering the animations, are there different triggers or are they all events from the audio.

Anyway, I'm sure there is a way to do it, and once you get a template it shouldn't be hard to replicate. In SL are the audio and the page timeline different? I'm curious how that works, I would think if you scrub back it would reset the previously triggered transitions, does it not?

Hi, thanks for the response! Apologies for the slow reply.

Full disclosure, I am actually researching this while someone else is developing the course in Lectora, and I am trying to get them to send me what you are asking for.

In the meantime, I will tell you what I know.

We have a single audio narration file on each slide. The animations are timed to occur at certain points in the narration. The time is the trigger for the animation.

Issue 1: When someone pauses the audio, the animations do not stop.

Issue 2: When we add the built-in seekbar, moving back through the audio messes up the animations. (the developer says this, but have not actually seen it.)

What we want: We want all animation to stop with a pause button. We want people to be able to go back and replay portions of he audio, but not have the screen freeze or mess up.

I'll still try to get the actual information that you are asking, but is this helpful?

From what I have seen with events in Lectora, they have their own area where the triggers and times are added, but there is no slide timeline per se - but I could be entirely wrong.

In Storyline, the slide timeline is linear and you can stack/ drag/ reorder items on top of it to appear at at points in the timeline, or with another trigger. I think that visual representation of the time and all the items is helpful for me to understand. I expect it is a matter of rethinking how things occur in Lectora.

Hello,

Thank you so much! I really appreciate the images/ information and link to an article.

If anyone has more information on a seekbar and reversing animations as well as the sound, I would also appreciate that.

If nothing else, perhaps we can rewind the sound and not worry about animations. This at least solves a big problem.

Lori

From your description it sounds to me like you are controlling your animations by placing a delay on your transitions/actions to match up with the audio. Instead of delaying your animations to match the audio, I suggest you use "sync events" feature in the properties of your audio clip to control your animations.

The steps below will get you on your way to having the animations pause when you pause the audio. My screen captures are from Lectora Desktop but it should be the same for Online.

To the best of my knowledge you cannot reverse the animations by dragging the audio playhead backwards but maybe someone else here will know otherwise.

STEP 1: Start by removing all of your delays. If you have objects that should be hidden until a later time, be sure to click on the "Initially Hidden" checkbox for those objects.

STEP 2: Click on your audio object and select "Sync Events" in the properties tab.

STEP 3: In the window that pops up, you can add your time stamps and the desired actions.

Hope this helps! The above process is covered a bit more in depth in the following article but the screen captures are a bit out of date.