Video Control with Clicks Without Media Controls – Best Practice

ActivePresenter Support Questions
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I’m working with ActivePresenter and I have an issue for which I’m looking for the most elegant solution:

I’ve added a video to a slide and want to divide it into three sections – all on the same slide. To achieve this, I’ve split the video into three separate video clips. My goal is:

  1. To start the first video with a simple click and let it play to the end.
  2. At the end of the first video, automatically display the first frame of the second video, which can then also be started with a click.
  3. To pause video playback by clicking on it again.
  4. At the end of each video, stop playback and display the first frame of the next video.

Currently, I’ve implemented this as follows:

  • I’ve set the presentation to pause on load.
  • For each video, I’ve added two actions:
    • On click: Resume the presentation.
    • On video end: Pause the presentation.

This works, but I’m wondering if there’s a more elegant way to achieve this without enabling the media controls (play/pause buttons). Or is my current implementation already considered best practice?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Best regards,
Felix

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Hi Felix,

For your video editing needs, ActivePresenter offers features like media controls, events-actions, slide splitting, mouse clicks, slide’s Auto Advance, and more. This gives you multiple ways to achieve your desired outcome, and your current method appears to be the most efficient for this scenario.

Another approach we recommend is using a mouse click to pause the presentation for user input. You can then add an action to the video’s On Click event to resume the presentation seamlessly.

Hope this helps!
Regards,