Scrollsequence

Hi frehbein,

Could you please share the URL with us so I can see what you are doing?

Ales

Plugin Author

Happy to help!

Ales

Closing this topic

Hi Alessio,

Yes, you are right. WordPress by default creates a bunch of images that have various resolutions when you upload an image to WP Media Gallery. Every WP installation can have different set of image sizes, as different themes can have different sizes of thumbnails etc.

Scrollsequence is using default WordPress Media Gallery, and that allows it to work with all the various image optimization plugins, CDN providers and Cache plugins and make use of all the standard WordPress functions.

There is no way to prevent the thumbnail image creation, partly because the thumbnails are in fact used in the plugin user interface in the WordPress back end.

I had a look on a particular image that was 111kb original, and after WordPress created the various other image sizes, the total size is 334kb total. So yes, there is an overhead for using the native WP media gallery, but honestly even if you have a couple sequences 300 images each they take up ~100MB each on the server. Is that a problem?

There is a new option coming up for using external image URL list

“Add images with URL list, or with a folder instead of media gallery”

see: https://help.scrollsequence.com/article/24-roadmap-and-feature-request-list

So soon there will be the option to enter external image list and get around this problem.

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Regarding the direct use of video as input:

I have spent considerable amount of time trying to make it work, and it’s harder than it seems, partly because there are thousands of different video formats, codecs and input resolutions and really they need to be converted to specific encoding, and also possibly a different file format and resolution need to be presented based on the device. Also the performance benefit is almost non-existent, because the keyframes make the video size almost identical to images, with the downside that you need to wait longer until the video is “playable”.

For your reference: https://greensock.com/forums/topic/25730-scrub-through-video-smoothly-scrolltrigger/

So for now I am working on a solution that will be available on the Business plan that would let you upload a video an cloud convert it into a Scrollsequence, under the hood it is using a sequence of images that were created from that video.

I hope that this will be released this summer!

Let me know if that answers your questions!

Ales

Plugin Author

Closing this as resolved ??

Hi Apessoa,

Thank you for your review.

There are bunch of features in the Free version. It packs pretty much everything you can do in the Pro version. The paid version has more animating options and is powered by GSAP which allows scroll delay and precise animation controls, but all the basic stuff is included.

A lot of the active site installations (over a half) runs on the Free version and our users have created some stunning designs with it.

I wonder if there was some misunderstanding of the plugin UI and it’s capabilities? Please let me know what you were trying to achieve and I will try my best to prove that it is possible ??

Ales

Plugin Author

Closing and marking as resolved.

Closing for inactivity

I had a look and cannot see the scroll sequence on the page, only various other sections. (https://www.beonbrand.ca/educators/)

Generally speaking, there is still a custom scrollbar and some form of smooth scroll applied, along with ajax loading and page transitions.

Sadly I must say, that it seems like a theme incompatibility.

Ales

The link shows only a logo without any animations, could you please confirm it is acccessible? (https://www.beonbrand.ca/educators/)

I had a second look and the theme has smooth scroll and it is breaking the default scroll behavior, so I am afraid that it won’t be an easy fix.

Ales

Hi bforbeha,

Could you send me a link to your site so I can investigate, or alternatively and information about the error that is being displayed?

In the past someone was using that template and had similar trouble. We have managed to resolve it, but generally speaking I consider this template incompatible.

It loads the content dynamically via JavaScript as user navigates the page. We were able to make it work with this Theme, but I am afraid this one is incompatible with Scrollsequence.

Ales
Plugin Author

Happy days!

I must say that it is strange that it works elsewhere, but breaks on Safari.

Thanks for reporting this and I will try to understand why it happens in the first place.

Closing the issue now.

Ales

I had a look and could not find a root cause of the problem.

Below are some of my suggestions to resolve the issue:

1) There is an error message related to Youtube “Unable to post message to youtube.com. Recipient has origin leesign.dk” – This error is also present on other machines, but on the Mac device I have tested, this message is the very last. My suspicion is that this messages stops part of the JavaScript execution and may cause the error.
Could you please try to remove anything Youtube related from that page to get rid of the error and try again?
You can see the error in Javascript console, once it’s gone, I believe Scrollsequence script could work normally.

2) Try to adjust the preload percentage in Scrollsequence options. The default is 12%, try to adjust it to the minimum and maximum values to try and see if the animation starts loading.

3) The usual “plugin” incompatibility – try to turn off all other third party plugins and try with all plugins disabled if it helps.

Other than that I cannot think of any other way how to resolve the issue.

Let me know if any of the above helps, if not I will try again and do some additional tests to try and find out why the execution stops.

Ales
Plugin Author

Hi Sebastiantho,

Sorry for the delay, I will get back to you in a few hours.

Ales
Plugin Author

Hi sebastiantho,

I had a look on a mac device and the sequence was not visible and I could not see any immediate errors.

May I ask you to try and turn on all developer information from the plugin UI?

Scrollsequence Edit Screen -> (bottom right of the screen) -> Scrollsequence Settings -> Show Development Information -> Turn on all and hit save.

I hope that this information would help me to find the root cause.

Ales
Plugin Author