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nooranik20651638
nooranik20651638
Participant
August 1, 2018
Question

Background audio stabilization on slides that include narration...

  • August 1, 2018
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Hello All,

After adding some background music to my project I realized there are high's and low's on some of the slides. I've tried to adjust the volume, selected the option of Adjust background audio volume on slides but this has not worked.  On a few slides, the music is louder than the narration vs other slides where you can barely hear the music. Any suggestions?

I'm using Captivate 9...

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Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
August 4, 2018

Can you also check the exact version number (Help, About Captivate)? Just to be sure you are using the most recent version which is 9.0.2.437.

nooranik20651638
nooranik20651638Author
Participant
August 7, 2018

Yes, the version is 9.0.2.437

Erik Lord
Erik Lord
Inspiring
August 4, 2018

Are you sure each clip for each slide is the proper/same volume level you want?

Do you have an external audio editor - perhaps Audition or Audacity (free)?

I'd recommend you extract all the audio clips and check them in an external editor.

Use that tool to equalize each track (i..e bring backgrounds down lower).

Import a few into a new CP project and see if they then play as you intend.

If so, try in the original project - either by updating the audio (from the properties) or by removing the original audio and re-importing the new audio.

Helps?

    nooranik20651638
    nooranik20651638Author
    Participant
    August 7, 2018

    The narration volume is fine. Its when I add the background music (taken from YouTubes free music library) where the volume fluctuates. If put this into Audacity and its fine. As soon as I bring it back into Captivate, the volume gets wonky.... any other thoughts? Erik Lord

    Erik Lord
    Erik Lord
    Inspiring
    August 20, 2018

    Been a bit since this post, apologies. Maybe its a format issue - what's the format and details of the file for the background music? Is it mp3 already? How's the quality? What if you convert to a .wav with Audacity then bring that into CP as the background track?

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