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Anonymous
October 16, 2012
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Captivate 6 - start audio a few seconds after the recording

  • October 16, 2012
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Hi,

I have created a software demo video with multiple video recordings in the one project.  I now want to add audio. Ideally I would add one audio file to the background, so it plays over multiple recordings, but I need it to start a few seconds into the project.  The add silence feature doesn't work, even if I start the silence from one second in instead of the very beginning of the project/clip.

Is there any way I can edit when the audio starts in a project? 

Any ideas would be much appreciated!

Thank you

Victoria

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RodWard
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RodWardCommunity Expert
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October 16, 2012

You should be able to just drag the audio track to the right a bit to delay when it starts.

When you use the Add Silence function in Captivate it adds pure silence. No sound whatsoever.  However, Captivate also has another little-known "feature" that removes any pure silence from the beginning and end of an audio track.  This means that if you add pure silence to the beginning of the audio with the idea of delaying when the voiceover begins, Captivate will remove it for you.

If you want to force this silence at the beginning of the audio, copy and paste some "dirty silence" from some pause or gap later in the voiceover.  Since this silence still contains some faint audio background noise, Captivate will leave it alone.

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Anonymous
October 16, 2012

Hi RodWard,

Thank you for the info, especially about the pure silence 'feature.'

Can you please tell me exactly how to drag the audio track to the right bit?  When I add the audio to the background, there is no option to drag it in the editing mode.  When I add it to the recording, the audio icon is visible on the slide but not dragable.

(I'm using Captivate 6 and video recording).

Thank you!

Victoria

RodWard
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RodWardCommunity Expert
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October 17, 2012

Background audio in Captivate is not designed to be timed to coincide with specific slides.  It's intended more for background music or ambience noise (train terminals or office etc) that should loop or play behind the voiceover.

If you need to delay the start of that audio then you need to paste the silence in at the beginning of the background audio file.  There are no options in Captivate to delay start of the background audio.  When I was speaking about dragging the audio track to the right, I was referring to the audio track that you can see on a normal Captivate slide in Edit mode.  You can drag that to the right or left to adjust the point at which the audio begins playing.

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