Editing Audio! Seriously losing patience :)

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February 12, 2008
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Hi there,
I was after any advice or input anyone could give me regarding audio editing.

I have tried to do this in two ways, both times, similar problems seem to occur. I've tried either a single large piece of audio (recorded in audacity, import to captivate as wav file) or smaller sections. I spent all day yesterday using the audio > edit > project function within captivate to match my audio to the slide lengths, and amend the slide lengths appropriately. I've come to listen to it today, and the whole audio has gone whoopsie! it starts off okay, but captivate is repeating and looping certain sections of audio, sections are in the wrong order. So all the work I did yesterday is kind of wasted.

I'd really appreciate any advice on the cause of this issue, or suggestions as to the best method of working. I'm still fairly new to captivate so am open to any suggestions. I am creating a training project where I have recorded the screens within my application and recorded the audio (either in small sections, or in one block as a whole). I didn't think it would be practical to record each slides audio individually as some slides could be very short - just clicking on one button for example.

Many thanks. If you need any more informaiton, please let me know.

Kind regards,

Rebecca

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adoucette

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I don't want to have to split the audio up into individual slides in an external program, either. This would take a lot of time.
Then it would take time to import audio for each slide in captivate.
Besides, isn't Captivate supposed to be splitting up the wav file anyway? Its just that Captivate isn't doing it right. As I look at other posts on the forums, it seems that there are other buggy issues with how captivate handles these individual audio clips in the library as well.

Does anyone have a suggestion about the best way to import a large audio file for a project and split the timing over multiple slides?

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Rebecca_KnappAuthor

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It's good to know that I'm not the only one this is happening too!! Makes me feel a little less daft. When I view all the audio segments in Audio > Advanced Audio, the audio segments are no longer sequential, for example, I import track "FullLength", this gets broken into tracks by Captivate, i.e. AudioTrack 1001, 1002 etc. I would have expected slide 1 to use audio track 1, slide 2 to use to and so on, but it seems it is muddling them up here.
I have spent some time this morning trying to make this work, but still it gets muddled. At the moment, I have audacity (the audio editing software) running alongside the captivate window and am trying to split the audio into separate tracks per slide. But with almost 200 slides - this may take some time.
I'd really appreciate it if anyone knows any more on this issue!:)
Many thanks
Rebecca

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adoucette

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Rebecca,
I might be having similar problems.
I've just spent the $ to upgrade to Captivate 3 in the hope that the problem would go away - and it hasn't!
I have a lot of powerpoints that I'm turning into captivate. The powerpoint presentations were audio recorded, so I have a large audio file for each presentation.
I bring the audio in as a wav file and then use the edit timing dialog to set the timing for the slides. After it is set, I click OK and save.
If I go back into the audio timing, it has gone haywire.
Sometimes the whole audio file will play for slide 1, and then it will play (repeat) from slide 2 on with the proper timing.
In other cases, if I delete some audio (like audio when the presenter isn't talking) in the edit timing dialog, the timing for the previous slides is thrown off.
I don't know of a good way to do slide timing to audio in captivate yet, either.
I hope someone has an explanation and a solution for this because I'm wasting a lot of time setting timing 2 or 3 times and previewing only to find out that it is still wrong.
Ari

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