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Anonymous
February 25, 2010
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How to remove a slide and attach it's audio to a previous slide

  • February 25, 2010
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Hi All,

I've just started using Captivate and I'm trying to edit a captivate recording and found that Automatic has created lots of slides I don't want to have in my presentation (like 30 slides that were generated for a blinking button). I recorded a live session with multiple users, the recorded narration audio files of the presentation are now connected to the slides.

What I'd really like to do now is, multiselect all slides I don't need, remove them and at the same time attach all of their audio files to the previous slide.

And if that's not possible, I'd also be happy with any other way to achieve what I need - appending the audio of the other slides to the first one of that series.

Please enlighten me 😉

Regards,

Holger

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    Correct answer Captiv8r

    Hi there

    You need to first identify the audio clips. Then delete the slides you don't want. Then you would probably edit the audio for a following slide (or the previous slide to those deleted) and edit the audio. Note that when you are editing audio, you have the ability to insert additional audio during the process of editing by using the Library button. This is where noting the clips on the slides that were deleted would be handy. You find them in the Library and bring them in.

    Cheers... Rick

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    Legend
    February 25, 2010

    Hi there

    You need to first identify the audio clips. Then delete the slides you don't want. Then you would probably edit the audio for a following slide (or the previous slide to those deleted) and edit the audio. Note that when you are editing audio, you have the ability to insert additional audio during the process of editing by using the Library button. This is where noting the clips on the slides that were deleted would be handy. You find them in the Library and bring them in.

    Cheers... Rick

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    Anonymous
    February 25, 2010

    Thx a lot for the quick answer Rick.

    It was not the easy option I was somewhat hoping for, but at least finally allowed me to do what I wanted to.

    Well I just had to do this 5 times and always append 10-20 narrations to the previous narration manually is not really a very nice editing task.

    So I'm still wondering what is the best way to record a live shared screen session. Probably just Full Motion Recording to get everything, though it might become large for a 1 1/2 hour session. Or probably Manual if I know when to capture.

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    Anonymous
    March 2, 2010

    Would it be feasible to record the slides during the shared screen session, prune the slides down to what is actually needed -- getting rid of the 30 slides for the blinking button, for example -- then re-recording the audio using the cleaned-up slides?

    Assuming that creating a 60-90 minute recording is what you really want to do at all.  That seems like an awfully long time to expect users to sit there and watch slides, without any exercises or opportunities for feedback, etc. Or do I not understand what you're doing?

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