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Inspiring
April 26, 2016
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Importing music to Captivate 8

  • April 26, 2016
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I am using license free music in my Captivate 8 eLearning module. My question is, should I make a music folder to import this audio file from, or is it enough to be imported into Captivate 8's Library? In other words, will Captivate 8 be looking for the external audio file once it has been published and uploaded?

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Correct answer RodWard

It means that if you want to preserve as much audio quality in the original file as possible you try to get the file from the start as a WAV and keep it as a WAV for the entire process, only having it converted to MP3 right at the end when Captivate publishes output.

If you cannot do this, try to at least start with the highest quality MP3 you can get (i.e. the highest bitrate MP3 possible) so that when you do have it converted to WAV it has only lost minimal audio data.

2 replies

clworkAuthor
Inspiring
April 26, 2016

The audio file was already an MP3. Does this mean saving it as a WAV after I edited it in Adobe Audition really doesn't matter since it already was an MP3 file?

Lilybiri
Legend
April 26, 2016

It will not really matter, although I think that Audition is more powerful to manage audio files than CP. Another question is if this will be 'audible', but I am a musician, which means audio is very important to me.

TLCMediaDesign
Inspiring
April 26, 2016

Captivate will put it in the library. So it doesn't matter where you import it from.

clworkAuthor
Inspiring
April 26, 2016

Awesome! Thank you.

Lilybiri
Legend
April 26, 2016

Audio files are never external, they will always be embedded in the published file/folder. Be sure whenever possible to import audio clips as WAV files.