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wkiss
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May 29, 2016
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Multiple Audio On Slide

  • May 29, 2016
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I have a rather unusual request. I want to use captivate to create backing tracks for live, music performance(ex. Bass, Drums, Guitar). I want to be able to mute one or more tracks at a time.

If, say a bass player will be playing with me that night, I need to mute the pre-programmed bass part.

What I'm thinking is to put 4 buttons on a slide and attaching audio to each one. Then, if there is a simple way of setting it up so that when you click the button, it will mute the audio, (change the volume to 0)

Is there a way to do this?

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Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
May 29, 2016

I answered this question in one of the LInkedIn forums like this:

Very strange, never heard that Captivate was used for such a goal. The only way to have multiple audio on a slide is to create audio objects. I use that term for an object (that can be made invisible to the user by making its fill set to 0% and its stroke set to 0) to which you attach an audio clip. If those objects are all on the slide for the duration of that slide, all audio will play at the same time.To mute one of those audio objects, you have to 'really' hide that object, which can be done with one button for each audio clip. I don't know of another way to have multiple audio tracks playing. Slide audio and system audio are the only two tracks that can be attached directly to the slide. The command 'Play Audio' can play only one audio clip at the same time. More about audio objects in:

http://blog.lilybiri.com/audio-objects-control-them

Captiv8r
Captiv8r
Legend
May 29, 2016

I think Captivate is horrible overkill for something like this and would force you into a corner very quickly..

If I were in the same position, I'd investigate using a freeware tool named Screen Monkey. Screen Monkey is very flexible and allows you to play up to a total of four pieces of media at the same time.

http://www.screenmonkey.co.uk

Cheers... Rick

RodWard
Community Expert
RodWardCommunity Expert
Community Expert
May 29, 2016

If the audio is Object-level audio attached to an object on the slide, then using a button to execute an Advanced Action that hides the object will immediately mute the audio.

However, if you then were thinking you could have another button that SHOWs the same object to continue the audio you will find that it restarts the audio from the beginning again, not from the current point on the timeline where all the other audio clips are at.

So if your needs are simply to STOP and RESTART audio then you'd get away with using Captivate but not necessarily if your needs were any more sophisticated than that.

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