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johng17840756
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October 17, 2017
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Recording in PowerPoint

  • October 17, 2017
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Hi,

First time using the program. So, when you go to record PowerPoint, if you just click for audio, it looks like you have no control over when you can click on to begin the animation on the slide.

I thought if you record audio, you could at least step through the animation.  But that doesn't look to be the case.  So, I'm not sure how to make this work.

If anyone can provide some tips that would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

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Jorma_at_CoSo
Jorma_at_CoSo
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October 19, 2017

Are you recording audio through the option to record in the Presenter tab or the Insert tab?

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johng17840756Author
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October 19, 2017

Back on Tuesday, I was using the recording option only.  I did try the other option, but the size was off.

Basically, I want to record my voice, but be able to control the animation in my presentation. I really don't want to get into syncing up my voice with the animation. 

Plus, the other item that is bothersome is when you publish your presentation, the slides are all blurry.  Unless I'm missing something, it should publish a quality where your slides should not be blurry. 

Let me know your feedback and whether I can make my output a lot clearer.  I may have to lean on Captivate, which means, I have recreate all my PowerPoint slides, which if import them, the size is all messed up.

Jorma_at_CoSo
Jorma_at_CoSo
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October 19, 2017

johng17840756  wrote

Back on Tuesday, I was using the recording option only.  I did try the other option, but the size was off.

Still not clear on what you are using to record, but here is how to do it in Presenter.

In the Presenter ribbon in PPT select the Record Audio button:

PPT will go to a slide show view and you'll get a dialog box to record your audio.

This dialog box has the option to record audio (red mic button), play back the slide audio (white play button), and the Script button (white button with three dots with lines next to it on the right). Once you start recording audio the Cue Animation button will appear in place of the play button and be white if there are any on click animations on the slide.

This allows you to cue your animations while you record your audio. Once you click the stop button you can play back your recorded audio and animations as well as click the Save or Discard button at the bottom right of the dialog.

As to the blurry look when publishing as HTML 5, I would recommend reaching out to Adobe Support. You are not the only person to experience this and they may be able to get you a fix.You can reach them here: chat-console

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