Adjust sound levels of typing/clicking

[p0k22]

Hello, i was wondering if it's possible to lower the volume level of the default typing and clicking sounds. It is too loud and drowns out the background audio. This would be much easier than adjusting all of my audio files. I know i could import a new mouse click sound other than the default, but that would be a little more annoying. I also don't see an option to import a typing sound...is this possible also?
thanks.

[Guest · Accepted solution]

Hello p0k22,

As far as I can recall I don't think that you can reduce the volume level of the default typing object as this is something that Captivate automatically adds. You can however disable the tap audio, which is something I tend to do.

To accomplish this carry out these steps;

1. Choose Project > Preferences
2. Click the Preferences tab
3. Deselect the option "Play tap audio for recorded typing when the project is generated"

Now if you own Flash and you feel comfortable exporting your Captivate project to either Flash 8 or Flash MX 2004 then you should be able to reduce the level of tap audio there.

Something else that you could try (and I really haven't tested this) would be to open the KeyClick file which you will find via the following path...

Programs > Adobe > Adobe Captivate 2 > Gallery > SoundEffects > KeyClick in an external audio editor such as Audacity, rename it as KeyClick_old (or something like that so that you have a backup copy) and then lower the volume of the KeyClick audio file in Audacity. I suspect that Adobe Captivate 2 uses this file to add the various audio taps when capturing your keystrokes. Like I say I haven't tried this and I could be barking up the wrong tree completely but it might be worth a try.

Regards,
Mark

[p0k22]

Your idea to edit the sound files worked. Thanks!

[Guest]

Hello p0k22,

Great, I am delighted to hear that my stumbling in the dark paid off, this really was only a guess on my part so I was slightly surprised to see that it work. : wink[;

[Sossa]

Hi,

I had that problem too a year ago... i changed the mouse-clicking sound by an empty sound. (it still had the same name, but it plays - nothing)

In this way i dont have the anoying click sound every time...