Audio in "audio objects" cuts off..

[ryan schar]

Hello,

I am using a series of "audo objects" to put together a conversation between two people. When I preview the slide, the conversation sounds great.  When I play the project from SCORM Cloud (perhaps other servers as well), however, each of the audios are cut off, meaning the last few words aren't heard.

Does anyone have any experience with this?

[Lilybiri]

Make the audio object timelines a little bit longer than the required duration for the audio clip, or even better edit the audio clips and add some 'noise' at the end. The problem is probably due to the fact that the audio clips have to be loaded when entering the slide.

You do not have audio playing at the same time, it could have been done in that case with the Play Audio command, in combination with 'Delay Next commands', but I suspect the recommendation about adding noise would be valid as well.

[ryan schar]

Yea, I think another option would be dividing the conversation up into different slides, so the browser only tries to download one audio at a time... 

[Lilybiri]

If that is possible, yes.

[RodWard]

OR...why not just paste the audio clips together into a single audio clip for each slide so that you can just add that clip as the slide audio.  Then you won't need to worry about their endings being clipped off so often (you'll just need to ensure there is enough low-level audio at the beginning and end of each slide audio clip).

[ryan schar]

Thats an idea, too.  What tool do you use to paste audio clips together?

[RodWard]

If all of the clips are in the Captivate Library you can just use Captivate's own Audio dialog to do it.  Just open up the first clip and then (making sure you are in the Edit tab) insert the next clip from the Library.  You can lengthen or reduce the spaces between the clips as necessary to get the feel you want.

If you want a more sophisticated tool then by all means use Adobe Audition.  But you should be able to see very quickly just using Captivate alone whether or not this method will provide a solution for your overall problem.

[Lilybiri]

Audacity is free and perfectly suited as well.

There are advantages to have all in slide audio, but disadvantages as well. If you pause the timeline, object audio that has not yet entered, will not play. But slide audio has to be paused with the Properties panel, it is by default not pausing.

[ryan schar]

Thanks, Rod.  Combining the audio clips into a single audio file really helped!