Captivate 6 Audio file won't distribute across multiple slides

After fighting with Captivate for the better part of a day, I've discovered a workaround.  I was having the exact same problem as the poster and NOTHING worked.  Frustrating me more was that the Adobe moderators didn't seem to understand what we were up against.  Well, here's what finally worked for me.  Import your audio files by using the nav bar on the right hand side (under the "library" tab).  Don't bother linking them to any specific slides just yet. 

Once you have an audio file uploaded in your library, now figure out which slides you'll want to split that audio out across.  For example, will you split it across slides 6-23?  Now, go to the audio tab at the top ribbon and resist the impulse to click the "import to" option.  Instead, click the "Record to" option and click "Slides" instead of "slide" under the options that appear.  Now select the slide numbers that correspond to the slides across which you want to split your audio (for example, slides 6-23).  An audio recording box will pop up, and you'll be in the "Add/Replace" tab by default.  Click on the "Edit" tab instead.  From here, you can right click to import audio, click F6, or click the import audio button below.  Now select the audio file you want to add in here and voila, it will appear. 

At this point, go back up to those pesky slide markers you couldn't move before and give them another shot.  Somehow, this method bypasses the glitch that causes Adobe to resize your initial slide to a static length of your audio file.  Even better, once you save and close, you can come back in using the "Audio, Edit, Project" path and you can still slide the markers around to your heart's content if you need to make more changes. 

I want to add triple frown faces and this fact to the discussion: After doing a demo recording of some 90 slides about the 6th take we now have to go through and elminate slide mistakes by the software and some humans (usually the software) which involves numerous activites to adjust the audio and this is ABSOLUTE TORTURE. There seems to be lots of discussion about importing and distributing audio and so forth, but if you record live it seems like it may be worse. I am very diappointed to be using software that appears to have such a major bug -- can't edit audio -- and it has existed for so long. I have used many other video an audio editing programs and not this problem. This appears to have taken a 1-2 hour preject, the audio edit portion I mean) and we are now in hour 10 and still working. Horrible.

By the way, I can't believe it's been more than a year and Adobe still hasn't fixed the issue. I'm having it with Captivate 6. For the money we pay for this software, this particular feature is CRITICAL, so it's very disappointing that nothing has been done.

As of 2. May 2013 Still no patch/update to this issue, VERY fustrating as I have had this working in a previous version. VERY time consuming cutting and pasting audio manually fra slide to slide.

DO SOMETHING ADOBE

I've got the same problem. It's very frustrating.

I tend to use the solution that Vikram suggested. I figure out my slide timings by putting markers in the audio, then I manually set these in Captivate. I then import the audio, distributing it over several slides and leaving the timing unaltered.

The reason that I do this is that I often have slide changes mid-narration, which is very difficult to get glitch-free using the cut-and-paste solution.

This is a bug that has appeared in previous versions of Captivate and been fixed before, but obviously it made it through the testing and QA this time. It's such an essential feature in the software that it really should have been caught. It's not like this is a cheap product, so there should be the budget for proper testing prior to release.

Same problem here.

Still no fix?

And it's very much annoying with huge projects.

Btw, for me the solution is not to use built-in captivate audio editor. Have to export audio track, cut manually in third-party software in billion pieces, and then import back.

Hello,

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How long is you Audio and How long is you 1st slide ?

Thanks,

Vikram