Overwriting audio with new audio

[luannh64118016]

Hi

HELLLLLP!

I have imported wav. files on all 76 slides of my project. However I need them converted to MP3. I have also added the closed captions for each.

The problem I have is that I thought it would be easy enough to edit the audio within Captivate and select the entire audio and replace it with the new mp3 file but this is not working.

Is there a way it can be done without me having to delete the wav file and doing ALL of the Closed captions again?

Thanks

[Bob_Elmore]

When I import .mp3 audio to Captivate it creates .wav audio.

You say you need to convert to .mp3.  Why do you need to do that?

[Lilybiri]

Do not bother about converting the wav's at all. When you publish the course, Captivate will compress the wav files to mp3 files, you don't have to do it manually.

You can replace the wav file, but you didn't tell if you are talking about slide audio, object audio or audio started by a command Play Audio.

[StevePixel]

Hi Luann,

Not automatic, but an expedited workflow.

If you have Adobe Audition you can do a batch process on all the .Wav files at the same time if they are in the same folder. You will need to overwrite the individual .Wav files with the new .mp3 in Captivate but you should be able to do that fairly quickly in Audio Management tab. (just select each file and overwrite)  I've never used Closed Caption so I'm not sure if the audio files and CC files interact or are merely timed together

Cheers

Steve

[Lilybiri]

Steve, when you import mp3 they will be converted to WAV, that is why I recommended never to compress a wav file before inserting in Captivate. Decompressing and compressing unnecessary is not good practice.

I don't know what the changes are, maybe synchronizing CC or at least checking it, will be necessary.

[luannh64118016]

Thank you all will try publishing it and see what happens