What i did as a work around is: import mp4 STORYLINE video into WONDERSHARE video editor. Detached audio from video. Edited audio file as required. Aligned edited audio with original video. Saved new audio file. Then inserted this new audio file back into STORYLINE. Turned down volume of original video slide completely. Finally, I published and now have what I needed in the first place - a video with correct audio.
Surely, there must be an infinitely better way within STORYLINE itself? What am I missing?
Currently there is no way to split the audio and video from a screen recording, to edit them individually. However, please feel free to submit a feature request for this! I'm glad you were able to find a workaround that provided you with a solution! =) Have a nice day.
Alphonso: I dig Storyline (it's my main tool), but if you are doing a lot of screen recordings, you may want to look into Camtasia. Pretty cool, easy audio editing, and so on.
Hi Daniel. Does camtamsia allow for screen recording options such as Try and Test mode? Loathe to make the shift but will consider it if camtamsia record in both Try and Test modes.
Being able to edit audio on a screen recording would be a huge improvement. Right now, I'm debating - do I record the audio separately in Audacity and import for every slide? Very cumbersome but at least I could edit the audio.
The ability to edit screen recording audio is a great idea for a feature, one that I'm sure would make life a lot easier! Would you mind sharing your ideas with our product development team? Thanks for being a part of the community!
In general, I think it would be good to have two tracks for the video editor: one for the video and one for the audio. One thing to consider, though. If you worked your screen recording actions to synch with your VO, editing the VO will have an impact on the synchronization. This means you'd have to have the ability to cut into the video to make multiple video events you could move on the timeline to synch with the edited audio.
This is the standard approach in any video editor, including Camtasia. But the video editor in Storyline only allows you trim the head and tail of the video. You can't slice out something in the middle and then re-align things. So you're only option is to do what Alphonso did: export the MP4, do the work in a video/audio editor, then bring the edited MP4 back into Storyline.
I produce my VO and screen recordings separately, and I make an audio file for each synched chunk. This way I can move the audio on the main timeline as necessary to get things to line up the way I want.
I'd like to see the video "editor" in Storyline become an actual editor, at least as far as making cuts in the video instead of just trimming tops and tails.
I appreciate you sharing that valuable information, Dan. It helps us not only to know what features our users want to see, but also how they'd like the feature to function and how it would solve the pain points you're currently facing. Thanks for adding your voice here!
Hi... I was wondering if there have been any updates to Storyline since this post. I have a number of screen recordings that need to have a section of the audio edited and am wondering if there is a way to do this that isn't as complicated as exporting into a different system, editing, and then re-importing it back into my course.
Audio is attached to the screen recording, so there isn't a way to separate the audio from the video in Storyline 360. I'll hand it over to our community to share if they've found a workaround or a favorite tool to help achieve this!
Camtasia is the easy way to do this. Other non-linear editors like Premier or Vegas or Final Cut can do it, but they're a bit more power than you need if you're just cutting and doing basic editing.
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What i did as a work around is: import mp4 STORYLINE video into WONDERSHARE video editor. Detached audio from video. Edited audio file as required. Aligned edited audio with original video. Saved new audio file. Then inserted this new audio file back into STORYLINE. Turned down volume of original video slide completely. Finally, I published and now have what I needed in the first place - a video with correct audio.
Surely, there must be an infinitely better way within STORYLINE itself? What am I missing?
Hey there Alphonso,
Currently there is no way to split the audio and video from a screen recording, to edit them individually. However, please feel free to submit a feature request for this! I'm glad you were able to find a workaround that provided you with a solution! =) Have a nice day.
Thanks Nicole. Will do.
Alphonso: I dig Storyline (it's my main tool), but if you are doing a lot of screen recordings, you may want to look into Camtasia. Pretty cool, easy audio editing, and so on.
Hi Daniel. Does camtamsia allow for screen recording options such as Try and Test mode? Loathe to make the shift but will consider it if camtamsia record in both Try and Test modes.
Being able to edit audio on a screen recording would be a huge improvement. Right now, I'm debating - do I record the audio separately in Audacity and import for every slide? Very cumbersome but at least I could edit the audio.
Hey there Nancy,
The ability to edit screen recording audio is a great idea for a feature, one that I'm sure would make life a lot easier! Would you mind sharing your ideas with our product development team? Thanks for being a part of the community!
In general, I think it would be good to have two tracks for the video editor: one for the video and one for the audio. One thing to consider, though. If you worked your screen recording actions to synch with your VO, editing the VO will have an impact on the synchronization. This means you'd have to have the ability to cut into the video to make multiple video events you could move on the timeline to synch with the edited audio.
This is the standard approach in any video editor, including Camtasia. But the video editor in Storyline only allows you trim the head and tail of the video. You can't slice out something in the middle and then re-align things. So you're only option is to do what Alphonso did: export the MP4, do the work in a video/audio editor, then bring the edited MP4 back into Storyline.
I produce my VO and screen recordings separately, and I make an audio file for each synched chunk. This way I can move the audio on the main timeline as necessary to get things to line up the way I want.
I'd like to see the video "editor" in Storyline become an actual editor, at least as far as making cuts in the video instead of just trimming tops and tails.
I appreciate you sharing that valuable information, Dan. It helps us not only to know what features our users want to see, but also how they'd like the feature to function and how it would solve the pain points you're currently facing. Thanks for adding your voice here!
Hi... I was wondering if there have been any updates to Storyline since this post. I have a number of screen recordings that need to have a section of the audio edited and am wondering if there is a way to do this that isn't as complicated as exporting into a different system, editing, and then re-importing it back into my course.
Hello Donyale!
Audio is attached to the screen recording, so there isn't a way to separate the audio from the video in Storyline 360. I'll hand it over to our community to share if they've found a workaround or a favorite tool to help achieve this!
Camtasia is the easy way to do this. Other non-linear editors like Premier or Vegas or Final Cut can do it, but they're a bit more power than you need if you're just cutting and doing basic editing.