Audio recorder locking up

Nov 07, 2014

I am adding audio/narration to a 70-slide ecourse directly, using Presenter's built-in voice recorder. I am not syncing animations on the fly while recording (I add them later). About 60 slides into a 70-slide ecourse, the recorder began locking up ("Program not responding" error). This would also lock up PPT. I had to use Task Manager to get rid of the black or partial audio recorder screens. I restarted PPT and had same problem. I restarted computer, had one or two successes, then the same problem again. Sometimes it freezes when I hit "stop recording," sometimes it simply won't let me "start recording." It is very frustrating to be this close to finishing and then get locked up. I did the last few slides in the Windows voice recorder, which hopefully will import ok. Any help would be appreciated.

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Jim Schoemer

Thanks for the reply. First, yes, I am working off my hard drive, as was recommended to me shortly after I began using Studio 13 last spring.

Second, I would have to go through our IT to follow the repair process, since they own all software installations.

But third, and on the "repair" theme, I tried doing an "Open and repair" on the PPT instead of a normal "Open." (This opens a copy that you do a "Save as..." on and give it a different name.)

I then returned to my recording process, and had no problems. To ease my mind, though, I did a "Save and close" every three or four slides in the audio recorder, then did a PPT save. Earlier, just before I began having problems, I was doing a much longer string of slides, about 20. It is possible that there are capacity or performance issues if you go that many slides without a save.

So, for now, I'm good. Ideas for future versions related to this topic:

1. Ability to export audio from individual slides or a selection vs. the entire audio file.

2. An auto-save feature that does a save every time you go from one audio slide to another while doing a string of slides.

3. A folder in which the audio recorded for each slide is saved as an accessible file.

One other glitch I noticed: when importing audio for three slides, it asked me to confirm the order I wanted them inserted, but it ignored me and brought them in alphabetically.

Thanks again.

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