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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Oh, and I just made an additional discovery. Audio from today's work that did appear in the audio editor at one time apparently was lost because PowerPoint had to be forced to quit without saving.
Hi Jim!
Sorry to hear that you are having difficulty with this functionality.
Are you working locally as working on a network drive can cause various issues with audio and saving.
You may also want to consider conducting a repair of your software.
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.
You are welcome to submit your feature requests here at any time Jim :)
Thanks for the update.
Well, after I thought I had the problem solved, it resurfaced again last Thursday. This time I went right to our IT and asked them to do a reinstall, which they promptly did on Friday. I haven't experienced the problem since then, so hopefully it's smooth sailing, Skipper. Thanks.
Glad to hear it.
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