Import audio issues

May 04, 2012

By Rachel Nickson

Hi,

I have a problem with my presentation.

I have three audio files (which are fairly big) and need to link these to one slide in my presentation.

I have the following format:

Slide 1 - Introduction

Slide 2 - No audio

Slide 3 - Audio 1

Slide 4 - No audio

Slide 5 - Audio 2

Slide 6 - No audio

Slide 7 - Audio 3

Slide 8 - No audio

The problem that I am having is that the audio does not only play on the slide for which it is imported.

Does anyone know why this might be and what I do to stop this happening?

Thanks in advance!

7 Replies

Sayuj Ravindran

almost 12 years ago05/04/12 at 3:43 am (UTC)

Hi Rachel,

Did you check the Audio Editor in the Articulate menu ? That should give you an idea of the audio playing in each slide...

Rachel Nickson
Author

almost 12 years ago05/04/12 at 3:45 am (UTC)

Hi Sayuj,

Thanks for this.

I did check but I can see that although there is no audio on some slides they seem to play 'silence' for the duration of the previous clip....

I'm not sure whats going on. My slide properities are set to play for 1 second and I've never had any trouble with this before.

Any ideas?

Sayuj Ravindran

almost 12 years ago05/04/12 at 3:54 am (UTC)

Yes i think i have had this problem before... May be you should try this:

For the slide which doesnt require an audio, go to the Audio Editor, select the slide and click on Delete to remove the audio (silence), from the slide.

I had done this before and it helped. But not always.. so the if this does nt work, after the above step, I go the Sync Animation for the slide and do a mock sync animation for one or two seconds. So the slide takes that time as the duration.

Another setting you may want to look at is this:

Rachel Nickson
Author

almost 12 years ago05/04/12 at 4:11 am (UTC)

That's great - I went and deleted the silence for the slides that didn't need it.

It didn't work, but at elast I'm getting there!

I wonder if you could tell me more about what you mean when you say sync animations?

I'm not sure how to do this?

Thanks

Rachel

Sayuj Ravindran

almost 12 years ago05/04/12 at 4:22 am (UTC)

Sync Animations is an option to Sync the Custom Animations you have in your slide according to the narration. It will allow you to hear the audio in the slide and then click on a button called 'Next Animation' to tell Presenter exactly at which point you want an animation to begin.

This link will give you more info.

In our case, even if you may not have any animations in the slide, just click on Sync Animations ... Start Sync and then after 1 or 2 seconds click on Stop Sync. This might reset the timing of the slide. Try your luck...