Cleaning up sound in Articulate Replay
Jan 07, 2014
Good afternoon!
Is there a better way to clean up sound with Articulate Replay?
-I just got Storyline and Replay last week. Recorded a screen capture (no sound) plus webcam (used decent microphone)
-Since I have Adobe Audition, I generally clean up my audio there and roll it back into Captivate, MovieMaker, etc.
-But I don't see a way to insert a cleaned audio track back into Replay. Is there?
-What I did that worked as a Plan B: 1.) Published MP4 from Replay, 2.) Imported it to Adobe Audition, cleaned audio, and published from Audition as a sound file, 3.) Imported to Windows MovieMaker to combine cleaned Audition audio track with Replay's MP4 visual track, then published from MovieMaker. (Maybe I could have substituted MovieMaker with Storyline here.)
-It'll work, but is there a better workflow to combine cleaned audio back into Replay for re-publish from Replay?
Thanks so much!
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Hi Nicholas and welcome to Heroes!
Replay has dual tracks, so you can import sound or an audio file to exist on one of the tracks to match your screen recording or webcam video. In regards to editing within Replay, I've seen a few feature requests for more robust editing capabilities, so if you'd like to share your thoughts on what you'd like to see please feel free to share here with our development team.
Thank you, Ashley!
At first I thought I'd have to sacrifice either webcam or screen capture track to make room for the cleaned audio. But... inspired by your idea, I did this:
1.) Recorded webcam, screen capture and microphone audio.
2.) Published typical MP4 from Replay.
3.) Re-imported MP4 to a new Replay project: track A. (Muted audio)
4.) Additionally, imported MP4 Replay to Adobe Audition to clean the audio. Published Audition WAV audio file.
5.) Imported new Audition WAV audio file to new Replay project track B. (Enabled audio)
Using this method of publishing track A and B, then importing back as track A and adding new track B, (repeat); I'm curious to see what kind of reflection-within-a-reflection uses this workflow might produce. (For instance, screen capture, avatar, plus occasional concept slide, diagram, comic, etc. popping in as a full-screen B at the appropriate time.
I've benefited from this and other posts you've published. Have a great day and thanks again!
Thanks Nicholas for sharing that solution here, and let us know if you need anything else!
I took the steps here, but used VLC to pull the audio from the video using the "Covert" option in the Media menu. Then I cleaned up the audio in Audacity. Basically the same process, but with much less Adobe involved for those that don't have that option.
Thanks Bjorn for sharing that here - and although this thread is older I'm sure your solution will assist others who come across it.
Along this line, I have a replay video with a very scratchy audio. I'd like to delete the audio completely and have it play silently. Is there a way to do this?
Hi Lynn!
To adjust the volume of a sound clip in your project, do the following:
To delete a sound clip, just select it in the timeline, and click the Delete key on your keyboard.
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