Audio Buttons & Triggers
Nov 26, 2012
Have a question about how to handle audio and audio button triggers efficiently.
I've got a slide with base narrator audio (approx 15 seconds)
There are also 6 buttons on the slide, each with audio associated with them.
Currently, if you click a button before narrator audio is finished, the audio overlaps.
If you click another button before previous button click audio is finishes, the audio overlaps.
Here's what I'm thinking:
Disable the buttons somehow (animate in late, put a box over them) until the base audio has completed.
Add a ridiculous number of triggers to each button, to not only start the audio associated with that button, but stop the audio associated with all other buttons.
Thoughts?
sean
PS: Also, is there a way to replace the next button in the player with an exit button for the last screen of each module?
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Sean,
I would do just that. I know it may seem cumbersome, but you can actually use the copy and pasting of triggers to rock it out pretty quickly. So in your case, each button would have 6 triggers (1 play audio and 5 stop audio).
Mike
pop the audio onto layers, set the button to show a layer, ensure each layer is set to close all other layers this way they will never overlap no need to disable the buttons
Phil for the win!
Nice idea Phil, this will also negate the need for all the triggers.
Far be it from me to tell people to use less triggers
Hey Phil.
How do you pop audio onto a layer? I am a novice with AS. I have 6 buttons that I have placed on my base layer. When the user clicks each button it shows text (created as a layer). The triggers i have in place show the text when the user clicks the button and plays the audio properly. Just don't know what to do if the user clicks multiple buttons....each audio track plays over one another. Could you break down your suggestion for a novice?
Insert the audio for each button onto a separate layer. On each button add a trigger to show layer when user clicks. As each layer by default hides other layers they cannot play over one another.
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Hi Jennie!
This thread is pretty dated and I'm not sure that Phil would still be subscribed here.
I think that this tutorial about working with layers will help you get started as well as help explain how to prevent the overlap that you mention.
Edit - OR - Phil could totally be subscribed and even beat me to a response ;)
Thanks. I know how to create a layer. I didn't see anything in the article about adding audio files as layers and how to trigger the audio to stop if someone clicks out of the button.
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By default layers will close other layers so you don't need to do anything to do this
Ah, gotcha Jennie :)
You can insert audio on each slide layer just like you can for the base layer.
As Phil mentioned as well, by default the other layers will be hidden.
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