Playing an audio clip through the entire project when publishing as a Video
Oct 24, 2018
Hi there. I have a SL360 project that I am publishing as a video (mp4). I want a song to play throughout the entire video (it will have to loop once because the video is about 30 seconds longer than the song). I found out how to make an audio loop on a published course by adding HTML/Java code somewhere, but when I publish as a video I only get the mp4 file - no where to add any code. So here's what I have - a 2 1/2 minute video with 7 slides and a 2-minute song. I want the song to play from start to finish and then re-play for the last 30 seconds. Right now I have cut the song up in sections (one section on each slide) so that the parts play in order but the silence gap of 1/2 - 1 second between slides makes the audio sound bad. Not to mention my slides are quite short - five to fifteen seconds. So the starting and stopping of the song doesn't work well. Any ideas? Thanks.
5 Replies
Could you reorganize your project so that you have ONE slide with several layers? That way, the song could play (and loop) on the baselayer and, instead of navigating to slides, you would display layers on the same slide.
Kristin,
As an alternative to Michael's suggestion, you could use Replay or another tool to composite the audio with the video. See this thread.
I was going to suggest an alternative too, similar to Steve's idea. You could publish the project as video without the audio and then use some third-part tool (could be something as simple as Windows MovieMaker) to add the audio track to the video.
Yes, I did try that. I added the audio to Camtasia but it greatly reduced
the quality of the SL video.
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