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RyanStraight's avatar
RyanStraight
Community Member
13 years ago

Mute/remove audio from screen recording?

While recording the screen for a Try It simulation, I clicked on No Audio and turned the mic off in the recorder settings (it was the one with the eq lighting up, so I figured that was the only one...
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KellyAuner's avatar
KellyAuner
Staff
2 years ago

Hi, Anne!

Thanks for reaching out about this. While there isn't a built-in option to remove background noise from a screen recording, one idea can be to mute the recording's volume and re-record just the video. Here's how:

  • Select the recording you need to edit, then go to the Options tab on the ribbon. From there, click on Video Volume and select Mute.

A few folks have mentioned they've used Audacity to remove the audio from their recording. Please see this discussion for more details and let me know if you need additional assistance!

  • AnneDeFelice-2e's avatar
    AnneDeFelice-2e
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Hi Kelly,

    Thank you for your reply. In my case I want to remove the audio from the source files. I don’t include videos in the final course. I use the recordings as step-by-step slides.

    However, I don’t want the audio recordings to be archived with the source file. My SME and I did not realize we were being recorded as we did captures and it is more of a privacy issue if someone else opens the Storyline source file. Does that make sense?

    I looked at the link you provided, thanks for sending it. However, I don’t see any Videos in my media library. I am trying to get at the source files from the recording, shown in the attached image.

    Thanks,
    Anne

    • JoseTansengco's avatar
      JoseTansengco
      Staff
      2 years ago

      Hi Anne,

      Thanks for the additional information. Since there isn't a way to remove the audio from the screen recordings, i'll let the community chime in on this one. There might be someone who has a solution they'd be willing to share that might work for you.

      • AnneDeFelice-2e's avatar
        AnneDeFelice-2e
        Community Member
        2 years ago

        Hi Joe, 

        Thanks, however I don't think there is any way someone in the community would know how to select or edit them--they are part of the larger .story file. Although I can view these recordings from the Slides/Record Screen drop-down, there is no way to edit them.

        I think this may have to be a question for someone internal to your engineering group. 

        Please note that I would like to strip the audio from the source recordings. The audio is not needed (I created step-by-step recordings), and I would prefer not to save this audio as part of the source file.

        Thanks,

        Anne