Need to record audio internally, not through the microphone

Hi Bob,

The thing is I have courses for which I don't have source files. When I record the screen the audio I can record is not the sound sent to the speaker (internally) but the sound that comes out the speaker and gets picked up by the microphone which results in crappy sound quality.

The source files we're currenly working with are SWFs and DXR files... We've installed audicity but can't get it to record the Stereo Mix setting. Anyone care to do a screencast on that one?

Jeff

Jeff,

So sorry... think the lightbulb is finally going off for me!  lol

You have an old course that you can play fine (with audio), but you want to make a screen recording of that course with a particular screen recorder tool. Guessing that's Articulate's Replay, not Applian's Replay as the latter certainly records the audio directly.

Ok,  so an Articulate Replay pro might want to step in here, but guessing to Steve's point and mine earlier, it sounds as if you might have to do this in two passes.... one to record the video via Replay, then one to capture the audio (either by extracting from SWF or recording the Stereo Mix via separate program). Once you have both, you could import the audio file back into the Articulate Replay screen recording as it does allow for that.

Hope this helps, and curious to see if an Articulate Replay pro can speak to it's ability to capture sounds directly.

Hey Steve, I'm on Windows 7 and don't have that option. 

Hi dear members,

I did this before, my suggestion is that you can use Camtasia Studio 8 to catch the screen including the audio when replay your course content.

In the above process, don't forget set internal recording the sound without through microphone which is the option of the camtasia.

After that, as you publish it, just choose the audio option (mp3).

Before doing that, take a time to read the PDF manual and see its tutorial which can be found on its web site including 30 days trial version.

Generally speaking, Articulate studio for ppt and quiz, Camtasia studio for the screen capture, Audacity for the sound, and Formatfactory for the file format transformation and Moodle for the e-learning platform could be nice combination.

(May be there are other better alternatives.)

Never mind. For my laptop, the option is listed as Rec. Playback and my driver was outdated so it would not let me select it when using apps like Replay. Now that I've updated my audio drivers, it works like a charm.

Thanks Owen, Terry and Jeff for all the updates here! 

Hello all,

I am running Replay on a Mac through Parallels Desktop 9 / Windows 7. Can anyone troubleshoot with me to get the option to record the internal audio? I've tried the suggestions above but can't seem to locate the Stereo Mix or anything "internal" for that matter.

Thanks,

Lee

Sorry Lee, I am not familiar with that configuration. I just know that on my Dell laptop running windows 7, it is listed as Rec. Playback

Hi Lee,

I'll admit right off the bat that I'm not a Mac user, so this may be a silly question;

Are you able to check the sound drivers / microphone drivers on the Windows 7 side of the machine? If those aren't installed or updated, it may not be an option for you or may not be installed properly. 

Another option might be to record using a program on your Mac side. Just make sure that you record in a supported audio format.

Replay supports the following audio formats:

• AAC
• AIF
• AIFF
• M4A
• MP3
• OGG
• WAV
• WMA

I also found an article on recording internal sound on a Mac - not sure if it will help, but I thought I'd share:

Howto Capture and Record Audio on Your Mac

**Scroll down to the "Internal Audio" section.

Let us know if you have any luck :)

Thanks!

Thanks for sharing that, Brent :)

Have a great Friday!