Adjusting audio volume for all slides?

I can easily do this for one slide, but when I Shift-click to
select all slides, then apply Captivate's Audio / Edit Timing menu
option, the dialog shows me an Adjust Volume option that adjusts
the volume for all slides in the movie. But, when I adjust the
volume and press OK to exit the dialog, the new volume setting is
not saved with my movie. Is this a bug? Anyone?

Hi boonedogr and welcome to our community
In the words of Yoda: Hmmm, seems a bug we have found!
So here is how to make it stick.
1. Click Audio > Edit timing... and you should see the
"Edit Audio Timing" dialog.
2. Click the Insert Silence toolbar button. This should
produce the "Insert Silence" dialog.
3. Change the "Insert" field so it reflects 0.001seconds of
silence.
This step is necessary to trick Captivate into accepting the
audio has indeed changed. I use 0.001 seconds as it is the minimum
you can insert and it should have absolutely no discernable effect
on your movie.
4. Now click the Adjust Volume button to see the "Adjust
Volume" dialog where you can alter the volume level as well as
boost dynamics and whatnot.
5. Make adjustments as desired.
6. Click OK to dismiss the Adjust Volume dialog.
7. Click OK to dismiss the Edit Audio Timing dialog
At this point, you should notice several progress indicators
as the audio clips for all slides with audio are adjusted to
reflect your new settings.
*NOTE: This will have no effect on Background Audio or Object
Level Audio. Those clips will need to be adjusted manually as a
separate process.
Hope this helps a bit... Rick

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AndrewThompson64 wrote:
sabre150 wrote:
..The magnitude is easy ( Math.abs() ) and the running average is relatively easy.. It is as difficult as it is useful. (I.E. not difficult and not useful).I disagree - I have done it this way for 40+ years. The average of some function of a time series is the average taken over the last N values. The running average is the application of this continuously so the running average at time 't' is is the average taken over the last N samples (t,t-1,t-2 etc) so this has a smoothing effect on the time series. Whether one use abs() on each value or any other function does not change the concept. Maybe not the concept, but certainly the end 'volume' number. If you do not use the abs value, the end volume (in the situation I outlined, where the buffer size covers a single wavelength) would be 0 for sawtooth wave spanning -1 <-> 1, -0.5 <-> 0.5 or -2 <-> 2.
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