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Question

The documentation is not clear, but it seems that regardless which of the three recording options I choose (slide/slides/background) it is not possible to 'change slides' while recording.
What I'm trying to do is add audio (narration) for a presentation which has a number of slides. I'd like to start recording while I am looking at a given slide, continue recording and advance to the next slide. The audio editing function allows you to move 'slide markers' around if you have a large audio file and you are trying to match slides up to it (which, I guess is fine if you are creating the source audio) but it's not very helpful if I'm creating the audio.
As an example, from PowerPoint I can Slideshow > Record Narration  and start the slideshow and record and advance through the slides and record my whole presentation, without interruption. At then end (if I chose 'linked' at the onset) when I save it it will create separate audio files for each slide.
I'd rather not have to do this from PPT first, then do more importing into CP5 and dragging and dropping audio files from the library onto the relevant slides (that's another gripe: there seems to be no easy way to drag 30 audio files onto 30 slides without doing each one individually)
Anyone got an idea of how I do this?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I'm kinda replying to my own message as well (I'm also DoubleDawgg. Somehow my personal and work accounts got crossed/meshed?)
I will have to take back what I said earlier about the new functionality of recording over several slides at once. Turns out it's even better than before, or at least from v3.
Joseph is correct about the documentation being non-existent (I couldn't find anything either) or unclear for this subject. I clicked all the buttons and check boxes eventually and found the "trick".
On the main menu click Audio > Record to > Slides.
Select the slide numbers to record from and to. Click OK.
You should now be on the Add/Replace tab for this screen.
I usually check the SWF Preview box (I wish there was a default for this) so I can see the slides I'm recording to. This in the middle right of the screen.
Here's the gotcha: Check the Continuous Play box. This is in the middle left of this screen.
Checking the Continuous Play box should leave your slide timing intact and record your narration over the slides you selected.
If you don't check this box, the narration only gets recorded to the first slide and pushes the timing of that one slide to accommodate the length of the narration.
So, that makes it like it was in v3. Here's how it's even better:
At the top of the screen, click on the Edit tab.
This should show your narration AND the slide timings for just the slides you selected.
From here, you can adjust the slide timing to better match your narration if needed.
You can also do any other audio editing needed here without leaving this screen.
You could adjust slide timing with your audio in v3 but you had to load all the slides for the whole project by going to Audio > Edit Timing > Project.
Nice improvement if you do a lot of voice-overs. Documentation just needs to be better.
Hope this is what you were looking for.