Import audio across slides

Hi, I'm using Captivate 6 on NT. I need to import audio across mutiple slides, but I don't get the Split prompt. I went into Preferences and reset the Confirmation Message to prompt me for Split Audio, but I still don't get prompted. I turned on prompts for all types of other things, but not Split audio. I am importing 30 minutes of audio to a 3-second slide, so it should prompt me. I Searched for the Preferences folder so I could rename or delete it, but I can't find it.
Thanks, Guy

Never mind, I got it! The prompt doesn't show up until AFTER it has imported the audio. With 30 minutes of audio, that's quite a lot of time! So I got the prompt and I'm good!
Thanks!

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I think I remember this occurring in 5.5 as well, but only very occasionally. In this (my first) cp6 project, it's occurred 3 times already.
What occurs is that upon viewing the output (.exe), one slide will just not play the audio imported to it, although the slides before that one and the slides after it play their imported files.
I have re-published the project 6 times, and in two of those new publishes, it has dropped audio in a different slide, and played the audio on the slide where it previously did not play audio.
The imported files play just fine in all slides during preview in every case, so it seems to be occuring at publish. These are straight Audio > Import to > Slide wav files.
Anyone else see this?
At this point I just have to keep re-publishing until I get one that plays all files and call it a day.

Hi, Varun.
I finally got around to updating to 6.0.1.240 this morning.
The audio issue seems to still be there....it still drops imported audio from certain sildes, randomly. It changes with every publish.
THEORY: I noticed that on one of the slides where audio didn't play, the audio file contained a small silent region before the narration began. Maybe .3 or .5 seconds. I removed that silent portion so that the narration starts almost immediately (i.e. less than .2 second seconds of silence.) and for that slide, the audio did play at publish. So perhaps something in the playback exe is ignoring any audio that starts "too late" into the slide.... ?
I am now going back to check the audio files in every slide to remove any preceding silent passaages, and see if that cures this. Will update with my findings.
Another issue I noticed is that my background loop randomly stops playing. (This may have been in the previous build, too, not sure.) Not sure if this is in any way related.
If I pause and un-pause, the background music returns (starts at beginning of loop), and then stops again.. I verfied that "Loop Audio" is turned on.
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Getting Audio across slides

I have had a great guy doing my breeze (Adobe Presenter)
presentations so I haven't had that much hands on experience. He
left the company and now I am up a creek.
I have a presentation and an audio file (50 min) that is
suposed to cover all the slides. I can't seem to get it to import
the audio for the whole presentation. What happens is that the
audio file gets associated with one slide and not the whole set.
Can someone tell me what I am doign wrong?
Thanks from the Newbie.
Tim

Solution : You can import that audio on slide 1 or to that
slide from where you want audio to start playing and then open
audio editor and move the slide markers so that audio gets
associated with different slides e.g lets say you have an audio of
2 minutes and you want to hear first half of that audio when slide
1 is playing and remaining half when slide 2 plays then you can
import that audio on slide 1 and open Audio Editor and move slide 2
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Thank you for your honest answer. I spent so much time trying yesterday. i notice I have audition too (wonder if it came with captivate) - I will try that - I can see that there are some youtube videos about audition, so I'll have a look. thanks again!

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I can't find anything here that mentions the problem I am having.
I am using Captivate 4. And Neospeechs desktop VoiceText program to record audio files outside of Captivate. They are saved as WAV files, then I import the audio into Captivate.
I have various objects on a slide. For example, I have six text Rollover Captions. When you roll over them, some text is displayed. I have attached my audio files to these rollover objects. So, I would have audio1.wav, audio2.wav, audio3.wav etc and these play when you roll over the captions.
The issue I am having, is that when I Publish or Preview the project, sometimes the wrong audio file is playing upon rollover. Usually the first couple of caption/file combinations will work, so I get audio1.wav for caption1 and audio2.wav for caption2, but then say for captions 3,4,5,6 I am still getting audio1.wav playing!
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New to Captivate. When I recorded the audio, I did not know to record it to all of the slides. all the audio is on the first slide. How can I distribute it across all of the video slides?

@parth vyas ??? Why do you recommend to record/import this as background audio? I suppose the user wants to distribute the audio over slides, and to control how much audio on each slide, placing the slide markers where he wants? No such control is possible with background audio, which is just meant as... background.
@[email protected] Welcome to the forum,
So you choose to record to one slide which means that the slide will have a duration that corresponds with the length of the recorded audio clip. And you now want to distribute it over more sides? Is that a correct interpretation of your question?
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I am working on a project as normal where I import a PowerPoint presentation to Captivate. Then record the audio to the slide or if need be import the audio to the slide. This has worked perfectly fine until today.
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I'm relieved (if a little frustrated!) that others have the same issues, it makes me feel at least it's not just me! :-)
I am running Windows 7 64 bit Intel quad core processor 8Gb RAM if that helps Jim?
Another quick test shows I have exactly the same issues as shooternz and Ann Bens above at 7 & 8 respectively. An audio only or audio/video clip from Bin to SM and I can add markers on the fly perfectly. Audio/video from the timeline to SM works just the same. Audio only from the timeline will not work however.
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