Importing sound from powerpoint 13 to Captivate 7

I am converting powerpoint 2013 using the high defintion feature. Is there a reason this is not working. I thought captivate 7 converted all animations and audio. Is it related to my selection during the recvording process in powerpoint related to sound file type. Cna this be avoided in the future when I record in powerpoint? Thanks for your help.

I've seen this issue reported by others. Unfortunately I have no explanation for why it doesn't seem to work. Earlier I tested by recording and importing to create a project from PPT and my audio came in just fine. I'm using a Windows 7 PC with Office 2010.
I know that doesn't help you resolve the issue for the moment, but you do have options here.
Option one is to use Captivate's "video recording" feature and capture system sounds. Then play the PPT and record it as it plays using Captivate.
Option two is to locate the .PPTX file using Windows file explorer. Copy it and rename the copy from .PPTX to .ZIP. From there you are able to extract the assets (such as the desired audio). Then you may add the audio separately to either an object or as slide narration in Adobe Captivate.
Hope fhis helps a smidge... Rick

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Hi there
If the file is in WAV format try this. Click Start > Run, type sndrec32 into the Run dialog and press Enter. This should open the Windows Sound Recorder application. From inside Sound Recorder, click File > Open and navigate to the WAV file. Click File > Save As and choose the Change... button at the bottom of the dialog. Make no changes and click OK. (this action should convert the format to PCM encoding)
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I'm trying to simply automate a series of Power Point slides
in Captivate. My company has a standard slide format that has
footers with clear text on a colured background. Although the slide
content comes in clearly the footers are blurred, the characters
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I ideally wanted 800x600 for best web look, but have tried
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Hi steve10150 and welcome to our community
Perhaps an old post from one of our former Adobe Community
Experts will help here. Blurry text from PowerPoint imports is a
very common complaint.
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redvic 08/01/2005 03:52:22 PM
When importing PPT slides to a movie, can I stretch the slide
to fit the Captivate movie frame? I see nothing in help.
In an existing movie, I import PPT slides but there is a
white edge on the left & right sides of the frame.
Tommy Simmons 08/01/2005 05:56:58 PM
redvic,
It sounds like you have a slight mismatch between the aspect
ratios of your Captivate movie and the PowerPoint presentation. It
strikes me that you could either try 1) using "File > Page
Setup" in PPT to change the aspect ratio of your PPT and then do a
manual capture/import operation into Captivate of the selected
slides, or else 2) if a straight manual capture would not produce a
scalability problem for the slide in Captivate, you could use the
PPT splitter bars to resize the thumbnail image in Normal view to
whatever you need and then manually capture the slide, taking care
to crop the slide top and bottom to get the aspect ratio the way
you need. Hopefully someone else can suggest a more elegant
solution - good luck!
redvic 08/02/2005 09:13:57 AM
Hi,
Thanks, your first suggestion worked! I did not know I could
do a custom-sized PPT slide. I did File > Page Setup and chose
"Custom" for Slides sized for field. Then, I specified the height
and width of the slides based on the size of my existing Captivate
project. For this, I had to convert pixels of the Captivate project
to inches in PPT. I divided the pixels dimensions by 72 and got the
approximate inches. For example, 798x546 in Captivate converted to
11.1" x 7.6" in PPT.
redvic 08/02/2005 03:57:09 PM
Hi,
A caveat to this solution: When I switched to a Custom sized
PPT slide size, PowerPoint automatically adjusted the font sizes,
too. For example, I increased the width of the PPT slide a little
bit and my 24 pt Heading font became 26 pt. Our corporate standard
is 24 pt. So, I had to go into the slides and adjust the font sizes
back to the corporate standards.
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Hopefully this helps... Rick

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Maybe you'd better look at Adobe Presenter if you need only to convert a PPT to an eLearning course?
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Hi avguier and welcome to our community
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I'm sorry I was not clear.
I imported a PowerPoint into Captivate. The hyperlink that worked in PowerPoint does not work when I publish the new Captivate file.
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