Trim in Captivate 4.0

Hi,
I have Captivate 4.0  I have recorded a narrated video.  I couldn't figure out how to turn off the recording at the end of the last slide.  As a result I have about 20 seconds of dead time at the end of the slide.  I would like to simply trim or delete this audio and video off of the end of the recording but I can't figure out how to do so.  All the help material suggests using an editing screen that I can't get to open up on my version of captivate.  Any help would be much appreciated.
--John J. Sparks, Ph.D.

Hello John.  How did you record your project?  If you used Full Motion Recording Mode, you should have a slide with a layer in the timeline for your video, labeled Captured animation.  You should also have a layer for the slide itself, then at the bottom a layer for the recorded audio.  To remove the extra 20 seconds of the video, position your mouse at the end of the captured animation layer, until it turns into an arrow pointing right and left.  Click and drag the end of the layer back to the left for the extra 20 seconds.  For the audio, double-click the audio layer.  An Edit Audio dialog box will open.  You can then select the extra 20 seconds worth of audio at the end of the track and delete the extra audio.  Click OK. You can then shorten the length of the slide layer itself by dragging the right end of that layer back to the left, just as you did with the animation layer, making all three layers the same duration.
I hope this helps.

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