Audio doing Wierd things!!

Report · Oct 20, 2008

Just wondered if anyone has experienced this little querk? All was well, but my captivate has just started to do this today, and it's somewhat annoying and causing me unneccessary re-work.

Problem is this:
I am recording narration onto a captivate project which is derived from a converted powerpoint presentation (2003, backward converted to 2003 to inport into Captivate 3).

When I set my sound levels and record for the first time on a slide it plays back fine, no hissing or quality issues. However, now imagaine I edit the recording and need to insert a newly recorded sentence into this prior recording. BINGO... and here is the issue, when I do this the recording plays back really noisey at this newly inserted piece and the quality is awfull, even though all the equiptment and my voice hasn't changed. I have even tried recalibrating the input before doing an insert and it has made no difference.

Curiously, if i then add a blank slide to the project and record the new sentences to insert in there and then Import that audio into the preferred slide, it plays back fine. I have no idea why it is doing this and wondered if anyone else has experienced this and if I can do something to fix this issue. It makes eding the audio, hard work and as it was ok before, I am unsure why this has changed now??

Any advice PLEASE.

Thanks!

Report · Oct 21, 2008

Hi there,

What happens if you export the audio file using the Library panel and play the recording through a different player, is the play back still really noisy?

Best - Mark

Report · Oct 21, 2008

> Curiously, if i then add a blank slide to the project and record the new
> sentences to insert in there and then Import that audio into the preferred
> slide, it plays back fine. I have no idea why it is doing this and
> wondered if
> anyone else has experienced this and if I can do something to fix this
> issue.
> It makes eding the audio, hard work and as it was ok before, I am unsure
> why
> this has changed now??

I experienced similar the other day - I think somehow the original sound can
be compressed a second time under certain circumstances, causing the bad
sound quality. I didn't manage to pin down the exact steps that caused my
sound problem, but it was something similar to what you describe. I think
you'll have to stick with your workaround for now.

Steve

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