Cleaning up audio transitions
Good morning
When I add audio to objects in my presentation (final project is an .mp4), I get an abrupt click. I record the audio to the object, silence the audio a second before narration begins and about .5 seconds after narration ends, and trim anything outside of that. However, it makes noise (NOT a mouse click) when the audio comes in and when it ends.
I’m in a good location to do the audio (no fans or any real external noise).
Does anyone have any tips to make the audio a little cleaner?
Thanks
Matt Pensabene
So the final product is an mp4 demo.
Rather than one audio piece for the whole slide, I attach audio to the objects
Example: (each of these statements are objects with separate audio, hence the click at the end
Two standard sentences used for typing acumen are: (15 secs long, narrated (approx 4 seconds))
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog (11 seconds long, narrated approx 5 seconds)
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of his party (9 seconds long, narrated approximately 8 seconds)
So the audio is attached to each object, and given the narrations are shorter than the duration of the project, I get a click with the narration ending
Thanks
Not sure to have all the details. Are you using Video Demo feature or Software simulations? You talk about narration, which is by definition slide audio, but then you mention object audio? This is so strange… Which audio are you muting if you use Object audio instead of slide audio? Background audio?
Is it possible to clarify please? I always use the Audition roundtripping to correct audio glitches if I do the audio recording in Captivate (I prefer doing it right away in Audition). For object audio it is a good idea to add some dirty noise at the start and end of the audio clip. You could also create a fade in/fade out of course. If you do not have CC (no Audition) the free application Audacity can replace it.
Thanks for the reply and apologies for taking forever. I tried a few things and I don’t have it fixed yet.
Easiest way to put it is there is an audible “click” when narration begins and ends that I want to get rid of.
Let’s say I have an object (text box with bulleted text) that comes in at 10 seconds of a 30 second slide. The narration matches the text and reads “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of his party”.
If the audio last 5.5 seconds, an audible click is heard when the narration begins and ends. Often the text box remains onscreen until the end of the slide while the narration is only for introducing the content text box.
I usually leave about a second before and after the narration, silence the dead space before and after, then trim off some of that silenced dead space.
What I need to accomplish is to have the narration ‘more seamless’ within the text box ‘object.’
Thanks for the reply and I greatly appreciate the help
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