Setting Keyboard Tap Sounds; Editing Audio Files - Adobe CAPTIVATE 2-USING CAPTIVATE Use Manual

Setting keyboard tap sounds

You can include or exclude keyboard tap sounds in your projects. The tapping sounds are
included in Adobe Captivate projects whenever you press keys on the keyboard while recording. If
you do not like the tapping sounds in your finished project, use the following procedure to
remove them. The tapping sound is a project-level setting, so the sound either plays on all slides
or is removed from all slides.
To set keyboard tap sounds:
Open an Adobe Captivate project.
1.
From the Project menu, select Preferences.
2.
Click the Preferences tab.
3.
If a check mark appears next to the Play tap audio for recorded typing when project is generated
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option, keyboard tap sounds are played in the project. If a check mark does not appear,
keyboard tap sounds are not played in the project.

Editing audio files

You can edit the audio files in your Adobe Captivate project at any time. Using the Edit Audio
dialog box, you can listen to an audio file, insert silence, adjust volume, and change numerous
other options.
To edit an audio file:
Open an Adobe Captivate project.
1.
From Storyboard view or the Filmstrip in Edit view, find a slide containing audio.
2.
Click the audio icon beneath the slide and select Edit from the pop-up menu.
3.
The Edit Audio dialog box appears.
Make any necessary edits. You can cut and paste sections of the audio file, insert periods of
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silence to lengthen the audio file, adjust volume, import a different audio file, and use more
options.
Cut Click to cut the selected portion of the audio file.
Copy Click to copy the selection portion of the audio file.
Paste Click to paste information from the Clipboard. (For example, if you select a section of
the audio file, and then click the Cut or Copy button, the selected audio is placed on the
Clipboard. You can then use the Paste feature to place the audio located on the Clipboard back
into any location within the audio file.)
Delete
Click to remove the selection portion of the audio file.
Undo
Click to undo the last action taken.
Redo
Click to redo the last action taken.
Insert silence
a specific location within the audio file.
Click to add a period of silence to the beginning or end of the audio file, or to
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