How to insert audio into an Adobe Captivate Classic project

Adobe Captivate Classic lets you add narration, music, step-by-step instructions, or almost any sound to your projects.

You can use audio in Adobe Captivate Classic projects in a variety of ways. For example, you can do the following, all in the same project:

• Add a background track that plays for the duration of the project.

• Add sound to an individual slide.

• Add sound to a specific object, such as a caption, click box, highlight box, or button.

Adobe Captivate Classic lets you record your own audio files (using some simple equipment) or import existing files. You can record audio files at the same time you record the project, or you can add an audio file later. Imported files can be in WAV or mp3 format. If you add a WAV file to a project, Adobe Captivate Classic automatically converts the WAV file to mp3 format when you publish the project.

After you add audio to a project, you can adjust the timing of objects to fit the sound file precisely. Adobe Captivate Classic also contains features for adding silence to audio files and for normalizing audio for all slides so the sound level is consistent.

Adobe Captivate Classic contains a gallery that has buttons, sounds, and animations (in SWF format) for you to use in your projects. By default, the gallery is stored in the following location when you install Adobe Captivate Classic:

C:\Program files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate Classic <version_number>\Gallery (on Windows)

or

/Applications/Adobe Captivate Classic <version_number>/Gallery/Captions (for Mac OS).

You can import an audio file to use with slides, buttons, highlight boxes, click boxes, or text entry boxes. You can also use the Library to add an audio file that is already in your current project.

Add audio from library

You can reuse existing audio files for any slide or object in a project.

Create background audio

You can create background audio for your projects. The audio plays while the slides of your project are shown. Background audio can be music, sound effects, or almost any kind of sound you can import or record.

You can use background audio together with individual slide audio for a truly professional effect. Adobe Captivate Classic provides an option to lower the volume of background audio when a slide with audio assigned plays. For example, you can import a music file and set it to loop continuously as background audio. In that same project, you can record voice-over narration for individual slides, and when the voice-over audio plays, the music volume is lowered.

Use a custom keyboard tap sound

Adobe Captivate Classic includes a feature that records a keyboard tap sound whenever you press keys on the keyboard while recording a project. You can include or exclude the tap sounds. You can also create a custom keyboard tap sound to use.