Video Sales Letter - Mic Recording Keyboard Strokes

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Ok I feel silly asking this but I can't seem to figure this out.

I'm trying to make one of those video sales letters where you record a PowerPoint presentation where you see 1 or 2 lines of text at a time which the presenter reads or elaborates on.

Everything is working great except for one thing:

Every time I hit the arrow key to go to the next slide, my mic (which is on a headset) records the actual physical "thud" sound of me hitting the key on the keyboard.

You can hear this in my video presentation and I find it really distracting.

All the video sales letters I've seen in this format, go from one slide to the next without any kind of "keyboard pressing key" sound.

How does one do this silently? I know you can set PowerPoint to go from slide to slide automatically, but each slide is different and requires a different amount of time for me to explain/elaborate etc.

Ideas? Thoughts? Suggestions?

Much appreciated.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dan C. Rinnert
    Get a quieter keyboard?
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    • Profile picture of the author Mike Bradson
      Originally Posted by Dan C. Rinnert View Post

      Get a quieter keyboard?
      My girlfriend bought me my keyboard for my birthday and buying a new one would just... upset her. (I know, I know.)

      I was hoping there was another way.

      It's a stupid problem - I know.
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  • Profile picture of the author RAMarketing
    Use camtasia's noise cancelling or time yourself going through the slides.
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    • Profile picture of the author Mike Bradson
      Originally Posted by RAMarketing View Post

      Use camtasia's noise cancelling or time yourself going through the slides.
      Just found their tutorial video on their site for that.

      I should have checked their first - my bad.

      Thanks for the help.
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    • Profile picture of the author Dan C. Rinnert
      Does it have to be an arrow key? Can it be set up to use something else to trigger the next slide?

      If so, maybe you could get a number pad. Either a quiet number pad, or one you can put under the table, farther out of the mic's range.

      Or maybe a wireless presenter used by public speakers.
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  • Profile picture of the author Rough Outline
    I create video sales letters for people and I edit the audio after I've recorded it, tidying up any errors and editing out unwanted sounds.

    Do you not have something like movie maker or sony vegas? It's really easy to take out same clips.
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  • Profile picture of the author nicholasb
    you can use a free audio editing software called audacity to remove those parts, I use it it works great, you can remove long silences that last to long, heavy breaths in between paragraphs, and all kind of stuff. there might be another way but that's just how I do it.
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  • Profile picture of the author RyanJohnson
    are you talking about the "click" that the mouse makes when clicking the arrow in MS PP?? Is it the actual click in the background noise?

    The software I use has the audio option to turn off "mouse clicks" or lower the volume.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Webb
    Simple -

    1. Record your audio first using Audacity, forget about the slides while you're recording the audio.
    2. Now play back the audio in Media Player, launch powerpoint and record your slide timings while your audio plays back (less for you to think about doing it this way)
    3. Discard the audio recorded (keyboard thumps) and mix your pre-recorded audio in instead.

    I outline this whole process in elaborate detail in this vid -

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  • Profile picture of the author John Romaine
    You dont need software at all.

    Scroll your mouse instead of hitting the keyboard, works just the same and is silent.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jesus Perez
    "Thud"? It sounds like you have the microphone mounted on the desk (probably using a small tripod?). If you pick up the microphone off the desk or mount it with a shock mount, the thud should go away.

    Now "clicking"...that's another story. Good mics will pick up the "clicks" of the keyboard and sometimes the "clicks" of the mouse. In those cases, try getting a wireless presenter with soft keys.

    Final option: Record all the audio first in one take, then drop in video slides in post-editing.
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  • Profile picture of the author celente
    read ray johnston.

    I would leave it in, people these days love the unedited personal touch, I have found in my sales.

    Make it fun, and make fun that you are so silly you do not even know how to turn the effect on. Have some fun, and be human.....people love that. It creates repore.
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  • Profile picture of the author spearce000
    This is how I do it:

    Write out what I want to say in my word processor.
    Read the text off the screen and record it in Audacity - giving myself a cue when I'm scrolling down the page, so I can edit it out later.
    Edit the soundtrack in audacity and process it using any filters - noise reduction etc.
    Export the finished result as a .wav or .mp3 file.
    Sync with the graphics in the edit.
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