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Camtasia and/Power Point Question

by webgal
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Hello everyone.

I'm hoping someone could help me with a question/problem I'm having with Camtasia and Power Point. So I've created a presentation in Power Point and used the PPT/Camtasia plugin to record my audio during the slide presentation. At the end of the presentation I've brought it into Camtasia, and the audio and video plays just fine, but the audio portion never shows up as green (wav files in the audio section of the timeline. I've separated the audio/video after bringing it into Camtasia, and then even separated a completely new wav file to bring it into Camtasia, but as you'll see in the attached file, all I get in the audio track area is a blank white space where there should be a green wav file. I can click on the audio and it plays--so the audio is there it's just not showing up.

Any of you experts with Camtasia have any tips or suggestions for how I can get the audio file to show up so that I can edit it?

Thanks so much!
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  • Profile picture of the author LonNaylor
    This is a known issue...

    It usually has to do with version 5 projects recorded in PowerPoint with the 5.1.0 PowerPoint recorder being imported into version 6...is that you?

    Try producing your project to an AVI using Camtasia 5 and then pulling it into version 6...

    You might also try to Save Audio As...wav, then delete the existing audio and bringing the exported file back in...

    This issue will be fixed in the very-soon-to-be-released update of v6.

    If your situation doesn't fit this fix, then I'm not sure what the problem is...
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    • Profile picture of the author Marty S
      I have never actually used the feature inside of Camtasia for power point successfully - or at least without some grievance.

      So don't use it.

      Build your power point screens, and in the notes area below add your script for each screen.

      When it's time to record start a new Camtasia project just select the area of your Power Point display and record as per usual. Change the screens in PP manually and continue recording the script. You will get full audio track and can go back in and edit any transition effects, delays or mistakes just as you were recording any other demonstration from another program.
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      • Profile picture of the author LonNaylor
        Originally Posted by Marty S View Post

        I have never actually used the feature inside of Camtasia for power point successfully - or at least without some grievance.

        So don't use it.

        Build your power point screens, and in the notes area below add your script for each screen.

        When it's time to record start a new Camtasia project just select the area of your Power Point display and record as per usual. Change the screens in PP manually and continue recording the script. You will get full audio track and can go back in and edit any transition effects, delays or mistakes just as you were recording any other demonstration from another program.
        I also never actually use the built-in PPT feature...

        I set PPT to display the slideshow in a window (Slideshow menu...Set Up Show...Browsed Window), size it to fit inside my properly sized Recorder window when in SlideShow Mode and record that way...

        I usually also record my audio FIRST and clean it up...

        Lastly, I play the audio (with Recorder set to Speakers, What You Hear as the audio source) and just follow my voice with advancing the slides...
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        • Profile picture of the author webgal
          Lon and Marty,

          Thanks for the tips. I was using Camtasia 6 so not sure why the bug happens, but I can reproduce it every time, so I appreciate your help with the workarounds! Will try this new method and won't use the plugin anymore:-) Appreciate your both taking the time to help.
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  • Profile picture of the author jlandells
    I've been experimenting with different ways of doing this and have had good success with the following:

    - Create your slides in PowerPoint as usual, but don't worry about animation
    - Export the slides as JPEG's
    - Record the audio seperately and clean it up
    - Load the audio into Camtasia Studio, along with the JPEG's
    - Use Camtasia's transitions (sparingly...!) to move between the slides.

    As I said, I've found that this approach works well - particularly if you want to wrap slides around sections of video.

    -John.
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