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If your Camtasia file is one file, that's fine.
Camtasia knows what to do to manipulate its innards,
to position scenes, snip/trim unnecessary bits,
stretch the timing so a visual lingers longer than
it did in original take, insert fades and transitions,
etc.
But if the audio is a single imported file, Camtasia
is able to manipulate the contents of that file as
though it were native to Camtasia? Move chunks of
audio around, re-order, snip, adjust levels in
various parts of the file, etc?
OH! OH! I've used a utility for speeding through
canned Webinars, where you crank the playback speed to
a comfortably fast rate (say 1.3 to 1.5 times the
original speed, to save time and sanity while
"enjoying" slow-talker presenters. The key to
the usefulness of those utilities is that they
compress the sound without raising the pitch,
so ... no Chipmunks chirping at you.
Can Camtasia do that? Say you find a section
of your presentation, here and there, to be a
bit draggy, can you speed yourself up without
the helium/chipmunk effect? And if you do
tweak the audio in Camtasia, do you then lose
the quality you gained from recording in Audacity?
I'm sure I can Google it, but since we're right here anyway... :-)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Stone
>
> Hi Kevin
>
> Well, sure. Each is on its own timeline layer. And the timeline layers
> may be split wherever you like. Additionally, you may drag them left or
> right to better match up to whatever they are against. So if that's
> what
> you mean, I'm saying yes. ;)
>
> Cheers... Rick :)
>
> On 1/27/2012 6:49 AM, McLauchlan, Kevin wrote:
> > When audio is imported as a separate file, do you get
> > to tweak and fine-tune your audio-to-video synching
> > in Camtasia?
> >
> > I don't use either, but I've got a possible application
> > coming up.
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Rick Stone
> >>
> >> Oh, forgot to add that I told Camtasia to ignore the mic and later
> >> added
> >> the file saved from Audacity to Camtasia as a sound track.
> >>
> >> On 1/26/2012 6:38 PM, Rick Stone wrote:
> >>> Maybe nevermind about Audacity isn't warranted?
> >>>
> >>> I've been using a Samson C01U USB mic with Camtasia and I was
> >>> frustrated with the quality. Even the highest quality setting in
> >>> Camtasia was producing undesirable results. So I switched to using
> >>> Camtasia to record my screen activity, and Audacity to record the
> >>> audio from the mic. I was blown away by the difference in sound
> >>> produced from the same microphone using Camtasia vs Audacity.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers... Rick :)
> >>>
> >>> On 1/26/2012 3:34 PM, Gene Kim-Eng wrote:
> >>>> Drat. You have video. Nevermind about Audacity.
> >>>>
> >>>> Gene
> >>>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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