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Recording and Editing Audio

This document is related to the Adobe Presenter tutorial series. Please view our first document before continuing on to other tutorials.

With a microphone connected to your computer, you can record audio that you want to include for each slide. The slide notes in PowerPoint can be used as a script for your narration.

Importing slide notes (Optional)
Note: If you prefer to read your script from printed materials you can skip over this section on “Importing slide notes.”

  1. Open your PowerPoint presentation.
  2. Select Adobe Presenter>Audio>Record.


    3. Recording Audio

  3. Calibrate your microphone by following the instructions in the Set Microphone Recording Level dialog box that appears.


    4. Set Microphone Recording Level

  4. Click OK.
  5. Select the View Script option.


    6. View Script Option

  6. Click Import Notes.
  7. Select Slide Range: All slides.
    • Current Slide: Imports notes from the current slide.
    • Slides: Select specific individual slides in the presentation.
    • To select multiple slides, hold down Shift or Control and select the slide numbers in the list.
  8. Select Import options: Append imported notes to current scripts.
    • Append Imported Notes to Current Scripts will add any imported notes to the end of existing scripts.
    • Replace Current Scripts with Imported Notes removes any existing scripts.
  9. Click OK, or if ready to record audio, go to step 5 in the Record Audio section.

Recording Audio

  1. Open your PowerPoint presentation.
  2. Select Adobe Presenter>Audio>Record.


    3. Recording Audio

  3. Calibrate your microphone by following the instructions in the Set Microphone Recording Level dialog box.
  4. Click OK.
  5. Click Record to begin recording audio.


    6. Recording Audio for Slides

  6. Speak into the microphone.
  7. When you finish, click Stop Recording. (Adobe Presenter converts the audio to MP3 format.)


    8. Stop Recording

  8. Click Play to listen to the recording.
  9. Click Next to record audio for the next slide.
  10. When you finish, click OK.

Editing Audio - Adding Silence

  • If you import an audio file and need to synchronize the audio with slides.
  • If you have inserted a Flash file with audio, such as a “talking head” video of a speaker, into a presentation and want to synchronize the Flash file audio with slides.
  1. Open your PowerPoint presentation.
  2. Select Adobe Presenter>Audio>Edit.


    3. Audio Editor

  3. The Audio Edit dialog box will open.


    4. Editing Audio

  4. Click the exact point on the audio file where you want to start the silent period.
  5. From the Audio Editor menu, select Insert>Silence. The Insert Silence dialog box appears.
  6. In the Insert text box, enter a number to specify the length of silence (in seconds).
  7. In the pop-up menu to the right, notice that the Cursor Position, which is the default, is selected.
  8. Click OK. Adobe Presenter adds the silent period to the audio file and displays it in the waveform.
  9. To test the audio file with the silence added, click Play (green arrow) in the lower-left corner of the Audio Editor Dialog box. Click Stop (dark gray square box) when you are finished listening.


    10. Playing Audio

Editing Audio - Adjusting Volume

  1. Select the audio to be adjusted, by clicking and highlighting it.


    2. Highlighting Audio Clip

  2. In the Adobe Presenter Audio Editor window, select Tools>Volume.
  3. The Adjust Volume dialog box will open.


    4. Adjust Volume Dialog Box

  4. Uncheck the Normalize and Dynamics check boxes.
  5. Click the volume slider on the left side and drag it up to increase volume, or down to decrease volume. When finished, click OK.
  6. (Optional) You can change the audio processing options, as follows:
    • Normalize allows Adobe Presenter to adjust the sound volume automatically. Normalizing audio helps keep the sound level consistent between slides.
    • Dynamics amplifies quiet sections of the audio to help compensate for variations in audio volume. The Advanced Controls for Dynamics are only available when Dynamics is checked.
  7. (Optional) Click Advanced Controls for advanced editing audio volume options.
    • Ratio specifies the maximum amplification that Breeze Presenter will use. The default setting of 2.0 sets the quietest sections of the audio to be amplified by a factor of 2. A higher setting can improve a project that has large disparities between quiet and loud sections, but can also amplify background noise.
    • Noise Threshold controls the amplification of background noise. Adobe Presenter doesn’t amplify any sound below the threshold. If background noise is amplified too much, it may help to set a higher noise threshold. (Note that the Dynamics option does not work well with high noise levels.) Click OK to save and close all of the dialog boxes.
  8. When you are finished close the Edit Audio window.

Editing Audio - Deleting Audio

  1. Open your PowerPoint presentation.
  2. Select Adobe Presenter>Audio>Edit.


    3. Audio Editor

  3. The Audio Edit dialog box will open.
  4. Select a section of an audio file directly on the waveform by clicking and dragging to highlight the portion to delete.
  5. Click the “Delete” button to delete the selected part of the audio file.


    6. Deleting Audio Clip