User guide

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Engaging learners through interactive presentations: Using Adobe Presenter (Breeze)
Educational Technology Team
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Centre for Development of Teaching and Learning
Use the following tips and suggestions when adding narrations to your Adobe
Presentation:
• Prepare a written audio script before recording your narration.
o Use the Script Import featu
re when recording your narration to import
speaker notes into the Record Audio dialog box.
Speaker notes appear
as notes in the final Adobe Presenter presentation, and you can see
them in the Record dialog box while you’re recording your narration.
o You can also
prerecord your narration audio and then import the audio
by using the Audio Import feature. D
ivide your recorded audio into
separate audio files for each slide as t
his simplifies importing the
recorded presentation audio.
o Check your sound quality b
y just recording your introduction slide to
check before proceeding with the entire presentation.
o
Use the Adobe Presenter Audio Editor to synchronize slide animations
to your audio track.
o You can fine-tune your recorded narration using the Audio Editor. Y
ou
can a
dd pauses where needed to allow time for text to be read or
animations to complete.
o You can stop your narration and return to it later. Do not assume
that
you have to record narration for the entire
presentation at once; you
can do it slide by slide if you want to and come back and finish later.
•
Use a good microphone and headphones. Turn off ringers on phones, pagers,
and watch alarms. Try
to minimize distracting background noise while
recording.
• Keep the microphones a few inches from your mouth to avoid hearing
your
own breathing.
• Eliminate extraneous noise. Turn off your phone, alarms, and ringers.
• Avoid verbal pauses and eliminate verbal tags.
•
When speaking into a microphone, you may find it difficult to speak with the
conviction or passion neces
sary to convey your message. Imagine you are
speaking to a live audience, and speak with confidence.
• You can u
se two narrators to add variety to the presentation and keep viewers’
attention. Alternating between a male and female voice is often very effective.
Narrating your presentation
It is recommended that you create a script for audio. Before beginning, practice reading the script aloud. A
guideline might be one minute or less per slide.