Manage audio files with the Audio Editor

Presenter lets you edit the timing of audio files after you record or import them. Having control over the timing of audio files gives you the ability to use audio files of different lengths and incorporate them smoothly into presentations.

After you record or import an audio file, the file appears as a waveform in the Audio Editor dialog box. If your presentation contains multiple audio files, you can see which audio files are assigned to specific slides.

Edit audio timing

In PowerPoint, open a presentation (PPT file) containing audio files.
From the Adobe Presenter menu, select Audio Editor.
In the Audio Editor dialog box, Presenter displays any audio files incorporated into the presentation as waveforms. Slide numbers along the top of the waveform show exactly how the audio files are currently distributed across the slides. Presenter lets you import or create an audio file and then distribute that audio file across multiple slides.

Change how audio files are distributed across slides

In the Audio Editor, click a slide divider at the top of a red slide marker line and slide the divider to the left or right.

Dragging slide divider to set where audio begins or ends for a specific slide

The waveform remains static, but you can change where the audio file begins to play within the presentation. This option is particularly useful if you have a long audio file and need to experiment with assigning the file to one slide or having it play over multiple slides.

Listen to an audio file

In the Audio Editor, click a location within the waveform and then click Play in the lower-left corner of the Audio Editor dialog box or press the spacebar on your keyboard.

The audio plays from the location you selected to the end of all audio in the presentation. (You can stop the playback at any time by clicking Stop in the lower-left corner of the Audio Editor dialog box or pressing the spacebar on your keyboard.)

Zoom in on an area of the waveform

In the Audio Editor, click the waveform and then click the Zoom In

or Zoom Out icon

in the toolbar. (Alternatively, click in the waveform and roll your mouse wheel to zoom in and out).

The scale at which you are viewing the waveform is shown in the Scale information box in the lower-right corner of the dialog box.

After you have added audio files to your presentation, you can use the Audio Editor to cut or copy entire audio files or portions of audio files and paste them in a new location.

Cut or copy and paste audio

In the Audio Editor, select a section of an audio file directly on the waveform, click Cut or Copy, click a different location on the waveform, and click Paste.

Delete an entire audio file or portion of an audio file

In the Audio Editor, select a section of an audio file directly on the waveform and click Delete.