Adding sound effects to the movie

[Teresa]

I have a quick question before I begin my first project...I want to insert a short "beep" sound effect from my music synthesizer at the moment of interaction of two objects within the photovidshow. I want to do this in real time so that it synchronizes with the action. I have the ability to input this sound effect in MP3 audio format via USB. I was thinking, perhaps that I could go in through an "add narration" method somehow. Can you advise???

[StuartG]

Hi, yes adding it to the storyboard as a narration (or sound) is the thing to do. You could do it in real-time by recording a narration whilst previewing your slideshow, but i think it may be easier to do “non real time” by adding the sounds to the storyboard and then adjusting the sound start times.

If you have the "beep" sound already as an mp3 on your computer you can simply add the sound effect to the storyboard. See this link from user manual to do that.
www.photovidshow.com/userguide/c/dev/photovidshow/user%20manual/for%204.1.5/user%20guide/how%20to%20add%20narration%20or%20other%20sound%20effects/adding%20a%20narration%20or%20sound%20from%20an%20auido%20file.html

You can repeat this process to add as many “beep” sounds as you like.

To then manually set the start time of the “beep” sound, what you can do is drag the sound bar in the storyboard such that the start time coincides with some action in your main slideshow. This link in the manual gives more information.
www.photovidshow.com/userguide/c/dev/photovidshow/user%20manual/for%204.1.5/user%20guide/how%20to%20add%20narration%20or%20other%20sound%20effects/rearranging%20narrations.html

You can find out the times of things by sliding the slideshow preview seek bar and noting down the times of things. See this link
www.photovidshow.com/userguide/c/dev/photovidshow/user%20manual/for%204.1.5/user%20guide/how%20to%20preview%20a%20slideshow/previewing%20a%20slideshow.html

Thanks
Stuart