Narrating Pictures

To narrate your story, decide what you want to say.  If you need notes, you can type in the note box provided.  Once you're ready to begin, press the record button and begin speaking.

You can record up to five minutes of narration for each picture in your video story. You can narrate the pictures in any order you want. If you do not like the narration for a picture, you can delete the narration and record it again. Deleting the narration does not delete any of the other enhancements made to your story, such as changing a transition.

If your microphone is not set as your primary record device, you will get a friendly dialog box letting you know.  It may be your intention to record using, for example, the line-in or What-U-Hear (Sound Blaster owners have this option), but you get a friendly dialog so that you are sure of what you will be recording with.  Photo Story will change the primary record device to the microphone if you choose to let it.

To narrate the next picture in the film strip, click the Next Picture button and then begin speaking again. If you need to narrate a picture that is not the next picture in order in the film strip, click that picture, and then begin speaking.

You can specify the number of seconds that a picture without narration will appear in the clip.  Simply click that picture in the film strip, and then click Customize Motion. For more information about the options in the Customize Motion dialog box, see Customizing motion and selecting transitions.

If you need to delete the narration, click that picture in the film strip, and then click the Delete Narration button . You can then record the narration again. To stop narrating a picture, click the Stop Recording button. If you do not select a different picture, you can press the Record Narration button again to continue the narration for that picture.