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Add audio with images

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- [Instructor] All right. So if you've watched any of my other videos, or taken some of my trainings or workshops, one of the things you'll hear me say often is "learn your tools." Learn your tools, because the more you learn your tool, the better you're going to be and the more you're going to be able to solve creative problems with those tools, without having to jump into a different app. Because it doesn't matter what you're using, at some point, the tool that you're using is going to not have the specific feature that does what you want it to do. And a good example of where that comes up is a lot of folks who are just transitioning to rise, either from classroom or education, they want to include some kind of audio along with their slideshow. So an audio slideshow. They want to provide some audio instructions or audio context around images or other visuals. And that's currently not possible. So if I add an image real quick, I'll just show you, we can, you know, edit the image and you don't see any options here to record audio. Some blocks allow you to do that, but not all. However, when you start to know the tools and you start to see different ways that you can combine or rework features, it's easy to get the effects that you want. So let me show you what I mean. So I'm going to go ahead and edit this image. We just want to replace it with one that we got out of our PowerPoint. Slide six is fine. Let that upload. Okay, so my image is here and what I can do then is add an audio block right below it. And then I can even do things like color the background of both of these. So I create that visual unity between those two objects, making them seem like they're better connected. So all blocks, and then we'll come into multimedia. And right there at the top we have an audio block and we'll just add that. Now I can replace this with my own audio. So I could record one, or I could upload one that I have. I think I have some narration slides where I said that was six. Yep, so select that and upload. Okay, so that's going to upload. Now what I can do while that's uploading, is we can format the styles here. So maybe I put the, you know, the theme color here, but then I also do it for the same, for the one right below it. And then maybe I can, you know, add something else below this and so on. But now when I preview this slide, that color is bringing those two blocks together, right? And so there's the audio right under it. And I can also adjust the padding. So maybe even customizing the padding between these two. So I could choose the format options and maybe I'm going to unlock it. And then maybe for the top, I want to move that a little tighter, right? So that's much closer to that image. And now I've created a nice visual connection between the two. Let me just delete these. If I had a series of these images, so I'm going to duplicate that audio and I'm going to remove the style for that one. And then I'll duplicate the image block up top and move that down. And then maybe remove the style there. So now I have the first image, and then I have the second image and I can swap this image out with another one. And I could have the alternating, you know, possibly colors like that, as a way to also show some connection. Let's see, seven. And let that upload. And then if I preview, I can have a series of images, right? Stacked on top of each other. There's the audio for that one. Here's the next one for the audio and so on. But it looks like these are, you know, the audio is totally part of that specific image. So that's one way you can kind of work around some of the built-in functionality and still achieve something that's close to what you were after with the audio.

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