Satellite Tracking

All you need is a microphone and a sound card in your computer that allows you to record with it.

Before starting a NarratorPro session, RIGHT-click on the sound card icon in your System Tray (lower-right side of your desktop). Select RECORDING DEVICES and select/test your microphone. If no recording devices are shown, RIGHT-click in the box and check the box to SHOW DISCONNECTED DEVICES and SHOW DISABLED DEVICES (Vista hides them by default). Note. Some computers using Vista, particularly some laptops, do not have the ability to record "What U Hear" or "Wave In" or "Stereo Mix" which is required when you want to mix theme music into your recorded narrations. If your computer doesn't have this capability, I suggest you get a USB Sound Device. The one I use with my laptop is the Creative Labs "X-fi" which will give you a "What U Hear" function.

The cover page is the place to start a NEW PROJECT, OPEN an existing PROJECT, or SETUP the PROJECT that you currently have open. From here, you may also select a playback device from a drop-down list.

If you are reading from a document that will be displayed on your computer, you may store the path or link to it under PROJECT SETUP, then open it by clicking OPEN NARRATIVE DOCUMENT. Most people will be reading from printed matter, but this option is there as a shortcut to your stored document.

The book/pamphlet name, and the names of the author, narrator, and publisher, will be encoded into the final audio files (depending on the files' capability to store them). A .PDF document is prepared which summarizes the files prepared and converted into a final set of audio files.

First, name the chapter (which will be encoded into the converted audio file.If the file is locked, click on the "File Is Locked" button to unlock it. Then click RECORD and lay down the narration. When you are finished, click STOP. Select a RATING to remind yourself which chapters are still "works in progress," then lock the file again to keep you from inadvertently overwriting it. To hear the recording, click the play button (Triangle) under Playback.

When you are happy with all of your narrations, give them the two thumbs-up and on the right handed page for each chapter, then close out the program.

Go back to your Sound settings (RIGHT-click on the Sound click START MIX and either play the narration or begin any theme music you have stored under the project settings (not included, but tons of royalty-free theme music is available at NeoSounds and other web sites. This Step TWO is optional, because when you do the final convert it will look to see whether you have a raw narration file or a narration with theme music mixed-in. If both exist, it will choose the mix as the one to use during the final convert.

Once you have recorded all of your chapter narrations, go back to the cover page and click FINALIZE AND CONVERT to organize and convert the final audio files into whichever format you wish. Simply choose the format from the drop-down list, then the codec and quality of the finished file, then click CONVERT AUDIO FILES.

IMPORTANT USER NOTES:

You have a great deal of flexibility on where your project files and audio files are stored. If you save a project as, say, "HeyBud.NAR" in one folder, then later open the "HeyBud.NAR" folder you previously stored in another folder, you may wonder why some audio files are missing. It's because the file locations for the audio were not recorded in the earlier saving of the "HeyBud.NAR" in the other folder.
You MUST install the demo and try it out with your computer before purchasing the software. This is to ensure the software is compatible with the sound devices you have on your computer. The software, once purchased, is non-refundable (think "you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube").

Please install the demo of NarratorPro by clicking here. You are limited to one minute of recording per chapter and a lower quality of finalized audio. Then, you can full-unlock this great narration recording software for just $49.00. Click the button here: