The Sound Clip Properties dialog shows the properties that apply to the currently-selected sound clip. See also Working with sound.

To view Sound Clip Properties:

1. If the Story Tree is not already visible, do View > Story Tree/Properties View.
2. In the Story Tree, click the sound clip whose properties you want to view.

The Sound Clip Properties dialog then appears below the Story Tree.

The Sound Clip Properties dialog contains:

• The clip's Title. This appears in the Story Tree to help identify the clip.
• The clip's Offset. This is added to the Start time of the story element that contains the sound clip to determine the clip's Start time. You can edit this to start a sound clip later than its parent story element.
• The clip's Start time. This is the time from the start of the story when the sound will start playing.
• The clip's Duration - how long it will play. Clips will continue to play if they overlap into subsequent frames. They will stop playing, however, at the end of the last frame of the file (even if their Duration extends further).
• A Volume slider. Drag this slider to the left to make the clip quieter, and right to make it louder. The default volume (10) means to leave the sound as it was imported or recorded, with no change in volume. While you hold the mouse down, the clip plays, along with other clips that are at the same time in the story.
• A Mute check box. Checking this box will silence a clip - it will produce no sound, either in the Movie View or in export. This is not an animatable control, and it silences the clip no matter what the Volume setting is.
• A Play button. Clicking this button plays the sound clip once, by itself. If you hold it down until the sound has finished, the sound will loop until you click the button again.

All times are shown in time controls.

If the sound clip is stored in a split file, and the split file is damaged or missing, the Duration edit box will be pink, and it will contain a message describing the problem.

To adjust the time when a sound plays:

Do one of the following:

• Move it to an earlier or later parent element.
• Change the Offset to a larger value, to start it later in time.

Negative Offsets will be supported in a future version of Springboard.