Hi guys and welcome back to my channel. Today I want to show you how to create a presentation in
Canva then add multiple audio tracks to the presentation, select which page you want to
play the audio tracks on, download your finished presentation as a video so that you can still
listen to all your wonderful audio. And finally I'm going to show you how to share your
presentation to avoid any damaging and costly copyright claims. I've got two fabulous free
giveaways for you so you can go ahead and add some really professional and creative touches to your
presentations, so make sure you stay tuned. Until very recently you could only add one audio track
to a presentation, there was no way to adjust the duration of the audio track or select which pages
to play it on. Basically your audio track was added to all pages and that was that. The only
thing you could really do was adjust the volume. But since Canva released some really exciting
new features towards the end of 2021 you can now create some very varied and creative presentations
to inspire your audience. So if you're ready to get started follow me over to my Canva desktop...
As you can see I've already loaded up the Canva presentation template onto my desktop that I want
to work with and I've applied all 30 pages, you can see the thumbnails underneath. I have three audio
files that I want to add to this template - two from the Canva library and one of my own voice
recordings which I've already uploaded to Canva. For the benefit of those who aren't already aware
to add an audio file to a Canva presentation or to any Canva template for that matter all you need to
do is select the audio file from the Canva audio library and then drag and drop it into your file.
The trouble with this method is that I can only add one track to the whole of my template, so one
audio track will be played throughout 30 pages. And that's not really very good. However using
my latest 'Nicky Ninja' tip you can now solve this problem by adding multiple audio tracks to a Canva
template. So first of all keep this presentation open then open a new tab in your browser
so you'll have two Canva tabs open at the same time. Now working from the new Canva tab from the
banner right at the top I want you to click on 'Video', now choose the video category from the
carousel of images. And this is because the video has exactly the same dimensions as a presentation.
And now you'll see I've opened up a blank video template in Canva's new video editor.
I spoke about the new video editor in a previous tutorial so do check it out afterwards by clicking
the link in the description box. From the template categories on the left hand side
you'll see that all the templates are now video templates so I'm not going to be able to find
my original presentation template that I wanted to work with. Well it just so happens that I
have another 'Nicky Ninja' tip to help solve this problem. I'm going to click back into the first
Canva tab that I still have open on my desktop and this is my presentation template. I'm going
to go right down to the bottom of my Canva desktop and click on 'Grid view' by clicking on it. Canva
will open up all the pages of my presentation so I have a kind of a bird's eye view of each page.
Now I'm going to select every page by holding my cursor down and running it over each page
still holding the cursor down until they're all surrounded by a purple outline. Next I'll use my
M shortcut key to copy the pages, click back over to the second Canva tab that I've still got open
and again use my Mac shortcut paste key to paste all those pages into this template.
And don't worry if this takes a few seconds to complete because it's pasting a lot of
information. And now as you can see I have an exact copy of my presentation template which
has been transferred perfectly into the video editor. I'm just going to get rid of this page
And now I can start using Canva's exciting editing tools from the new video editor
to help me add multiple audio files to my presentation. For that I can choose from a
huge variety of music tracks in the Canva library. Scroll down and view each musical category.
To open a category just click on the heading or click on 'See all'.
You will need Canva Pro for this since Canva has partnered up with Epidemic Sound but don't worry,
you can take Canva Pro for a test ride and explore all the wonderful features on offer
by clicking on this link right here. I'll leave the link in the description
underneath this video. I'm going to add the first of my audio tracks to this template
by holding my cursor down over the track in the left hand column and dragging it onto my template
And here you see I've now got an audio timeline.
From here I can access a menu of editing tools by going to the far right hand end of my audio track,
clicking on the three little dots to access the editing menu.
From here I can adjust the length of the audio track, I can adjust the volume,
I can duplicate the audio or I can just delete it. Unlike before I can also select which
pages to play my audio track on. Since I want this track to be part of my presentation introduction
I'm going to shorten this audio track so that it plays during the first two slides only.
To do this all I need to do is select the track with my cursor, grab a hold of the end bar here
and drag the end bar along the audio timeline until it stops just after the second slide.
Fabulous! Now I want to add my own voiceover recording to the presentation,
I did this by going up to the Uploads button in the far left hand side toolbar, clicking on
the Upload Media button and then selecting my voiceover recording from my own device.
If you upload your own audio recordings they will appear under the audio tab.
And here is the recording that I want to add to my presentation. As before I'm going to
hold my cursor down to select the audio file and drag it into the presentation.
Make sure you've positioned the video playhead which is this black line here with an inverted
triangle at the top exactly where you want to add your audio. And now I have a second audio
track uploaded to the same template. I want to finish off my presentation with a musical outro
so I need to make sure that the video playhead is positioned just before the final few slides.
I need to go back to the Canva audio library, select the audio track that I want to add
and drag it into my template. And it will appear exactly where the video playhead is.
Incidentally in case you ask you cannot at the moment fade tracks in or out but it's something
that we have requested from Canva so it may be a brand new feature that appears this year.
So if you want to fade a track out make sure you adjust the track by double clicking on it
and dragging the audio file until it comes to a natural end
Once you've adjusted an audio file in this way make sure you click on 'Adjust' to confirm your
changes. Finally once you're happy editing your presentation you'll want to download the entire
file as a video so you can still hear all the audio. So go to the far right hand corner of your
Canva toolbar and click on the Download button. Make sure the file type is set at MP4 video which
is what Canva has suggested, select the pages that you want to download. And I presume that
you'll want to download all the pages in your presentation, if not untick this box here and
then select whichever pages you want to download, click on 'Done'. Now this is the important part!
If you intend to share the video file on social media such as YouTube or Facebook and your file
contains audio from Canva's library you will need to connect the relevant social media
channels, and this is all about Canva's "One design use license agreement". To connect your
social media channels just click on the link and select which channel you want to connect with.
Follow Canva's instructions online which are so simple and straightforward,
allow Canva to access your account
and then you're ready to download
Once you have your video downloaded you're now free to upload it to your social media channels,
share it with your colleagues upload it to your website whatever you want to do with it.
I mentioned at the start of this video that I had two free giveaways for you.
The first was Canva Pro and the second one is a month's free trial to Epidemic Sound.
Use this link to sign up for your free trial and explore all the beautiful music tracks as well
as a huge selection of fun sound effects which I really love. As a YouTuber this gives me access to
a huge library of music and it also gives me peace of mind knowing that I can use these music tracks
without being hit by copyright claims. While you're waiting for my next video
why not check out how to add professional transitions to your Canva presentations.
And I also have an entire playlist of tutorials to help you create better presentations using Canva.
Just click on the links right here. In the meantime thank you so much for watching for your
support as always, don't forget to subscribe to my channel and I will see you next time