Create a narration
For
best results, confirm that your microphone is working correctly
with your computer and Premiere
Elements before
narrating a clip.
Using your computer’s microphone, you can
narrate clips while previewing them in the Monitor panel. Your narration
is then added to the Narration soundtrack visible in either the
Quick view timeline or the Expert view timeline.
Set up for narration
- Plug a microphone into your computer’s
microphone port.
- (Windows) Test the microphone through the Windows Sound
Hardware Test Wizard. Check the Windows documentation for instructions.
- In Premiere
Elements, choose Edit >
Preferences > Audio Hardware / Adobe Premiere Elements 11 >
Preferences > Audio Hardware.
- From the Default Device menu, select your computer’s
sound device; click OK.
Narrate a clip
- Do one of the following:
In the Expert view timeline, drag the current-time
indicator to the point where you want the narration to begin.
In the Quick view timeline, select the clip you
want to narrate. Then, drag the current-time indicator to the point
where you want the narration to begin.
- In the Quick view timeline or Expert view timeline, select
Narration from the Tools panel .
- In the Record Voice Narration window, click the Mic Source
button and select your sound device from the menu.
- For best results, turn off your computer speakers to
prevent feedback. To monitor sound while you narrate, plug headphones
into your computer and deselect Mute Audio While Recording.
Note: If your speakers are turned on, move as close to the
microphone as possible, and keep the microphone as far away from
the speakers as possible to prevent feedback.
- Speak into the microphone at a conversational volume,
and raise or lower the Input Volume Level slider until your loudest
words light up the orange part of the meters.
- Click the Record button.
- Near the top of the Record Voice Narration window, a
timer appears next to Start Recording In. When Start Recording In
changes to Recording, speak your narration as the selected clip
plays.
- When you finish narrating, click the Stop button.
An audio clip containing your narration is added to the
Project Assets panel and to the Narration track in the Quick view
timeline or the Expert view timeline (below the selected clip).
Note: If
you do not click the Stop button, recording automatically stops
at the beginning of the next file in the Narration track, or 30
seconds past the end of the last clip in the Quick view timeline
or the Expert view timeline.
- To preview your recording, click the Go To Previous button.
Then click the Play button.
- To continue recording from the point at which you stopped,
click the Record button again.
Clicking Record again overwrites any narrations that
are already in the Narration track.
- Click the Pause button at any time to stop the preview.
Replace or discard a narration
- Do one of the following:
In the Expert view timeline, drag the current-time
indicator to the location where the old narration begins.
In the Quick view timeline, select the clip containing
the narration you want to change. Then, in the Monitor panel, drag
the current-time indicator to the location where the old narration
begins.
- Select the Narration option from the Tools panel.
- In the Record Voice Narration window, do either of the
following:
To replace the narration, click the Record
button. Clicking Record again overwrites the existing recording
with the new one.
To discard a narration, click the Delete button.The
old narration clip is removed from the Quick view timeline or Expert
view timeline. However, it remains in the Project Assets panel in
the Expert view timeline.
