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Hello there. In this video we're taking a look at how to record voice narration in Adobe
Premiere Elements. Before I began recording I will check and make sure that my microphone
is enabled in the software. To do that I go up to the edit menu, scroll down to preferences,
look for audio hardware and click that. Next, I go to the ASIO settings button and click
that. In here I can see the microphones that I have available to me on this computer. If
they have a check in front of them it means they are enabled. If not then I need to add
the check and click ok. And then ok again. Next I look at my current time indicator and
make sure it is at the beginning of the place where I want the narration to go. In this
case I want it to start right at the beginning of this image. As soon as my current time
indicator is positioned I look for the audio tools right above the timeline. It looks like
a little green sound icon. Click the drop-down arrow right next to that. Click add narration.
This opens the record voice narration tool. From here I can select the microphone I wish
to use in this project. I can also adjust the gain on my microphone. The sound level
is going up and down so I know I have a microphone working. If nothing is happening here it means
that the microphone is not working for some reason. There is a recommendation to use headphones
and uncheck mute to reduce feedback. I've found that it works really well just to make
sure that the speakers are turned clear down while recording and then you can really get
away with using other kinds of microphones too. That's what I did anyway. Give it a try
and see how it works for you. Once you're ready to go all you have to do is click the
red button. You get a countdown 321 and now it is recording voice narration. I can continue
talking until I'm ready to finish. Maybe I want to do one clip at a time or one segment
of the video at a time. Once completed I'll click the stop button and the software drops
the voice narration file into the narration track for me and there is. If I want to listen
to this I'll move my current time indicator back to the beginning. I'll go up to play
and make sure my speakers are turned back up. Play and listen to it. If I don't like
it I can stop there. I can jump back to the beginning. I can re-record by clicking the
red button 321. And now I will record a new narration for this area and it will replace
the one that I'm currently on on the narration track. So I'll just go ahead and talk for
little bit longer to replace the old narration that has a problem. I'll click stop. Now when
I look on the narration track I have a new version of this. A new narration has replaced
the old one. When I look in the projects area I see that the first narration and the replacement
narration file are both there. So I could always recover if I made a mistake and recorded
over the top of the wrong one. I could actually put this back down on the timeline to replace
the incorrectly recorded one. So we have a lot of options there. If I don't need this
anymore I can simply clear it. Click the trash icon and that leaves me with the narration
file that I want to keep. Now I find it helpful to rename these narration clips. Narration
9 narration 10 etc. that's not very meaningful. So one thing that's helpful is to click on
that and rename it. Give it something that makes sense so that when we use this in the
project we know exactly which piece of narration that is. Now I'll click on that one and I'll
go down to the timeline to make sure that narration 9.wav is also selected. When I right-click
on this I can select replace clip from project and now it has changed the name of this from
narration 9 or whatever it was to Kam Wah Chung building. So I know that I have the
correct piece of narration with the associated image that I'm narrating. So that way you
have them matchup and you know exactly what's going on. When a project becomes kind of large
and we have a whole bunch of these little clips it can get confusing in a hurry. So
by naming the narration clip we can save a lot of hassle. Alright so the next thing I
could do is go to the next narration clip and there isn't one so I have to move my current
time indicator to the end here. And now I can start recording the next clip 321. Go
ahead and record my next narration segment. Stop and it puts in that next piece of narration.
Again I'll want to rename that so it's not narration 10 and replace that with a meaningful
title. I'll continue doing this until I have narrated the entire video. That's really all
there is to it. When you're finished just close the little tool. Save your project of
course and that pretty well does it. Well that's all I have for this presentation. I
hope you found it helpful. Good luck with your video editing. Good bye for now.