Plug a microphone into your computer’s microphone port or via bluetooth.
- Adobe Premiere Elements User Guide
- Introduction to Adobe Premiere Elements
- Workspace and workflow
- Working with projects
- Importing and adding media
- Arranging clips
- Editing clips
- Reduce noise
- Select object
- Candid Moments
- Color Match
- Smart Trim
- Change clip speed and duration
- Split clips
- Freeze and hold frames
- Adjusting Brightness, Contrast, and Color - Guided Edit
- Stabilize video footage with Shake Stabilizer
- Replace footage
- Working with source clips
- Trimming Unwanted Frames - Guided Edit
- Trim clips
- Editing frames with Auto Smart Tone
- Artistic effects
- Color Correction and Grading
- Applying transitions
- Special effects basics
- Effects reference
- Applying and removing effects
- Create a black and white video with a color pop - Guided Edit
- Time remapping - Guided edit
- Effects basics
- Working with effect presets
- Finding and organizing effects
- Editing frames with Auto Smart Tone
- Fill Frame - Guided edit
- Create a time-lapse - Guided edit
- Best practices to create a time-lapse video
- Applying special effects
- Use pan and zoom to create video-like effect
- Transparency and superimposing
- Reposition, scale, or rotate clips with the Motion effect
- Apply an Effects Mask to your video
- Adjust temperature and tint
- Create a Glass Pane effect - Guided Edit
- Create a picture-in-picture overlay
- Applying effects using Adjustment layers
- Adding Title to your movie
- Removing haze
- Creating a Picture in Picture - Guided Edit
- Create a Vignetting effect
- Add a Split Tone Effect
- Add FilmLooks effects
- Add an HSL Tuner effect
- Fill Frame - Guided edit
- Create a time-lapse - Guided edit
- Animated Sky - Guided edit
- Select object
- Animated Mattes - Guided Edit
- Double exposure- Guided Edit
- Special audio effects
- Movie titles
- Creating titles
- Adding shapes and images to titles
- Adding color and shadows to titles
- Apply Gradients
- Create Titles and MOGRTs
- Add responsive design
- Editing and formatting text
- Align and transform objects
- Motion Titles
- Appearance of text and shapes
- Exporting and importing titles
- Arranging objects in titles
- Designing titles for TV
- Applying styles to text and graphics
- Adding a video in the title
- Disc menus
- Sharing and exporting your movies
Learn to add voice narrations to your clips in Premiere Elements.
Narration is a feature that allows you to record voiceovers directly within Premiere Elements to add spoken commentary, explanations, or storytelling to your video projects. This feature is useful for adding context, guiding viewers, or enhancing the overall narrative of your video with your voice or any other recorded audio.
Create a narration
For best results, confirm that your microphone is working correctly with your computer and Premiere Elements before narrating a clip. You can use your computer's microphone as well as an external microphone.
Using your 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 Sceneline or the Advanced view timeline.
Set up for narration
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(Windows) Test the microphone through the Windows Sound Hardware Test Wizard. Check the Windows documentation for instructions.
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In Premiere Elements, choose Premiere Elements 2025 Editor > Settings > Audio Hardware (macOS) and Edit > Preferences > Audio Hardware (Windows).
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Select the Default Input from the Default Device menu, click OK.
Narrate a clip
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In the Sceneline and Advanced view timeline, drag the current-time indicator (CTI) to the point where you want the narration to begin.
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In the Sceneline or Advanced view timeline, select Narration from the Audio track.
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In the program monitor, you'll see the Record Voice Narration window after the countdown ends, which shows Recording in red.
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You can see the recorded narration in the Audio Track of sceneline or timeline after you press the stop button, when you finish narrating.
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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.
Narration Settings
You can specify the duration of the preroll and postroll countdown under Preferences > Playback settings.
Replace or discard a narration
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In the Advanced view timeline and Sceneline, drag the current-time indicator to the location where the old narration begins.
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Select the Narration button from the Audio Track in the Sceneline or Timeline.
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In the Record Voice Narration window, do either of the following:
To replace the narration, adjust the CTI from where you want to replace the narration and click the Narration
button. This will overwrite the existing recording with the new one.To discard a narration, select the narration clip on Audio Track and click the Delete button. The old narration clip is removed from the Sceneline or Advanced view timeline. However, it remains in the Project Assets panel in the Advanced view.