Operation Manual

Adobe Premiere Elements 9 guide
© 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated How to work with audio 7
13. To continue recording from the position of the current-
time indicator, click the Start Recording Narration
button again.
This new recording overwrites any narrations that are
traced over by the current-time indicator in the Narration
track.
14. Click the Pause Present Narration button at any time to
stop the preview.
15. To discard a narration, click the Delete Present
Narration button (Figure 12).
The old narration clip is removed from the Timeline or
Sceneline, but remains in the Project view of the Tasks
panel.
Balancing audio elements
In Adobe Premiere Elements, volume changes are measured in decibels. A level of 0.0 dB is the original volume
(not silence). Changing the level to a negative number reduces the volume, and changing the level to a positive
number increases the volume.
To control a clip’s volume, you can use the Volume graph—the yellow line running horizontally across the audio
track of each clip (sometimes referred to as the volume rubberband)—or the Audio Mixer. You can use the Audio
Meters window to view the overall audio volume for your project.
Consider the following guidelines when adjusting volume levels:
• If you combine particularly loud audio clips on multiple tracks, clipping (a staccato distortion) may occur.
To avoid clipping, reduce volume levels.
• If you need to adjust the volume separately in different parts of a clip (for example, one person’s voice is
faint, while later another’s is too loud), you can use keyframes to vary the volume throughout the clip.
• If the original level of a clip is much too high or low, you can change the input level. However, adjusting
the input level will not remove any distortion that may have resulted from recording the clip too high. In
those cases, it is best to re-record the clip.