Adobe Premiere Elements 7 Classroom in a Book

184 LESSON 8 Working with Sound

Creating a split edit

At times, you may want the audio to begin before the video or to extend after the

video into the next clip (or vice versa). Trimming linked audio and video separately

is called a split edit. Usually, when you

create a split edit in one clip, you must create

one in the adjacent clip so they don’t overlap each other. You can create two kinds

of split edits:

• A J-cut, or audio lead, in which audio starts before linked video, or video

continues after the audio.

• An L-cut, or video lead, in which video starts before linked audio, or audio

continues after the video.

—From Adobe Premiere Elements Help

Adding narration

Now let’s add narration to the project.

1 Make sure you have Timeline selected in the My Project panel.

2 Choose File > Get Media from > PC Files and Folders, select the fi le Lesson08_

Narration.wav, and click Open.

3 Press the Home key to move the current-time indicator to the start of the clip.

 en drag the Lesson08_Narration.wav clip from Project view and drop it onto

the Narration track in the Timeline.

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4 Click the Play button (

) to hear the voiceover added to the project.

Note that you need to lower the volume of the background music to make the

narration more audible.

5 Click the Mix Audio button (

), and in the Audio Mixer panel that

opens, drag the handle in the Soundtrack channel down to -6.0 dB.

6 Click the Play button ( ) and listen to the improved audio mix.

While the overall sound is better, the narration is still a bit indistinct. You’ll fi x that

by applying the Dynamics sound eff ect in the next exercise.

Narrating a clip

In this exercise, you’re working with a narration that we supplied, but at some point,

you may want to create your own narration. For best results, confi rm that your

microphone is working correctly with your computer and Adobe

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 Timeline or Sceneline.

Record voice narration: A. Volume

indicator. B. Input Volume Level slider.

C. Record. D. Play. E. Go To Previous

Narration Clip. F. Go To Next Narration

Clip. G. Delete. H. Microphone source.

(continues)

A B C D E F G H