Premiere Pro · Projects and workflow
How to add audio description in Premiere Pro
Short answer
Write a description for each moment that needs one, record or generate each as voice-over, and place it in gaps in the dialogue. Where there's no gap, insert a frame hold to make room (extended audio description).
In Premiere Pro
01
Find the moments
Watch the edit and note what a listener would miss: who is on screen, actions, on-screen text.
02
Write the descriptions
Keep each one short enough to fit the gap, in present tense.
03
Record them
Record each line with the voice-over button onto its own track.
04
Place them in the gaps
Put each description in a pause in the dialogue and lower other sound under it.
05
Extend where needed
If there's no gap, cut the clip and use Insert Frame Hold Segment to pause the picture while the description plays. Export it as a separate described version.
Eddie AI
Do it in Eddie
Ask Eddie to audio-describe the edit, and it builds the described version.
Say "Make an audio-described version of this edit." Eddie makes a new edit with voice-over descriptions and still-frame pauses, extended by default or standard if you ask. It costs 200 credits a minute and uses a US female or US male voice. No human reviews the descriptions, so check them. In Premiere, each pause arrives as a still image.
Back to Premiere
Open the edit, click Export and choose Premiere. You get a Premiere project (.prproj) or the older Premiere XML. In the desktop app, Send to Premiere Pro builds the edit inside Premiere through Eddie's panel, which the app installs for you.
If you imported the footage through the desktop app, the timeline points at your original camera files, so Premiere relinks to them. If you uploaded on the web or pulled from cloud storage, it points at Eddie's proxy media; relink to those, not to the camera originals.
From the help center
Questions
- What is extended audio description?
- The picture pauses so a description can play where the dialogue leaves no gap.
- Does Premiere generate audio description?
- No. You write and record it yourself.