Premiere Pro · Audio

How to record a voice-over in Premiere Pro

Short answer

Set your microphone in Settings > Audio Hardware, then click the microphone button on an empty audio track's header. Premiere counts down and records into the timeline from the playhead.

In Premiere Pro

  1. 01

    Choose the microphone

    Open Settings (Preferences) > Audio Hardware and set Default Input to your microphone.

  2. 02

    Show the voice-over button

    If you don't see a microphone icon on the track header, right-click the header, choose Customize and drag the Voice-over Record button onto it.

  3. 03

    Set the record options

    Right-click the microphone icon and choose Voice-Over Record Settings to name the take and turn on the countdown.

  4. 04

    Record

    Park the playhead, click the microphone and speak after the countdown. Press Space to stop.

  5. 05

    Use headphones

    Wear headphones or mute the other tracks so the speakers don't feed into the microphone.

Eddie AI

Do it in Eddie

Eddie can write and generate a voice-over.

Give Eddie a script of up to 2,000 characters per voice-over, or ask it to write one, and pick a voice. A generated voice-over costs about 178 credits per 1,000 characters. You can't set how a word is pronounced yet. Voice-over clips arrive in the Premiere project on their own audio track, and you can record over them there.

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.

Try it in Eddie freeNew accounts start with 500 free credits.

From the help center

Questions

Why is the voice-over button missing?
Customize the track header and drag the Voice-over Record button onto it.
Where are voice-over recordings saved?
In the project's scratch disk folder set in File > Project Settings > Scratch Disks.

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