In this video, I'm going to show you
how to record your voiceover or vo
directly into the timeline in
premiere pro CC.
Before I begin, if you're somebody
that really knows what they're doing
and you're just looking for the one
button to press to start recording
your voice over onto the timeline,
it's right here at the voice over
record button.
If you hit that, you'll start
recording directly to the track.
Now, the rest of this video, I'm
going to explain the parameters to
make sure that your hardware and
software are setup correctly to
record the VO.
But I know it can be frustrating
sometimes when you're looking for a
tutorial online and you just want to
know where that one button is.
And it's right there. If that's all
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Before we get into Premiere Pro.
We need to make sure that if you are
using an external microphone,
whether that be a USB microphone or
an audio interface, that it's
connected properly to your computer
and your computer is recognizing
that piece of hardware.
So if you're on a Mac, you would hit
the Mac symbol, system preferences,
go to sound right.
Here it's recognizing my zoom h6
audio interface. But if you had
something like a webcam that has a
microphone on it, or maybe you're
using your headphones, you would
click something like that.
Now that I know that my audio
interface is interacting with my
computer correctly.
We're gonna make sure that Premiere
Pro is recognizing the audio
interface as well.
So we're gonna go up to premier pro
preferences, audio
hardware and right here under
default input.
I'm going to switch this to my H6.
It'll give you a pop up hit.
Yes. And now I know that my H6
is interacting with Premiere Pro in
the timeline. Go to the audio track
that you want to record your voice
over onto. For this example, I want
to record on to audio two right here
and in this little gray space in
between the mic and your clips
right here, we're gonna right click
and go to voice over record
settings in this Pop-Up box.
The first thing I want to look at is
the name. So this is going to be
what your files are going to be
labeled as. As you record their VO.
So, for example, I'm going to name
this VO.
That means every single time I
record a file, it's going to
go VO underscore 1, VO
underscore 2, VO underscore 3
and so on and so forth.
I highly recommend renaming a track.
That way you can keep better track
of your files.
The next parameter is the source.
And we already chose this in
Premiere Pro in that audio hardware
preferences window.
But if you didn't do that, you could
do it here and right now it's the
H6.
If you have multiple inputs on your
audio interface.
This is where you would choose the
specific input of where your
microphone is going into.
Count down sound cues are auditory
beeps that you'll hear to count you
down to the point where it starts to
record. Personally, I dont use that,
but if you're doing something like
ADR, that's a perfect feature.
Pre-roll is the amount of seconds
that it will play on the timeline
before it starts recording.
And what that means is it will give
you three seconds prior to where you
placed the play head as a pre-roll
to let you see what's happening
before you punch it in your video.
Same with the post-Roll.
It just continues for two seconds
after you hit stop on your VO.
So I'm going to hit close on this
now to record our VO we're gonna hit
this microphone icon.
If this is still great out for you,
that's because in your voice
over record settings, you probably
don't have a proper source
selected. So if I were to go to no
input here, notice how this is great
out. So make sure that you have
your proper source selected
and if you are talking into
that microphone, you can actually
reference what's going on here.
Close it out.
At this point, you can go down here
and hit the VOICE-OVER record button
and that will give you your pre-roll
countdown on the program window and
right now I am recording my voice
over, but if this is your first time
doing this and you have your
speakers on or you have your
headphones and you're probably in
knows it's something, and that's
latency from your voice talking
to hearing it in your headphones,
which is probably something that you
don't want while you're recording.
So the easiest thing that I like to
do is just mute my speakers.
So I am just talking straight into
the microphone. But there are some
other parameters that you can
change. And Premiere Pro so you
don't hear yourself in that echo
while recording. So I'm going to
stop on that. And notice how it did
record my VO into the bin right
here. The parameter that we're gonna
switch off so we can't hear
ourselves while we're recording is
in premiere pro preferences
audio and mute
input during timeline recording.
That way we're not going to hear
ourselves in that latency in our
headphones.
But if you still needed to hear
something that was going on in the
tracks in Premiere Pro, you can
still hear that while you're
recording your VO.
There is a second way to record VO
onto the timeline.
It's in the audio track mixer
window. So if you don't see this,
you can hit the little audio button
up here or go to window.
Audio track, mixer.
And on any of the tracks that you
want to be record enabled,
you'd go up to this little R button
right here and make sure that
this right here is enabled.
And if you were to hit play,
now it's recording and you can tell
it's recording underneath the
program monitor.
If I were to dislike this, it would
stop recording.
So that is a second way to do it.
If you're wondering where Premiere
Pro puts all of these physical audio
files on your computer by default,
it puts it in the same folder as
where your project file is.
So right here, Adobe Premiere Pro
captured audio in how to
record a voiceover.
There's all my VOs that I recorded.
You can actually change the default
of where this is saved under file.
Object settings, scratched disks,
captured audio right here in this
dropdown menu.
It says same as project.
You could have it go straight to
your documents or you could do
custom. I always do same as project,
but I think it's worth knowing how
to change it. Now that you know how
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