Adding voice over

I have been using i-movie for about five years and never needed to add a voice over but I now need to do this on a sports training video where a coach wants to make a training video and then mute the sound and dube his own instructions into the video..so that his voice would be heard and no background. I am using 6 HD and wonder if anyone else has done somthing similar. I assume I might could use a tape recorder and extract the sound and input it into i-movie, etc. Anyone been here before....tks /ej

Another thing to look at in this process is to enable the timeline viewer (the little box with the clock face on it at the left just below the large view of the current clip). Then you can Show the Clip Volume Levels on the View Menu and you will see the volume indicators in each of the video clips. You can now select clips and go to the Advanced menu and Extract Audio. this brings the audio markers down on one of the audio tracks from which you can select one, several or all and delete. The effectively gives you a silent video of the clips you have selected. Now use the suggestion of Rich839 to do the voice over. The advantage here would be that you can preserve the sound of sections of the video either as background or to avoid complete silence when the narrator is not speaking...

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Video jerky after adding voice-over

The video imports nicely, but when I do voice-over using a Logitech headphone, the video portion becomes jerky. Something similar was discussed in the forum about a year ago, but it appears that nothing was resolved? Would appreciate help on this. Thanks
Betty
iMacG5 Mac OS X (10.3.9) iMovie 5.0.2 QT 7.1.3

always convert and AIFF files to MP3 first..... only have about 20 audio clips, but they're mostly voice over and AIFF files.
No. iMovie converts MP3 format to AIFF anyway. Some have found more stuttering problems with voice-overs.
I'm stuck right now with a half hour video that i managed to finishe editing but can't play or export to tape without terrible stuttering
If you have enough space on your hard drive, you can 'share' your finished movie as QuickTime Full Quality. Import this QT movie into a new iMovie project. It should now play without stuttering, allowing you to export it back to DV tape. If the QT movie plays fine, you can delete the original iMovie.
You can add chapter markers and use this version for iDVD.
I use this method all the time. Sometimes I have had to create QT movie version three times when editing a long or complex iMovie. Even before adding audio, my movies will skip/stutter on playback if I have lots of transitions/effects/total clips. I have learned to edit the movie by cropping the video clips first, adding stills, doing transitions and titles/effects, and adding the audio last. If it starts to skip with the addition of the first audio clip, I delete that clip, share as quicktime, and then work on the quicktime version in a new iMovie and go ahead with adding the audio to that.

Problem in adding voice over presentation

Ok so I want to do a voice over narration on my keynote presentation
I go through the steps of adding audio to my presentation, on the recording screen
the red button is not blinking and my voice is not recording onto the presentation can anyone help pls
Ogay

This is my recommendation.
Step 1) Create your Keynote presentation.
Step 2) Record your speaking part (separately) with an audio recording program.
I recommend Audacity. It's a great free application. You can download Audacity from www.sorceforge.com among other places. You'll also want to get the Audacity LIB file that is needed to export your audio recording to .mp3.
3) From the Keynote Inspector, under the Document tab, go to the audio section and add your new voice recording file to the Soundtrack.
4) From Keynote, go to File, Record Slideshow.
While the audio plays, click through your slides. This is getting the slide change time down.
5) From Keynote, go to File, Export. Make sure to have the following settings:
Playback Uses: Recorded Timing
Include audio (sound files, movie audio): NOT SELECTED
Include the slideshow soundtrack: NOT SELECTED
Include the slideshow recording: SELECTED!!!
Click next and your Keynote presentation should export to a .mov file (keep in mind, this .mov file has no audio. we'll take care of that in the last steps).
6)Open the new .mov Keynote presentation in Quicktime Pro.
7) Open the original .mp3 sound file in Quicktime Pro.
8) Select All of the .mp3 file and then click CTRL + C to copy it.
9) Go back to the .mov Keynote file and Select All. Then go up to Edit > Add to Movie.
This adds your sound and movie file together.
10) Finally click on File > Save As. Select, Save As A Self-Contained Movie and you're done.
I Hope This Helps!

Adding voice over to after effects project

Hi,
I'm very new to after effects and so far am mastering the basics and introducing keyframes to adjust opacity, position etc. I'm pretty happy with what I have created thus far on my project, but now I wish to record a voice over on my video. I know I can create a voice over track in audition, but I would like to see the preview of my video while I speak to I can time myself right etc. I have always done this very easily in iMovie.
Can anyone point me in the right direction please even if it means having a preview of my video in audition.
Thanks,

The way you want to do this is a little bit backward for AE. The most common way to work is to import an audio file of the voiceover, and then animate using the voiceover as a reference.
So I'd recommend just recording the voiceover, importing it into AE, then adjusting your AE animation. It shouldn't take very long.

I am adding a voice over - it plays when I am in "clip trimmer" mode but NOT in the actual movie ... frustrating - any help?

I am adding a voice over - it plays when I am in "clip trimmer" mode but NOT in the actual movie ... frustrating - any help?am in

In Finder you will find the voiceover in the project's package contents folder. If on your internal drive, the project will be in your User (Home) folder Movies/iMovie projects. If on an external drive it will be in the iMovie Projects folder at the top (root) level of the drive.
Right-click (or Control-click) on the project name and select Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu. There should be a file named something like Voiceover Recording.caf in the package contents folder. Copy and paste this .caf file to the Desktop. See if it will open in QuickTime, GarageBand or another program capable of editing audio, such as MPEG Streamclip or Audacity (both free). If it will open, save (export) it in a different format, such as AIFF, preferably to a location where it will not be moved, such as iTunes.
Now drag that file into iMovie to the desired position (if in iTunes drag from iMovie's music browser panel). Hopefully it will now play correctly.
John
Message was edited by: John Cogdell

Captivate 7 and adding Closed Captioning to my training *No Video just Voice Overs*

Afternoon Adobe Community,
I want to pose a question to all you experts out there on an easy way to display text from the slide notes as a form of closed captioning for my Voice Overs... I am aware that with video it has the functionality to add closed captioning but was hoping for a viable option to do this for pre-recorded audio that I have the transcript in the slide notes.
This may not be possible but figured I would give it a shot.
Thanks!

Hi there,
To convert Slide notes as closed captions, Please check the 'Audio CC' checkbox present in the slide notes panel (Audio should be present in the slide )
This will convert all the marked Slide notes as closed captions automatically. You can synch the converted closed captions with audio from the Edit>Audio>Closed captions dialog.
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Adding Sound Track To Voice Over

Why isn't this working? I recorded a voice over track. I just want to add a bed of music and sound effects underneath. All music and sound effects are in iTunes. I thought the process is simply to pull a track from "Audio Media Browser" into "Drag Apple Loops Here." Doesn't hold. Bounces back. What step am I missing. Basic question: "How do I add a sound track under a voice over track?"
Thanks you so much for any help

JeffS65 wrote:
Did you create a new basic track to drop it in to?
You shouldn't even have to do that. Just drop into the Timeline area of an open GB Project.

Adding a voice over on a stand alone presentation

I have used Keynote quite a bit for presentations with a lot of success. I would like to record a voice over for a new presentation and place it in the file. Has anyone had any experience with this?
The presentation should run about 15 minutes max.

Be aware that straight recordings will make your presentation huge.
You can make recordings with *QuickTime Pro* (the registered version) and then convert those to 32kbs AAC or MP3 files (perfect for voice recordings) which bring the file size down dramatically.
If you record those in snippets for each slide, or cut them up using Fission or *MP3 Trimmer* you just drag them into each slide and set them to play on opening or cue.

MAC Voice Over: Why does the screen view lag behind the voice over audio?

MAC Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549)
When using voice over on a MAC with DE 1.8 - most times when paging thru a pdf file/book the voice and the view are inconsistent. When using VO - moving to the next page with the right arrow key - the audio starts to read the next page (correct), but the display is one page behind (not correct). For readers - especially those that have significant visual impairment - this will not work for them. Is this a defect - and if so - I would be very happy to re-test this feature if a new revision of DE 1.8 is provided.
I am unsure this is the correct forum to raise issues such as this one. I am in the process of evaluating Adobe DE 1.8 - my sister is blind and I am trying to move her to a MAC with VO. I really appreciate Adobe's effort in supporting JAWS and MAC VO - thank you on behalf of all disabled folks out there.
Below is a detailed list of steps to re-produce this audio/screen inconsistency issue.
- Install DE 1.8 and add to the dock
- Add a pdf file/book to DE 1.8. For my issue, I am adding the "Voice Over Getting Started" guide.
- Turn on Voice Over - Cmd+F5
- Using VO - Go to the dock and select DE and start it. The "Last Read Book" typically is the focus for the VO cursor. Then using VO next item (VO+right arrow) - move the VO cursor to "Library Content Table". This is the list of books that are displayed in DE.
- Using the up/down keyboard arrows - move up and down thru the books in the content list. At this point - you should already see that the VO audio announcing the title of a book is not synchronized with the row in the table that is displayed. The voice is announcing a book that you selected, but the display is showing the previous book.
- Once you hear (not see) the book you want to test with, hit <enter>. DE will open the book and start to read using VO. At this point the screen and audio for the first page in the book are the same.
- Once the book has been opened by DE - Using the right arrow key navigate to the next page in the pdf/book. Normally the right arrow key is the short cut to allow a user to move forward or backwards thru a book, one page at a time.
- With DE and VO - what happens is that VO responds to the right arrow key and starts to read the next page. But the screen is still showing the previous page. Hence the screen and the VO audio are out of sync.
- For anyone that uses MAC VO - this will prevent them from using Adobe DE 1.8.
If I am doing something incorrect - please let me know. If you need any assistance or further information regarding this issue - please email me.
Best Regards
Mike R

hi, Mike R:
Thanks for your information. We have tested several Mac machines, iMac and MBP (use the same version as yours). But we can't reproduce the issue. Actually working with VoiceOver is a fundamental request for our application, we did test them before releasing the build.
We suggest you test other applications, e.g. Finder, Preview and iTunes, to make sure if VoiceOver works fine with them. Or can you please check if your VoiceOver settings are correct?

How can I remove high-pitched distortion from voice-over?

Hi folks,
I'm completely new to fixing audio. I am making a short film, and for a voice-over, I recently had to do an interview over the phone (the subject lives in a very remote location). Actually, I used GoToMeeting, we called into the conference call feature from our phones, and I recorded the meeting into a wmv file. Then I re-encoded it using Expression Encoder so I could pull it into Adobe Audition.
I am attaching a short phrase (extracted as a .wav file) from the interview in the hope that someone can tell me how to improve the quality of the sound. I have Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Audition, both CS6 and CC versions.
Short voice recording - Creative COW
1. Can anyone tell me, please, how to get rid of the high-pitched "ringing" kind of distortion that we hear on each of her loudest syllables? Also, does this particular type of distortion have a name? I kept finding articles on fixing sound, but wasn't sure what I'm dealing with here, so I wasn't sure which techniques were likely to work. Tried a bunch, and the overall sound got better, but so far nothing has fixed that high-pitched distortion.
2. After getting rid of that ringing distortion, what are your recommendations for making the voice recording sound as rich, smooth and full as possible? In real life, this woman has a BEAUTIFUL, rich voice. But the recording sounds like a flat telephone call (because it is).
Thanks in advance,
Mary

Well, I don't think there's any miracles to be had here. As you say, it's a telephone call and I fear that, since phone lines filter out anything above about 4k, there's no way of replacing it.
I had a look at your file in spectral view and you can clearly see the original material going, as expected, up to about 4 kilohertz--but, above that, there's a generalised area of noise. My suspicion--and it's only a suspicion--is that during your double conversions (to wmv then through a third party app to something else) one of them has added the extra noise as it your original was full bandwidth.
Anyhow, best I could do was use the Marquee tool in Spectral View, draw a rectangle around the upper area (you can see a clear boundary between the programme content and the random extra frequencies) then just delete everything above just over 4 khz then delete.
As for making a phone call sound full and rich, if there was a way to do it, when I was working in TV we could have saved hundreds of thousands a year by using phones instead of far more expensive circuits!

Video and sound stutters in imovie project, made up entirely of stills with voice-over and music. I'm using iMovie 9.0.4 on a PowerBook 2GHz running 10.6.8 with 274 GB of space free. Size of project is 588 Gb.

This particular project is made up entirely of still photos with Ken Burns moves and dissolves between each photo. As I got further into the project, the voice over audio started stuttering, and now it hardly plays at all with a motorboat sound when it does play. I've also started added music with the dsame audio problem. I'm running on a Mac PowerBook 2GHz using System 10.6.8. I have IMovie version 9.0.4. The project file size is 588 Mb. I have 274 Gb of hard disc space left. I have shut off all other running programs and even disconnected from the internet, but nopthing seems to help. I acts like it's a memory problem of some sort, but all other applications run fine.

This particular project is made up entirely of still photos with Ken Burns moves and dissolves between each photo. As I got further into the project, the voice over audio started stuttering, and now it hardly plays at all with a motorboat sound when it does play. I've also started added music with the dsame audio problem. I'm running on a Mac PowerBook 2GHz using System 10.6.8. I have IMovie version 9.0.4. The project file size is 588 Mb. I have 274 Gb of hard disc space left. I have shut off all other running programs and even disconnected from the internet, but nopthing seems to help. I acts like it's a memory problem of some sort, but all other applications run fine.

Voice Over in Premiere Pro CS5

Hi there.
A quick question about doing voice overs. I am recording using a Tascam US-122, with mono on. I am recording a voice over onto Audio Track 1, but it records to normal volume on the left side, and barely any volume to the right.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
David

You're right, we weren't on the same page, and now I understand!
So I added a mono track and yes, there is only one levels display. I recorded, then copied and pasted it to a second mono track and panned one hard left, the other hard right, and I got equal levels in both channels!
Ok, so problem solved.
But one last question.... I'm still not really understanding what I'm doing when I record in mono. The screenshot below shows the playback of the mono recording... with one Levels display for the mono track, Audio 3, and two Levels displays in the Master. And 2 channels are playing back in the Master. So when I play it back now, I'm getting sound in both channels.
I'm not sure why creating a mono channel, as you suggested, ended up with a recording that plays back in 2 channels on the Master.
Thanks,
David

Voice over discrepancies.

Hi All,
I'm doing a travel corporate and we recorded voice over in our old office. they then wanted changes and so we have rerecorded a few sections in our new place. Unfortunately the accoustics are much better in the new place and so the old stuff sounds tinny in comparison. I'm fairly inexperienced in audio clean ups and was wondering what the best filter would be to equalize out these discrepancies and how i should go about using it.
I'm guessing that i will have to make the better sounding clips more tinny rather than the other (more preferable) way round. Is it just a case of adding treble to these using the parametric EQ?
ANy help would be much appreciated.
cheers
Fred

I like using the 3 band equalizer when matching audio like that. Try it, you might like it.

Voice over suddenly doesn't play audio

I have been adding several voice over clips to my movie. Now on the most recent one, I record it, the audio levels show up, but when I play it back...nothing.
Mic is working, it shows that it's recorded, but can't get any sound to play.

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Every CD I put into my MacBook Pro mounts as a Blank CD. I get this:
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Therefore I can no longer import CD's to itunes.
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Voice over track gone silent

Hello,
I have a video on top of which I have added a voice over (my mom commenting on some 40 year old captured 8mm movies) in the audio track underneath the video track. Worked just great, but last time I opened the file, my voice over audio has gone silent. Each voice segment still shows, but I do not see the audio waveform anymore. When I take a voice segment and drag it on my hard disk, it produce a voice xx.mov file, which Quicktime would not open (I get a message like: "The movie could not be opened. The file is not a movie").
I have, of course ensured that all volume settings on the mac and in iMovie are set properly (check boxes at the right f the tracks, volume slider below the video preview, etc.) I have also tried to view package by control-clicking on my iMovie file and clicking on "show package": I checked the content of the Media folder: all my voice file appear, but when I rty and open any of them, quicktime would not open them.
Has anybody had the same issue? Any way I could resolve it? Any help would be greatly appreciated as it took forever to record these voice-overs.
Thank you in advance, Regis

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