Narration in Premiere Elements 12

Hi, I am Don and new to Premiere Elements 12, and new to forum.
I imported fifteen Powerpoint slides into my timeline, and added some music for the background. Then I added some narration to my first 4 slides and everything was fine. Got tired, saved project. When I came back I tried to narrate my other slides but the sound of my narration was not the same volume or clarity. The more I tried to fix this the worse things got.
How can I get all 15 narrations to have same volume and clarity?
Any help will be most appreciated.
Domn

DonatHome
I thought and thought about how to sort this all out. From what you describe I suspect that there is a problem standardizing your narration sessions from clip to clip and from time of day to time of day.
a. One thought might be to fix the microphone at a given distance from your voice, assure the narration recording settings remain the same, and pick a time when your voice is at peak quality. How many of these narration clips do you need to complete the project? Have you considered devoting a day to doing them all at one time, starting perhaps in the morning? A marathon of narration.
b. If you want to salvage the existing narration after that 11th one, you could try to set the dB level according to what you hear rather than going directly to say a fixed 1 dB, 2 dB or 3 dB or higher level. There are circumstances when the higher the volume there is more of a chance of distorting the sound. That distortion can be referred to a clipping. If you were to play the narration with the Audio Meter open and you had this clipping, you would see red dots at the top of the Audio Meter vertical bars.
c. You could take each of your not so good narrations into Audacity and apply the Amplify effect as needed to them.
But, I am sort of favoring doing all your narration in one marathon session with standardized microphone and narration procedures.
Please think about the above and then let us know what is working or not working for you. We will think about this some more.
Thanks for the follow ups.
ATR

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