Recording Narration

When I try to record narration, I get a message that says "Cannot record because one of the record-enabled tracks is locked in the timeline" Please help.
Dave

Dave
Have you confirmed that the issue is confined to this one project? As a mini test run, can you open a new project and move along in it with the issue?
If you have not already, try deleting the Adobe Premiere Elements Prefs file.
I am almost certain that with Premiere Elements 11 Mac the Adobe Premiere Elements Prefs file should be found
Users/User Name/Libraries/Application Support/Adobe/Premiere Elements/11.0 Folder
Also is this an Adobe Premiere Elements 11 Editor from the Mac App Store or a Premiere Elements 11 Mac from Adobe. Lots of problems with the Mac App Store offering which is now discontinued.
More later.
Thanks for looking at the suggestions.
ATR

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I just can't seem to find a way to get the audio files layed out one after another without more video. Very frustrating.
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You could insert a bunch of placeholders in the timeline before doing the voiceover.
You can find a range of placeholders (they are actually templates used in iMovie Trailers) in the Maps, Backgrounds & Animatics browser. This is the last browser at the end of the centre toolbar, after the Titles and Transitions browsers. Click on it and scroll down to see all the animatics (aka placholders or templates). Drag a number of these into your project timeline - as many as you think you need to cover your audio.
When you've finished the voiceover, drag photos directly onto the animatics and select Replace from the pop-up menu. Adjust the timing by using the Inspector (double-click a photo to open the Inspector, then change the duration).
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EDIT: Sorry, beaten by Bengt (again)!
Message was edited by: John Cogdell

Recording Narration for Keynote?

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Thanks Richard,
I did what you suggested, but instead of using QT pro, I used SoundStudio, which will also allow me to record through a USB mic. I then added an audio file to each individual slide. I did this for a ten slide test, but for my wife's 100 slide presentation I can see how that would take up a lot of time!
Still, your system of audio files (builds) added to each slide worked fine although I'm still testing out the refinements. It seems that once the audio is on the slide, the preference is towards the audio. By that I mean if you have a 12 second slide and you add 14 seconds of audio then the slide will stay on for at least 14 seconds before it makes a transition. Even though you may have set the slide to transition after 12 seconds. The audio won't get cut off. The other thing I see is that after the audio stops playing, there's too much of a delay before the transition kicks in.
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I record narration using a good microphone
while capturing Software Simulation of an Windows
application.
I keep my voice level during recording constant.
To explain different features of the application,
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Welcome to our community, PrintHelper
Yes, it would be very nice indeed if software never had any
issues, but I digress.
You might wish to consider recording your audio separately
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results.
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action, I've seen others suggest that the best results are achieved
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called Audacity. The good news is that it's open source and one may
obtain it at no charge. To visit the Audacity site,
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http://www.atr935.blogspot.com/2013/07/pe-narration-recording-stops-after-30.html
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I have tried recording with two different microphones
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the fly during the video recording. The narration sounds great in
when I listen to it in Captivate, but is garbled when I run the
recording in Preview or Publish the project. By garbled I mean it
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Hi David,
1) How large is your project in total number of slides?
. . . number of slides containing audio?
. . . actual physical size in pixels?
All of these should be available in the movie Properties
colum (left side of Storyboard view), or from "View > Bandwidth
Analyser". What I'm looking for is possible "resources" issues.
2) In no order . . . yes, there are two copies of each audio
file, one in WAV (PCM) format and the other in MP3. The WAV is
created (if necessary) for purposes of editing - the audio editor
in Captivate is a WAV editor. The MP3 is created to be included in
the published output - for purposes of best "streaming" performance
of the published SWF, from the web.
3) I am absolutely certain that the problem is
NOT in Captivate's conversion routine. The is not to say the
problem is not real - just that I don't think it is happening
during conversion.
4) You mention "quality" settings. Have you tried changing
the quality of all affected audio to "High" (CD, I believe)? Have
you then tried changing it back to "normal" (FM, as I remember). I
would try that before throwing up your hands - but it would be best
if you used "Save As" liberally, to create copies so the original
can be preserved . . .
Hope there is some help here - keep in touch, David.

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