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February 4, 2017
Question

Narration in Premiere Elements 15 is mute

  • February 4, 2017
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I'm running Windows 10, and obviously Premiere 15, I don't know what other information would be relevant.

So, after working on my project for five hours and then some, I was screen capturing a specific frame of the project, finished without issue, attempted to resize my Premiere window, and accidentally grabbed the window for my narration tool. Without realizing the issue, I took my workspace back to my primary monitor and attempted to finish the project. Upon review, I found that ALL of my narration had gone mute. The clips are still there, they still have the equalizer marks indicating that there is audio there, but when I play them, I hear nothing. The other audio works just fine.

I've attempted to restart the program, load the project I finished before I started this one(that one has no issue).

I also attempted to simply restart the entire project, but even new narration clips are mute, with the marks to show that there is audio there.

I muted and unmuted the narration line in the workspace. I modified a few of the clips. I attempted a quick fix I found on google, where I open the app data(Start> Run> %appdata%> Adobe > {some folder name I can't recall} > common> rename to "commonold"), and rename the "common" folder to "commonold."

I restarted my PC.

I tried to update the software, but failed to find how to do so on the official website.

I'm running out of ideas, and really don't want to have to re-record half an hour's worth of audio.

You will be able to find a demonstration of my issue on my YouTube channel(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihpP0tg7_ak ) of the same name that I'm using here, if that would be of any help in explaining my problem.

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Participant
February 4, 2017

Starting an  entirely new project appears to allow me to record new narration, but as I said above, I would really like to not have to do all of it again.

Participant
February 4, 2017

It's not perfect, but I found a workaround.

I'm able to drag the narration clips down into the "music" area of the workspace, and they work there.