narration record stops after 1 to 5 seconds...How to fix?

Report · Feb 03, 2019

I have PE 18 and have used earlier PE a lot but never had this problem. I start to record narration and it either immediately stops or does so between 1 and 5 seconds later. I have a new HP Pavilion computer with 250+ GB free.

Thanks for any help.....Richard

Report · Feb 04, 2019

Richard,

Make sure that your microphone is accessible to the narration. You will be prompted by a request to access your mic, and be sure that the mic you're using is selected by your PC as the correct one. With narration, you can have one or more other clips or none at all on the same timeline sector as the narration as illustrated:

Report · Feb 06, 2019

yes....mic is confirmed under audio preferences. I have reinstalled the program and at first it was OK, then minutes later went back to the narration stop after just a second or three. Also, the time line play button will not play for long...only a second or so. It seems like I am the only one with this problem!

Report · Feb 06, 2019

yes....mic is confirmed under audio preferences. I have reinstalled the program and at first it was OK, then minutes later went back to the narration stop after just a second or three. Also, the time line play button will not play for long...only a second or so. It seems like I am the only one with this problem!

Report · Feb 09, 2021

I too have the problem of narration recording stopping after about 5 seconds. It looks to be a common problem and a real headache to me!

Report · Feb 10, 2021

I found that by checking and unchecking "mute audio while recording" that this quirk was fixed. Even closing out and re -starting Premiere did not help. If this fix does not continue to work, I'll let you know

Report · Feb 10, 2021

That solution does not always work. I have had this recording problem with other versions of Premiere too. Another thing to try is to go on down the timeline away from your previous clip and try recording there and then move the audio clip where you want it. As a last resort, when I am making a video, is to record using Windows sound recorder and using that recording. I hope Adobe fixes this with an update because sometimes you cannot stop the recording. Many glitches. I have been using Adobe Premiere for 20 years

Report · Feb 10, 2021

One other thing that needs to be fixed is that there are loud "pops" and the end of each audio clip narration and the clip has to be trimmec/cut to eliminate that.

Report · Feb 11, 2021

Just one more thing. There can be "remnants" of clips , both audio and video , that are so small they are hard to see. Expand and strech out your timeline so as to see these segments and eliminate these . They will stop your recording and must be cleared.

Report · Feb 08, 2022

Hi, perhaps you can check if you have set the mark in and out region? The narration will end at the mark out time. Hope that solves the problem. 🙂

Report · Jun 05, 2023

I had this problem with narrator stopping after 30 seconds on premiere elements 10. To remedy this I would load in a video first then for some reason this would allow narriation to record far beyond the 30 second limit it initially allowed me without a video. In other words it appears to me and im no expert, in my system it wants a video in there to record more than 29 seconds in Premiere Elements 10.

Report · Oct 09, 2023

Hopefully this helps others: I had the same issue and the problem for me was that I had my Bluetooth earphones connected to my computer at the same time that I had my wired headphones connected to the mic (for voice monitoring). As soon as I disconnected the Bluetooth earphones, everything went back to normal.

Report · Jan 03, 2024

i have Premier Elements 2024 and have been using this software since version 2018. this narration stopping issue has been prevelant in several different PC's, OS and app versions. I get about 5 second blips and have to start over, again, again, again and again... so lame.

Report · Jan 04, 2024

When you record on the timeline, underneath a photo, for example, it helps
to "stretch out" the photo as long as your recording/narration. This has
worked for me . Also, be sure to expand the timeline fully to see if there
are any "fragments" of a photo or of narration in the way that can stop the
recording.