Guides/Captions and voices
Record a voiceover
Talk over the edit while it plays. The take lands on the timeline where you started.
Record Voiceover is the microphone button on the timeline tray, beside Text to Speech.
- Put the playhead where the voiceover should start.
- Click Record Voiceover. The timeline’s own sound is muted, playback starts from the playhead, the button turns red and reads Stop Recording, and a level meter runs beside it.
- Talk.
- Click Stop Recording.
The take is saved as a WAV in your project’s audio folder, added to the Library, and placed as
a clip on the first free lane at the point where recording began, nudged by the microphone’s
latency so it lines up. A toast says “Voiceover added to the timeline”.
There is no device picker: Concat records from the system’s default input. Change that in your operating system’s sound settings before you press the button.
After the take
- Too quiet, or a noisy room: select the clip, open the Inspector’s Audio tab and turn on Normalize loudness, Reduce noise or Enhance voice. See clean up a voice.
- Want captions for it: select the clip and click Generate Captions.
- A flubbed line: put the playhead on it, press ⌘B to split, delete the piece, record again.