DaVinci Resolve 16 AUDIO CRASH COURSE

welcome to this DaVinci Resolve audio crash course if you're new to the channel my name is Jay Yadlovski and here we talk about DaVinci Resolve photography Photoshop Lightroom and even a little bit of video and video editing but this video it's all about audio and DaVinci Resolve so let's jump into the video alright so as I mentioned this is a DaVinci Resolve audio crash course maybe you're new to DaVinci Resolve you want to know how to work with your audio what can I do with it what kind not do that's what we're gonna talk about here today so check out the description below I'm gonna link to different times in the video feeling just to make it easier for you to jump around the video and get to the things that you want enough if you're looking to create your first project in DaVinci Resolve and you're not sure how to get started and what settings to use check out this video up here I'm gonna link to and that's another crash course that I did to help you get going on your first project in DaVinci Resolve but this video it's all about audio so all these things that we're gonna talk about here today are things that I use from a YouTube channel for my videos here I'm gonna go over basic stuff just to help you get going so grab your cup of joe sit back get comfortable relax and let's go learn some DaVinci Resolve Audio together so we're in DaVinci Resolve here and I'm in the edit tab and one of the good things about audio in DaVinci Resolve here is that you've got two places or actually three places you can work on it you can work on your audio in the cut tab in the Edit tab and in the Fairlight tab we're gonna be working with audio in both the Edit tab and the Fairlight tab so first we're gonna get going in the edit tab I'm gonna show you some of the tools we have here and how you can do some basic things right here in the Edit tab without even having to go to the Fairlight tab so first thing I need to do is create a new timeline I'm gonna right click timelines create new timeline and I'm gonna call this audio crash course and I'm gonna create two audio tracks here because we're gonna need another audio track as we move forward here so I'm gonna click create and now I have my video and two audio tracks so now we want to add in some media into our timeline so I've got this clip here that I filmed my 5d Mark 4 so I'm gonna drag that down and drop it in my timeline so the clip on the top here is our video and our clip on the bottom here is our audio so if you're not seeing the waveforms or if your clips look a little bit different you can come over here to the line view options and you've got different options in here and how you can see your clips so this top right one here is your audio waveforms so you can turn that on and then you'll be able to see what your waveforms look like and I think that's always pretty helpful tool to have on next you have your video view options and if yours looks like this right now you're not gonna be able to access a few features that we're gonna I'm gonna show you here so you want to make sure you have either the center one or the one on the left here selected and these two here show you some different options that you can select if you'd like to you can also adjust the height of your video and audio tracks so I'm gonna make my audio track a little bigger turn my waveforms on and I'm all set with my view here I like that so now that we've got our clip in the timeline we can do a lot of similar things like we can with our video clips for example we can trim our audio clips we can use our shortcuts which I use command or control B we can cut up our audio clips however we'd like undo that if you wanted to play through your clip it's just like playing through a video clip with your spacebar welcome to the audio crash course here guys there's gonna be a little clip let's say maybe you wanted to raise and lower your volume and there's a few ways you can do that so there's a line right here through the middle of your clip and if you click on that and drag it up you're gonna be raising your volume and if you drag it down you're gonna be lowering your volume one of the other ways that you can adjust the volume on your clip is to select your clip come up to the inspector and you've also got your clip volume right here so if I double click on volume that's gonna bring my volume back to zero and that doesn't mean 0 as in there's no sound it means 0 as in you haven't made a change from your original clip so if I play through you'll see we can still hear it audio crash course here guy and you can adjust your audio here and raise it up if you'd like lower it down and you can see our waveforms and this line move at the same time as our clip volume up here in the inspector you also have several other options you can adjust your clip pan the pitch the EQ it's a very basic EQ here but you can do some simple changes here if you want there is a more detailed EQ over in the Fairlight tab which we'll get to in a little bit so some of the other things you can do in the Edit tab let's say you wanted to fade in your clip well when you hover over your clip you see this little icon up here in the top left my clothes my inspector here and also on the top right of your clip so you can just click on that and drag it in and what that's doing is fading your clip in or out so let me drag that in here I'll play through and you can see how that sounds welcome to the audio crash course here guys this is gonna be something so you fade in and same on the end of the clip you can fade the clip out another cool thing you can adjust is this little point here this is a keyframe on your fade in so if you just hover over it click and you drag down or up that changes the way the clip fades in so if we wanted to ramp up and fade in a little quicker crash-course here guys this you can do that or if you want it to come in quicker in the beginning and then slower at the end you can do it that way welcome to the audio crash so it's nice to have that option you can make those simple changes right here in the Edit tab so if you wanted to in the Edit tab here you can come up to your effects library come down to your audio effects and here you've got all your audio effects that you would see over in your Fairlight tab but you can just click one and drag it right over onto your clip if you want to use it that way so let's say for example I wanted to use a multiband compressor you can come over and just drag it on there and it'll pop up this window and this is the same window that you would see in the Fairlight tab but you get it right here in the Edit tab so for me I like to apply the some of these effects to the whole track so I'm gonna do in the Fairlight tab but it's nice to know that you have the option to use some of these effects and features right here in the Edit tab so that's some of the simple edits that you can do right here in the Edit tab now we're gonna jump over to the Fairlight tab where you can actually get more in depth with your audio and do more things with it so if you click on the little musical notes down here that's your Fairlight tab and this is a full audio editor I love this this Fairlight tab there's tons of great features in here more than I'll cover here and I've got other videos on it so you can go check those out but lots of great stuff here so if you're just getting started let's just go over the layout of everything real quick so up here along the top we've got the same menus that we can open as we do in the Edit tab we've got some extras actually like in this case we have our meters here at the top which as we play through the clip here you're gonna see welcome to the audio you're gonna see the meters working we have our media pool in case you need to grab a clip and drag it in so let's just say I actually want to add in our music track I'm gonna click on this and drag it on over here and I'll just drop it on the timeline for us in our audio to track the clothes that you've got your audio effects here that you can drag on to each clip just as we did over in the Edit tab we're also gonna be able to add it to the track but we'll get to that in a minute you have an index which shows you your Clips and gives you some information about them you've got a sound library that you can set up it doesn't come with the sound library although they did say they were gonna release a sound library with thought it was version 16 but I haven't seen it yet so I'm not sure what's going on with that but you if you have sound effects you can create your own sound library so everything's here you can search for it super handy super helpful that you can just add stuff into your video when you need it continuing across you have your mixers here your mixers have your faders as well as a whole bunch of other information here you've got your input your effects dynamics pan where your audio is getting sent all kinds of in-depth stuff here that we'll get into later on you've got your meters that show you kind of levels you got on each channel you have your metadata for each clip if that's something you want to know about and you also have your inspector over here which has the same information as it did over in the Edit tab coming down to the middle section here you have your time count how long your videos been going you've got your play stop record buttons your loop buttons you have your selector button here a range selector so you can work on just part of the clip you have markers you have different timeline view options you can try those see what you like you can make your Clips bigger wider you can zoom in zoom out all kinds of good tools right in here that you can try out continuing on the left here you've got your audio tracks and actually since we're here I'm gonna rename our tracks you can just double click the name there I'm gonna call this one 5d mark 4 and this one I'm just gonna call music and then just hit enter and you notice a couple different icons here on each track so the first one is lock you can lock the track so you can't make any changes the R is for recording on your track S is for solo which means play only that track and nothing else and M means mute that track and you have all those options for each one of your tracks so I'm gonna mute our music track for now and we're just going to work with our vocal audio track so we can see that I had faded in the audio so I'm just gonna bring that back reset that I'm also gonna click on the clip I'm gonna right-click and say remove attributes and I'm gonna remove everything because I had a plug-in on there that I didn't want there anymore because we're gonna start from scratch here in the Fairlight tab one thing you want to pay attention to is your meters so your meter over here your meter up here on your channel over here and on the side of the audio clip are all gonna be the same they're gonna be reading for this clip right here so I want to watch it and see if I'm my meters are getting into the red anywhere the ideal place for my vocal audio to be is between minus 10 and minus 15 decibels that's where I'm gonna try and make this clip live so as I play through let's watch those meters and kind of see where some of the levels fall a little clip here we're gonna use in our DaVinci Resolve tutorial to show you how to work with your audio a little crash course hope okay so we can see that on our meters some of the audio in the clip here is peaking up into the red now you'll notice there's a little line there that stays there in the meter let's play this little crash course so this right here so that's telling me where the peak of my audio is so seeing that it's all the way up at minus 5 that's too high I don't I don't want it to be that high so where do we start working with this onea what do we do the first thing that I would do is come in and normalize the audio level normalizing the audio level helps set the peaks of your audio to a certain level and then adjust everything else below it accordingly so in order to do that I'm gonna click on my clip I'm gonna right click and come down to normalize audio levels so here my normalization mode I'm gonna leave at sample Peak program and the target level is minus 9 decibels so that means it's gonna take the loudest point in my clip and set it at minus 9 decibels so what that means is that it's gonna look at the clip and pick the highest peak of the audio and it's gonna set that at minus 9 and then everything else will go along with it so I'm gonna go ahead and click normalize here alright so it normalized the audio level and if we want to see what it did you still have your clip selected if you go into the inspector and I look right here my volume you can see it lowered the volume to minus 6 so let's play through the clip here and just see how it sounds with the normalized audio levels welcome to the audio crash course here guys there's gonna be a little clip you know if we look over here we see our levels are not as toriel to show you how to work with your audio the little crash course hope this helps out and lets okay so I can see right off the bat it looks like it's a little low and even looking at my waveforms here the peaks are a little taller in the beginning here as compared to the rest of the clip so what I want to do is actually boost it back up and I can take care of the first part of this clip with the higher audio levels separately but overall I want my clip to be in that negative 10 to negative 15 range so I'm gonna come into my inspector and I'm gonna boost it up just a little bit to minus three point four seven and let's play it back now and see what we get and again I know that this is gonna be higher than the rest of the clip but we'll deal with that in just a little bit welcome to the audio crash course here guys this is gonna be a little clip here we're gonna use in our DaVinci Resolve tutorial to show you how to work with your audio the little crash course hope this helps out alright so it's getting closer let me just bump it up a little bit more I'm gonna do two minus three even and see how that looks welcome to the audio crash course here guys there's gonna be a little clip here we're gonna use in our DaVinci Resolve tutorial to show you how all right so it's not too bad we're gonna continue to work with a little bit more but I think that's a little bit better than it was gonna use for our DaVinci Resolve tutorial could probably even boost it up just a little bit more let's do -2 clip here we're gonna use in our DaVinci Resolve tutorial to show you how to work with your audio look alright so I think that's pretty good for now now there's different ways that we can handle the louder part of the clip here one way is to use keyframes so we can come to our audio clip here and there's a few ways you can add keyframes let's say that I wanted to make from there to right about here a lower volume since I can see that's where I have larger waveforms but one way to add a keyframe is to come to your volume line here you see your little arrows up and down and if you hold option or alt and you click it'll add a keyframe point so I'm going to add another one right before that and then I'm gonna come to the end of my section here that I want to change the volume for and I'm going to ctrl click and control click again now I can just come into the audio clip here let's make this a little bit bigger I can come into my clip and lower the volume of just that section so let's play through and see what that looks like on our meters welcome to the audio crash course guys this is gonna be a little clip here we're gonna alright so that helped so that's one way that you can do it another way you can add your keyframes is by placing your playhead wherever you want to add a keyframe come to your inspector and you can select the diamonds over here so for volume you would select this diamond and you can see it added a keyframe in for us so you can do it either way it doesn't matter whichever way works best for you but it's nice to know that you got options and different ways of doing things so I'm gonna bring that back up just a touch and let's play through see how our meters look welcome to the audio crash course here guys there's gonna be a little clip here we're gonna use it alright so that looks pretty good and that's what I'm gonna leave it for now and then we'll move ahead and do some other things that will help with the peaking up into the red there so the next thing that I want to do with my audio clip here is do a little EQ so coming into the mixer panel here we've got all kinds of great things to work with and this is where we're gonna spend the next a little bit of time so starting with EQ I'm gonna double click on the EQ for my 5d Mark for track like I'm think I mentioned earlier in the video if you've got some good headphones or good speakers that really helps to hear the small differences and the nuances in these things that you're gonna be changing so I would recommend using some good speakers or good headphones if you have them so let's jump into the EQ here all you have to do to open it is double click on it so this is our equaliser window here and you've got 6 bands of EQ that you can adjust so it's a like I said it's a little more detailed than what you can get in the inspector and this is generally where I'm gonna do the bulk of my EQ work so I'll just give you a few tips here I do have another video about EQ with a little more information on it I'll link to that above you can check that out so here's just some basic EQ principles that you can use to help your audio sound better the first thing that I would do is turn on band 1 and if you click on this little button right here next to band 1 it gives you different styles of EQ that you can do so what we want to use for this band 1 what that's gonna do is cut out all the sound that falls below our frequency the high-pass filter for most vocal tracks you want to bring your frequency up to about a hundred because you don't need any of the frequencies below that that's just gonna make your audio sound muddy so you don't need that so you can bring your band 1 up to around 100 Hertz the next thing that I would do is come up to band 6 at the top and here we want a low-pass filter so when I turn on band 6 that's gonna take out everything to the right of my point so right now it's set at 13,000 kilohertz and that might be okay you can boost it up maybe 14,000 but a lot of these real high-pitched sounds you don't need in your vocal audio so I generally will turn that on and have a low-pass filter so now I'm gonna play through and in here is the sound that we're gonna be getting from our microphone so now that we made those two adjustments I'm gonna turn the EQ off play some of the clip and then turn it on and see if you can hear a difference welcome to the audio crash course here guys there's gonna be a little clip here we're gonna use in our DaVinci Resolve tutorial to show you how to so it's very slight it's just a little difference but it is in there now that we've got those two bands set I want to move on to find the problem areas of my audio so I'm gonna start with my band - and you want to change your type to this second one down here and what that's gonna allow us to do is to grab our point number two we're gonna bring it over above our point one and I want to come down to the Q factor the Q factor affects how wide of a change you're gonna make so if I boost that Q factor up I get a nice peak and if I bring that Q factor down it makes it a nice gradual change there in the EQ so to find our problem areas you want to boost up the Q quite high generally I just crank it all the way up and then I want to pull my point all the way up on the equalizer now what I'm gonna do is called sweeping the EQ so I'm gonna play my audio I'm gonna grab my point number two here and I'm gonna sweep it back and forth until I hear something that doesn't sound good and then once I do find that point that doesn't sound good I'm gonna stop and then we will lower the gain for that point which will effectively remove that sound that we don't want to hear so let's play the clip and I'm going to sweep around the EQ on the number two point welcome to the audio crash course here guys this can be a little clip here we're gonna use in DaVinci Resolve tutorial to show you how to work with your audio little crash course hope this helps out so I hear something right there that doesn't sound so hot so I'm gonna leave it right there I'm gonna drop this down and how much you drop it down is just depending on how what you think sounds good I mean usually - five decibels is okay you can go more if you need to but you just play with it and see what you think sounds best so now let's play this again welcome to the audio crash course here guys this and if I turn it off and then turn it on see how it sounds gonna be a little clip here we're gonna use in our DaVinci Resolve tutorial so it seems like it helps clear it up just a little bit now I'm going to do the same thing with point number three and we already have the right type of EQ selected here I'm gonna boost up that Q factor sweep it around and look for any sounds that I don't like welcome to the audio crash course here guys there's gonna be a little clip here we're gonna use in our DaVinci Resolve tutorial to show you how to work with your audio the lip crash course hope this helps it alright so right there doesn't sound too good to me I'm gonna bring that down and I'm actually gonna open this up a little bit because I noticed from oh I'd say I don't know maybe 350 to 400 Hertz up to maybe 800 it sounded a little I don't didn't sound good I didn't like it so I'm gonna open that up to remove a little bit more of those frequencies so let's just drop down a little more I'm gonna play through and see how that sounds welcome to the audio crash course here guys there's gonna be a little clip here we're gonna use in our DaVinci Resolve tutorial to show you how to work with your audio the little crash course hope this helps out and let's get into it alright so next I'm gonna try it with the band 4 and a lot of the vocal range is in between the 1 and 2,000 kilohertz range sometimes you'll find things that don't sound good in that range as well so I'm gonna do the same thing boost my cue bring my gain up and listen for things I don't like welcome to the audio crash course here guys this is gonna be a little clip here we're gonna use in our DaVinci Resolve tutorial to show you how to work with your audio the little crash course hope this helps out and let's get into it alright so in that whole range it kind of doesn't sound so hot so I'm gonna bring this down and I might actually put this right in the middle and open it up a little bit because on either side of that one at around 1000 and 2000 it had some spots that didn't sound so great so I'm gonna play through just adjust this a little and do what I think sounds good welcome to the audio scores here guys there's gonna be a little clip here we're gonna use in our DaVinci Resolve tutorial to show you how to work with your audio little crash course hope this helps out and and I'm gonna turn it off turn on see how it sounds welcome to the audio crash course here guys there's gonna be a little clip here we're gonna use in our DaVinci Resolve tutorial to show you how to work with your audio alright so I think that sounded pretty good number number five points sometimes I adjust it sometimes I don't I'm just gonna play through one more time and see if I need to adjust that at all welcome to the audio crash course here guys there's gonna be a little clip here we're gonna use in our DaVinci Resolve tutorial to show you how to work with your audio the little crash course hope this helps out and let's get into it so sometimes if you boost the range above say 3,000 kilohertz it'll help with the clarity of your audio other times you might want to drop it down a little bit it really just depends on the microphone you're using and the person who's talking and just how you think it sounds overall so I'm pretty happy here with this EQ for now I'm gonna leave that and if we it sounds like we need to boost up the audio because when you drop some of these points on the EQ you might lose a little bit of your volume you can come over to your gain section here and you can boost that up a little bit just to make up some of the volume you may have lost so I'm gonna play through and see if I need to do that welcome to the audio crash course here yeah and if I look down here too we want to see where are we're falling in our audio range and we want to be in that 10 to 15 range if possible there's gonna be a little clip here we're gonna use in our DaVinci Resolve tutorial to show you how to work with your audio the little crash course hope this helps out and let's get into it alright so I boosted it just a little bit on the gain there so I'm happy with the EQ here I'm gonna leave it as it is and let's say just for example that you use this microphone all the time and you want to save your eq settings you can come up to the Fairlight menu at the top come down to preset library and then you have an option to be able to save your equalizer you can filter by equalizer presets select the track that you want to save it from in my case 5d mark 4 I'm gonna say save new and this is the rode lav mic so I'm gonna go ahead and save that and that's how you would save your preset and just in case you're wondering let's say you go to the next project and you need to load that preset you come back up to the Fairlight tab preset library you go to equalizer presets select the track that you want select the preset that you want and you can apply it to that channel and it'll apply that EQ to that channel for you so that's EQ in a nutshell again I have another video on that goes a little more in depth you can go check that out if you are interested in more EQ the next thing that I'm gonna do is come over to the dynamics section I'm gonna double click on that and that's going to bring up our dynamics window so our dynamics window has a few different sections here we have our input levels which is what's coming into the dynamics section we have our graph here that shows you what you're doing whether you're expanding using your gate your compressor you have your gain reduction this just shows you a meter of the changes that are getting applied to your clip makeup is something that you can use to boost the volume of your clip because as you make some of these changes you might lose some volume so the makeup helps you bring that level back up and over here you have your output so the first thing that I usually do is come down and click on the send button what that's gonna do is it's gonna take your audio track from my vocals here and it's gonna send it out to any other channels that are listening and we'll get to that in a little while why we want to do that but if you have a music track underneath your audio tracks you're gonna want to turn that send on because that's gonna help us later on with some automatic ducking that resolve can do for us so anyway all you need to know for now is just turn on that send button next I want to turn on my compressor what a compressor does is allows you to set a level once your videos playing if you have any audio levels that come in over a certain point that you set it will reduce that level for example if we have like the beginning of our clip we had some peaks so when those levels come in and they peak it's automatically gonna bring back the volume of those Peaks so they're not so much louder than everything else it's gonna compress that portion of your audio so let's play through the clip here and we can see how it works so I want to watch my input and see what we're getting and watch my output we can go from there welcome to the audio crash course here guys there's gonna be a little clip here we're gonna use in our DaVinci Resolve tutorial to show you how to work with your audio the little crash course hope this helps so we can see I'm getting some peaking on the input up into the red here and I don't want that so for your threshold here you want to set that to what the approximate lowest level of your audio is so if I play through welcome to the audio crash course here guys there's gonna be a little clip here we're gonna use it looks like minus 15 might actually be okay so I'm gonna leave that there for now your ratio is how much do you want to compress your audio once it goes above your threshold level so I'm gonna just say for now let's do let's just do two to one and leave it like that we'll see how that works your attack is how quickly does that compressor kick in do you want it to come in really fast or do you want it to ease in a little bit slower so usually I'll leave that at whatever it's set at and if you change any of these knobs a real quick tip double click on the tab and it'll reset it to whatever the default is the hold button here is how long is it going to hold that compressor on when there's no talking or no audio on your track so spaces between your words for example how long is it going to hold on to that compressor so I usually boost this up to around 12 65 1200 anywhere between a thousand and fifteen hundred milliseconds the release is OK once the person is done talking the audio is done how long until the volume goes back to the normal level so I usually put that around 1500 which is like 1.5 seconds and again it doesn't have to be exact but being the ballpark and if you play with these with the hold and the release as you're playing through your clip you hear the differences and see what they do but generally this is where I keep my settings for the compressor so let's play through that and let's just see how that's sounding and I'm gonna watch my meters over here to see where my output falls and again I want to look between that 10 and 15 range welcome to the audio crash course here guys there's gonna be a little clip here we're gonna use in our DaVinci Resolve tutorial to show you how to alright so it's not bad it looks like it's a little low so I'm gonna boost my makeup a little bit and you can see it raises my my graph over here a little bit to show me what I'm doing so I'm gonna boost it let's say by 3 and we're gonna play through the clip and again I'm watching the output over here I wanna be between 10 and 15 which is about here welcome to the audio crash course here guys this is gonna be a little clip here we're gonna use in our DaVinci Resolve tutorial to show you how to work with your audio the little crash course hope this helps out and let's get into it so you can see I had some piques up high so if that's your case I can drop or bring up the ratio a little bit more so it'll grab those Peaks as I'm playing through the clip let's do it one more time and I think we'll be okay with the compressor here welcome to the audio crash course here guys there's gonna be a little clip here we're gonna use in our DaVinci Resolve tutorial to show you how to so you can see on the input it's peaking but on our output it's staying right where I want it to be and that's what the compressor is gonna do for us some of the other features in the dynamics panel here is the expander and the gate so the expander is gonna expand your dynamic range so to speak of your audio I don't use it too often we can try here play through and see if it makes a difference I'll play it and turn it on and see if we get a difference here welcome to the audio crash course here guys there's gonna be a little clip here we're gonna use in so I don't know it's too much of a difference most of the time I don't use that the other tool that we have here is an audio gate and I do use this fairly often so what's the gate for the gate helps reduce any sound on your audio track below a certain point that you set for example I might use this when I'm recording and in my office here let's say the fans of my computer are on and let's say that I pause between a sentence or something and you can hear the fans in the background or you hear some background noise but it's really low in the decibels it's not very loud but I don't want it to be there when I use the gate I can set the level of the gate to cut out all that background noise when nobody's talking it's not gonna take out the background noise while I'm talking but when you have quiet areas on your audio track it can drop down the level so that you don't get any hiss or background noise or anything like that so I'm gonna try playing that and we're gonna adjust the gate and actually right in the beginning here is a good example so I don't have any words here in the beginning I'm going to turn off the gate and if you just listen you're gonna hear a little bit of static so you hear that okay so now if I turn on the gate and I'm gonna lower that threshold down a little bit and I'm gonna play and now you shouldn't hear anything here until I start talking welcome to the audio crash course here guys this is gonna be and you can see it still sounds a little wonky and that's because I have my threshold set too high it's cutting out a little too much so I'm gonna bring that back some more and try it again welcome to the audio crash course here guys this game and you could just play with these settings until you get something that you think sounds good and maybe it's up and down too much so your range will affect how much audio it cuts down and how much it drops those levels so I'm gonna bring that back up a little bit and let's try it again welcome to the audio crash course here guys there's gonna be a little clip here and bring it up a little bit cuz it sounds like it's dropping a little too much for my liking so let's try it again hearing welcome to the audio crash course here guys there's gonna be a little clip here alright so I think that's okay for now I'm gonna leave that like that bring it back just a little and then down here on the bottom of the gate section here you have your again your attack your hold and your release so I'm gonna adjust those up because I want the effect to stay active for a little bit I don't want to just cut in and out real quick so let's say maybe half a second on the hold and a half a second on the release and then let's play through that and see how that sounds welcome to the audio crash course here guys there's gonna be a little clip here we're gonna use in our DaVinci Resolve tutorial to show you how to work with your audio the little crash course hope this and you can adjust all these as you think sounds best for your video in your clip and the last section here is the limiter and what this does is puts a hard limit on the volume that comes out of your audio clip and you can do this per track you can do it on your overall main input I generally don't use it because I said all my let audio levels low enough where I don't have to worry about it but you have that option there to limit the amount of your audio so that does it for the dynamic section I'm gonna go ahead and close that and the next thing that I like to do is come and start working with some effects so to add an effect I'm gonna click on the plus button on my track and I come to fair light effects and the first thing I'm gonna add is a de-esser so sometimes you'll notice that your audio has very sharp sounding s's and the sounds are just a little harsh so there's different ways you can deal with that one is to use pop filters and that kind of stuff to help reduce some of those harsh sounds but if you're like me and you don't use one you can use the de-esser which will help as well so there's some presets up here and I'll usually come down and add in the male de-esser and I usually make it the this top option here for the range which makes it very steep so I'm gonna play through the video clip and I'm gonna listen for the esses and when I find them because you can drag this around when I find them then I'm gonna stop and make my adjustments from there now I'm gonna play through my clip and I'm gonna click on this little button here listen to s only so that way I can only hear the esses and I'm gonna find where it sounds the worst and I'm gonna stop there so let's play through the clip and listen a little clip here we're gonna use in our DaVinci Resolve tutorial to show you how to work with your audio the little crash course hope this helps out alright and then let's undo that and then let's play through again and see if it makes a difference welcome to the audio crash course here guys this is gonna be a little clip here we're gonna use in our DaVinci Resolve tutorial to show you how to work with your audio the little crash course hope this helps out and let's get into it alright so you can adjust that I'm think I'm just gonna go back to the preset and just kind of keep it there for now and go with that after I apply a de-esser the next thing that I like to do is come down and add a multiband compressor so the compressor on the dynamics panda adjusts the overall compression for the track the multiband compressor allows us to compress certain frequency ranges where we might have most of our audio for example between 370 and 5,700 is where most of your vocals fall so I'm gonna play through the clip and let's just see how it sounds welcome to the audio crash course here yeah and when you see the red line moving that means it's compressing those particular areas I there's gonna be a little clip here we're gonna use in our DaVinci Resolve tutorial to show you how to work with your audio so we can see most of our audio is happening here and that's where it's getting compressed so we're not having our levels shoot up too high but I do notice that it did pull them down a little bit we're closer to the minus 15 decibel range here so you can always come down to your master section grab your gain and pull it up just a little bit welcome to the audio crash course here guys there's gonna be a little clip here we're gonna eat in just a little bit more welcome to the audio crash course here guys there's gonna be a little clip here we're gonna use in our DaVinci Resolve tutorial to show you how to work with your audio so I think that does a good job of just kind of evening things out a little bit I'm gonna turn it off play through and then I'll turn it on halfway through to see if we can hear a difference welcome to the audio crash course here guys this is gonna be a little clip here we're gonna use in our DaVinci Resolve tutorial to show you how to work with your audio all right sounds good so I think that's all we have to do in the multiband compressor here again you've got lots of options and things you can change generally I find that the default settings are okay for me maybe I'll adjust the gain a little bit or adjust my band slightly but most of the time it does an okay job just to turn it on and use it with the default settings and if you're looking to add any other kinds of effects there's all kinds of cool things in here you've got a dialog processor you've got echoes and all kinds of stuff that you can do in here change the pitch your voice you want to have a super deep voice high voice reverbs all kinds of fun stuff in there that you can try and play with one of the ones that I found helpful sometimes depending on how my audio gets recorded is the stereo fixer so I'm just gonna click on that and show you what it is so when I play through my clip this track is a stereo track although a lot of times you can just leave you're talking tracks as a mono track but here it's a stereo track for right now and here it shows me inputs so on my meters here we have the left input and the right input and if I play through who is here guys this as we've been talking you see the meters moving let's say that one side of my input say the left side was higher than the right side well if your audio is coming out uneven through your speakers you have a few options you can either a make your track a mono track and then it's gonna come the same to both sides or you can come into this stereo fixer and it gives you the ability to adjust your audio to come out from your LUT right or left channels so it lets just for example play it and adjust one of these so you can see what happens and if you have headphones on or speakers that are left and right that's where you're gonna know this difference if your speakers just are mono then you're not going to notice the difference on here and you can skip ahead to the next section welcome to the audio crash course here guys there's gonna be a little clip here we're gonna use in our DaVinci Resolve tutorial to show you how to work with your audio the little crash course hope this helps so if you had some headphones on or speakers you should have heard it going back and forth a little bit between your left and right channels but this is a good tool to use if you ever have an issue where where your audio is stronger on one channel versus the other helps you even it out so we're going to come over and just delete that last stereo fixer because I don't need it on this track so now that we've got our vocals all set I want to add in a music track and we have our music track down here so let's mute our audio track here our 5d Mark form and a mute that by pressing the M button and then I'm gonna come down to my music track and I'm gonna turn that on so let's just play a clip of it here to see how it's sounding we can see that from our waveforms here it looks like it's a lot louder than our speaking track which is not what we want but we'll get there and we'll see how we can make adjustments to fix that so my music track let's play through it see what we have and I'm gonna watch my meters over here to see where our levels are falling okay so we see it's peaking up pretty high almost to minus five decibels so when I have music playing I want to set the levels again to be in that ten to fifteen range so that when I'm not talking and I want the music to be at a reasonable volume it'll be there and then I'm gonna show you how you can set audio ducking and things so that when you do have talking tracks or you are speaking in your video the volume is automatically gonna drop down for your music tracks and you don't have to go in and do keyframes and change you know certain parts of your music tracks or anything like that it's gonna do it all automatic for you which makes it super easy also another thing to note is I don't generally use EQ or effects or anything else on music tracks because generally the music tracks that I have are already be mixed and and come from some professional source so I don't need to go through and do anything with them other than adjust the volumes and do audio ducking and that kind of stuff so right now I know it's too loud so I'm gonna come in and I'm gonna normalize the audio of this music track I'm gonna right-click I'm gonna come up to normalize audio levels and again I'm just gonna use the sample peak program - 9 decibels for the target level and click normalize so you can see it dropped it all down quite a bit so let's hear how loud that is now if I look over here looks like it's in my 10 to 15 range and let's get to the loudest point here see where that falls on our meter that's great so it looks like the peak of the waveforms is right there at minus 9 where it should be so let's say I like that it's loud enough and I think it's good I'm gonna turn on my vocal talking track just to see how the two play together and just see what we need to do next welcome to the audio crash course here guys there's gonna be a little clip here we're gonna use Enoch so we see now both of our levels for our 5d Mark for talking track and our music track are about the same but what I want to do is actually change the level of my music tracks to be down in the green area while I am talking in the video because I don't want my voice to have to compete with the music in the video so how can I do that there's a few ways you can do that if you want to lower the overall volume of the track and lower it across the board you could just grab your volume level here and bring it down hello I'm gonna undo that you could change it in your inspector but that's gonna change the entire track for you you can also come down and adjust your fader over here and that's also gonna adjust the entire track so I want the music to go down only when I'm talking and when I'm not talking I want the volume to go back up so in order to do that we need to turn on audio ducking and in order to turn on audio ducking you want to come to your dynamic section and double click on there again the same dynamics window that we had on our vocal track and the thing we want to use here is the compressor so I'm gonna come I'm going to turn on the compressor and remember how we talked about the send and listen buttons earlier well now we want to click on the listen button so we have our vocal tract sending and we have our music track listening so what that's going to do is DaVinci Resolve on this track with the music is going to listen for audio from our speaking track and this is gonna allow us to adjust the volume and level of the music track while the speaking is happening so look confusing let's just play through it and I'm gonna show you what it does so I'm gonna adjust this threshold here and that's gonna set the point where my music is gonna start to get quieter and I'm also going to turn up the ratio a little bit more just crank that bad boy up and let's play through and I'm gonna adjust the threshold and you're gonna see how it works here so I'm gonna start with it high and as I lower it you're gonna notice the volume of the music track gets quieter welcome to the audio crash course here guys there's gonna be a little clip here we're gonna use in our DaVinci Resolve tutorial to show you how to work with your audio the little crash course hope this helps out okay so I've brought it down to almost minus 40 decibels now you notice it kinda seems a little wonky like it's coming and going a little bit so we need to adjust a few more things down on the bottom here we have our attack hold and release I'm gonna leave my attack where it is for the hold actually I want to bring that up and again I do maybe between you know around twelve twelve hundred milliseconds here which is like 1.2 seconds and the release I want to come to about fifteen hundred which is about a second and a half and then I'm gonna play through and now it should sound a little bit cleaner instead of sound like it's cutting in and out real quick it should be a little bit smoother now so let's listen welcome to the audio crash course here guys there's gonna be a little clip so it came in real quick and hard there so I might want to slow the attack down a little bit let's do five milliseconds there for the attack so that it doesn't cut in and cut off so sharp welcome to the audio crash course here guys there's gonna be a little clip here we're gonna use that's not too bad it sounded pretty good and keep in mind I'm watching my input meter as well as my output meter and for my music track here I want to make sure my output falls in the - 22 - 25 range somewhere so that it's nice and below my talking track which is up here in the - 10 to minus 15 range so let's see where it's falling on our meter here welcome to the audio crash course here guys this is gonna be a little clip here we're gonna use in our DaVinci Resolve tutorial to show you so now it seems like it's too much so I'm gonna bring the threshold back up I'm gonna play the video and I'm gonna adjust that threshold until my music tracks somewhere in this - 25 range welcome to the audio crash course here guys this is gonna be a little clip here we're gonna use in our DaVinci Resolve tutorial to show you how to work with your audio the little crash course hope this helps out and let's get into it all right so I think that worked out pretty good we see that it is around that minus 25 range welcome to the audio crash course here guys this is gonna be a little clip here live so I think that's pretty good I'm gonna leave that where it is for now and actually just for illustration purposes I'm gonna actually drag my clip over to where the music is a little bit louder just so we can see the difference here let's play through and you'll hear it when it kicks in welcome to the audio crash course here guys this is gonna be a little clip here we're gonna use in our DaVinci Resolve tutorial to show you how and if we look at our meters here look if we look at our meters you can see it's peaking at about minus 20 so I could even bring it back just a touch and play through but I think that's sounded pretty good you can hear me clearly we've got the music in the background and then I'm gonna start towards the end of the clip here once I'm done talking we should hear that music go right back up to the volume we want it to be at Audio little crash course hope this helps out and let's get into it so you can see on our meter here our output went right back up to where we originally set it so that's how you would do audio ducking it's gonna automatically duck the audio or lower the audio for your music track around any of your speaking points or any channel actually that you have the send button checked on so audio ducking super helpful I use it all the time and it's a really great feature here individual resolve so lastly I'm gonna play through both tracks here and if I want to make any overall adjustments to the tracks I'm going to use my faders because I've already set the rest of my levels to be where I want them to be and if I feel like just based on how it sounds that I want a little more volume on a particular track then I can adjust my faders here but otherwise I think we're gonna be good to go so let's play through and see how all our changes sound welcome to the audio crash course here guys this is gonna be a little clip here we're gonna use in our DaVinci Resolve tutorial to show you how to work with your audio the little crash course hope this helps out and let's get into it all right so there we go I think our audio sounded pretty good I like what we've done so far I hope this is helpful to you guys and again there's so many cool features and cool tools that you can use here on your audio this is just scratching the surface with a few of them to help you get your audio sounding good in your videos help you put a music track under there let it duck by itself so you don't have to go in and change the volumes and levels of your music track and all that kind of stuff so I've got lots of other videos on audio in DaVinci Resolve that go more into depth on some of the things we've already talked about as well as other things that are super cool that you can do here in DaVinci Resolve with your audio so there you go there's our DaVinci Resolve audio crash course here and really just hope that it helped you get a better understanding of how you can work with your audio in DaVinci Resolve and how you can make your audio sound even better than if you didn't do anything to it so again my name is Ju laughs II consider subscribing to my channel if you want to learn about DaVinci Resolve photography Photoshop Lightroom and even video and video editing thanks for watching and I will catch you in the next video

Channel: Jason Yadlovski

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Id: 3abjyA8mHGc

Length: 44min 38sec (2678 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 24 2019