DaVinci Resolve 19
is out. There's new features and improvements in
every single page. This video focuses on audio
features primarily in the Fairlight page but
some are also accessible in the Edit and Media pages.
AI features heavily in these updates. When you're
done make sure you watch our videos covering the
other pages. There's links in the description. Just
before we start a thank you to Audio for
supporting this video. They are offering our
viewers a 70% discount on their first year's
subscription to their Music and Sound Effects Library.
Details in the description. All right here's what's new. AI tools for
deconstructing songs have been around for a while. Well now
they are built directly into DaVinci Resolve.
Currently Music Remixer is a track effect. That means
it's applied to an entire track not a clip. To
demonstrate I'm going to download a track with lyrics
from audio.com and place it in its own track on
the Edit page. To select the track effects click
anywhere on the track header as long as it's not a
bottom. Now in my inspector I can turn Music
Remixer on. Let's start playback. As you can hear this is the
full mix of the song featuring vocals. Don't want vocals?
Not a problem. Hit mute. Don't want drums?
Not a problem. Hit mute. Here's some other examples of it at work. In this song I'll
isolate just the vocals. [Music] In this song I'll
strip back the elements of the mix that I don't
want to make the mix simpler. [Music] In this instance I'll
keep just the drums and bass. [Music] I am blown away by
how easy and how good that sounds. Now granted
it's not perfect. Artifacts are audible in
these examples especially the harder you push
this effect like I'm doing by completely muting
instruments or vocals. But if this was buried
in a mix with sound effects and dialogue I
don't think you'd be able to hear those artifacts.
As usual tools like this are best when used with
restraint. For example I could use these
sliders to boost the vocals and lower the drums in the mix. [Music] When using the
tool subtly like this you're far less likely to
hear unwanted artifacts. In its current state
this is already more than usable in the right
situations and remember it's only going to get
better over time as Blackmagic continues to develop
and refine the tool. Now if you're serious about
remixing music you'll want stems. Those are
separate audio files with isolated instruments. One
of the great things about audio.com is the fact
that they offer you the ability to download stems. So I
could download them and then load those stems into
separate tracks in Resolve and remix the song
to my heart's content. If you're interested in
using audio's sound effects and music library you
can get 70% off your first year's subscription
using our promo code in the description. That's
an entire year for just 60 dollars. Regardless of
those stems though of course it's amazing to have
the music remixer because if you're just
wanting to make a small adjustment it's going to be
easier to download the full mix and use music
remixer than it is to reconstruct the entire song from
stems. Or sometimes you'll work with music tracks
where you don't have access to the stems. Here's another
awesome track effect that's new in version 19,
the dialogue separator. You could use it
like voice isolation by muting the background and
ambience, but wait a moment, we've already got voice isolation. What's the point of this
effect? How's it different? Here's an example we shot
specifically. We'll start with the original audio. I'm out in a noisy city.
Let's test the new dialogue separator. It sounds really good, so clean, but it strips everything out.
It gets rid of the traffic, but it also gets rid
of the ambience, the reverb on Natalie's voice that
makes the recording sound natural. Dialogue separator gives you the ability to distinguish between voices, background sounds like crowd, muting,
and sound. It's a very good idea to use the background and the ambience. Dialogue separator gives you the ability to distinguish between
voices, background sounds like crowd, music, traffic, and ambience,
which is the reverberation on her voice. Then you can adjust their relative
volumes separately. You could attenuate the ambience to make their
voice easier to understand. But in this
instance, I'm going to completely mute the background
sound, that's all of the traffic, and I'm going to
keep all of that ambience. Now you can't hear the traffic, but
you can still hear the ambience on my voice. And voila, the background
traffic has gone, but the reverb remains. It's also possible to automate
the background and ambience attenuation. For example, if I wanted the ambience to increase as the
camera pulls away from Natalie. This is done using the track
automation controls on the Fairlight page. I'll enable the dialogue
separator, Ambience Automation. Now I can have the ambience
increase as she gets further away. Now that I'm backing away from
camera, we will automate the ambience to increase. As you can hear, it's louder! And finally, one
more track effect, the ducker. This effect allows you
to have Resolve automatically turn the volume of things
like music down as someone speaks. For reference, here is my current mix. I'm going to apply
it to the track with my Musicom and tell it
to use track 1 as its source. That's the channel with all the dialogue. Now, whenever someone
speaks, the music will be ducked. I'm out in a noisy city.
Let's test the new dialogue separator. Use these sliders to control things
like how much the music gets turned down, how quickly it's attenuated and how
quickly the volume returns to normal. For example, if you want the music to
duck more gently when someone starts to talk, try increasing the look
ahead time and the rise time. By the way, that's one of the
really cool things about this tool. It can look ahead. That means it can
react before the person speaks, rather than having to react after
the person has started talking. Clicking on this button will open the
settings in that on window with a fantastic visualization that will
help you configure the tool. I'm out in a noisy
city. Let's test the new dialogue. Notice now with my adjustments
how much more gentle the ducker is. Previously one of the best ways to
add ducking to a track was using the side chain and compressor. The problem is
that Fairlight only allowed for one side chain and also side chains couldn't be
routed to or from buses. That's now fixed. If you're not sure what side chains are
it's basically a way for one track or bus to control or influence another
track or bus. A track can listen to another and use that to do things like ducking.
When enabling side chain in the compressor, instead of basic send and
receive controls you can now select different audio tracks or buses to listen to.
For complex mixes multiple side chains are an essential tool. It's also
really important to be able to use buses for your side chains. For example if you
have dialogues spread across several tracks you can route them into a single bus
and use that to feed the side chain. Let me give you a quick demo of how the
new controls work. In this timeline my dialog is spread across two tracks
so I've routed it through a single bus for mixing. The same with my music
which is also spread across two tracks but routed through a single bus. To
add ducking to the music track using side chains I'd go to the music bus
dynamics dialog, select the DX bus as its side chain source and then enable the
side chain. Now the dialog is driving the compressor in this entire bus.
That's awesome. Before we continue we have something special to tell you. If
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the video and thanks for listening. Let's say you're designing sound
effects for an object that moves across frame. IntelliTrack Audio
Panning will automatically track that object across the screen and
pan the sound effect to follow it. Here's something
we shot to demo this with. I'm deliberately
wearing a complex pattern and standing in front of a brick wall to
see how well the tracking does. I'm holding a radio so we'll grab a
sound effect from audio.com. I like this radio static clip. I'm
gonna download it and put it in the sound effects track in line with my radio
video clip. In the Fairlight page set in and out points around the clip you
are tracking. Select the track that you'd like to apply the tracking data
to. In this case it's going to be my sound effects track. I'm going to undock
the viewer so it's larger. That will make it easier to set up the tracker and
then click on the options icon and enable show tracker controls. Now position
the tracker over the object that you'd like to track. Tell resolve what kind
of tracking you'd like it to perform. In this case as my mix is stereo,
simple left and right tracking is all I need. But you can imagine how useful
these other controls would be if you were creating a surround or
atmos mix. Finally hit track. If I open up the left and right
pan automation for this track you can see the tracker has animated pan to
follow the object. Let's play that back to hear what it sounds like. That's pretty
cool that works really well. This is also great with dialogue. Here's another
test shot with Natalie walking around while talking. This time I'll apply the
automation to the dialogue track. Let's track the motion. I'll open up the pan automation
controls for this track to see what IntelliTrack has done. That looks good so let's
have a listen. IntelliTrack can be used to automatically pan audio. Listen as I
walk to the left and then it pans the audio as I walk to the right.
And again that works really well. Previously Blackmagic added the
ability to normalize audio on delivery. They've now expanded that
functionality with the ability to optimize on delivery. How's that
different from normalizing? Well normalizing doesn't
make any changes to your mix. It simply adjusts the
volume to meet the required target level either by
increasing or decreasing it. Optimize does more
than just normalize your mix. It uses a high
quality peak limiter to attenuate transient peaks.
That's momentarily loud sounds in your mix. Then it
normalizes your mix to the desired target level.
The result? It's a great way of getting a little
more loudness out of your mix. Most professional audio engineers will do something similar. So you
can think of optimize as being like your own
audio engineer trapped inside DaVinci Resolve, adding a
little extra something special to your final
export. We think most editors will want to turn
this feature on when exporting. There's also a collection of
quality of life improvements in this release. Shift Z will now zoom the
timeline to fit in the Fairlight page. Arming a track for
recording now patches the default system
audio inputs. This is perfect if you record with the same device that's configured as your
system default. And this is especially helpful for quick scratch recordings because now
you don't have to patch an input before you can
start. There's also improvements to voice isolation
and the dialogue level. It's better trained to
handle a wider variety of audio sources and it's more
responsive in the timeline. This next small but new feature is really cool. It's in the
Fairlight menu and it's called exclusive solo.
Previously if you're trying to hear the difference
between different audio sources it's super tedious to
switch between them as you have to turn off
solo on one of them and enable it on the other.
Well when exclusive solo mode is enabled only one
track can be soloed at a time. When you click on
another track it automatically desolos the others.
Look how easy it is for me to switch between
soloing different tracks. But it gets even better. If
you want a given track to always be on and not
to be affected as you solo and un-solo other
tracks, hold down on command or control on
windows I think and click on the solo button. It will
turn blue instead of green. Now this isn't a
new feature but it might be new to you. This is
solo safe mode. This track now won't get desoloed as
you click on other tracks. Check this out. See in
this instance the solo safe tracks always stay on. Finally Resolve 19 adds native support
for Ambisonics 3D audio. We'd like to cover that
in a future video. We've focused on the key
audio improvements in this video. But there's new
features in every single page of Resolve. If you'd
like to learn more about the new editing, color
and fusion features in DaVinci Resolve 19, please
watch our other videos linked in the description
and at the end of the video. And please note this
video was made with the beta so don't be surprised if there are minor differences when you use
the program. And a big thank you to audio for supporting
this video. If you'd like to get your hands on an
entire year of music and sound effects for just 60
dollars, follow the link in the description.
It's a great way of supporting the content that
we create on our channel. DaVinci Resolve 19
is available right now. Download it from blackmagicdesign.com. If you enjoyed this
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watch one of our other videos about Resolve 19. Links are in the description
and on screen. Thanks for watching!
