FAIRLIGHT 101 Crash Course | How to Use Fairlight in DaVinci Resolve 18 & Make Professional Dialogue

what's up guys welcome to fairlight 101 so if you're new to DaVinci Resolve and you'll want to learn a little audio editing you got to jump into the fairlight tab that's where all the good audio stuff is so you're going to be seeing my presentation from resolvecon 2022 in this video where we take a look at the interface in fairlight we go through all the parts and pieces I give you tips and tricks along the way on how to work in fairlight and then we're going to take an example and we're going to work through fairlight with that example and I'm going to show you how we can take that audio that actually uh let's see that audio that was recorded right here through my 5D Mark IV without the microphone just right into the camera we're gonna take that and we're gonna make it sound better and more professional in fairlight with a few simple steps so I'm going to make those files available for you guys you can go download them and then you can follow along and play with the clips and try it out on your own so let's get into this fairlight 101 video here from resolvecon if you have any questions or comments definitely what's going on everybody it's great to be here at resolvecon 2022 here Casey thanks for asking me to come back this year I'm just excited to be able to be here and uh just share this stage up here with all the other awesome creators here today's been awesome I mean I've learned a ton hopefully you guys have too um so today I'm going to be talking about audio a little bit um actually I just looked at a poll that I had put on my channel this morning and I asked people like do you get into fairlight to work with your audio and there's like 60 of the people said I get in there but I got a lot to learn and then I had another like 25 that were like no I just edit my audio in the edit page I don't even go into fairlight and the rest were just scattered amongst the other options there so but we're gonna get in there and I'm gonna go through the fairlight page and kind of show you um just around the interface what all the different parts and pieces are so you can understand kind of where we can do things how we can work with our audio uh in fairlight um I'll give you tips and tricks along the way and then I've got an example that we're going to work through uh to just see how we can take audio that I recorded out of my 5D Mark 4 with no microphone just straight into the microphones built in which is junky it's terrible so how we can take that and then use a few of the tools in fairlight to make it sound the best we can right it may not be perfect but how can we just make it better than it is if you just record it right out of here so that's kind of where we're going to go um with all the fair light stuff and then just a quick background about me if you don't know me you haven't seen my stuff got into resolve by watching Casey's videos and learned there was a free version and I was like okay I'm going from iMovie to something do I want to pay for it and I was like wait there's a free version I'm in so I got in there I started looking around and when I saw Fair light started poking around in there and I'm like well I got a lot of good audio Tools in here and a lot of it looked familiar to me because um I've got experience mixing services for my church so learning all the audio stuff to run a live service um you know you had to learn how to you know get the mics ready for speakers for vocalists you had to learn how to get instruments you know all all into a big mixing board you had to learn how to set good game levels for everybody coming in because if you don't have good audio signals right if our oil is garbage to start with we can't make it great right we want to start with the best we can and then how do we start to add things to it or take things away to kind of sculpt it and make it sound good for the room that we're in things like using some EQ maybe adding some Dynamics maybe working with effects um and how do we start to do all that so a lot of my audio background came in just learning that stuff how do I how do I do all that stuff on you know a big 32 Channel mixing board and how do I get it right right because if we're working with audio and you mess up everybody knows it and they're usually going to tell you too but if you do a good job then nobody says anything and everything goes on smoothly and you're able to have you know a good whatever it is conference here service whatever it might be so so that's kind of like my background and when I saw what fairlight had to offer I said hey I can just take kind of what do I learned for all this you know stuff over here and bring it over into resolve and we can use the same tools and work with the same things to kind of make our audio sound better for any kind of audio that we have right um and we're going to be taking a look at an example of of just dialogue today which I mean you can edit any kind of audio here in fairlight so when it comes to audio like I think the panelists were talking about earlier today super important to have good audio right because if we all jump on a video and it doesn't sound good we're probably just going to go to the next video because we know it'll probably sound fine and it's just nicer to listen to right so I've got a few examples here just to kind of illustrate the point of um good video and bad audio bad video and good video good audio and then what it looks like when we put them together so uh here's some examples of just me and this first one is some bad audio and a video that looks alright let's see if I can make this a little bigger here so uh so here's the first example and uh let me know if you'd want to sit and listen to a video that sounds like this all right what's that oh there you go that'll do it thank you all right here we go let's try it again everybody Welcome to bizopcon 2022 here Casey huge thank you for having me out here let's get into some Fair light would you guys watch a video that sounded like this when you're trying to learn something or you could just watch something for fun what do you think about this is the audio good enough that you would keep on watching all right now we'll go put on over here I could have fallen to know these kinds of things okay all right so a couple of things I don't know maybe we can turn it up and hear him I don't know see if I can turn a little louder but some things we notice about that one it sounds like junk right um I had a big fan going on in the background blowing air right right into the microphone I had the microphone far away from me so it was picking up extra ambient noise um and then it was peaking right it was all distorted it sounded like junk and I don't know about you guys but I'm not gonna sit there and listen to a video or watch a video that sounds like that whether it's just something I'm watching for fun or whether I'm trying to learn something so so this next example is a video that doesn't look as great but it's going to sound better so for me I think I'd be more likely to watch a video that sounds like this so welcome to resolvecon 2022. now here's our second example the video quality on this one might not be up to par with the previous example that we took a look at but the audio is going to be much better so which video are you more likely to watch whether it's to learn something in resolve or something just for fun right and it's kind of like everybody mentioned earlier people are more likely to forgive you know a video that's like it doesn't look so great but sounds good right we can all hear it understand it's understand it it's clear and ideally we want to bring them both together so we can have good audience and ideally we're going to take the Best of Both Worlds we're going to take our good audio and our good video put them together and then we're going to have a video that looks good sounds good and that our audience is going to want to watch in everybody Welcome to and back to the bad stuff right so it was actually kind of hard to make that bad audio it took me a couple tries to get it back to get it bad enough you know so so so you can see the difference there I think that just helps to show like we can watch a video that doesn't look great but at least it's we can understand it and and uh and hear it good and it's not killing our ears so we're going to uh jump into fairlight now um if you're following along or you have the practice files I'm going to jump into the the timeline that says edit file and this is the one that we're going to work with so um the first thing I want to do is actually we're going to jump into fairlight so musical notes down at the bottom of the screen and uh we're gonna run over the whole interface here and I'm just going to kind of Point some things out and give little tips and tricks and maybe how I use things along the way just to kind of give you an overview of everything that we've got going on here so the first thing that I'm going to do is I'm actually going to reset the UI layout by going to workspace and then uh where's this guy oh whoa oh I only got to hit it once all right all right um right there reset UI layout I'm a Mac guy this whole PC thing is just it's weird it's weird all right so if you guys did that too you should at least be seeing the same thing uh on the screen if you're you're in the the practice file so we're just going to run Acro you're so media pool obviously we're familiar with apps where all your media lives the effects when you open this up you've got two different things in here you've got your audio Transitions and you've got your audio effects now you're not going to see any of your video effects here because we're just focused on working with the audio stuff and uh not working with any of the the video effects or video transitions so just audio stuff is what we're going to see here and with all of our effects here we can add them onto either our Clips or our track right from the effects Library here and it's easy to do it's just drag and drop you can just click hold drag if we want to apply it to just one particular clip we would drag it and drop it just on one particular clip and it'll bring up the the effect window that you can adjust but if I wanted to apply it to the entire track actually I'm just gonna undo that if I want to apply it to the whole track I could just click drag it and drop it on this area over here and then it's going to apply it to the entire track which it'll also put it over in our in our mixer over here and we're going to talk more about the mixer in a little bit so two different ways that you can add effects with just the effects Library there if you want to um moving to the next part here the index the index is kind of cool because it gives you kind of an overview of all your tracks right we can see all the names here of our tracks you can turn your tracks on and off so if I click the little eyeball on the video track it turns that off if say I want to look at just one particular audio track I can click on the eyeball and turn off anything I don't want to see maybe I just want to be able to focus on one particular track that I'm working with you can turn things on and off which is kind of cool you can rename your tracks you can do it in multiple spots but one of the spots is right here so if you just click on the name we can name it whatever we want so that's you can do it in other places too but it's handy to be able to do it right there um we can also have we also have these track controls here so we can lock our track which is going to allow us to not make any changes to it's going to lock the track we can arm our track to record right here we can solo the track which means play just this one track that's soloed you can have multiple tracks soloed so you can play you know say you want to play I don't know one dialogue track two effects tracks but no music you can just solo the tracks you want to hear and it'll only play those particular tracks you can also mute a track so if you have some scratch audio maybe that you use to line up your good audio or something you can just mute that entire track and it won't affect anything else and that way you don't hear it it'll also tell you the format of your tracks are you set up with a mono track is it a stereo track which is 2.0 is a 5.1 is it surround sound you know what what kind of format is your track in so it gives you a lot of good info and one of the other cool things that I kind of wish they had in the edit tab that I don't think they do is that you can just move tracks around right here in the edit index so instead of having to like come over here and right click and say move track up move track down with this guy right here you come over here you can just click on your track drag it boom and drop it now my music track is all the way at the top so if you have a whole bunch of effects or you need to organize stuff a little bit you can just come in the index and just grab your tracks move them all around and put them wherever you want and I don't think you could do it exactly I don't think you could do it with video right I'm like why why not right it would be so much easier than move one level at a time so maybe they'll add that someday but it's nice to be able to just drag and drop things move them around you can also do that with with buses so you can click on your bus and I can bring that to the top now in my tracks it's not going to put the bus right here but in my mixer it's going to put the bus right in the beginning over here so it'll be my first track instead of you know my vocal one being the first track that I see here so it's just handy to be able to kind of move things around and and reorganize a little bit because like we talked about with file structure organization is important here with audio too so a lot of cool stuff you can do in the mixer you can also check out your markers if you have any and if you have multiple video clips it would show you here in the the index tab right there the Sound Library you can uh download I think it's a free library right from Blackmagic and really just have one central place to have like effects and sound effects and things that you just want to drag and drop easily right into resolve so that's handy I'm sure you can even create your own Sound Library if you've got your own you know effects noises uh music whatever you could probably create your own Sound Library I haven't done that but I'm sure you could do that the ADR tool so if you do a lot of voice over work the ADR tool comes in real handy because it can give you like cues on when to come in it can put the words on the screen for you so if you have something scripted out you know you know when to come in and then exactly what you want to say and it will you know highlight it over the length of time that you say but you can like build out a whole whole thing for voice over stuff if you wanted to so that's a cool tool um that you could use if you're if you need it the mixer the mixer is where we're going to do a lot of work um in fairlight here there's a lot of tools that we're going to be using over here so we're going to talk a little bit more about that what each one of these little things are and how to kind of work with them uh in a few minutes here The Meters at the top here we have uh kind of like a high level view of the levels or the meters of all of our tracks so you can you know play through your video and just kind of get a good high level view of where our levels are kind of falling for different tracks so you'll be able to see maybe you know are you peaking on any tracks does anything look really low and you know you've got your your levels over here you can kind of just get a glance of of what's going on with all of your audio and same thing for your buses here you can see the levels there your control room and your loudness levels over here just kind of like an easy way to see what's going on with all of your audio and then over here it's kind of cool we've got a little viewer which is Handy and uh it pops out which is kind of cool if you hit the little icon in the bottom there and we don't get a lot of options to like work with or move like you know Windows around in resolve so the fact that we could pop this one out and move it around and resize it if you want I mean kind of Handy that's kind of neat so uh and to pop it back in you can just hit the little little icon in the top right corner there moving down we got our time code here and a fun little tip if you right click on it you can change like the format of the time code if you need to see it in a different way for some reason so I just leave it at the default but the options there to change it if you need to you can change timelines so if you click on this little drop down here you can flip between your different timelines right here in fairlight you don't have to jump back to edit then jump back to fairlight you can just change uh change your timelines right here then you've got your transport controls your forward reverse your play stop record uh the loop button which is going to allow you to Loop the playback um it doesn't take a clip and like Loop it through your timeline where you want something to play over and over again it's just going to Loop playback which I'll show you how that works in a minute then we've got automation controls which we're not going to talk about today but those can come in handy and then you can just mute it right here like somebody pointed out I forgot to unmute it back in the edit tab but you can mute it you can drop your volume down and if you hit the dim button I think it drops it to like I don't know 60 volume or something so you can hit that and just drop it back real quick if you need to do that then moving down to our tracks so here we're going to start to see some of the same info that we saw in our index um we've got our track name and you can edit it here too by just by clicking in the the track name there and it's going to highlight you can name it whatever you want Jen is going to tell us are we on a mono track are we on a stereo track and our same buttons down here we've got our lock our arm to record our solo button our mute button so it's nice just to have options to be able to you know use these tools these three buttons for example in a couple different places you can also use them in in the mixer and then over here we've got a little 0.0 if you click and hold you can drag back and forth and that's one way that you can adjust your levels here in fairlight and this actually corresponds to our faders which are over here so if I grab this fader and I move it up and down you can see that number over there is going to change so they're essentially changing the same thing you're adjusting your fader so you can adjust your levels that way when you start working with your audio although for me that's not the way I prefer to do it initially I'll show you how I typically like to start adjusting my levels and stuff and then I save adjusting the faders kind of at the end to help kind of blend everything together a little bit more um so then moving already obviously got your timeline here on our clip uh what we see right here we can see our waveforms we have what they call the gain line right here so this is another way that we can adjust the levels for our clip by raising and lowering this and uh level as if that sounds confusing think of it as like adjusting the volume right we're making it louder or quieter and we would watch our meters to see where we want our levels or or the loudness of our audio to fall so we'll get into that a little bit more when we get into uh our example up here you've got your timeline view options and I think Casey had touched on this maybe first thing this morning where you can show your video track which actually I turned it off in the edit index but if I had it turned on there you would see a pop-up you can look at your waveforms in different ways you can turn that gain line on and off I like to leave it on because that's one of the main ways that I like to start adjusting my levels a little bit navigation options it's just different points on uh where you know your playhead is going to jump to or snap to you know where Fades are the beginnings jump to markers or jump to transients which are chain different changes in the music that we can tell resolve to pick out for us you can change the way the timeline Scrolls it's kind of just how do you like to see it you know do you want it to the playhead to stay still do you want it to scroll back and forth just different ways to look at it then down here you've got the scroller which is kind of cool too if we click on that it's going to bring up different options of things to see at the bottom of the screen here so you can show your video track and we can add up to two different audio tracks so you would turn those on and then you've got the ability to just come here and then select whatever audio track you want maybe you want to see I don't know your music track against some other track but like they're too far apart you know in your timeline so you can use this as a way to to just get them kind of next to each other to see you know what's going on and do your audio work so those are kind of Handy although honestly I mean I don't use them too much but it's nice to have them and then there's some preset Zoom options there that'll uh set different things for you that you can check out then we've got some more tools here you got your little arrow tool use that all the time to select things deselect you've got your range selection tool here so if you click on this guy it's cool because you can just come in here grab a little range and uh actually I'm going to make that a little bit smaller I think and it'll set endpoints and out points for you and that's handy because you can do that and then if we come up here and we select our Loop button and then we use the keyboard shortcut option or alt and forward slash it'll just Loop the playback of whatever's uh in the in in between the in and out points so if I hit it here it'll just play and then it'll just keep looping over and over again which comes in handy with and the reason we wanted to Loop is because a lot of times if we're working with something like EQ I kind of want to hear the same part you know over and over while I'm playing with the EQ so that way I don't have to like start the video Let It play a little stop move the playhead back you know and just kind of keep doing that it's more work than you need to do then uh these two guys I don't use them that much then you get your snapping tool your link tool you can set markers and and Flags uh if you want you've got your transients right here so transients are cool if you turn that on uh you notice nothing happens right we don't see anything on our audio clip but if I come over here in my audio track we've got this little icon right there you got to turn that on and then it's going to put the transients in and trans you can kind of think of like where changes happen where the beat is um it's going to Mark out a whole lot of different things and there's different ways you can isolate maybe Parts you want to hear if you use a little EQ on a clip and then run the transients you know maybe you want to find a kick drum or something like that there's ways that you can do that but it just kind of gives you reference points uh that are you know based on the waveforms versus maybe trying to use your ear just to kind of hear where different things might be happening in in your audio or in your music track or whatever it might be so I'm just going to turn those guys off and then we have obviously our controls here to you know Zoom vertically and zoom horizontally there's some keyboard shortcuts I'll talk about in a minute that we can use instead of using these guys but that's one way that you can kind of navigate around um I did forget up here the metadata panel if you want to know some info about your Clips you can hit the metadata look on that and get that info if you need it and then you got the inspector as well so if you have a clip selected it's basically the same inspector in the audio tab here that you would see in the edit tab you can have the same options here you got your little EQ the pitch the pan volume and one thing to to know is that the volume here when I move this up and down corresponds to the gain line that's over here on my clip so kind of like we got you know the fader down here corresponds to this number over here the gain line here corresponds to our volume in the inspector and you can kind of edit them in either spot you know whatever whatever you like to do so closing down the inspector so just taking a look at the mixer here this is where we've got a lot of stuff going on and where you're going to get a lot of the tools that you want to use to work with your audio so just running through a column here so a column is everything that's applied to one particular channel so in our timeline we see everything horizontally in the mixer we see everything vertically so just taking a look at like our first vocal one channel here we can see the names down here you can double click here you can rename it here if you want which is Handy right lots of places to do things same record solo and mute buttons over here that we can use and just run it right from the top we're just gonna go from the top down so input input is going to show up as something different than no input if you have a microphone attached maybe you want to do some voice over work or something you would you could come here this is one way that you can patch in your microphone you can go to input it'll bring up this window and if you had anything that you could patch in you could patch from your microphone to whatever track that you want and you can do that there you could also go Fair light and go patch input output and and patch things there but if you had a microphone attached you would see it here it would say you know whatever your input is you can also adjust buses or patch buses and then you've got path settings so if you're working with uh you know a voiceover you're trying to record into resolve and let's say maybe you have no adjustments on your microphone to you know boost the volume up the levels are a little low it's a little quiet coming in um your computer settings are turned all the way up you still can't hear it too good you can come into the path settings here and when you've got a microphone patched in you can adjust your record levels so you can come in here and just boost your gain a little bit for your microphone that's coming in so you've got a good enough single signal coming in to work with and you've also got you know the trim and direct output which will help you know boost and change your your signals a little bit too but if you're having trouble and you're doing a voice over and it's just too quiet you can't adjust anything on your microphone your computer settings are you can't adjust anything or whatever this would be a good place to come in and say Hey I want to boost up my gain a little bit so I've got more signal coming into resolved for my voiceover but if you already have audio in here you don't even have to worry about input but it's good to know what it does next you've got order so order is what order is my audio going to be processed right so we've got my my clip right so what's going to happen to my clip next right well first typically we're going to set our levels so we've got good levels for our audio clip right but then what's it going to go to next and if we look at order here it says effects Dynamics and then EQ so by default our clip that we have is going to go into any effects that we apply then it's going to go to into any dynamics that we apply then EQ will be applied to it very last at the end so it's what signal path is your audio taking essentially and I'd like to change this down to EQ then Dynamics and then effects and it's going to change the way um your audio sounds so say you had the same settings in all three of those categories if you change the order of them it's going to change the way that it sounds but I like to do EQ Dynamics and effects because I like to take my clip then I bring it to the EQ and I pull out things that don't sound good right the sound harsh that um that that I just don't like right I'm going to use the EQ to do that to clean it up pull out things that sound bad then I'm going to go to Dynamics and I'm going to work with the dynamic range of my audio a little bit right we're going to deal with the loud parts and the quiet parts and then once I've got my audio sounded good then I'm going to bring that to the effects and apply any effects that I might want to put on there because I know my audio is good it's clean um volume's good every Dynamics are good and then I'm going to apply effects so that's that's just kind of the way that uh that I like to do it I don't I don't know that there's a right or wrong way I think it depends on what you're trying to do the sound you want um but I like to go EQ Dynamics and effects and then the next section here we have is effects so with your effects this is where you're going to be able to add in any kind of effects onto a particular track so when you add an effect here it's going on the entire track so everything that's in the track all your audio is going to have that effect applied to it so in this case we dropped the chorus effect on there so everything in this track would have the chorus effect on it if we didn't want that we could either move Clips to a different track or we could um uh just apply the chorus to particular Clips not to the entire track and then with effects you can add them in by just clicking on the plus and then you would go to whichever one you want Distortion and then boom you can add it in and then once the effect is in there you can uh you've got a couple options the little red button when you hover over it turns it on and off the little drop down all the way on the right is going to allow you to delete it disable it which is the same thing as turning it off right and or you could swap it out right maybe you want to swap out this effect for a different effect I want to change it to the dialog processor changes it to that and then if you want to know say you know you put it on your track and you're working and then you're like I think I want to make some changes to the effect how do I get that effect window back open well when you come over to the effects there the little slider looking things in the middle here you click on that and that's going to bring the whole effect window back up for you so you can get in there and tweak things and changes so I'm just gonna jump in here and delete this guy we're going to delete this guy because we don't want that now so that is the effects now next we got effects in and that means the effects insert so if I have say five effects on this channel this insert will light up which means my effects are being inserted into the channel and they're being applied to my audio so let's say maybe I'm working on my audio and I want to know what it sounds like without the effects well you can go through and you can turn them off one by one or you can just come and click this button once and it shuts them all off they're not getting inserted into the channel anymore so it's a handy tool to have to just be able to shut them all off at once instead of having to go through one at a time and and click them off Dynamics here is uh is the next one and uh new in version 18 here is that you can just click it once and it turns it off click it twice it turns it back on which is kind of handy because you used to have to open it up come up here turn it on turn it off right so this is our Dynamics um panel you've got your compressor in here you can use Gates and expanders you've got a limiter we're going to talk more about that when we run through the example that we're going to take a look at but this is where you can work with Dynamics you've got your EQ next and same with the EQ you can just single click on it it's going to turn it off for you single click it'll turn it back on double click it'll open it back up and this is uh the whole EQ here we're going to cover this a little bit more in our example and hopefully we can help clean up the audio a little bit that we have um but that's that's the mixer the EQ next you've got bus sends so you can send channels of audio to other buses um it depends on how you want to Route things I mean the more complicated you get with audio the more you might have a reason to kind of group things in different ways I know some people are confused by buses but really just think of a bus as like a group of channels right that we can do things with it right we'll talk more about that in a second you can pan your audio left right front back depending on how you have your channel set up your bus outputs are you going you know to your your main outputs if you can click and drag a mixer bigger there like I did with the little little arrows there um we can for example if we wanted to send say our vocal channels to a vocal bus right I can come here and right now they're going to bus one so by default bus one is like your main audio coming out of DaVinci Resolve so everything is going to go to bus one well let's say I wanted to uh you know I had some effects I wanted to apply to my vocal channels I didn't want to go to every single vocal Channel put the same effect on there I wanted to just do it once well we can have all of our vocal channels go to one bus and then just do everything once on the bus so to do that you could uh I could just X these guys out get rid of them click on the plus here and I could go vocal bus local bus so now when I play my audio it's going to come to this vocal bus right here we can see the meter moving but we don't hear anything coming out of resolve right so why not well it's because our bus our vocal bus bus vocal isn't going anywhere right right now it's just sitting there it's not doing anything so we have to tell resolve hey send that vocal bus my group of my vocal channels send that guy to the main output because I want to get it out of resolve I want to hear my audio so you can click on the plus here and send that to bus one and now when we play through we should be able to hear it thanks I wouldn't use it if I didn't have to but let's so now we've got our audio coming out of resolve so buses are nothing more than just a way to group stuff now there's another way that you can group channels right here in the mixer and that's using group so if I for example put my two vocal channels in group number one and I make my mixer a little bit bigger here we have group number one right here so now these are like what they call a VCA right and it's kind of like a remote control for my two vocal channels so you might be thinking well how's that any different than a bus or both groups of channels I don't get it well if we look in the the column above the bus for example we've got a lot of options and things we can change and things we can do with our bus right we can add effects we can add Dynamics EQ we can send it somewhere else if we wanted to we've got things we can do with it well if we use a group from this group down here on the bottom and group one there's nothing up there right we can't do anything with that but what the group number one is going to do here is if for example you know I said say my faders were set like this you know and that's that was good good levels for these two particular tracks well let's say I wanted to make them as a whole louder or quieter well I could come in and move each one individually but then what if I mess up the relationship between them a little bit right I could change you know the the balance or the mix that I had well with a group like we have all the way here on the right I can click on this and if I drag this fader it's going to proportionately raise or lower those two faders so it looks like one's moving more than the other but it's because at the bottom of the scale you know it gets close it gets tighter as we go down down our level scale here so just a different way of of grouping things depends what you wanted to do um you know if you had a lot of effects are you using third party effects you know on uh tracks like uh there's some you know noise background noise reduction effects that I have if I have it on like three or four different audio tracks on my computer sometimes it gets a little sluggish right so I could use a bus put the noise reduction on there once instead of three times and then just send all my audio tracks to that one bus so I only have one instance of the effect but all the tracks are going through it um just to kind of like lighten the load on on your computer a little bit so different ways you can do things and then you've got your your faders down here I'm just going to double click these guys to reset them but you've got um a way to adjust your levels or your volume again of all of your audio so um so that's kind of like everything in a nutshell and kind of the parts and pieces and and some cool little things you could do with different parts of it so now let's get into the example here so I'm going to come in and select my clip and become my inspector and just I'm going to reset this so we're going to start working with this oh actually a couple timeline tips so before we get into the example with just getting around and doing things with your Clips right here in fairlight so uh the first one was Zoom right so we have these tools right here to zoom around but you can also just use uh again the middle Mouse wheel right a little mouse middle Mouse wheel if you hold shift and middle Mouse wheel it's going to scroll vertically if you hold Ctrl and the middle Mouse wheel it's going to zoom horizontally um and if you hold alt sorry I'm a Mac guy some of these keys are a little weird here if you hold all that lets me zoom in more controlled in control slides back and forth all right here we go control slides back and forth along the timeline all Zooms in and out uh horizontally so you can do that navigate around like that a little bit quicker than coming up here and sliding these guys and trying to get exact every time um so that that's that's one way you can help navigate around a little bit easier rename the tracks we talked about that you can double click and rename your tracks try and stay organized with stuff so you know where things are I know sometimes with sound effects things get a little you know jumbled up I know I just kind of throw stuff on track sometimes but try and stay organized if you can you can cut Clips right here using the keyboard shortcuts uh it was a command Commander control B sorry control B on a PC you can make Cuts here in your audio if you want to do that um you don't have to jump back to edit to do that we can move tracks around easily say I want to move this to my vocal 2 track just use your little arrow key or Arrow pointer you could drag and drop it down but let's say maybe you're in the middle of the timeline somewhere and you make you don't want to move it left and right you just want to bring it straight down you can highlight it and you can use the ALT key and your arrow keys and it'll drop it straight down right and move your audio up and down so that's handy I use that a lot when I'm just trying to organize stuff on tracks um we can copy the clip really easily say you've got a sound effect maybe a transition whoosh or something that you want to copy around you can use alt and then just click on a click and clip and drag it and you can copy Clips all over the place if you want so that's handy to know we can fade Clips in and out just like in the edit tab with the little uh handles right here drag it in fade it and then you can also you know change the way in which it fades in if you want um adjusting levels we kind of talked about that a little bit you've got you know the gain line here you've got your inspector over here with the volume you can use the faders if you want or this number over here it just kind of depends on you know what what you want to do what what you prefer um another cool thing that uh I think Casey touched on this morning is that if you zoom way in here in fairlight you can get all the way down to like the sample level of audio let's go to zoom in here and keep zooming in zooming and zooming in until you see the waveform and then you see the points so if you had like a click or a pop or some kind of noise that that you weren't sure how else to get rid of you could come in find that spot grab a couple points and then just drag them down to kind of reduce that loud click or pop or whatever it might be you're probably not going to want to do it for a ton of problem areas but it can work if you have you know just one or two spots or something like that so zoom in way in you can you can get those options and then looping the audio we already talked about so all right so let's get into our example here and reset the the volume of this guy again which it is good all right so I'm going to play through this clip and then we're going to listen to it I'm going to pop out my viewer here so we can actually see it and we're going to listen to it and make some observations so we can decide what do we need to do with this audio how do we want to start working with this audio so let's go ahead and play through here so now maybe you have a more budget oriented microphone you know we can't know so first thing we notice is really quiet right right what if you're using a budget microphone you're just recording recording camera with the built-in microphone on your camera like I'm doing right here on my candidate if I didn't have to but let's say I had to all right so good enough because we can't hear it anyway so first thing we need to do is uh is start working with our levels right we need to bring it up to a volume that we can hear it right because right now it's not doing nothing right so I'm going to close our viewer so to start what I want to do is I'm going to play through my clip a little bit and I'm going to look at my meter down here and just kind of see where where my level's at let's get a baseline here and see where we're at so if I play through like I'm doing right here on my Canon watch over here phone is not good so it's hovering around maybe minus 25 DB right there so where we want to be with our dialogue audio and where I try to get it is around that minus 10 minus 8 DB somewhere in that range give or take a little bit that's where I want my meter going up to so to do that I'm going to adjust the levels or the volume by just coming here to my gain line I'm going to boost it up so I'm going to come up to I know I got to be around like say let's try minus 15 and a half so now if I play through let's see where we fall on our meter our phone a little bit we don't have to get too worried about the red just yet the red doesn't mean we're peaking it means be careful because you're getting close to peaking right and we're going to deal with that a little bit more with Dynamics but it looks like it's kind of in the range I think it'll be good enough for a good place to start so leave it there because and we're at 15.5 let's just go see if we can go to 16. one other tip um who knows when I'm doing this it's kind of jumping the numbers pretty fast right so if you hold the shift key then it lets you go a whole lot slower like a little more incremental um kind of by by the point whatever so that's handy hold the shift key while you're doing the gain line there and then you can be a little more precise all right so I'm going to leave it there so now let's play through it a little bit and listen again and see uh see if what else we notice that we might want to try and clean up or fix yeah oriented microphone that sounds quiet to me can you guys can we turn that up is there a way to turn that up all right well I'll just tell you what what I hear and then I'll play through it again once he turns it up a little so it's going to sound a little Hollow right it's going to sound a little tinny kind of like I'm in a tin can um there's a little bit of background noise but not too much most of it it's just going to kind of sound like Hollow right it's not going to sound full it's not going to sound like there's body or like like um uh thickness and body to the voice right so fancy microphones to make our audio sound awesome right what if you're using a budget microphone or maybe it actually doesn't sound too bad on these but oh [Music] all right you just work the volume over there for me all right all right so so what do we do is um a lot of times when I'm when you're editing audio it's good to have on headphones because then you can kind of hear the differences a lot better A lot of times the differences or the changes that we're going to make are going to be pretty subtle but at the end as a whole it'll make a good difference when you hear like a before and after so the first thing that I would do is is try and remove some of the tin can sound and uh it actually didn't sound too bad in here but let's see what we could do with it so to do that I'm going to use a little bit of the EQ so I'm going to double click my EQ I'm gonna open that up and uh I'm just going to kind of give you some some general tips in here on how to use the EQ on the time to go over all the knobs and buttons and everything but when you're working with dialogue a couple tips that you can do right off the bat before you even start listening to anything is you can apply high pass filter right so if I come here and I just turn on band one that applies a high pass filter and what a high pass filter is it says wherever my point is so at 70 Hertz in this case everything that's below that get rid of it I don't want to hear it anything that's above that let it pass through so I can hear it and the reason we want to apply a high pass filter is because with dialogue a lot of the the low end stuff is going to be more like like bass right and it's just going to make the voice kind of sound muddy um and and just not as clear as it could be so we don't need that in speaking dialogue so you want some low end but we don't want the base stuff right we're not a bass guitar or whatever so we don't we don't need all that so typically what I'll do is I'll come here and I'll dial this guy up to 100 120 kind of depends on your your you know your particular clip but if you go somewhere in that range that should be a good place to start and then you can always just you know play your clip and bring it up and you'll you'll hear it it'll start to sound like too thin you know it'll sound um it won't sound good and then you'll be like oh let me bring it back a little but if you go around 100 or 120 somewhere in there um that's usually pretty a pretty good place to start and then when it comes to to dialogue two I'd like to turn on band six and this is going to be a low pass filter so it does just the opposite of what the high pass does so if I bring it down just a little bit say like it's a 16 something it's just going to get rid of any of those real high pitched uh frequencies that in dialogue and speaking when I'm talking in a video I don't need it right it's just gonna it has the potential to just you know make my audio not sound as good so I'm going to just turn that on get rid of a little bit of the highs and that'll help if you have anything going on up there now if you're working with like singers and vocals maybe you want a little bit that high-end to add a little like sparkle and a little presence to the voice you know when somebody's singing or something but for speaking um generally I'm gonna just apply a little bit of a low pass filter there so now everything in between here in between these two is everything that's going through so the next thing that I'm going to do is I'm going to look for things that don't sound good so how do we do that well we're going to start with one of our points here I'm going to pick Point number four here and you can just click on it and drag it around and we can boost or reduce um anything right wherever we put this point and if you use your middle Mouse wheel you can actually change the shape of our little bell curve here which is pretty handy so what I like to do is make it kind of narrow and what we're going to do is we're going to play through our clip we're going to bring this guy up and I'm just going to sweep it back and forth like this until I hear something that doesn't sound good and you're going to know it like it's going to sound weird in your speakers or it's going to sound extra muffled or extra sharp um where it's kind of hurting your ears a little bit especially if you have headphones on and we're going to find wherever that is and then we're going to stop and then that's where we're going to make a cut right because when you're working with like dialogue and audio a lot of times with the EQ we want to cut stuff before we boost it right we want to pull out things that are bad before we try and like push in things to make it sound better right and another tip like with the EQ here is in my experience pretty much any microphone whether it's on a camera whether it's people with a handheld microphone there's always going to be some kind of issues in my experience in this 800 to like 3K range in there you're going to find things that kind of sound harsh in my experience um so that's where I'm going to start to look with this point number four I'm just going to sweep back here so I'm going to come over here I'm going to select a little range where we can listen to make sure my Loop button is on and now I'm going to use that uh alt forward slash and we're just going to sweep back and forth with this point number four and see if we hear anything that doesn't sound good on your camera like I'm doing right here on my Canon 5D Mark IV now this microphone is not good it stinks I wouldn't use it if I didn't have to but let's say I had to microphone on your camera killing the speaker there so we know that sounds bad and it sounds extra worse because we're boosting that up right so we know that's a point we want to get rid of so you can just click on your point and drag it down but so that we can go straight down I like to come down here and use the gain knob and just bring it straight down so I'm gonna play it and then I'll just drag it down put your phone behind your camera like I'm doing right here on my Canon 5D Mark IV now this microphone so there so we cut out that frequency and it's not going to be sounding as harsh um as it would if we left it in there so we're going to do the same thing with our other points too now you don't always need to use all these points it depends on your microphone depends on your recording sometimes you do sometimes you don't um some microphones are need more than others I know with the microphone is just built in here and all the time I was playing with it I used most of these guys um because it just didn't sound good and it helped remove some of that tin can kind of sound so I'm just going to Loop it and I'm going to do the same thing with uh with Point number three here a little bit below where I did Point number four so I'll just narrow this guy out microphone on your camera like I'm doing right here on my Canon 5D Mark IV now this microphone is not good it stinks I wouldn't use it if I didn't have to but let's say I had to so maybe like right there and I'll just drop that down and you you might be thinking well how much do I drop it down you just got to kind of listen to it and see what what sounds okay right maybe you want to go down 5db and maybe that's not enough maybe you want to go down like I did here 10. um you don't want to go too far because then it's going to distort it too much or pull out too much so it's kind of a bounce you got to listen to it and it just takes time of like developing your ear and you know going through audio and listening to it EQ in it and just seeing what sounds good um sounds good to you because ultimately we can look at the meters and all this kind of stuff but we want it to sound good too so you got to just use your ears and make sure it sounds sounds good to you so now I'm gonna I'm gonna take my band five and two here so here's my number two here's my number five um and we're gonna do the same thing with those but we notice if we try to boost those up they look different right so I'm going to make it the same bell curve so if I come to my band five here you just click this little drop down and click on my little bell curve here so now I've got the same thing so make them a little narrow I'm gonna bring that guy and I'll just change the band number two here so we can do the same thing so I'm just going to play through and adjust these two and uh the reason I'm I keep working with these is because I want to move remove more of the tin can sound and maybe it doesn't sound too tin canny on these speakers but if you're throwing some headphones it totally sounds like a tin can so let's just play through and uh we'll find two more spots like I'm doing right here on my Canon 5D Mark IV now this microphone is not good it stinks I wouldn't use it if I didn't have to but let's say I had to microphone on your camera like I'm doing right here on my Canon 5D Mark IV now this microphone is not good it stinks I wouldn't use it if I didn't have to but let's say I had to microphone on your camera like I'm doing right here on my Canon 5D Mark IV now this microphone is not good it stinks I wouldn't use it if I didn't have to but right so maybe I want to do something like that right looks a little weird but I mean it was also a crappy microphone right and and maybe that's going to start to help it um sound better so let's just hear a little before and after and see if we can hear a difference on on these speakers here microphone on your camera like I'm doing right here on my Canon 5D Mark IV now this microphone is not good it's stinks I wouldn't use it if I didn't have to but let's say I had to microphone on your camera like I'm doing right here on my Canon 5D so it kind of I pulled out some of the highs it's kind of sounding it actually sounds a little bit more full on on these speakers um but it's just going to help pull out some of those frequencies that we don't like all right so we're gonna skip past the rest of this this is is good and if you don't even know where to start with EQ there are some presets that they they put in 18 here that you can just click on one and try it um might work it might not maybe it'll just put some points on there and you can at least grab them and start moving moving them around in in the frequency ranges that they put them in um because you're gonna if you don't know where to go with frequencies like it's it's a little confusing um but if you just visually do it like we just did here move it around and listen um that's a great place to start too so I'm gonna close that I think we're sounding all right there so next up we go with some Dynamics so I'm going to open this guy up and in Dynamics here if you don't even know where to start with this you also have some presets that they put in there in version 18 which is pretty sweet so you can just click one of these guys as a starting point um but what we want to do in here is turn on our compressor so our compressor is going to take the parts that are really loud and attenuate and bring them down a little bit and then we're going to use the makeup slider which is right here we're going to use that to take our quiet Parts in our audio and bring it up and the goal here is to take the loud parts and the quiet parts and bring them a little bit closer together so that way when somebody's watching our video they're not sitting there and they got like the quiet parts coming I gotta Jack the volume up and then it's the loud parts and now I got to turn the volume back down right we want consistent audio so that it's a good listening experience and we want some dynamic range in there but we don't want it to be so extreme that like you're riding the volume you know on your your TV your computer your phone whatever so compression is going to bring down those loud parts for us and makeup is going to boost up the quieter parts so I turn I just turned on my compressor we'll just go with the default settings here this blue line tells me where the compressor is going to kick in so I can grab my threshold and I can change that a little bit I'm going to dial it back just a little bit and I'm going to play through my Loop section here and I'm just going to listen to it and I'm going to watch this meter right here this is my output meter so this tells me where my levels at right because we did a little EQ work we brought down some things we're applying a a compressor so as you start to do these different things you're going to lose a little bit of signal from your audio so we need to compensate for that and boost things back up and by using the makeup here to boost things back up it'll make our quiet Parts a little bit louder and hopefully help balance things out so I'm just going to play through our Loop here I'm going to make it a little bit bigger and uh let's see if our Dynamics are working and if they're working our compressor is going to show up in this middle um middle here and let's see if it's working microphone on your camera like I'm doing right here on my Canon so we can see it's working a little bit now this microphone is not good it stinks we can also see our levels are down now around I forgot my microphones right here on my Canon 5D Mark IV now this microphone is not going to boost this up stinks I wouldn't use it if I didn't have to but let's say the compressor working a little more so the compressor is going to keep it from getting too loud right and we're bringing our levels kind of back up to that minus 10 uh DB range there um so and you can adjust these things I'm not going to go too into detail in it because it's like a whole video thing on its own but you can make adjustments here and and um just kind of scope the sound the way that you want the other thing that I like to do is is uh turn on the the gate or expander and what that's going to do is say hey anything below a certain threshold in this case uh minus 35 DB right on our meters it's going to reduce the volume of that sound so for example when I'm talking in a video there's pauses or spaces between my words right and maybe there's a little bit of background noise maybe your computer fans going well a gate or an expander can help kind of reduce or remove that little bit of background noise that might be between your words and phrases so you can you can adjust that right now you see it comes down to like you know zero DB but if I wanted it to cut down quicker you know I can drop it down quicker and now this graph shows me that it's actually working right so I don't think you're going to notice it too much in this particular clip but a lot of times I'll throw that on at least an expander a gate is the same thing but it just allows you to drop that down even faster right to kind of like mute the audio below a certain decibel level so a handy tool um that I use quite a bit so we'll just leave that like that and uh microphone on your camera like I'm doing right here on my camera checking my level so now this microphone is not good it stinks I wouldn't use it if microphone is on the camera like I'm doing right here it's around there it's not too bad it's good enough because we're running out of time so that's where I'm going to leave the uh the compressor for or the the Dynamics for this one so now that we worked with the Dynamics and stuff um our clip is getting there I think it's starting to sound a little bit better um but if you had some headphones on it's probably still going to sound a little thin right it's going to sound like it's missing some low end it's missing some um uh the lower frequencies to kind of just help it sound Fuller a more Fuller sound that you might get if you know you used a better microphone or the microphone was closer to me um so how can we kind of bring back some of that that warmth to the voice right and and the the thickness to it so you would think you might be able to do it in EQ and sometimes you can you can boost you know your lower end uh frequencies and that can help and that can work but in this case we're going to use some effects so we've did our EQ we did our Dynamics and now we're going to go into our effects and we're following along you know the order that I set up here EQ Dynamics and effects so effect any effect that I like to use to kind of help uh continue to scope the sound a little bit is a multi-band compressor so if you click on the effects you come down to Dynamics we've got the multi-band compressor so it looks complicated there's lots of knobs buttons and dials here but you don't have to get too worried about it um they don't give us any presets in here but what you can do is just start with the default here and see how that works out so what a multi-band compressor does is it takes these couple different frequency ranges that we can change and adjust and it will compress just those ranges of audio so for example um you know below where I set my my high pass filter we're not going to get anything down there anyway so I'm not too worried about that in our mid-range here that's going to be where we kind of want to boost for this particular clip because I know it's it's pretty Hollow sounding right it needs more uh more body to it so where we're going to find that kind of sound in a dialogue or in a speaking track is in this uh you know 200 250 in this range over here somewhere so I know I'm going to make it a little bit bigger um and that's probably what we're gonna we're gonna boost a little bit then the next section is kind of where the main part of your your vocal or somebody speaking lives right from you know like 800 to 3K we said a little more a little less it's gonna a lot of it's going to kind of live in that that range uh of our frequencies so we want to be able to you know adjust those so we got the low ends and then we've got the main part of the voice and then you've got the high ends right with a speaking track like this we don't have a whole lot of high ends so don't have to worry about it too much if there was a lot of um maybe like hissing or that kind of noise in there we can reduce this range or compress it a little bit more to kind of get rid of it a little bit but for now I'm going to take this guy and I'm going to drag it down to I don't know 3 500 somewhere like there so I'm gonna play through it and we're just going to hear what it sounds like maybe I'll turn it off turn it on and then I'm going to make some adjustments and uh we're just going to see see how it sounds now the adjustment that I'm gonna make all I'm going to do besides maybe moving these guys left and right a little bit is the game button right here so I'm either going to bring it up or I'm going to bring it down that's all I'm going to do so let's loop our playback microphone on your camera like I'm doing right here on my Canon 5D Mark IV now this microphone is not good it stinks I wouldn't use it if I didn't have to but let's say I had to I forgot my microphone I couldn't afford a different microphone on your camera like I'm doing right here on my Canon 5D Mark IV now this microphone is not good it stinks I wouldn't use it if I didn't have to but let's say I had to I forgot my microphone on your camera like I'm doing right here on my Canon but I cracked it all the way up now this microphone is not good sounds let's say I had to I forgot my microphone I dropped it down microphone on your camera like I'm doing something right Mark IV now this microphone is not good it stinks I wouldn't use it if I didn't have to but let's say I had to I forgot my mom maybe I would go there right it's kind of hard to tell with these speakers but if you got headphones on or you're sitting you know in front of your better speakers or something you'll be able to hear the differences um that it makes when you make adjustments to to these different frequency ranges right so and then even if we mess with uh you know where the main part of the vocal lives a little bit camera like I'm doing right here on my Canon 5D Mark IV right then now we only hear the low end it stinks I wouldn't use it if I didn't have to but let's say I had to and I forgot my microphone a different microphone on your camera like I'm doing right here on my Canon 5D Mark IV so a lot of that is just listening to it making an adjustment doesn't sound better does it sound worse do I think I need a little more low end do I need to hear the voice a little bit clearer um what does your clip need a lot of it's listening to it and making adjustments and seeing how your clip is affected by that adjustment and then in here too and we have uh our gain knob so again as we kind of work with our audio in you know the multiband compressor here we're going to lose a little bit of our audio signal so a lot of the effects have a gain knob in there where we can boost things back up as the audio is coming out of the effect so a lot of times I'm going to use that and in this case I used it it's just this one on your camera like I'm doing right here on my Canon 5D Mark IV all right it stinks I wouldn't be so yeah it's picking up a little bit more but you get the idea that's kind of how you would kind of work with the multiband compressor right you might want to adjust these ranges a little bit but something like the numbers you see here might work pretty good to kind of start tweaking it a little bit and this would really help you be able to just make it sound Fuller without having to use the EQ because we use all our points to remove the tin can sound but this can bring some of that that body in a little bit more warmth back into the vocal so the um another effect that that I would use a lot of times on just a dialogue or a speaking track is a de-esser so come to effects we go to Restoration and you got de-esser so you got this guy here and you can uh actually use one of the presets that they have here I usually just come up here boom ago the male ESS and I'll just leave it there I'll see how it works um you've got a little meter right over here so you're going to see if it's working or if it's not um so let's just play to our clip we'll see if it's doing anything and we can make adjustments if we need to we can move the frequency range we can change the amount maybe we don't need to do it that much you don't want it to remove too much because then it's going to sound weird and these little buttons here they just change the shape of that of that curve right so let's just play through and see if we hear anything microphone on your camera like I'm doing right here on my Canon 5D Mark IV now this microphone see it's working it stinks I wouldn't use it but let's say I had just a sound I got my microphone I couldn't afford a different microphone on your camera like I'm doing right here on my Canon 5D market now this microphone is not good it stinks I wouldn't use it if I didn't have to but let's say I didn't do that it's different you should be able to hear it too when you're editing your audio that it just pulls out like the harsh s sounds right so you don't hear all the time in the video so that's so I'm going to usually apply that on there too just to just to kind of clean it up and make sure nothing sounds too harsh so that that's the the gist of how I would kind of go through and the steps I would take to edit some audio um after I get done editing my dialogue I would then go and look at my um uh sound effects I would maybe adjust the levels on those make sure that you know if it's happening when I'm talking that things are kind of balanced well um you know being that I have my My Level set good on my dialogue clip and let's say I went through my my music tracks I went through my sound effects and I kind of set the the levels for each one of those things where I wanted them this is where I would come in at the end and listen to my whole thing I'd play through it and this is where for me I would use the faders to kind of fine tune things right maybe I want to bring all the effects back a little bit or all the the sound effects down a little bit so I could come to my you know sound effects too I'm going to drag that down a little bit uh maybe I need to bring my music way down right or whatever but once I have all my level all my levels set for individual clips and things I know they're good I can just make fine tune adjustments using the faders and then hopefully we're good to go and then once I get done doing all that and everything sounds kind of good I'm going to go back and check my loudness levels and uh they talked about a little bit in the the panel discussion earlier of trying to you know get in that -14 left range for YouTube and you can you can check your levels uh or the loudness Levels by turning on your um automation controls and if you scroll all the way to the bottom you've got your your bus one and you have to make this track big enough so that you can see it if it's closed you won't see it you got your loudness history right here and this is going to be where you can tell what the loudness is for your video so I don't know I think I think I've said it minus 14 uh in my um uh in the project setup uh project settings so when we're looking at this graph here this zero represents minus 14 lufts a little weird but that's how they do it so um so we want this blue line when we're playing back I mean just mute this so if we come back here and just reset my uh my thing so if I just play this let me give it a second it'll we'll start seeing where our audio is falling right so we can see we're about minus 6 DB below minus 14. so let's say just if I push that all the way up now we can see our levels are going up right we're not quite peaking yet because our track wasn't that loud but you can see now we're getting up close and maybe it's going to go over right which is going to tell me I'm too loud for YouTube when I upload it to YouTube If YouTube's gonna automatically squash down our audio right it's going to compress it and you don't want YouTube to do that you want to have control over your audio and being able to get it to the right level so it sounds good um and it's what you want it to be not what YouTube is going to make you turn it into so so that's that's in a nutshell I know my timer's done so in a nutshell that's uh that's how I kind of go through the audio process that's it thank you so much that's a that was a lot of information I'm sure we're going to have a lot of people who are really going to get a lot of value out of that I hope so yeah you did great awesome you did great awesome thanks thanks we're getting going to get into the Q a section with Jason I'm sure you guys have some questions I know we got a ton from the chat which is really cool um but we'll start off here does anyone here have a question look at that just like like weeds popping up I'm gonna start back here we haven't heard from this guy yet go ahead and stand up foreign thanks for the session um I was just wondering is there a quick and easy way to turn off all effect changes or any changes you're making to the audio track to kind of compare the original um so I mean you can if you're looking at uh okay I'm up there so if you're if you're looking at the mixer you can click that in button the insert button and that's going to turn off your effects and then it's as easy to just clicking once on the EQ and Dynamics to turn it off the other way is just to you know come and hold alt drag it down to another track boom and then you can just listen to it on another track you can solo and you'll only hear that track you can solo back and forth to compare all right you got a question yeah yeah first uh thanks for a great presentation um in regards to preparing your audio for YouTube like you target the loudness is one around -14 right minus 14 yeah yeah do you have to change anything in the project manager on the fairlight where you can change your target loudness yeah so to set your target loudness for a project you want to come to your project settings Fair light and right down here you have Target loudness level so I think by default I think it's minus 23 which is like broadcast stuff um but YouTube's minus 14 so you can just plug in whatever number you want and then when you get to that loudness graph in fairlight the zero is going to represent uh -14 lufts although if you don't want to look at it that way you can change sure right here you have absolute scale you can turn that on and I believe now it's going to show yeah now it shows -14 left so it just depends how how you want to see it so again that's right up here if you come to your loudness right up here and the three little dots you've got absolute scale so that's going to put that line at -14 if it's off the zero down here represents minus 14. I don't know why that is but that's the way it works yeah just briefly the uh I noticed that the loudness and loudness meter up there at the top uh next to control room yeah that m stands for medium uh median uh luffs rather than integrated uh how do we see the integrated gloves and beavers useless to me um I don't know I never really use that meter up there so I'm not really sure I'm not really sure how to change it the only thing I use is the uh the reset and the start and then I just look down here uh in the graph so uh I'm not sure it's a good question good question all right we're going to take the question from our uh YouTube chat here is there any way to export a project sound as opposed to locked into the MP4 mov like one version complete and one version to be able to change the sound effects without the project file I mean you can export like a multi-track file like a surround sound file or something where it'll have the different tracks and stuff that's one way you could do it I don't know if you could just bounce the audio out I don't know I don't really bounce audio out too much it's for me it's everything's kind of in the video um and I can just do everything I need there so I don't I don't send out just the audio or I don't need multi-track stuff coming out so I don't really do that too much but any other questions in-house right here just a quick question about the room tone do you use the room tone for bigger production and do you like subtract that from the you know from the yeah um I mean that's that's uh a little out of my wheelhouse I don't really deal with that at all uh much um I I just kind of work on smaller projects and I don't do any kind of big production type things um mostly what I do with the audio here is just brought from The Sound world and and mixing live stuff live music and stuff like that um so coming from there to here it's just working on videos you know for YouTube mostly or just other smaller client projects if those come in so I don't really have any insight towards that you don't need it right no I mean I I don't worry about it nah another question here first uh thank you for the presentation it's been very informative and very helpful for many thanks but uh anyway my question is um like if you're working in like on the color section and you've made color corrections to a particular clip and you're able to you know hit that middle scroll wheel to copy that grade through other through subsequent Clip Clips can you do something similar to that sure with the audio so you can copy around things you got a few ways you can do it you can come to your track and just click over in this area and you can copy your attributes and then I can go to the next whatever track you want right click again and you can say paste attributes and then you've got the option to do all these different things you know you can do um all of them if you just click the top but your volume Dynamics mute pan EQ and plugins so you can select what you want to copy from track to track or you can another way you can do it is if you just come over to whatever part you want so effects for example if I hold the ALT key you can just click drag and boom it copies it right to another track so you can copy it around like that if you want on the Dynamics and EQ just right click copy right click paste and there you go so it's it's pretty quick you can also make presets though too for individual things any one of these individual things or globally as like a whole track so for me I have the same recording set up all the time I know what I need the settings I have a whole track preset save I just apply the whole thing to the track and boom I'm done one click in different timelines you can do the preset anywhere yep so if you made it yeah once it's in there um fairlight presets Library all your presets will live in here EQ Dynamics plugins Global track global bus and then configuration presets so yeah [Music] any other questions for Jason hi thanks for uh being here and giving this lesson um so I see there's there's stereo and mono to be able to edit can DaVinci do 5.1 at all any surround sound or how do you get to that or do that yeah it can do surround sound so you could just make a new track right add a track 5.1 to around 7.1 um I don't do too much of it because I don't I don't think you can do it on YouTube or somebody told me recently that you can get it if you I don't know if you watch a certain way I don't know I tried it before and it doesn't work um but but yeah you can you can do surround sound and all that kind of stuff and they've got a whole bunch of cool tools that I haven't really had a chance to get into because I don't even have a surround sound system so it's kind of hard to try it out I'm just a stereo left and right guy for now but but they do have tools to work with it yeah awesome another question from uh YouTube here what's the point of having multiple buses but each bus back to bus one just to hear it as opposed to having groups so the benefit to buses is just that you can apply uh different things so in the groups like we saw you can only essentially adjust the volume right using that that group feature but with a bus you can apply effects or Dynamics or effects uh um or EQ I mean um so it's just it's a way to kind of group things together right it just depends on what you're trying to do if you have a lot of tracks a way to maybe consolidate or maybe there's a reason you need to Route things a certain way or um there's a lot of different reasons it kind of I think if you needed to use a bus or you need to group things a different way you'd probably know why you want to do it um but it can it can just help simplify things so you don't have to do something in multiple spots if you're trying to apply the same thing to you know multiple tracks like say for example I wanted I don't know change the pitch on like all my sound effects right I can just send them all to one bus and do it once on the bus instead of going to my 30 different soundtrack or sound effects tracks and applying it to the track over and over and over again so any other questions here at house all right I got one here from uh YouTube does the ideal decibel level for audio depend on the quality of the audio recorded I've edited a short film before it sounded fine in my PC but was way too low on my TV right so one of the things that I do is when I'm done with my audio I'll export out my video I watch it like a lot of the other guys mentioned then I'm going to upload it to YouTube once it looks good but then I'm going to watch it there too because what I hear in my good headphones and through some good speakers might not sound the same as it does when I play it on my phone you know it might sound like garbage right for some reason so I like to try and just make sure it sounds good especially when I'm trying new things or new plugins I put it on YouTube and then I listen to it and see how it sounds you know how does it sound on my phone how it's on my iPad I could throw it on my TV how does it sound there I've noticed that in general uh YouTube videos sound great on most devices but when I put it on a TV even other people's videos that I watch and even other Big Timers like it doesn't sound as good as it does if you watch even on like good speakers or headphones it sounds better there it doesn't sound as good on my TV for some reason I don't know why that is um but a lot of times you want to check it on different devices because it's going to sound different depending on where you're listening and you just try to get a good balance you know if you notice when I put it on all my other devices you know it sounds like too much bass you know it's too too much low end but it sounds okay on my computer well most people are probably watching on their phone so if it sounds all garbled up on their phone you probably want to try and fix that and then you know export it out again and give it a try so right right good advice Jason guys let's give it up for him one more time all right thanks guys so that was fairlight 101 here hope you guys learned a little bit of something so now you can go out and start to level up your audio in your videos if you have any questions leave a comment down below I will help you out as much as I can to hopefully get your audio sound in awesome and if you guys didn't attend resolvecon 2022 here it was awesome definitely keep your eye out for it for next year because I think it's going to be bigger and better and it's just a great time with great creators you get to hang out with all of us and we get to hang out with you guys which is awesome it's a great time and we learned a ton so with that said guys I look forward to seeing you in the next video peace [Music]

Channel: Jason Yadlovski

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Length: 74min 14sec (4454 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 10 2022