Quick way to mark music beat in DaVinci Resolve Tutorial

so in my facebook group there was a question asked on a subject in which i actually never covered on the channel they have some music they want to add some markers in and do they need a plug-in to do this like how is the best way to do this i'm guessing that they're going to be editing to music so they want to have the markers in there so they can snap to those different areas you actually can do this all from within davinci resolve there are a couple of things that to note here on how to do this but it's not that difficult and it's all built in to both versions of davinci resolve so if you have the free version you can take advantage of this as well so let's open up davinci resolve and jump in now there are a couple of different things that i want to quickly tell you is we're going to be covering um or we're going to be targeting what are referred to as transients so drastic differences and in levels and that's how we're going to be able to pick all of our different points if you are working with a full mix down song there are going to be a lot of points in this so that's something to keep in mind they all might not be edit points that you might want to edit too typically people want to edit to like a baseline or drums or something like that so if you do want to edit to something like that and you're just looking for music you can always do epidemic sound because they do stems or if you're working with someone that can provide you stems those are also good because they typically break up the different instruments and then you can just write all of your markers to whatever the thing is that you want to edit to that's always you know something to take advantage of if you do want to take a look at epidemic sound there should be a link in the description so you can get a free trial on that but let's just jump in and i will show you both ways here quick so the first one is i'm just going to bring in my song and let's make a new timeline and let's add that song in so here is our song that we're going to be working with i'm just going to listen okay so you get the gist of the song i'm actually gonna dim that so it's not so loud on uh for both of us uh and so now all we have to do to be able to add all of our markers in is we need to add in a we need to turn on transient detect and so to do that it's going to be this little button here we'll click on that to turn that on now fairlight can have thousands of different tracks and because of that we have to state where we want the transient detect to detect transients and so to do that all we have to do is in whatever track it is we just pulled this down and we have this little button here to turn transit detect on in there i'm gonna make this smaller so we can actually see it and we can see it's going through the track and it's finding all the different transits i pulled that down which actually pulled down the audio level so you might not want to do that if you do do it you want to reset it uh when it you know when you're uh done doing this aspect of it i just pulled it down so we can see the lines easier if we open this up we can see all of the lines now we want a way to be able to jump between the lines so to make this as easy as possible and the easiest way to do this if we come over here to our timeline settings we'll open this up this navigations option we just want to make sure that transient detect is turned on if it's grayed out it's not on obviously so we want to have it lit up so that it's turned on once we are there and right now i have nothing else on my timeline so everything that it's going to jump to is only based off of the transient attack because i don't have other clips for it to jump to uh it's all just going to be the trans and detect and so all i have to do is just go to wherever you want to add these let's say right here i just hit my down arrow and it jumps to it now wherever my playhead is i can add a marker by hitting m so we add our marker there now if you have the uh piece of material selected the clip select it and we hit you know are down and then we hit m it's going to add it on to whatever we have uh selected so if you wanted to go on that timeline because you want to snap to it on the timeline we will make sure nothing's selected hit m and then it'll add it to the timeline and we can see that we can easily add those in now this is going to add a transient line for every single thing that is a drastic change in the levels so if we listen to the song again [Music] we can hear that's not a baseline right but there's a transient line there so this is something to note when you're working with mixed down tracks if we didn't want to have the mixdown track so let's just make a new timeline so we have our clean slate and let's say we were to use something from like epidemic sound which has uh the ability to get stems for that same song i can bring those in and now we can bring them down i should probably put them all on their own track i should try that again there we are all right let's bump this up and put this here so now with all the playing it's the same exact song right but now if we go over into fairlight now i can say okay which one do i want this to be and if we look at these names that says base so let's listen to that and then this one's drum so it's just listening to the drums all right so now the drums is probably what i want but in between the drums you can hear snares so there's going to be transit line drawn for those snares because it it's just the drum then silence then a snare then a drum right so there's going to be transient lines drawn there as well but we can turn it on here and this will get us a much closer than what we previously had now it's kind of hard to see the transient line so i'll just bring this down so we can actually see it now this is just to be able to see it we want to reset that again but now because we can see like right here where the snare is it's adding in a transient line right so we would just have to skip those so we just go down nothing select it hit m nothing don't want that that's a snare want that want that that's snare want that want that snare want that right so now [Music] we could edit to that very easily what we're we gonna do here let's just grab some here we go perfect solid color just quickly show you now we can snap to that right and let's change the color of this so we can actually tell the difference between them and we'll pull this all down let's grab another one and we'll just add another color and i'll just copy this and copy that and let's make these smaller copy that copy that one and copy that one now if we listen to this [Music] there we go that's how we would do that hopefully you guys found this interesting uh if you want to know more about the fairlight page and what it all has there's a link in the description to a eight hour course that goes over everything on the fairlight page from making dialogue sound better to sweetening a mix all the way to adobe atmos you can take a look at that and there's a lot of other stuff on that website that you can take it take a look at but that is how we add markers in if we ever wanted to do an edit based off of the music and using what is referred to as transient detect to be able to easily jump and navigate on the timeline to add those markers in did you know about this if you did awesome what do you use it for if you didn't know about it now that you know about it will you be using it for edits that have to go off of a soundtrack let me know in the comments but with that being said my name's shara thank you so much for watching until the next one peace

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Keywords: blackmagic, DaVinci Resolve, resolve, tutorial, how to, DaVinci Resolve 17, Fusion, fairlight, davinci resolve audio, Transient Detection, Transient, mark audio

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Length: 8min 4sec (484 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 16 2022