All language subtitles for Audio Mixing Basic Tutorial in DaVinci Resolve 16 Fairlight

Hello, everybody.

Chris here and in this video,
I want to talk to you guys

a little bit about simple audio
mixing inside of DaVinci Resolve 16.

So you'll notice that I already have
my timeline set up in the Fairlight tab.

That's the second from the right.

You can see over here that this audio
interfaces is only for editing audio.

The only visual indicator we get is the
little preview window in the top right?

So in my timeline,
there's four audio tracks

and you'll notice that I've separated them
into four different categories.

So in audio one,

I have the original audio from the clips
I brought into the timeline.

And this case though,

because these are stock footage clips,
they don't actually have any audio

and audio.

Track two, I'm using this for voiceovers
or basically narration

that I've recorded in Da Vinci
Resolve and audio track three.

We have sound effects, and then in audio
track four, we have music.

So aside from the obvious fact
that this allows you to have overlapping

sounds on your different audio tracks,
it's a it's a good idea to separate

your different types
of sounds to their own tracks

so that you can customize things based on
what kind of audio you're dealing with.

So if you have, for instance, audio track
to set up for all of your voice overs,

you may want in the mixer
to add in a audio effect

such as Fairlight effects
and then noise reduction.

So this will remove the background noise
from voice overs that you may record,

which would be really useful
for any unedited, raw narration.

But you might not want that
in the music track

because that might actually remove
some of the sound from the music.

So it's noise
reduction added into the mixer.

For audio track two,

we can go ahead and play this back
and you'll be able to see that

it will go ahead
and do some noise reduction.

So here we have an amazing

sunset occurring in the depths of Norway
where it is really cold.

As you can see, there's a lot of snow,
not many people out there

and it's really, really cold.

Okay.

So hopefully if you are watching the snow,

if you were watching the noise
reduction window,

you would have noticed that as time goes
by, it automatically adjusts the curve

for the noise reduction,
figuring out what frequencies

are just background noise
and which ones are actually speaking.

So that can be one really useful tool
you can include.

So aside from that,
you can see that each individual audio

track has their own set of tools
that you can customize for each one,

such as an equalizer, to emphasize
or to emphasize

different frequencies, dynamics, controls.

If you want to set up a noise
gate to cut off low sounds

or a compressor to reduce some of the high
end sounds that are above a certain

threshold, to reduce how loud they are
and compared with your threshold.

And then the pan tools,
if you want one of your audio tracks

to be emphasized on your left speakers
or your right speakers or your front

or your back speakers,

then if your project is dealing
with surround sound

and then you can see that each track
also has its own slider bar

for increasing or decreasing audio volume
all across the track.

So that could be useful if you are doing
all of your voiceovers at the same volume,

but maybe you do multiple takes

and you don't want to click on the bar
that appears in each audio track

to increase
or decrease the audio manually.

But you'd rather increase
that in the mixer, but then you'd rather

increase the audio on all clips
that are inside of that audio track too.

So one of the things I left intentionally
unedited before starting this video

was that the audio volume across the audio
tracks are not set up very well.

You can see if I expand audio track
for that.

The audio of the music
is actually quite loud.

For audio track three,
there's a few sound effects over here.

We have some beeps
and then over on the right

there's just a girl saying Wow
a bunch of times.

And the voiceover audio is also quite
quiet compared to the music.

Now when it comes to music tracks,
I would say that in many cases

you will need

to edit it on a track by track basis,
but because you only are going to include

a handful of music tracks in your project
anyway, it's very easy

to actually just go ahead and modify
this when you only have a few clips.

So if I click on this bar
and bring it down a few decibels,

then the music won't be so blaring
when we're actually trying

to play the audio for the sound effects.

In audio track three, it's
kind of a similar story, sound effects

from different sources are going
to be recorded at different volumes.

So once again,
you're probably going to want to zoom

in on each of these audio effects
and edit them manually

so you can increase the volume
by clicking on the bar and bringing it up.

Maybe we also want to do that
for the sound effect.

So zooming in, if you want to select
more than one clip at a time,

I can hold control down
to select all three of these.

And then in the inspector I can actually
increase the volume here as well.

So if we bumped this up,

say, five or seven

decibels, that's probably good enough
for all three of these audio clips.

So if you have the same audio clip
duplicated,

that can be a useful way to edit that
as an alternative, you can make your edits

before you duplicate it and copy it
to different parts of your timeline.

Now, as far as narration voiceover goes,
if you're using the same microphone

across the entire track,

then there's a good chance
it's going to be roughly the same sound.

But for the voiceover narration,
I want to make sure that

that's going to be increasing the sound
all the way across the track.

If you're using the same microphone
with the same speaker,

then it should theoretically
be the same sound.

So increasing the volume in the mixer
instead is going to work out just fine.

So now if we go ahead
and actually playback this video

from the start,
we should see that the sound levels

should be much better
than they were before.

So let's go ahead and hit play.

So here we have an amazing

sunset occurring in the depths of Norway
where it is really cold.

As you can see, there's a lot of snow,
Not many people out there

and it's really, really cold. Okay.

So in terms of audio levels,
that was actually pretty good.

So one more thing
that I would probably modify is that as

the music is going to fade out for a news
broadcast or something similar.

Okay.

So one more thing I would change about
the audio in these clips is that as

the music is coming to an end
and we're switching over to the video

for a news broadcast, just as an example,
I would want the music to fade out

a little bit more.

So if you grab on these notches in the top
right hand corner,

then you can actually pull this out
to the left for a fade out effect.

So as far as you it, it's going
to start out 100% of its current volume

and it'll reach zero by the time
it gets to the end of the clip there.

You can also do this at the start
of your audio clips for a fade and

so if I go ahead and play this back,
that should have a really

easy, nice fade out effect.

So here we have an amazing

so one more thing we can add to audio.

Track two is the dialog processor which
exists and eventually resolves 16 and up.

So if we go over to audio track two,
I want this to process the dialog track.

Obviously I'm
going to hit the plus sign for effects,

go to Fairlight Effects, dialog processor

and the settings I've been liking to use
is changing from female to male.

Obviously, and then decreasing the rumble
from 115 to around 70.

I found that having the rumble set
to a higher setting with the microphone

I'm using actually caused it to have a
worse sounding quality rather than better.

So lowering a frequency down
can actually kind of de-emphasize

an effect and make it not interfere
with the good audio that you want to keep.

So now with that dialog processor
added on to audio track two,

we can go ahead and play it one more time.

So here we have an amazing

sunset occurring in the depths of Norway
where it is really cold.

As you can see, there's a lot of snow,
not many people out there

and it's really, really cold.

So hopefully this video
I was giving you guys a couple of ideas

of how you can control and edit
your audio across different tracks

inside of the Fairlight tab
of Defensive Resolve 16.

I wanted to

keep it short and simple with this video,
so that's going to be it from Chris.

Thanks for watching and I'll see you guys
in my future Video content.