Learn how to balance dialogue, sound effects, and music. Then pan audio to follow the action onscreen using the Fairlight page in DaVinci Resolve 20.

In Lesson 5 of The Complete Fairlight Audio Course, we’ll use meters, clip gain, keyframes, normalization, and Dialogue Leveler to create consistent audio levels. Then we’ll place sounds in the panoramic sound field and explore manual and automatic pan tracking.

IN THIS LESSON:

✓ Previewing a scene to understand its audio context

✓ Resetting clip levels and audio attributes

✓ Understanding Fairlight meters and target levels

✓ Balancing dialogue, sound effects, and music

✓ Adjusting clip levels with the gain line

✓ Using keyframes to change levels within a clip

✓ Balancing multiple clips at once

✓ Creating automatic keyframes

✓ Applying Auto-Leveling and normalization

✓ Normalizing multiple clips independently

✓ Balancing dialogue with Dialogue Leveler

✓ Placing audio in the panoramic sound field

✓ Controlling the spread of stereo tracks

✓ Using Pan Tracker controls in the viewer

✓ Auto-panning audio to video in DaVinci Resolve Studio

This is Lesson 5 of my complete Fairlight course, following Mary Plummer’s Fairlight Audio Guide to DaVinci Resolve 20. A new lesson will be released each week, followed by the complete course combined into one long video.

CHAPTERS:

0:00 Lesson 5: Balancing Clips and Panning Tracks

2:06 Balancing Clips and Setting Levels

3:56 Previewing the Scene for Context

9:21 Resetting Clip Levels

11:29 Balancing Dialogue Levels

13:05 Understanding the Meters

15:10 Dialogue Target Levels

17:24 Sound Effects and Dialogue Target Levels

21:15 Metering Sound Effects

26:06 Adjusting Clip Levels

26:19 Using the Gain Line

32:55 Using Keyframes to Change Clip Levels

37:44 Keyboard Shortcuts for Keyframes

40:22 Balancing a Range of Clips at Once

41:48 More Clip Balancing

44:38 Automatic Keyframes

48:07 Applying Auto-Leveling to Balance Clips

52:33 Normalizing Multiple Clips at Once

57:24 Using Dialogue Leveler

1:03:23 Placing Audio in the Panoramic Sound Field

1:08:53 Controlling Stereo Spread

1:12:40 Using Pan Tracker Controls in the Viewer

1:17:51 Auto-Panning to Video (Studio Only)

1:26:13 Lesson 5 Quiz

▶ COMPLETE COURSE PLAYLIST: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWJSzg1c3Wmw

▶ PREVIOUS LESSON: https://youtu.be/1kc7Z7-BNVc

▶ OFFICIAL BOOK AND LESSON FILES: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/training

If this lesson helps you, please like the video, subscribe, and let me know which method you prefer for balancing dialogue: manual keyframes, normalization, or Dialogue Leveler.

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