Sound for Video Session — Fairlight FX, Adobe Podcast Enhance, & Q&A

In this week's session, we run through some of the built-in effects of DaVinci Resolve's fairlight, demonstrate Adobe Podcast Enhance, an automatic audio optimization tool, and answer your sound for video questions.





Copyright 2023, Curtis Judd

00:00 Start
02:40 Beginning of stream
02:53 Agenda
03:39 Adobe Podcast Enhance overview and demo
08:54 Sample recording signal chain
17:14 DaVinci Resolve free vs. studio versions
18:33 Fairlight FX overview
34:00 Are hardware tools being rendered obsolete by software?
34:40 More on the Fairlight FX
41:20 When and why: dialogue leveler vs. compressor/limiter
46:15 Hardware onboard processors vs. software post-production processors
47:41 How does the DPA 4017b do as a boom mic for dialogue recording?
48:05 Loudness normalize or process/edit first?
49:44 Order of operations for EQ, dynamics, effects, etc
52:31 Signal flow options (‘Order’) in the Fairlight mixer
54:37 Does YouTube apply further audio processing upon upload?
56:44 Fun Fairlight FX!
1:01:15 DPA 4017b as a 2-person interview mic
1:02:16 Radio signal/music being picked up by on-set boom mic
1:03:49 Wrap-up
1:04:00 End of stream

[JoeMustang]

Missed the live session but bought the course, now that I'm finally, after 2 years of "not needing Resolve", learning Resolve 18. But even the old Resolve 16 training tutorials I have are still helpful for the video portion. I have cameras now that can provide 10 bit h.265 4-2-2 files and Power Director is limited to 4-2-0. Plus I want to really learn how to color correct and grade using the Resolve (Studio) tools. Another weakness of Cyberlink's suite is that most of the plug-ins I've tried in Audio Director, simply aren't supported. I'm half deaf anyway, but I am happy to be learning Fairlight now, and can at least use the plug-ins and let someone else critique what I've done.

[radiozelaza]

Omg. Just yesterday I was watching a podcast and it struck me that the people speaking sound as if their voices were synthesized. I bet the person behind the production used Adobe Podcast Enhance for that in post.

[KrunoslavStifter]

Problem with online AI, especially from Adobe is that off course they offer "free" that is in reality you trying their AI models by uploading your video, (forget privacy) and later they will charge people for what people help them train. Typical misleading business model these companies have. Not long ago I heard that Adobe essentially sneaked in "I accept my cloud files to be used by Adobe for other things" in their terms of service, that also features "I give up my right to file a class action law suit", so be careful with these types of services. As much as possible needs to be done locally, offline and with no subscription models. Otherwise "you will own nothing and be happy."