5.1 Surround Sound in DaVinci Resolve 16 | Tutorial

Create 5.1 Surround Sound in DaVinci Resolve! I'll show you all the steps you need to know to create your own 5.1 surround sound soundtrack right in DaVinci Resolve, from how to create tracks and send audio to the speaker you want right to how to export your 5.1 Surround Sound project. Below are links to sections of the video for quick reference.

VIDEO CONTENTS
0:00 Get Started!
1:43 What You Need for to Create 5.1 Surround Sound
2:44 5.1 Surround Sound Example
3:00 Cut Audio Clips for 5.1 Channels
3:21 Create Audio Tracks for 5.1
4:16 Why 6 Audio Tracks?
4:39 Rename Tracks in This Order
5:36 Moving Clips to 5.1 Tracks
5:56 Channel/Speaker Location
7:07 Moving Clips to 5.1 Channels
7:45 Unlink Clips if Needed
9:14 Example before Panning Sound
9:37 Jump to Fairlight!
9:48 Using Pan Tool
11:01 Enable LFE Channel (Bass/Low Frequency Effects)
11:36 Link 5.1 Tracks
12:35 Automatic 5.1 Pan by Linking Tracks
14:15 Make Sure Signal is Sent to 5.1 Channels
15:34 Unlinking Tracks to Make Changes
16:05 Create a 5.1 Main Out Mix for Delivery
17:43 Bus Assignment - Send Surround Sound Tracks to 5.1 Main Out
20:11 Monitoring 5.1 Main Out
20:51 Deliver Tab - How to Render Out 5.1 Surround Sound
22:57 Final Result in True 5.1 Surround Sound (Download File at Link Above)

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[tedz]

Your explanation was better than the 1 hour davinci video i just watched. but combining what you did in laymen terms and their technical expertise gives me a good grasp on how this works.. thanks great great great stuff...

[ferociousbung]

Awesome tutorial, there is a more convenient way to do this however that you should do an update tutorial on. If you check on the Dolby Atmos box in the settings and set your track to Dolby Atmos 5.1 or 7.1 and open the track properties in Fairlight you eliminate the need for multiple tracks. The single track is spilt into 5 or 7 tracks that you can control within the properties of the track itself, then you can check off the speakers you want. This helps your workflow and frees up a lot of space on your timeline. This way, if you have a big project with 50 audio tracks it won’t multiply it by 5 or 7.

[canicus]

Your videos are great!! You explain everything so clearly! Thank you so much for the effort you put into your productions and sharing your knowledge 🥰

[rickdeckardbladerunner]

Nice video. Do you have a video on what gear you need to actually hear your 5.1 track before you export? Not one channel talks about this. Thanks

[tucciproducer]

Clever using the panning in the intro to demonstrate the differences. Clever!

[peterash]

Thanks Jason. That did help a lot. Have a nice and healthy holiday.

[donnieskywalkerfilms]

Awesome! This is exactly what I was looking for, thanks man!!

[lCatchStudio]

Thanks Jason, That was a helpful tutorial. May U ask which software do you use to screen record?

[ray.watts.]

Excellent video thanks Jason, very well explained. And I don't even have a 5.1 set-up!

[mistapurple]

That's a great one!! I want to play with sound design now! Great video, very clear even for a french speaker. Cheers from France, I just subscribed to your channel :)

[tibork]

I also never done/learned this, much appreciation for the Demo Jason!!!

[samhoiland]

Saved my life with this one Jason <3

[natsacreations]

Thank you so much for this video, it has been very helpful

[keithsanborn]

Thanks! Great tutorial. You hit all the basics and a lot of them are tricky. I've been doing the Davinci tutorials, which are much more extended, and you did a great job of summarizing the critical information, especially about creating the busses and assigning the channels.

I have a 5.1 system and I actually managed to creat an LFE track for your tutorial. First, I cut up your download and put the clips in their proper places on the other 5 channels and set up the panning. Then I copied all the clips onto the LFE track, selected the proper clip attributes and used the eq for the LFE track to emphasize the low frequencies and push down the higher ones. I pushed up the levels on some clips and left most of them alone. There's almost always low frequency information in a recording like this one; to create an LFE track you just have to filter it a bit and bring up the levels. Then, I turned on the LFE in the pan control for the LFE channel and cranked it up. Finally I used the LFE filter on the 5.1 bus to add a bit of control there and fiddled with the levels to make sure I didn't exceed -2.0 TP.

Thanks again.

[christiancaicedo]

Excellent video!!

Questions:

- For the custom export example in the video, since there's two output tracks (Main 1 Stereo and Main 2 5.1), does that mean that the finished video file has both audio formats in it and both are ready to play?

- For playback on any audio setup, does the files and equipment automatically chose which appropriate format to play?

- For setting up a new project with both stereo and 5.1 audio formats in the plans, does it require to have two separate project files (one project file for stereo, the other for 5.1)?, or can both formats be in the same project file?

Thank you!

[mrkumaran]

Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks

[Altsouza]

Hi Jason. Great video, thanks! I download
a lot of you tube rock concerts and i do stereo to 5.1 conversions using Fairlight as a hobby to play in my Home theater. What kind of eq's do you recommend for center channel as well as LR mains? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks

[TinaTaraOfficial]

Thank you for this wonderful video! It really helped and made such a difference!!!

[knightlightshow]

Jason, two questions (1) other videos that provide instructions in this reference the SETTINGS of Davinci (System > Video and Audio I/O) and setting monitor speaker configuration to 5.1. Do you know what the difference is between you doing it this way and doing it in the settings? Also, other videos reference changing the track type to 5.1 (not sure why or if that matters whereas you set yours to Mono). (2) Have you used plugins like Waves UM226 or NUGEN Halo Upmix? If so, do I need to follow your same instructions or does it handle all of the routing?

[roehaus]

Great video... what's the difference between the 5.1 & 5.1 film settings in resolve?