Sound for Video Session - Fairlight 19 Initial Look & Q&A

Let's take a look at the new audio features in Fairlight 19 beta which was released a couple of weeks ago. We'll also talk a bit about Dolby ATMOS in DaVinci Resolve. Then we'll answer your sound for video questions.​
If you’d like to learn how to make great dialogue audio for your film and video projects, please have a look at my courses at school.learnlightandsound.com including processing dialogue audio in Adobe Audition and DaVinci Resolve/Fairlight, recording sound, how to use the Zoom F4, F6, F8, and F8n, and how to get the most from the Sound Devices MixPre series of recorders. We have a course on sound for live-streaming with the ATEM Mini, Introduction to Izotope RX for Dialogue Audio, and Mixing fundamentals in DaVinci Resolve Fairlight.
Gear I often use or that we mentioned in this episode. The links below are Amazon.com, B&H Photo, Sweetwater, or other affiliate links. As an affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases:
- Sound Devices 888 field recorder/mixer with Dante - B&H, Sweetwater geni.us/zAryW4J
- Mackie DLZ Creator XS adaptive audio mixer - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/6lDtu69
- Mackie DLZ Creator adaptive audio mixer (the original, bigger one) - B&H, Amazon geni.us/42KrX0
- Earthworks ETHOS microphone - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/8G8UdBB
- Allen & Heath SQ5 digital mixing board - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/sRxFU90
- Sound Devices MixPre II Series Recorders - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/O8e0
- Panasonic GH5 camera - B&H, Amazon geni.us/InspOl
- Teleprompter Ikan 17" high bright - B&H geni.us/RcuXD3
- Canon C200 Camera - B&H geni.us/9Zi4m4a
- Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 lens - B&H, Amazon geni.us/kZyU7e
- ATEM Mini Extreme & Extreme ISO - B&H, DVE Store, Amazon geni.us/b8my
- Rupert Neve Designs Shelford Channel, pre-amp, EQ, compressor - Sweetwater, B&H geni.us/9ZfE77
- Universal Audio 6176 channel strip pre-amp, EQ, compressor - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/505L55n
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[@jaybcreighton]

Hello again (finally), Curtis: I have listened to your entire livestream and have learned much. I kept chatGPT available during your program so that I could stop your livestream and then go to ChatGPT and ask it what the heck did all of the acronyms mean. It answered me pretty well so that I could at least go back to your program and continue forward. Audio is very difficult and so important to one’s viewers. It was slow going-despite the fact that I’ve purchased a few of your courses and tenaciously listened to each lesson of each course. Even so, I really learned a lot and appreciate all that you do to educate us “newbies” about how to make our videos as perfect aurally as possible. I’m a lawyer with 30 years of experience in my field; it’s not easy to learn such a highly technical field, at least well enough to give coherent instructions to the audio editors I will eventually hire to edit my videos! Thanks again. Jay🙏🏼

[@jaybcreighton]

Hi, Curtis: I wasn’t able to attend this event when you live streamed it. But, I’m transitioning from Final Cut Pro to DaVinci Resolve and am learning the Cut Page, the Edit Page, FUSION (ugh!), and the Fairlight page. I like the audio mixing/stem selection ability of Fairlight. Thank you for hosting this live stream on this subject. I’m currently at minute 12:50 so I might have more comments later. Thanks again, Curtis.🙏🏼

[@jimh1946]

In addition to this stuff I believe they really need to add the “ length” remixed like adobe. I will always use that in production. Maybe it's coming later.

[@jaybcreighton]

Hello again, Curtis. I’m now at minute 20:04 now, when you’re playing the track in which you are speaking with all kinds of ringtones popping in. I’m having trouble understanding the difference between ambiance and background. Are the ringtones AMBIANCE or are they BACKGROUND? You might answer this question later, but I thought I’d register it now. Again, I’m a “newbie,” or “noobie,” (however it’s spelled). I don’t have the “ear” of some of your more experienced audio editors so thank you for reading and, perhaps, responding to my question.

[@johanvanvuren]

Thanks for taking a look at exporting tracks with effects applied. If there is a way to do it in resolve it seems to need some work to make it more intuitive.