Davinci Resolve Tutorial - How To Fix Audio
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Fix Your Bad Audio!
Here's a tutorial on how I fix bad audio in Davinci Resolve. The good news is that these concepts can be carried to any program (Adobe Premiere, Audacity, Cubase etc etc).
I've got two very different clips here in Resolve and I'll walk you through how to fix them both up.
Always remember to listen listen listen. It's all about the end result, so if something is sounding weird then ask yourself what's going on (too thin, too bassy), and use the EQ to adjust. It might take you several audio fixes to really get a hang of it, so start using it and skill up!
First clip
- Noise Removal
- EQ
- Compressor
- Second EQ
Second Clip
- EQ
- Compressor
If you have any questions just shoot them in the comments.
Thanks for watching this Davinci Resolve Tutorial, as always smash that sub and like to stay upto date with everything on the channel.
Stay safe folks and keeeeeeeeeeeep creating :)
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Well done. I made a video where I was too far away from my iPhone. This certainly helped me clean up my audio. Time well spent!
That's awesome, I'm so happy these methods worked out. It might not scrub up to perfect but reducing the echo to "listenable" is still much better than nothing at all :)
It would have been better to hear the differences in audio if you had killed the background musak. Good tutorial regardless.
Great video and tutorial, but why do you have background music when you want to do a tutorial on making good sound? There's no way to actually hear what you are doing to the sound. :) Sincerely /C
Great instructions. Fast learning. Just a wee thing, maybe less background music. Mucho gracias.
Honestly loved this tutorial and kinda sad you have no more tutorials available on your channel. I'd love to see more of these! Really good job. Thank you!!
My sound is good in davinci but when i upload it it gets like bass boosted.
Can anyone help?
At 0:47 " So, let's not waste anytime, let's get into it." Kind of late for that. "Bad audio is the sign of an amateur." Perfect, and done. Done is 6 seconds. The next 41 seconds repeated the same thing over and over. Hope this helps. : )
This is one of the best tutorials for audio for davinchi. Thank you sir!
Been waiting for this... Thank you! Big, big help.
PS. Not only was the content great but the editing made it really easy to follow along ❤️
Ooooof, noice!
My problem is that when I export the audio, it doest sound anything like the timeline. I don't know if I am doing anything wrong here. I have tried different formats for the export, mp4, mov, RUclips preset Vimeo preset etc.
Thanks for the Video.Good explanation. The music you have running does make it more difficult to hear precisely what is happening and is a bit distracting trying to listen to you and the audio.
This is a great tutorial! If doing more, can the music be omitted so I can hear the audio that's being fixed better?
TpyoQueen yeah I always “solo” the channel I’m working on, it mutes everything else
A nice and informative video! Thanks. One input from me still: If you did not put the background music in there it would be so much easier to actually hear the difference between the edited and un-edited sound.
There’s some awesome new audio features in resolve 17. I’ll probably make an updated video and cut the backing track 🤟
@@fenixtech1342 I have a video where i had the microphone to close, and it peaked. I have a gaming channel, and I cant redo the recording. The sound gets distorted and not nice to listen to. Is there some way to fix it in resolve? I know the problem was maybe to high gain on the recording in addition to having the mic to close.
And, I cant find any videos on how to fix it :) Might be a good opportunity for you :)
@@jantheviking6320 same problem, and still can't find any videos on how to fix clipping or audio that is too loud. Most of the audio tutorials are for removing reverb or background noise or boosting gain.
Incredibly useful! Thank you so much, I'm working on my first RUclips video and the mic was too far away. This helped rescue my voiceover.
Thanks! this was really helpful
I was his 1,000 subscriber and I hope you go much further, keep goin man
I've been watching my subs like a hawk today. Very lucky to have all the subscribers around, you're all legends!
Thank you so much, this really helped me. Best wishes from Ireland !
You are a life savior! Thank you for this video, it helped me make my audio so much better!
Awesome!
Thanks this was the most helpful video for fixing audio I have found
I upgraded to 18.5 my pitch and semi tones effects on my voice sound scratchy and metallic, how do I fix that??? HELP
Pretty nice video. Thanks for clarify the topic for me.
Thx buddy!
Is there a way to fix a cavalier scratch noise - when you accidentally rub against the lav mic?
Do you have any tip to fix the screeching sound
This helped me with the exact issue I had. Thank you!
For all the times I second guess if my tutorials are "worth it", these comments make me happy. Good to hear it was helpful!
Resolve is so bad at encoding audio files that has low stereo sound. It sounds messed up at around 100hz and below
This made SUCH a difference, thanks!
Awesome!
For some reason, when I pull up the EQ, the tools don't show. It's just a blank black box. Any idea why? Thanks for the video..
Hey man basically my Audio in certain parts is making a screeching sound ?
In Davinci 17, the Bus Format changes completely. There is also no Main Bus. How can I assign another Equalizer in the new version? Thanks
i recorded gameplay from apex and the audio sounds robotic like possibly delayed idk if its frames please help
That was a great video! thanks. Is there a way to fix plosives?
Helped a lot.
Awesome, thanks!
there's no noise reduction effect that i can find, help
when ever i go to fix my audio because i found another way before this video, i usually go to speaker setup in preferences, then i go to output, i try to put it to 1:3 and 2:3, it shows a bunch of other options! (example: 1:3 2:3 3:3 4:3 5:3 6:3 7:3 and 8:3 ) those are all of the options that it shows, and i click 1:3 and 2:3 like usual , but the sound doesnt fix! do you know how to fix this?
Hmm not sure what you mean. I change audio devices a bit and occasionally have to goto output and change device --> left/right speaker, but thats about it.
I filmed a voice over today and when I play the clips in DaVinci they are way louder than normal. I recorded them the same but something isn’t right. I tried adjusting the volume but that didn’t help. Do you know what this could be? Thanks
So many variables but do the waveforms look normal in Resolve or are they peaking / too hot? If the waveforms look normal and it's just "loud" then it could the general volume mixer on your pc/mac. But if the waveforms are peaking then its probably an issue with the file.
@@fenixtech1342 they are peaking higher than normal
@@JakesBiking If the waveform is peaking then you gotta look at the recording. Could be wind, different mic settings, interface settings, camera settings etc etc. If you play the sound file in any audio/video player other than resolve and its also peaking... then yeah theres nothing wrong with resolve here, its the audio in the file. Something has happened to it when recording to give it more peaks than normal.
@@fenixtech1342 when I play it not through DaVinci it sounds like normal. I appreciate the responses
@@JakesBiking Very strange, if you want to share the file (or a portion of it) then my email is fenixtechyt@gmail.com. Can take a quick look for you.
So far all I've had with this software are problems. Doesn't fill me with much hope tbh. A shame Sony Vegas had to keep crashing or I would just stick with that because it works.
I was looking for the same issue and after all the forums I was finding no answers so I came to RUclips. I found your video and I don't have the flatten Multicam option. Probably because I rendered and then closed the program without saving. So I'm dealing with the fully finished rendered file. One big tip I've learned from this is either save your project or just DON'T close the program until you listen to the final product. :( The only way to fix this is to go back and start from scratch because I still have the original files. But I spent probably 4~5 hours editing the video, so I really don't want to do that again. So... Not sure what's going on with mine. I tried the FairlightFX option to try and remove the crackling, but I just don't know enough about the program to mess with that. I know how to edit video and render it.. :D If you have any ideas let me know. Thanks much
I got an issue about panning the audio. I got a WAV file in my timeline already panned to the left and it's everything ok when I play it inside Davinci, but the audio hits both left and right the same way on the exported video file, even if I render using linear PCM codec and 32 bit depth. What can I do to solve this?
For this kind of stuff I'd suggest posting on the BlackMagic Discord group. Someone there might be able to help... There's a bunch of things that could be going wrong. discord.gg/b6DkWXV
hi can you help me? I get a bass boosted audio and when i render it it sounds so crappy what shuld i do?
Hmmm hard to know without hearing it. All I can say is try and use the EQ to reduce all the boost. If it's Bass then it will probably be in the 60hz-220hz range so just try and dip the EQ level around there.
If you want you can send me an email of the file to fenixtechyt@gmail.com and I can have a look
Hello you can tell me why my soundtrack is not moved in the timeline (link clips is activated).
For example, if I move an image clip up a track from v1 to v2 then the sound from the clip to A1 stays with me and does not switch to A2.
So sound just doesn't run into the lower track.
Something I must have adjusted... just what?
That sounds super weird, it should be pretty obvious when you move the audio/video tracks around.
It's possible the timeline is having issues. I would save that, close it. Start a new one, dump your clips in there and move it around, see if its working there.
thanks man
The noise reducing is not working for me..
great stuff, but please don't mix background music with the important audio parts.. very distracting
Yeah in hindsight that was a bad decision 😄. I have some updated ways of doing this so I should do a follow up video in Resolve 17. Concepts are the same but just a bit more streamlined.
@@fenixtech1342 would be appreciated ;)
i just recorded a voice over with a rode wireless go and it sound robotic. idk if its the way i recorded or what but my audio quality is terrible. any tips specifically for rode wireless go? also i recorded with the wind guard on
also i have a static's sound in my audio but also in any dead moments
@@OnlyHieumen hard to know without listening so if you shoot a link here or an email to fenixtechyt@gmail.com I can check it out for you (if it’s too long just a snippet is fine)
Also I honestly think for some of my videos the Røde wireless go wasn’t plugged in properly and I was actually editing on camera audio and I didn’t realise what I’d done. I only say this because I recorded a recent video and the audio was shocking. I tested a few things and finally realised the cable wasn’t snug in the camera... chucked it in and the audio was pretty flawless. I guess it makes my audio cleaning skills that much better if it was just crummy camera audio 🤣
But yeah shoot me over your file and I can check it out. Worthwhile checking your connections as well
@@fenixtech1342 thanks man! Will do!
I NEED HELP!! Me and my dad, both using da vinci resolve. He going throug his brand new mackie 16channel mixer, im using my h6 recorder. We both get clear audio on Audacity, but in resolve, its all chunky and broken. ( we get the same chunky clippy broken audio) I've adjusted everything to 48hz, the levels should eb good. Again its perfect in audacity. Long and mcquade staff ( audio engineer) couldn't figure it out and said he gets people coming in all the time with this issue. We tried 12 different mixers at long and mqcuade. Is this program bunk for recording through any kind of interface?
Sucks to hear, but recording from a bigger mixer/interface directly into resolve is not something I've ever done. I'm only ever importing audio or doing voiceovers on a mic through a simple audio interface and its fine. Conceptually it's the same thing as my voiceovers... but yeah I know how stuff can be in the real world.
If you haven't already, I'd post on Blackmagic forums or one of the Facebook groups.
So annoying, good luck and hope you find a fix!
@@fenixtech1342 thanks for replying! Yea it looks like ill have to wait for them to get back. Cheers!
What about if i want to use more or less this same process to fix the audio on multiple different recordings that are on the same timeline track?
Yeah should be fine to use this on several tracks. It’s not a super intensive process for the cpu or anything
@@fenixtech1342 Not on several tracks, but on several different recordings on the same track. i'm editing a doccumentary with a lot of interviews / different issues that can't be all solved using the same track because they are all using it.
Any idea how that would work out? i know that noise reduction can be applied to individual video/audio clips, but EQ and Dynamics is something that i'm not being able to edit individually. Anyway, thanks a lot for the support!
I use a lavalier mic and when I import my videos into Davinci it peaks and sounds distorted. When I use another software this does not happen. What would you suggest?
Drag the volume down on the audio track, it shouldn’t be peaking past red. If the audio hasn’t peaked from the source then place a compressor on there with a 3:1 ratio, that’ll help smooth the volume so it doesn’t go super soft and super high. You might need 4 or 5:1 but 3:1 is a good starting point. If the audio sounds peaked even if you drop the volume then there’s no real recovery for that, hopefully it’s ok
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@@fenixtech1342 If you don't mind me asking you a question, I recorded a video yesterday using Camo (kinda like OBS) and my waveform has gaps in it, so it sounds choppy as hell. It's not really practical to cut those parts out cuz it's a 90m clip and it takes super long to do a few seconds. Any ideas as to how I can fix this? Can this be automated or can the waveform gaps be filled in somehow?
@@rjyoungling220 hard to assess witthout hearing it but
How often does it happen
How long is the gap
Is it consistent or in random intervals
There’s no magic pill but there might be some efficient ways in masking it. If it was salvageable and I couldn’t redo the video I’d probably spend an hour or two fixing up the audio, just the way it goes sometimes unfortunately. I’m pretty proficient with reaper and Cubase and sometimes I’ll export things, fix it there and import them back in. Just depends on the audio and what needs fixing
The background music doesnt help...
Hi. Very cool video. Audio is very important.
I try to make videos for RUclips. For example a walk-through for Skyrim.
A while back I had audio-distortions in the videos I recorded - reason being that my system was too slow.
NOW I have a new system - 32 gig Ram, AMD Ryzen 5 and Radeon RX 580 - should be fast enough.
But when I try making videos with the tool from the GPU and then work it with Davinci Resolve, I get the same sound distortions.
The original file has no sound-distortions.
What is going on?
I have been working with Resolve successfully for quite a while now... WHY IS THIS HAPPENING??? With my new PC?
Greetings from Germany.
Hey mate!
Is it happening on any other clips in Resolve or just the ones you're recording? What are you recording through, GEForce Experience?
Doesn't sound like its a hardware issue, something must be going on in the recording process. Another option could be to use OBS to screenrecord (thats what I use). I set the video output to .mov and screenrecording is as expected.
If you want to send over a small clip for me to checkout then shoot me an email to fenixtechyt@gmail.com and I can take a look at it :)
Have a good one!
@@fenixtech1342 Thank you very much for your reply.
I am getting CRAZY over this. I use the tool from the Radeon to record. Works exactly like the NVidia thingie.
OBS told me yesterday that it can't initialize the recording. I did reinstall my graphics-driver. Maybe now it will work.
But my problem is, that the recording from the tool has a clear sound - but while working on the clip in Resolve, the sound gets distorted.
Maybe the distortion will be gone in the final file - since I wrote the text above, I went and worked the file in Fairlight - no distortion in Fairlight.
I go back to the Edit-Page, STRONG distortion, Knistern (crackling or rustling) now and then words getting replaced by these crackles.
Because it is different in Fairlight, I will finalize the video now, and then I tell you what happened :).
I am just sooo annoyed right now by Resolve. Thank you very much for helping.
@@frankohero Oh yeah that kind of stuff is maddening for sure. It's obviously "working" but something is causing the audio in the timeline only to hiss...
Yeah reinstalling audio/video drivers is the first thing to try.
If you can edit other video types on your timeline fine and its only the ones that you're recording locally then at least there's some hope that trying different recording methods will solve the issue (different codecs, quality etc). But if every clip is having audio issues on the timeline then it sounds like theres something resolve doesnt like, and I'd put up a help me post on the blackmagic forums
@@fenixtech1342 You got a new sub here :).
I am so sorry for wasting your time. I am uploading the video now. The distortion was only on the edit-page.
Resolve is just flipping me off there. Clearly. What do I expect?
Greetings from Germany. Have a nice slide into the better year to come. Thank you.
@@frankohero No problem, very annoying software gremlins sometimes. We were lucky to visit EU last year from here in Sydney. We were in Berlin for a few days, very cool!
for some reason the audio record fine, but in davinci it speeds up
Whats the audio source? Maybe the sample rate is different so it sounds sped up. This is common when mixing 48khz and 44.1khz. I've never had this issue in Resolve but I've had it in audio software. You can generally set the project to change the sampling rate to suit or you have to encode the audio to the "common" sampling rate.
Anyway check the file sample rate and make sure its the same as resolve, if it's not then that's the problem.
@@fenixtech1342 It might be, but I have not had this problem until I switched from davinci resolve 17 beta to davinci resolve 16. I switched because my computer is crap and it kept crashing everytime i pressed a button but it seems to be doing better on davinci resolve 16. Anyways, could you make a video over this? I searched all over youtube but could not find a single video about this problem. Thanks for responding though, not many youtubers do that lol.
the background music is disctracting ^^
Hi, My first time video editing... I'm a musician. I drag and drop my audio file, which is WAV, It's mixed and mastered and does not need changing. So it's raw audio. As soon as I start playing the audio through Davinci Resolve 17, it distorts. I went through the settings, playback processing buffer size and changed it to 4096, which decreased the distortion but some remains, I then decreased the dB and the distortion was removed, however I need the volume to say the same... Anyone that can help, please do. I was supposed to learn, create and upload today and everything has come to a stop, due to this stupid ass software that ruins audio. No my Mixed/Mastered final product in WAV format and it's original Logic Pro X file is not distorted.
Its either going to be an issue with the WAV file or your install of Resolve. Can you play the WAV file fine in Itunes? Can you import other WAV files into resolve without any issues?
But yeah you should be able to drag in a WAV into resolve no problem. At most you might have to decrease the volume by a few DB if its mastered super hot... but it should not be distorting or messing with volume dynamics.
@@fenixtech1342 I have not bothered putting it onto iTunes yet, however the Upload to SoundCloud was fine. I know there's nothing wrong with the WAV file.
hmmm, I'm guessing it's the install after you mentioned it. As now I have another weird problem...
In the past I have rendered, exported and uploaded a short music video. No problem.
Now I'm trying to make a new video, that only has 2 images overlayed (They're both jPeg files btw), with some text. DaVinci Resolve 17 seems to struggle to render it, when I try to render it, it jumps between 0 and 1 FPS. I thought it was a glitch, so I opened a new project... Threw random videos in there and it rendered no problem, very quickly...
Opened a new project again, put two images which were overlayed and the "video" is 5 seconds long (as I was testing to see if it would render), as I tried to do a quick render, it jumped between 0 and 1 FPS again.
I'm assuming that isn't a usual issue too?
Been at this for nearly 10 hours now, I'm starving, I'm tired... n all I may have to do is re-install, smh lol
@@tyronekavanagh9914 Ah man some of that behaviour sounds strange. It's gotta be some kind of format that resolve isn't liking.
Yeah if all you need is some simple composition of images/text and you aren't going to ruin any active work... I'd just remove it and do a fresh install. I've only had this kinda thing once when I built my new computer... all worked out fine in the end after I installed drivers and everything... hard to say.
I'd also check out some discord groups for resolve, might be easier to get someones help in real time. I'm reasonable with Resolve but i'm not used to diagnosing/seeing system issues haha... mine is pretty stable overall.
its quite annoying that you keep music in the background while listening to the take
God tutorial but why on earth did you think it was a good idea to have background music?
You live, you learn :)
I'm doing an updated one for Resolve 17 so I'll do it right this time around lol
@@fenixtech1342 That's great and a good attitude
If you are trying to look gay, you are succeeding massively.
Hahahaha
Hey man! I make music, and when I post it to RUclips, I add my album cover, and then the music. My problem is with the music. When I export it from davinci resolve, it has these weird staticy noises that ruin the whole song. Is there a fix for that? Here's an example: ruclips.net/video/kJhE4B-eHlg/видео.html
Skip to 0:50. The sounds happen from 0:50 to 1:03.
That is super weird, only thing I can think of is some driver issue. Play around with audio export options or jump onto a resolve discord group for help. One other thing I can think of is some word clock issue if you’re messing with that with external devices… if not then it’s probably some driver thing. Should just be a basic export with no issues.
@@fenixtech1342 I'll try it. Thanks!
This is not helpful. You have to explain what you're doing! For example you are saying "let's listen to it" and then the music starts. You have to explain where you click to make it start (because in my case it doesn't). The same is true for all your other actions. We can not see if you use a left or right mouseclick, if you drag something or use the mouse wheel. Without a commentary I'm completely lost.
My sound is good in davinci but when i upload it it gets like bass boosted.
Can anyone help?
mine too
Me too...need helppppp!!!
That’s really weird, never had that happen.
Is the output file good but when you upload it it’s bassy, or is the output bassy as well?
There’s so many things it could be, I’d need to see what’s going on. If you have the examples somewhere I can check them out
@@fenixtech1342 im having problems with the bass boosted with davinci resolve 16 could you pls helps me
Great tutorial, thank you!