If you select the crossfade, you can change it to "Cross Fade +3dB" in the inspector, which will deal with the volume inconsistencies. Think about it this way - with a normal crossfade, you can imagine the first clip fading down and the second fading up, so everything is only half-volume in the middle of the transition. As a general rule, I use a +3dB transition fading between things and the default one if I'm fading something up or down from silence.
I actually do this a lot on the Edit page, it's a really nice feature to have. I didn't mention it here because sometimes +3 causes too much of a boost for certain songs as I do it more based on feel, but it is a good thing to note if you want to adjust it quickly, especially when it works.
To edit music you also need to understand time signatures, not just tempo. Good info on using the tools to calculate tempo. A lot of library music will tell you the tempo. Performed music with real musicians just won't snap to grids as the tempo varies. As a drummer and sound editor I just hear the edit points without needing to snap to a tempo grid. My favourite trick is to use clip layering so I can drag over and see both waveforms to line up the beat and see what you were doing by moving a clip to another track to hear the overlap. Once timed you can crossfade between the layers. Layered editing on the Fairlight page is one of the most powerful features.
@@digitalcity1 Yeah, I had a version of the recording where I used a different time signature because one of the songs, as you probably heard, wasn’t 4/4. But because I’m not musically inclined, I don’t feel at all qualified to educate people on how to adapt to those things or how to hear it, so I left it out. The layered workflow is really useful though for sure. Obviously this doesn’t cover all scenarios because live music is never perfect of course, so you do need to manually adapt, and not all songs are consistent tempo either like you mentioned. I think that’s why I mentioned manual syncing but felt like the video would’ve been too long if I’d gone into the details, especially with this being mostly about BPM and stock/background music.
Audio nerds and especially musicians would indeed find fault using Resolve as such a crutch... However, it's fabulous that you uncovered these grid and ruler options that I bet even nerds and musicians would never even think to utilize. In appreciation.
Yeah, there's definitely quite a bit of room for Fairlight to improve, but it has come a long way thus far and there are a lot of updates to it that seem to get swept under the rug that most people don't notice. Hopefully there continues to be bigger Fairlight pushes though.
The section titled, ”Songs without a distinctive beat”; actually does have a distinctive beat. All songs prior to this example are in 4/4 time. That section is in 6/8 time. 😊. I’m a piano player. 😊 Good tutorial though. Thanks for sharing
I felt like there was a beat to it, haha! I was initially guessing 3/4, but actually knowing beat measures for songs felt like a completely different tutorial and one I wasn’t qualified to make. Thanks for the comment!
Ah, thanks! I have always spent too much time trying to "blend" music to match the video and it never worked well for me. You gave me something to try on the next project and see if it will speed up my editing. Again, thanks.
thank you for this tutorial Tim. Need to try out this oneself-tempo calculation from hearing. So far I took tempo from external sources which not always worked well and I had challenges to figure out where actually to start :) but from this video I can see whole process requires patience, practice and ... earphones in first row :)
@@user-vx1hs4mv6q Haha! Headphones help a lot. It does take a little practice, but after you do it a couple times, it gets a lot easier. Some sites even give the BPM information like Epidemic Sound, Audiio, and Artlist, although I still run the check in Resolve because the sites aren’t always 100% accurate.
So that was just referring to the “beats”. When you have your Time Scale set to Tempo and not Timecode, and then Snap to Grid enabled, you just use the numbers at the top to count off. So if your beat is at 005 | 01 | 01 (shown where Timecode usually is), then “four ahead” of that would be 009 | 01 | 01. Hopefully that makes sense.
If you select the crossfade, you can change it to "Cross Fade +3dB" in the inspector, which will deal with the volume inconsistencies. Think about it this way - with a normal crossfade, you can imagine the first clip fading down and the second fading up, so everything is only half-volume in the middle of the transition. As a general rule, I use a +3dB transition fading between things and the default one if I'm fading something up or down from silence.
I actually do this a lot on the Edit page, it's a really nice feature to have. I didn't mention it here because sometimes +3 causes too much of a boost for certain songs as I do it more based on feel, but it is a good thing to note if you want to adjust it quickly, especially when it works.
To edit music you also need to understand time signatures, not just tempo. Good info on using the tools to calculate tempo. A lot of library music will tell you the tempo. Performed music with real musicians just won't snap to grids as the tempo varies. As a drummer and sound editor I just hear the edit points without needing to snap to a tempo grid. My favourite trick is to use clip layering so I can drag over and see both waveforms to line up the beat and see what you were doing by moving a clip to another track to hear the overlap. Once timed you can crossfade between the layers. Layered editing on the Fairlight page is one of the most powerful features.
@@digitalcity1 Yeah, I had a version of the recording where I used a different time signature because one of the songs, as you probably heard, wasn’t 4/4. But because I’m not musically inclined, I don’t feel at all qualified to educate people on how to adapt to those things or how to hear it, so I left it out. The layered workflow is really useful though for sure. Obviously this doesn’t cover all scenarios because live music is never perfect of course, so you do need to manually adapt, and not all songs are consistent tempo either like you mentioned. I think that’s why I mentioned manual syncing but felt like the video would’ve been too long if I’d gone into the details, especially with this being mostly about BPM and stock/background music.
Audio nerds and especially musicians would indeed find fault using Resolve as such a crutch...
However, it's fabulous that you uncovered these grid and ruler options that I bet even nerds and musicians would never even think to utilize.
In appreciation.
Yeah, there's definitely quite a bit of room for Fairlight to improve, but it has come a long way thus far and there are a lot of updates to it that seem to get swept under the rug that most people don't notice. Hopefully there continues to be bigger Fairlight pushes though.
Very good one. Didn't know I need this but boy did I need it. Thanks.
@@dots560 Amazing! I’m so glad this ended up being helpful!
The section titled, ”Songs without a distinctive beat”; actually does have a distinctive beat. All songs prior to this example are in 4/4 time. That section is in 6/8 time. 😊. I’m a piano player. 😊 Good tutorial though. Thanks for sharing
I felt like there was a beat to it, haha! I was initially guessing 3/4, but actually knowing beat measures for songs felt like a completely different tutorial and one I wasn’t qualified to make. Thanks for the comment!
Thank you, man! Very useful!!! 😁
@@YamilSunRay No problem! I’m glad it was useful!
Great info. Thank you!
@@ronshinall You’re welcome and thank you!
Couldn't you have made this video 5 days ago when I wasted so much time trying to do all this? Awesome video.. I will save time in my next edit
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@@chocomel1974 Next time I’ll be sure to see the future so this doesn’t happen again! LOL! Hope this saves you time in the future!
Great stuff man! 😄👏
@@MrJustinEdits Thank you!
Ah, thanks! I have always spent too much time trying to "blend" music to match the video and it never worked well for me. You gave me something to try on the next project and see if it will speed up my editing. Again, thanks.
@@llpreiss Awesome! I hope it works well for you! Let me know if you run into any issues.
thank you for this tutorial Tim. Need to try out this oneself-tempo calculation from hearing. So far I took tempo from external sources which not always worked well and I had challenges to figure out where actually to start :) but from this video I can see whole process requires patience, practice and ... earphones in first row :)
@@user-vx1hs4mv6q Haha! Headphones help a lot. It does take a little practice, but after you do it a couple times, it gets a lot easier. Some sites even give the BPM information like Epidemic Sound, Audiio, and Artlist, although I still run the check in Resolve because the sites aren’t always 100% accurate.
thank you !!
You're welcome!
@CameraTim, thank you for this tutorial. Perfect.
@@thebrownfamily2693 No problem! Glad I could help!
yaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy a new video from CameraTim!!!
I promise they do happen sometimes!
@@CameraTim But a great video and teaching...
Let me ask, can this also be done in the free version of Davinci?
@@coffeelover1456 Thank you for the kind words! Yes, everything in this video can be done in the free version!
But a great video and teaching...
Let me ask, can this also be done in the free version of Davinci?
@@coffeelover1456 Thank you for the kind words! Yes, everything in this video can be done in the free version!
@@CameraTim Wow, what great news!
Thank you very much and thank you for your kindness in responding.
@@coffeelover1456 Absolutely! I’m glad to help!
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Stupid question. How do you go four ahead?
So that was just referring to the “beats”. When you have your Time Scale set to Tempo and not Timecode, and then Snap to Grid enabled, you just use the numbers at the top to count off. So if your beat is at 005 | 01 | 01 (shown where Timecode usually is), then “four ahead” of that would be 009 | 01 | 01.
Hopefully that makes sense.