A trick I used before learning about Lufs and all that tasty pro stuff was looking at some videos on youtube that had properly loud good mixes, and download those audio tracks, chuck’em in Davinci on a channel with *no* plugins and A/B listening between my mix and the youtube videos. In a pinch I would also just play them in the browser with my headset or speaker volume set to 50% and then check how my mix compared to the youtube vids - of course checking using stats for nerds on the YT vids that they where close to those -14 lufs :) In a pinch it works, but learning that whole Lufs-thing was the gamechanger :)
always good to have a good loudness on the headphones, so you can hear thing which may should not be there - somone speaking in the background, noise from the street etc.
Outstanding wrap up of audio. It’s the aspect giving me the most grief at the moment, I will now rewatch your others on Loudness etc. Have always been in the dark about the impact of the slider and the DIM button. No one ever seems to mention it! I don’t upload to YT but use their std LUFS and your recommended dB levels. SO many controls over compression gain expander EQ etc but I’m sneaking up on some sort of competency. Thank you
Hey Jason. I used wired earbuds which seem to work well for me. I set a comfortable listening level and then set up each track level first followed by the final mastering. I have bitten the bullet and bought a Mac Mini (my first Mac computer)and it runs Resolve great. I was blown away to find the rendering time for the same 47 minute 1440p 60fps video was 8:30 on PC and 22:16 on Mac. Considering the PC has twice the ram and a GPU that cost more than the Mac I'm very pleased with it.!
I was taught a simple way of remembering how loud your video should be, if your doing the video for an audience. It's okay to have the audio waves go a liiittle bit into the red, but nothing more than that, otherwise it gets too loud. Try to keep the volume of the clips and timelines in the red zone, no more than just under the height of the mouse clicker icon. It's kept my videos to a point, where it's comfortable, but also realstic, in terms of loud trains (that's what i do videos about lol) My way might not be a good way, but it's a way where i'm comfortable in both the volume and overall sound of the videos i make. Cheers from Denmark! 🍻
I find that if you pick a volume, and stick with it for a long time (few months) then you will start to get a feeling for if something is too loud, sometimes before you check your meters. But always use the instruments. Also, going a little bit lower then what you would watch a movie at I found a lot more helpful for the long run, saves your hearing, causes less headaches (litteral headaches), and because you get used to that volume then after a short while you dont have any issue with hearing quiet sounds. Editing at a lower volume also helps cut down some hype that a spcific song might cause at a loud volume, alowing you to concentrate on if the mix is good, not how excited you get. I would turn it up later to double check that spcific hype spot is still as hype though.
Paused video - I normally have something called baseline 30 - windows sound volume at 30%. That's what most video I listen to is comfortable to listen to, so when I edit in Davinci, I set windows volume there, and if it sounds good there, it's normally OK. I had issues with background music though when I started out, but with some help with viewers we made videos until they were OK with it - which was around -19 - 20 dB. Plus I also look at the graph in Davinci on what I see, so my voice fills the graph well, high points not reach the top.
Calibrate the level of your speakers with pink noise so that they are at 83dBA SPL at the listening position. This is the volume at which the ear hears most linearly (Fletcher-Munson curves). Above this, bass and treble are overemphasized, below this they are attenuated. Then adjust the headphone level so that you hear the same volume. See "Mastering Audio" by Bob Katz.
Yes, but you don't use typical keyframes to do it. You need to use the automation tools. Here's a video about automation: ruclips.net/video/TmS6s9tBANs/видео.html
I can never get to the -1.5tp and -14 LUFS no matter what I do with the compressor. When I reduce the threshold I reduce the true peak but also the LUFS and vice versa
Quick question. I'll probably be done with the project before you see this. Shiid really if anyone know how to do it plz help! I duplicated an entire audio track(my video tracks are locked) with the audio clips in it and all of the sfx to entire track as well the sfx done to individual audio clips. I did this Completely by a mistake (this is 3rd thing I've done and editors says "are you sure you did it? It doesn't exist.) and I need to do it again. I get it was pure luck so do I need to do it manually...again? Make a blank track move clips down 1 by 1?
Hey! Are you asking how to duplicate a track again? In version 19.1 you can right click on the track in Fairlight and just choose 'duplicate' and it will create the duplicate track for you. Hope this helps!
@JasonYadlovski yep! It also copied the tracks and sfx! Mannnn once again thx ya! Whenever I do something in davinci resolve by complete mistake, I always search ya channel for it 😂.
You shoudn't do a final mix on headphones. Mixes done on good speakers will always sound ok on headphones but not vice versa. Do the mix on the best speakers you have available and follow the meters for guidance on levels as the video explains. Play back the final mix on a couple of different speakers (the good ones, built in computer speakers and phone speakers are good starting points) at a normal listening level and make minor adjustments if needed.
Yes, a video on how the sound sounds when using different listening devices such as different headphone, speakers, etc. I always wrestle with this!!
Finally a video, that clears my long lasting doubt. Thanks Jason.
A trick I used before learning about Lufs and all that tasty pro stuff was looking at some videos on youtube that had properly loud good mixes, and download those audio tracks, chuck’em in Davinci on a channel with *no* plugins and A/B listening between my mix and the youtube videos. In a pinch I would also just play them in the browser with my headset or speaker volume set to 50% and then check how my mix compared to the youtube vids - of course checking using stats for nerds on the YT vids that they where close to those -14 lufs :)
In a pinch it works, but learning that whole Lufs-thing was the gamechanger :)
Love your channel bro! I have learned so much and it has made me a much better editor. Especially dealing with audio! Thanks bro!
Thanks, glad it's helping! I appreciate you!
always good to have a good loudness on the headphones, so you can hear thing which may should not be there - somone speaking in the background, noise from the street etc.
as always, great informative vid. thank you!
Outstanding wrap up of audio. It’s the aspect giving me the most grief at the moment, I will now rewatch your others on Loudness etc. Have always been in the dark about the impact of the slider and the DIM button. No one ever seems to mention it! I don’t upload to YT but use their std LUFS and your recommended dB levels. SO many controls over compression gain expander EQ etc but I’m sneaking up on some sort of competency. Thank you
Hey Jason.
I used wired earbuds which seem to work well for me.
I set a comfortable listening level and then set up each track level first followed by the final mastering.
I have bitten the bullet and bought a Mac Mini (my first Mac computer)and it runs Resolve great.
I was blown away to find the rendering time for the same 47 minute 1440p 60fps video was 8:30 on PC and 22:16 on Mac.
Considering the PC has twice the ram and a GPU that cost more than the Mac I'm very pleased with it.!
I was taught a simple way of remembering how loud your video should be, if your doing the video for an audience.
It's okay to have the audio waves go a liiittle bit into the red, but nothing more than that, otherwise it gets too loud. Try to keep the volume of the clips and timelines in the red zone, no more than just under the height of the mouse clicker icon. It's kept my videos to a point, where it's comfortable, but also realstic, in terms of loud trains (that's what i do videos about lol)
My way might not be a good way, but it's a way where i'm comfortable in both the volume and overall sound of the videos i make.
Cheers from Denmark! 🍻
I find that if you pick a volume, and stick with it for a long time (few months) then you will start to get a feeling for if something is too loud, sometimes before you check your meters. But always use the instruments.
Also, going a little bit lower then what you would watch a movie at I found a lot more helpful for the long run, saves your hearing, causes less headaches (litteral headaches), and because you get used to that volume then after a short while you dont have any issue with hearing quiet sounds.
Editing at a lower volume also helps cut down some hype that a spcific song might cause at a loud volume, alowing you to concentrate on if the mix is good, not how excited you get. I would turn it up later to double check that spcific hype spot is still as hype though.
Great points, I agree!
I usually set it with the volume knob looking straight upwards XD living in the lands between to loud and to quiet
Paused video - I normally have something called baseline 30 - windows sound volume at 30%. That's what most video I listen to is comfortable to listen to, so when I edit in Davinci, I set windows volume there, and if it sounds good there, it's normally OK. I had issues with background music though when I started out, but with some help with viewers we made videos until they were OK with it - which was around -19 - 20 dB. Plus I also look at the graph in Davinci on what I see, so my voice fills the graph well, high points not reach the top.
Calibrate the level of your speakers with pink noise so that they are at 83dBA SPL at the listening position. This is the volume at which the ear hears most linearly (Fletcher-Munson curves). Above this, bass and treble are overemphasized, below this they are attenuated. Then adjust the headphone level so that you hear the same volume. See "Mastering Audio" by Bob Katz.
I hope you can help. So I see we can not keyframe effects like the low pass filter and EQ etc in DaV?
Yes, but you don't use typical keyframes to do it. You need to use the automation tools. Here's a video about automation: ruclips.net/video/TmS6s9tBANs/видео.html
I use Bluetooth speakers, earphones, earbuds.etc meters are your friend.
I can never get to the -1.5tp and -14 LUFS no matter what I do with the compressor. When I reduce the threshold I reduce the true peak but also the LUFS and vice versa
I wouldn't worry about the true peak, the overall LUFS is more important. As long as you aren't peaking at all, it should be fine.
Quick question. I'll probably be done with the project before you see this. Shiid really if anyone know how to do it plz help! I duplicated an entire audio track(my video tracks are locked) with the audio clips in it and all of the sfx to entire track as well the sfx done to individual audio clips. I did this Completely by a mistake (this is 3rd thing I've done and editors says "are you sure you did it? It doesn't exist.) and I need to do it again. I get it was pure luck so do I need to do it manually...again? Make a blank track move clips down 1 by 1?
Hey! Are you asking how to duplicate a track again? In version 19.1 you can right click on the track in Fairlight and just choose 'duplicate' and it will create the duplicate track for you. Hope this helps!
@JasonYadlovski brrruuuuuhhhh you are a project saver/helper!! Gut feeling told me to check my phn, I was literally doing it manually. Thx ya 🙏🏾
@JasonYadlovski yep! It also copied the tracks and sfx! Mannnn once again thx ya! Whenever I do something in davinci resolve by complete mistake, I always search ya channel for it 😂.
@@summaof96 awesome, always happy to help you out if I can! Thanks so much for checking out my videos and best of luck on your project! 😁👍
I just turn everything up to 11.
There ya go!
You shoudn't do a final mix on headphones. Mixes done on good speakers will always sound ok on headphones but not vice versa. Do the mix on the best speakers you have available and follow the meters for guidance on levels as the video explains. Play back the final mix on a couple of different speakers (the good ones, built in computer speakers and phone speakers are good starting points) at a normal listening level and make minor adjustments if needed.
Totally agree! 👍 But for most beginners or armatures, I'd assume they don't have good speakers. 😜