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Hey everyone,

I'm used to a process of taking external audio and processing it in Adobe Audition or Audacity before sycning it up in a video editor. I've been blown away by Davinci, especially the Audio Syncing option but my question is can I do my pre-processing of the audio in Fairlight before syncing? This might seem odd but the audio straight out of the recorder/mic combo is Mono and very quiet so when going through my synced takes it's hard to judge the best ones as the audio is not opitmal. My usual go to in Audition is to use the Channel mixer to create a full stereo mix then Normalise the audio so that it sounds 'normal'.

Any help would be great.

Tom

You can only use Fairlight on clips in a timeline, so...no.

Edit->Fairlight.

Tom Jelfs wrote:Hey everyone,

I'm used to a process of taking external audio and processing it in Adobe Audition or Audacity before sycning it up in a video editor. I've been blown away by Davinci, especially the Audio Syncing option but my question is can I do my pre-processing of the audio in Fairlight before syncing? This might seem odd but the audio straight out of the recorder/mic combo is Mono and very quiet so when going through my synced takes it's hard to judge the best ones as the audio is not opitmal. My usual go to in Audition is to use the Channel mixer to create a full stereo mix then Normalise the audio so that it sounds 'normal'.

Any help would be great.

Tom

If all you want to do is normalise the files, one free way is to use Audacity. Resolve doesn't do destructive editing of files.

Thanks for the replies.

I thought that this might be the case, which on one hand is good as I like a non-destructive workflow.

I guess a work around could be to throw all the clips into a timeline and process the audio layer then start a new timeline and use the first timeline to shuttle through and then drag the clips needed from that.

Yeah, that's a fairly common practice.