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I have a music background with quite a lot of experience when it comes to music production and mixing. I wonder if there are others here with a similar background because I would really be interested in their opinion regarding the capability of Fairlight compared to a DAW like Logic Pro. Until recently I worked with FCPX but given the fact that I own several BM cameras I always wanted to switch over, not only for the sake of BRAW. When I worked in FCPX it was a no brainer to use Logic Pro for audio. With switching to Resolve I thought I'd give Fairlight a try but I always end up using my old Logic Pro workflow.

In a simple talking head video, the talent coughs. I want to select this short part of the audio track and lower the volume by X dB. In Logic I can make a selection by click-dragging over the desired part and simply pull down the volume for that part. How on earth can I do this in Resolve?

ishootyou.com wrote: In a simple talking head video, the talent coughs. I want to select this short part of the audio track and lower the volume by X dB. In Logic I can make a selection by click-dragging over the desired part and simply pull down the volume for that part. How on earth can I do this in Resolve?

You can do it in exactly the same way as in FCPX key points with Alt Rt mouse and drag the line down.

jamedia wrote:

ishootyou.com wrote: In a simple talking head video, the talent coughs. I want to select this short part of the audio track and lower the volume by X dB. In Logic I can make a selection by click-dragging over the desired part and simply pull down the volume for that part. How on earth can I do this in Resolve?

You can do it in exactly the same way as in FCPX key points with Alt Rt mouse and drag the line down.

Thank you, however that's not how I want it. I want to drag-select a part of the waveform and then pull that down without having to create multiple points first. This is to correct very short signal peaks and without volume transitioning from one level to the other and back.

I'm back to editing the entire sound in Logic and re-importing it to Resolve. I know it's me but I just can't understand that Fairlight is such a big thing

17 to the rescue. For some reason it doesn't repect the time marker in the URL so jump to 1:43.

lost_soul wrote:17 to the rescue. For some reason it doesn't repect the time marker in the URL so jump to 1:43.

The edit selection tool doesn't seem to be able to do what the OP wants

ishootyou.com wrote:I want to drag-select a part of the waveform and then pull that down without having to create multiple points first.

It's a good idea.

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Another cool way to get rid of coughs, ums, awkward pauses etc. is to cut the offending bit out completely and then cover the edit by doing a punch-in (closer view) on the video track by scaling it up a touch for a few sentences or until the next blooper, then scale back out. (Or you can just cut to a different camera angle if you have one). But I thought the one camera punch-in was great trick to hide edits when it was shown to me.

I haven't tried it yet but doesn't transient detection divide a clip up so that sections can easily have gain or EQ changes applied without making a whole lot of keyframes?

VioletWolf wrote:Another cool way to get rid of coughs, ums, awkward pauses etc. is to cut the offending bit out completely and then cover the edit by doing a punch-in (closer view) on the video track by scaling it up a touch for a few sentences or until the next blooper, then scale back out. (Or you can just cut to a different camera angle if you have one). But I thought the one camera punch-in was great trick to hide edits when it was shown to me.

Thank you but that is a totally different thing. I don't want to chop the tracks to pieces but really only select very short portions of an audio track and pull those down. I am getting WAY better audio by editing the tracks in Logic and re-importing them into Resolve, so that will be the way to go.

Michael Gissing wrote:I haven't tried it yet but doesn't transient detection divide a clip up so that sections can easily have gain or EQ changes applied without making a whole lot of keyframes?

Not helpful I'm afraid. I need to be able to precisely define a very short portion of an audio track and lower the volume.

ishootyou.com wrote:I want to select this short part of the audio track and lower the volume by X dB. In Logic I can make a selection by click-dragging over the desired part and simply pull down the volume for that part. How on earth can I do this in Resolve?

You can do it this way: (although the clip will be cut)

Jim Simon wrote:

ishootyou.com wrote:I want to drag-select a part of the waveform and then pull that down without having to create multiple points first.

It's a good idea.

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Yeah I miss this feature very much. Vegas works exactly as you describe, select a region and pull down, bingo. It creates 4 audio keyframes automatically.

Erik

Kenzo wrote:

ishootyou.com wrote:I want to select this short part of the audio track and lower the volume by X dB. In Logic I can make a selection by click-dragging over the desired part and simply pull down the volume for that part. How on earth can I do this in Resolve?

You can do it this way: (although the clip will be cut)

Nice try to find a solution but you are left with hard cuts in the audio levels as you mentioned. Software that creates 4 audio keyframes automatically makes it super easy to feather the audio level change.

Erik

in Cubase, Harrison Mixbus 32c, and in Fairlight, I usually ride the channel fader to lower the volume of parts of a recording. And like in a DAW, one can edit the automation curve in Fairlight afterwards for the perfect flow.

Besides, this is another reason to have a graphic tablet. To edit automation curves. But not a necessity. Works fine with a mouse as well.

Holding down the Alt key, click four times along the volume line to add keyframes. You can now just pull down the centre section. This works in both the Edit and Fairlight pages.

Charles Bennett wrote:Holding down the Alt key, click four times along the volume line to add keyframes. You can now just pull down the centre section. This works in both the Edit and Fairlight pages.

No. I am talking about VERY short bits of a waveform, like a single crackle of static/digital noise and so on. I really appreciate the many attempts to help but unfortunately there's nothing I could work with.

In Fairlight you can Zoom into the sample level and adjust those. Might be worth a shot.