All of my audio tracks are cut to pieces. Its complicated...

Hello everyone,

my filmmaking partner did some sound mixing for a 90 minute documentary project of ours. Long story short: He did not like to use keyframes, instead he cut up every audio clip to pieces and adjusted volume and EQ in those individual clips separately. As you may imagine, this leads to some problems.

Problem1: Occasional Audio- and Noisefloor "Drops", no gradual or smooth transitions can be placed withing a track, or between tracks.
Problem2: Export for and working with Pro Tools gets more complicated...
Problem3: We have to use / did use (beforehand) a lot of iZotope RX7 for sound issues. Also on a global scale of a clip. This gets really messy now.

An easy, but not so "fine" fix could be to compound clip those audio tracks, if necessary.

Question: Do you have an idea, how I can fix this? I really dont want to do it all over again with keyframes.

Any kind of advice is greatly appreciated. Thank you!

1. Very short audio crossfades maybe?
2. Skip that, finish in Fairlight.
3. Given the above, not seeing the issue. Can you expand a bit?

Wow, a very hard way of doing things. A possible way to save what has been done is to chequerboard the clips across tracks in Fairlight and add some handles to them to enable short fades to be added front and end to try and blend them together. Going to PT will not help in this case. It's difficult to come up with a solution without actually having the audio in front of me.

1. If you have room tone clips, use audio layer editing to place those judiciously where needed, with crossfades to even out the levels. If you don't have room tone, why not?

2. If you already have the locked edit in Resolve, why not just continue the audio edit in Fairlight? It may be unfamiliar if you're used to PT, but will do everything you need.

3. Izotope will still work. I have mine set up as an external process, and you can open as many clips as needed in your Izotope session, it will remember them all and their settings, so you can move in between both and tweak your settings as needed, which will live update in Fairlight. If you have a setting in Rx that works well and you want to duplicate it across multiple clips, that's not a problem either.

Hope this helps, and good luck on your project!

Thor