take your projects to the next level with creative, powerful, and technically perfect sound.
If you edit with DaVinci Resolve, or with any other program, you know how important audio is.
In your every day work as an editor, you are constantly working with sound. Sometimes because of creativity (designing a sound atmosphere). Sometimes because things need to be fixed (bad or noisy dialogue).
No matter the kind of projects you edit, you now have everything you need to deliver professional audio in the Fairlight page of DaVinci Resolve.
In this Online Workshop, I will teach you everything you need to know in a way that is accessible, fun, and most importantly, very useful in your workflow.
Continue reading to know more and reserve your spot.
DAVINCI RESOLVE FAIRLIGHT: INTRODUCTION TO AUDIO EDITING, MIXING, and MASTERTING
- March 20th to 24th (Monday to Friday), 2023.
- 09:30 to 13:30, Central European Time (Berlin). If you don’t live in this time zone, please check your time difference to be sure it you can do it.
- 195 Euros. The workshop fee includes access to the full recording of the classes, so you can watch them again any time.
- Maximum number of students: 8.
- This is a Live Online Workshop (Zoom).
- Language: English.
- Contact: flavio@flaviofilms.com
- Phone: +49 1525 946 76 20
REGISTER TODAY!
To register, simply fill the registration form below:
DAVINCI RESOLVE FAIRLIGHT ONLINE WORKHOP, REGISTRATION
Immediately after registering you will receive a mail with instructions to make the payment with a bank transfer. If you need an alternative payment method, like PayPal, please write me at flavio@flaviofilms.com and let me know.
Please keep in mind that your reservation is fully complete only after making the payment.
Cancellation is possible, and you get back 80% of the Workshop fee, if you notify it at lest 10 days before the start of the course.
REQUIREMENTS
No previous experience is required. In this workshop we start from scratch.
You just need a computer, Mar or PC, and DaVinci Resolve, either the free version of the paid Studio version. If you don’t have it, you can download it for free here.
The use of headphones is of course recommended in this specific workshop.
Materials to practice during the workshop is provided by me.
THE INSTRUCTOR
I’m an independent filmmaker, film professor, and editing and post-production expert.
Since 2005, I teach courses, workshops and seminars all over Europe, in film schools, festivals, production companies, and other institutions: DOCMA, FilmArche Berlin, ESDIP-Berlin, MIZ-Babelsberg, Master-LAV, and many others…
My teaching method is very practical, precise, and structured, and I also make sure things are exciting and fun!
I have post-produced and graded lots of film projects: La Piedra (VĂctor Moreno), Freedom to Kill the Other’s Children (David Varela), Armenoscope (Silvina der Meguerditchian)…
My movies as director have been shown in more than 40 international film festivals and venues: Cineteca Matadero, MUSAC, Alcine, Pragda New York…
WORKSHOP PROGRAM
Monday.
INTRODUCTION TO FAIRLIGHT
- Understanding the differences between working with audio in the Edit page and in the Fairlight page of DaVinci Resolve.
- DaVinci Resolve Fairlight interface.
- Fairlight workflow. Getting in and out.
- Fairlight Settings.
- Bus configuration.
- Stereo and 5.1 workflows.
- Audio track types: mono, stereo, adaptive, and 5.1.
- Audio clip properties: mono and stereo tracks.
- Linking and un-unlinking mono and stereo pairs.
Tuesday
audio editing tools
- Sound libraries.
- Download and installation of the free DaVinci Resolve sound library.
- Adding additional sound libraries.
- Browsing and editing audio clips from sound libraries.
- Editing dialogue clips and tracks.
- Working with Audio Track Layers.
- Sample level editing.
- Creating a sound space: soundtrack and sound effects.
- Audio recording: record additional dialogue, voice over.
Wednesday.
audio mixing
- Pre-mix levels.
- Panning.
- Step by step mixing process.
- Automatic mixing.
- The mixer.
- Clip work Vs. track work.
- Using buses.
- Using automation: this is very powerful workflow to mix without using keyframes. You will love it.
Thursday
audio effects and restoration
- Normalization.
- EQ.
- Audio dissolves, curves.
- Chorus, DeEsser, De-Hummer, Delay, Distortion, Echo, Flanger, Modulation, Pitch, Stereo Width, Vocal Channel.
- Using Reverbs.
- Voice isolation.
- Audio FX: clip level, track level.
- Audio restoration and audio replacing.
Friday.
audio masteting
- Audio Dynamics: Expander, Gate, Compressor, Limiter.
- Finalizing the mix.
- Measuring loudness.
- Exporting audio with the right values.
- Audio caching and rendering.
- Audio exchange formats.
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