AUDIO Library in Davinci Resolve!

[@MrAlexTech]

If you need to delete a sound library, here are the instructions 🙂 Process could really do with improving imo. - In the Project Manager page, with the correct database open, right click the database in question, and select: "Open File Location/Reveal in Finder" - Open the folder called Resolve Projects - Look for the SoundLib.db file. - Rename that to SoundLib.db.old - Restart Resolve - Resolve will create a new SoundLib.db - Open the Sound Library and select the User Library Re-add your desired sounds (Folder)

[@ChocolateManInThailand]

Once again, just saving me hours of mindless wandering around my computer! This channel should be required watching for anyone on Davinci!! Thanks!!

[@iiiiiMILLYiiiii]

correct

[@raymondvanderwerf]

Thx Alex! Glad you're back at it 🔥 I'm not creating many vids, but have audiio...liking it so far. 🎶 and I'm using the LIVE folder (Favorites) option.

[@JAmediaUK]

The Sound library doesn't do sub folders. Power Bins seem better for that. Personally intergration with iTunes would be good for me. I store all my (licenced) music in that. Then it could pick up all the meta data.

[@HamVR]

Hey Alex, thanks for video. I've used your affiliate code and signed up for the yearly access to try out Audiio. A word of WARNING to your viewers!!! There's no obvious way to turn off the auto renewal payments on their website. This set off alarm bells. Sure enough, their are Trustpilot negative reviews from people that get hit with full $199 renewal cost. It seems you need to e-mail them at least 14 days before renewal, in order to stop it and some users have still run into issues. I've not even started to use the service, but that has left a bad taste already I'm afraid. Anyway thanks for the DR video tips!

[@AllThingsFilm1]

A fantastic tutorial for adding music and libraries to Resolve. I will check out Audiio. Happy 2023.

[@GaryCunninghamyouareenough]

Happy New Year to you and yours, Alex - and thanks so much for this...excellent as always 🤟🙏🏻

[@iandawkins2182]

Another great master class on Davinci Resolve. Awesome content, every video I learn something new and useful, many thanks.

[@joyoffilming9500]

Awesome, Alex. Came just across this video after migrating from PC to MacBook with completely new storage concept. Wanted to re-organize my music - and it works perfectly!

[@StephenBillVideoEditing]

I've been using Resolve professionally for a good year or so, I never knew this, THANKS!

[@hamradiowithkevin]

I have been wanting options like these for the last year. Never have the time to explore like you did here. The fact that BlackMagic now listens to you might get them to may a change. Thank you for digging into this topic and sharing these great resources.

[@leesmith4522]

I'm sitting here open-jawed at my fortune at having stumbled on this terrific effort. This was excellent in every way: clear, concise and instantly usable. Thank you, (Alex).

[@DanielFowlerSr]

I had been doing much of this. Your explanation has opened up even NEW DOORS to this process, Thanks ALEX!!

[@phadrus]

I was looking for something like this. Thanks for mind reading!

[@jer3006]

Thorough and really helpful for my level of use of DR. Appreciate any and all organization fundamentals and this is an important one! Thank you.

[@theplussizecostumer]

I made a Smart Bin for my music. Excellent. Then an Update came through and all my music bins disappeared. So I had to import them again. I wanted to make a sound library but didn't know how. Thank you for showing us. Now I can go in and make a more permanent place for all my music. Well, as permanent as anything can be on a computer.

[@petermainwaringsx]

Thanks for another great video Alex. Happy New Year.

[@cristo2241]

Sometimes, i have the feeling that you monitor what I do when editing, and after a while you come up with a solution 😂. Much appreciated, for one more time! Happy New Year Alex!!

[@trabseyn8000]

Took a deeper dive into the Media page and found the (right click>Add folder and subfolders to media pool (create bins)). At your suggestion of creating a Resources folder I've added this folder using this not so obvious linking method. Just another way of having access to source stuff. Very handy.

[@smepable]

Oh my god I an so happy I watched this. I was searching so Long for a way to keep folders in sync. I wonder why this is not a default for bins, Blackmagic should really Code that. Thanks for showing this Trick! 🤗

[@radiosteveo]

Very helpful video! Also, congrats on the sponsorship with Audiio. Based on this video I went to their site and was impressed enough that I picked up the lifetime license. You asked for some feedback in your announcement video…I would love to see Audiio support a lifetime license for SFX as well. My lifetime purchase includes music but not SFX. Not a deal breaker for me, as I often Foley my own SFX. Still, it would be a nice addition. Congrats on the success of the channel! And well done on the sponsorship.

[@willembasson4604]

Hi Alex. I am just starting to learn basic editing with all your videos that I'm watching daily. You are a real help for me that knew absolutely nothing about editing. I'm helping my son start his very first KZbin channel and I will be the camera man / editor. As soon as we can put some footage together I will use everything that I have learned from you videos, and hopefully make some good content. Still have a lot to learn.

[@Giammusic]

Thank you for all you efforts and video Alex. I started my little channel, with my little projects, also thank to you, since I've only edited with Davinci and I started learning it by watching your videos. I come back to your channel every now and then and I always find something useful and new to learn. Thank u so much

[@TriniWeekes]

Happy new year Alex. Thanks for sharing

[@khoovisuals]

This is really helpful, saved me a lot of time. Thanks!

[@PassionForLifeGallery]

Thanks for explaining the last method in particular. I can see having a permanent database for sound effects or songs you use regularly (i.e. theme song perhaps). I subscribed to Audiio some time ago (using your discount code. thanks) and I generally use their excellent search/slash refine features to find what I want. I try not to use the same music twice if at all possible.

[@Kmax3000]

Hey! Love your videos! Always so helpful! I’d love to see a breakdown of different ways you do the side move in that is at 10 seconds, and how it can be replicated through different projects..

[@jmalmsten]

The sound library was a good idea that I kind of wish they iterated on more. They should really be live. There should be a way to add metadata and tags and hierarchical categories. As it is right now. For example: If you don't know that the woosh.wav file is actually named whoosh.wav... it's kind of impossible to find it. So I end up not using the sound library function at all and instead do it with the other methods. I have four monitors so I can have my sounds folder open in windows explorer and just drag and drop into Resolve as needed.

[@ochareofrankbell]

Thank you this save me a lot of time

[@jamesperedo5699]

Bro, I’m so glad I’ve found your channel, you explain things so well in DR, you must be an excellent video editor 🤔😂 … thanks for all you do and for the discount code, I’m getting audiio today 👍

[@BeamNGPal-]

Amazing dude, keep it up 👍

[@redcurrantrecords]

Thanks even though we are using our own music for the music videos, still some handy tips.

[@jgrand1570]

Great info!

[@BestAudiovisualTricks]

Super helpful! Thank you matey!!

[@alexway101]

Helpful tips. As always :) Thanks, Alex.

[@stephenlloyd3922]

Happy New Year Alex and thank you for yet another great tutorial. Something I think would be a very useful for many of us would be a tutorial removing a drone shadow. I've seen a couple of videos removing the shadow of a drone hovering in a static position, but when the drone is moving and flying over things like grass or water, it seems much more difficult to achieve. Maybe some of the new clever stuff in Resolve could make this easier to do. Hopefully you can once again save us all from hours of head scratching. Thanks.

[@paul-travels]

Thanks this was helpful. I put all my music and sound effects into a single DB/Library. Any ideas on how to remove/clean-up items in a DB/Library? Maybe because one don't have the license any longer or that I want to split out sound effects from music into a separate DB/Library. I'd asked back around the time of ResolveCon 2023 and no one had a solution at that time. I suppose I could create a brand new DB/Library with nothing in the Sound Library, import the DaVinci foley into the new DB and copy all of the projects from the source DB/library to this new library, and then create new DB/Libraries for Sound Effects, Licensed Music, etc. Kind of messy but it should work, no? One other thought, when doing software upgrades, BMD recommends backing up you DBs/Libraries. Folks need to remember that they need to also back up ALL of the newly created DBs/Libraries. Wonder how the automatic DB/Library conversion (process to convert DB/Library format when needed due to upgrade)works when you have multiple DBs in use?

[@MrAlexTech]

Hiya Paul! Yeah its not great to manage unfortunately, you can't edit the library however, you can delete/wipe the sound library from a Database. This is from the Blackmagic Foum: In the Project Manager page, with the Database area exposed Right click the database in question, and select. "Open File Location/Reveal in Finder" Open the Resolve Projects folder. Look for the SoundLib.db file. Rename that to SoundLib.db.old Restart Resolve - Resolve will create a new SoundLib.db Open the Sound Library and select the User Library Re-add your desired sounds (Folder)

[@paul-travels]

@@MrAlexTech Thanks for the info from the forum. Didn't see that when I was looking there. Any ideas on who to wildcard (***) display more than 1000 entries or alternately show the next x number of entries? Looked for a solution on the BMD forum but no joy. The display at the top of the results shows 1000 of 1500 (or whatever number are in the library) entries. I have a bunch of music clips that I want to audition through and it's easier to do in Resolve than to try to play through in Windows folders.

[@SilverVoxMusic]

Nice video, thanks. The naming convention that is used for the Audiio downloads doesn´t seem very user friendly.

[@ochareofrankbell]

Thank you again

[@timelineeditzktmwork3807]

so good & quick 😍

[@dhk1]

* * * that's what I was missing. Now it makes sense 👍

[@zach.bashir]

I think just dragging and dropping your music folder in to a new project all the time seems like the way to go without worrying about importing new fiels individually.

[@realgouravverma]

Hi, thanks for this awesome video. Please clear my one doubt about audiio subscription. You said we can use the files we have downloaded from audiio in our later projects even after if we cancel the subscription? Which means potentially if we download all the files from their platform then we can still use those files with universal licence forever without new subscription? And we only need subscription again if wanna new files they are uploading? Please clear this doubt🙏🙏.

[@MrAlexTech]

That is correct! :)

[@realgouravverma]

@@MrAlexTech and can we use that downloaded Music in our various different channels with different Google ID?

[@ksphotography730]

Watched a few videos about Resolve Studio today and decided to jump ship from Premier Pro, just to experience that I`m not able to purchase this directly from blackmagic in my country. I ordered and tried to pay about 300USD, but got the error sayin they are not allowed to sell in Norway. Seeing the resellers selling it here at a cost of another 100+USD for a digital product that can be downloaded... terrible behaviour from Blackmagic and I`ll stick with Premier when this is how they value their customers.

[@Aqua_Holic_Fishing]

Why do I still use an old version? Is the newer version of Davinci Resolve much better? Great video as always @MrAlexTech

[@egavasnai]

Quick question - is it possible to save downloaded content from maybe yourself or other providers and save them in a more organised file structure? As quite often it seems that some files need to be saved here, others saved there etc. and all gets confusing... Recently had to rebuild my PC and haven't reinstalled all various downloaded content yet. Keep up the great work by the way!

[@TheVlogCoupleUK]

I use the sound library (local database option) but there is a major flaw that I can't find anyone picking up on or resolving. If you need to delete a track from your library you would image that you can go to your folder on you Mac where your music resides, delete it, rescan in Resolve and boom it's gone. Erm, well no. It does not refresh deleted tracks, it leaves a blank box in the library with no waveform. It's hugely annoying and we are now at 18.6 and it's still not resolved!

[@HerSoulVacation]

I used your code, Thanks!

[@PubRunner]

Thanks that was really helpful,

[@jamesatkinsfishing]

Thank you Alex, how do i upgrade to 18.01 please sorry for being thick 🤔🤔

[@lamarthomas1127]

This is one of my biggest problems getting started, trying to figure out how to organize my assets so I don't have to move them again. I'm curious how other people organize their assets i.e. on local hard drive or on external drive, and their folder structure.

[@venkateshsandharmaraj763]

thanks sir 💗

[@haroldmorganTulsa]

Add a little tutorial on how to delete a music library and create one from scratch

[@Docfly62]

Yes please MrAlex

[@abi219]

Great tips 👍 thanks ☺️

[@mohamadali2066]

how to fix phase alignment issues between Boom & lav mic in resolve, like when we use Sound Radix Auto Align before starting the work, kindly help

[@coolterest]

Thank you so much for this, question is there a reason your music files are: .wav instead of .mp3 ?

[@MrAlexTech]

Hey hey! It's a common format used by alot of music sites. They're generally higher quality than MP3 but that does mean larger files too.

[@billyjjackson]

This is awesome as usual Mr AlexT. I started using power bins as a result but when I re-open projects the stuff from the bin has disconnected. The bin is still available and all folders on the same drive. Meh :(

[@MrAlexTech]

Ah man that sucks!! Here's a good trick. Make the bin, put all you're files into it as normal etc. Then right click the bin itself and there's an option to export. Save it somewhere. Then if it gets lost again, you can reimport the bin 🙂

[@billyjjackson]

@@MrAlexTech Thank you so much for your help, you're a dude 😎 hope you're enjoying your film making journey 👍👍

[@xil4302]

🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@stain0269]

Just curious, if I sign up for the year for $59 thru your link, is it something that automatically renews each year at the full price if I don't cancel it? I'm curious to try but horrible at remembering that kind of stuff. If it's just for the 1 year I'd be interested. Edit - I made an account and tried to find an answer on the website and couldn't. I emailed them about it but it says to allow 2-3 days for a response. Hopefully the deal is still available when I hear back. If anyone happens to know if this is an automatically renewing subscription please feel free to let me know. Thanks.

[@DOCALLAN6]

if I hook my iTunes library , will it auto update?

[@Coliekokker]

Wish there was a way to keep the sound library more organized right now it just puts all files together in one library

[@ChloePlaysGames]

3:40 Won't let me drag my music folder into Power Bin??? Think DM have done something to stop people doing this i think & i am using 18.1.2 Build 6

[@ShoaibChaudary]

How to sort this by ratting I click on stars and it should bring 5 star at first and those files with few stars should stack accoridngly?

[@sidhartht.v7387]

Hey alex, i am repeatedly crashing davinci while dragging depth map. Do u know how to solve the issue? Plz rply

[@brucegreening6732]

I have several thousand music tracks. The library says it has 6985 results but only shows 1000. How do I access the rest?

[@Docfly62]

I have the same issue. "***" only shows the 1st 1000 results. I can't figure out how to get it to list the entire library.

[@Docfly62]

@brucegreening6732 Hello, Did you ever figure it out?

[@brucegreening6732]

@@Docfly62 Afraid not and web searching has been no help

[@Zeisslermusic]

It's a smart way, but I always make my music myself, one piece of music, per video. So it doesn't make sense to make a bin since I only use the music once. :-) Greeting from Denmark

[@chriss2595]

Hmm, a bit cumbersone if you ask me. DaVinci should rebuilt this into one robust, versatile, user friendly tool.

[@andersistbesser]

Dear alex or anyone else who knows whats going on. I have an old intel based laptop with a gtx gpu from 2018. If i render with davinci resolve gpu and cpu are 100 percent like it should be. Now i build a pc 5800x cpu with my radeon rx 480 so overall my system is much faster than my laptop but if i render something gpu is at 2-20 percent most of the time around 10 and my cpu at 2 - 10 percent also , gpu accelration is activated , newest drivers, 32 gb ram. What is the problem? The render is painfully slow and the overall performance of my system is very bad. I know my gpu is not the best but 2-10 percent usage? It should ve at 100 percent like on my laptop . I dont use fusion i just colorgraded 4k footage and use filmconvert.

[@DaRialBesch]

Hey MrAlexTech (idk your real name lol) how can you DELETE a sound library? xD

[@aleksandercano]

👍

[@Ryzza5]

Is anyone else wondering why his VFX are in his Audio folder? :)

[@MrAlexTech]

Ha! They're VFX from AUDIIO! Also well spotted 😄

[@Andreivideo1]

how to merge two tracks into one bit by bit, automatically as in Adobe