How to REMOVE bad audio in Davinci Resolve 17 | Sample Level Audio Editing

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[@AlexCameron-Depiqd]

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[@FloridaTwoWheelAdventures]

I’ve watched hundreds of Resolve vids while learning the program and nobody has ever mentioned this feature. Thank you!

[@karlbuhl589]

Very specific, detailed, and helpful. Never had to deal with an audio spike until 3-days after I watched your video. Great timing!

[@SidjEOS]

Useful information, I did not know about this. I had the need for this today and was wondering how to fix an audio glitch - great timing for me :)

[@AlexCameron-Depiqd]

That's so cool to know that it helped you right when you needed it! Hope you got the results you were looking for! Thanks for watching.

[@cinnamontography94]

Saved my life! I didn't realize how bad the preamps are on the M50, so this pretty much rescued the awful audio I had!

[@sabine-pangolinphotohost9232]

What a life saver!!! Thank you so much. Have been searching for a clean walk through of this forever. Video liked and channel subscribed ;)

[@TonyStagge]

Thanks!

[@julianruggiero9701]

Thank you for the excellent tutorial! I'm dealing with an audio pop very similar to yours in a smartphone video I shot recently. Fairlight turned an ear-shattering clip into something perfectly usable!

[@davidedoubled4186]

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[@AlexCameron-Depiqd]

Thank you so much! It's down to people like yourself supporting the channel so thank you!

[@stevennimocks3753]

Very enlightening. I didn't know about this before. But then again, I don't know anything about editing and am just winging it for now. Thanks for this tip.

[@az_living208]

instant sub. amazing. Thank you. Had been using audition and audacity.

[@AlexCameron-Depiqd]

Awesome! Thank you! Welcome aboard!

[@MenInSpiritualAuthority]

Well done. Had no idea

[@arnowagt4576]

Thank you. Helpfull !

[@tonyrushing180]

This was awesome!

[@keithdennis5085]

Thank you so much for this very useful tutorial! It makes me like DaVinci Resolve even more than I already do. 'Love your channel; and hope many others will see the value in subscribing to it.

[@AlexCameron-Depiqd]

Thank you so much, Keith! 🙏🏻 Hope you don't need to fix too much audio but when you do, I hope this can be of use!

[@nacookeabsamail]

Keith Dennis already said exactly what I would say. Excellent tip. Thanks very much.

[@cameragod1]

This is my new favorite thing ever :)

[@andrewlunn]

Another very useful video Alex and thanks for the advanced tips. Congrats on smashing 4k subs and well deserved. You'll exceed 5000 soon I'm sure

[@AlexCameron-Depiqd]

As always, you are very welcome Andrew. Glad you liked it.

[@MarekJeziorski]

I can't give you two thumbs up, but if I could I would. I didn't know, and learned a lot. Thank you mate.

[@AlexCameron-Depiqd]

Thank you so much Marek!! Glad you liked it.

[@dougdina]

Brilliant. Thank you.

[@MartinCooney1]

I really only play with GoPro footage so rarely go to Fairlight. I've saved this to Favourites tho since it's a great tip to remember. thanks again

[@danielnathan1198]

very dope tips my man

[@romuloaugusto9295]

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[@353Studios]

Very useful . thank you .

[@AlexCameron-Depiqd]

You're very welcome!

[@londonztoa6359]

Really useful thx. That’s me subscribed!

[@frazermountford]

Thank you, very useful tip. I tried this when i was trying to clear my throat but didnt work for my example.

[@AriseWithin]

I had no idea we could do this. Thank you for showing. Very helpful.

[@dwainealers4299]

thank you something new for me

[@cdbkmiranda]

Amazing! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

[@MacMiniProOIW]

Great advice and instructions. How could you apply this (or a similar) method to repeating clicks that are too abundant to erase manually?

[@leotexas3485]

Thank you for this! I had some unsuspecting spikes in my audio. I could not edit it because it occurred during a conversation, so editing it would had sounded flawed. This helped a ton! 🙂

[@AlexCameron-Depiqd]

You're welcome! Really grateful you watched the video and came here to leave your feedback. 👍🏻

[@larrylozon]

Brilliant tool. Thank you!

[@bobwilliams557]

Never knew about this one. Thanks for the useful video!

[@robh5695]

Very helpful, and detailed information. Thanks and subbed!

[@ozzmanzz]

Brilliant! Thanks for posting, I had no idea about this. Liked and subscribed.

[@chibiwolf_]

Thank you for this, really helped me get rid of small annoying bits in my client videos.

[@RadianFilms64]

Wow! Really cool info. Thanks for sharing!

[@monizfilms]

Great tip which I did not know about and let me know if you have more regarding sound repair with fairlight and if not I would love to see more in the future.

[@AlexCameron-Depiqd]

Thank you and 100% will let you know. I think Fairlight is a pretty unexplored interface still and there's lots of lovely little gems to learn about. Appreciate you taking the time to comment!

[@andrehugomedia]

Really awesome tip! Continually amazed with how good Davinci Resolve is.

[@AlexCameron-Depiqd]

Thank you SO much for watching and commenting. Means a lot to have that feedback.

[@studiohuibvanwersch]

thnx !

[@donnaleiber6214]

Wonderful video! Very useful and informative. Happy to be a new subscriber. Plan to watch many other videos of yours. And no, I didn't know this feature existed, but I'm pretty new to it all.

[@husaynabdulrahman6637]

Great job alex!

[@Fengaming1]

I did what you show on this video but for some reason, it doesn't apply the change. I can see the green dots but not change in the sound.

[@carvocation]

Thanks for the work!

[@FoodfortheSubconscious]

Really nice video here... I like these little tips that aren't obvious but a great help

[@FoodfortheSubconscious]

Also can you do this with big things like editing out sirens in the background?

[@AlexCameron-Depiqd]

Glad it was helpful! Thank you Curtis.

[@AlexCameron-Depiqd]

In theory...yes....but I think you'd find that you start to affect too much of your other audio and also it can be hard and tedious to do this over a longer clip. Remember it's not isolating a frequency but rather just a small sample of the audio which is why little spikes and pops work well because they are only there for a few frames or less. You might try targeting the frequency using EQ or even the noise reduction tools if the siren is the typical high pitch affair.

[@fantastechworldofficial]

Thank you so much ...!FANTASTECH

[@AlexCameron-Depiqd]

And I thank you for watching. Really means a lot to know you took something away from it. My best.

[@lifetrack6019]

Thank you, I did not know this :-)

[@AlexCameron-Depiqd]

Really glad I could help expand your knowledge. Appreciate you watching. Thanks

[@sibtainmushtaqfilms]

perfect tip, how do you get those audio pointers?

[@HolywellFilms]

Excellent that mate. Thank you. 👌

[@DEFIANT_FILMS]

Thank you; you've gained a new sub 👍

[@image30p]

Did not know. I've used Soundforge for years, which works nicely. But I'm very excited to see this wonderfully capable integrated audio editor! And thank you for the great video

[@AlexCameron-Depiqd]

You're very welcome!

[@CoriMusic97]

Great video!! Very helpful. Is it possible to use scroll wheel on mouse to zoom in audio in davinci? Thanks!

[@ranziphotography7540]

Simple & informative video. thanks a lot. I shoot mostly wildlife/birds where I need to remove vehicle honking/engine sound, people talking and camera shutter noise etc, which comes along the bird chirping sound & not just a single spike. Can that be filtered? can you please make a video about it ?

[@kjvisual7]

This video randomly showed up in my feed and I'm glad it did. Wow that's really cool. Thanks. I have a question. What exactly does a lift click and drag do? Does it copy the selected sample? As I drag am I pasting that sample? It seems obvious that's what is happening. But thought I'd ask anyway.

[@Tesants]

Great!

[@susanschneider6678]

Thank you for this!

[@AlexCameron-Depiqd]

My pleasure! Really appreciate you taking the time to comment.

[@TheRealKongKK]

This method doesn't work with Davinci Resolve 18. I believe its some kind of glitch. Has anyone else tried it on DR18? I've tried it on DR17 before and it works so I'm pretty sure i took the right steps.

[@arinadcox]

I just tried it for the first time in 18 yesterday and it did not work. Maybe in the next patch...

[@OsimaniCristian]

Davinci should allow users to press "SHIFT" between 2 separated nodes in the Edit sample leves section, because it's very hard to make a consistent straight line in there, and if the part to fix is really long, it's almost imposible to fix.

[@drybluefilms]

AUDITION is WAY more powerful and precise than Fairlight in removing noise, click and any audio defects

[@AdamSzarmack]

Awesome!

[@AlexCameron-Depiqd]

Glad you think so, Adam! 😁 Thank you for watching and also feeding back your thoughts. Appreciated.

[@jeandrebadenhorst]

Thank you Alex, great in-depth video with just enough to work with, but not to much to get bored half way through. This is an excellent way to get rid of clicks and pops here and there. I have a bigger problem though... I received a video to edit from a client that have clipped speech portions of minutes and minutes and to do this to each clipped part would take weeks to fix. Do you know about a way or plugin that can detect and fix the clipping by itself, without me going through all the clips? Thanks again for a great tutorial!

[@burakbasduzen]

thats nice but i can't edit high popping area, i need to zoom in like 100x for see these dots :( if there is a other option like fx or something, could be awesome

[@Graham_Rule]

That looks very useful.

[@AlexCameron-Depiqd]

When you're cursing about the sound guy (normally myself) it certainly does! 😉. Thanks for commenting.

[@SpencerRaybourne]

I'm having trouble isolating and then correcting the pop, or snap

[@stealthkills]

How do I select one audio and delete it? but leaving one of them there?

[@michaelweigel8253]

How does this work with speech?

[@lemonboy597]

If I buy davinci resolve studio 17 and 18 comes out do I have to buy it again

[@quickpickle]

Problem is when you go back to the edit page it doesn't register the change. And im using version 18.6 :/

[@MyHomelessTravels]

By deleting a portion of the audio clip as you did, does it automatically resynch the video?

[@LynLiechtyMusic]

Alex, thanks for your videos. Any ideas on if Davinci resolve has something that can help reduce or remove microphone feedback from an entire audio clip? Did an interview and someone on the podcast was not using headphones so there is feedback throughout. Anything I can do?

[@faisleepyhead2271]

I recorded a clip with chat in it. Is it possible to remove the chat from the video clip?

[@dashingheights]

any tips if i have 100s of this?

[@LeeHarris]

brilliant

[@AlexCameron-Depiqd]

You're welcome, Lee! Thank you for watching.

[@LeeHarris]

@@AlexCameron-Depiqd No thank you, 2 great tips in a succinct video; all wheat no chaff!

[@daveson3D]

Thank you! Looking for this. Though, how would you remove several glitches as the one you did but get repeated all along the audio? I know it can be done manually but is there a way to automate the process after cleaning the first glitch, like a learn filter apply?

[@malcombanks8671]

Are you fucking kidding me this is GOLD wow!!! Thank you for doing the research

[@swaha55]

Great video. Thank you! I have Resolve 17.4.1 in the free version. I cannot find the Noise Reduction effect in Fairlight tab. I can find it on the left side of the fairlight window but in the Effects + menu on the right side it is not in the list: it goes from Mondulation to Other - no sign of noise reduction. Is this normal for the free version? Is Noise reduction under Effects on Right side only for the Studio version of Resolve?

[@tutorialsforyou4012]

I have a problem with the DaVinci Resolve editing program that after rendering, I sometimes have these high audio spikes that make a very loud crackle or hiss. Before rendering, I never see these high-pitched spikes in the audio track. If I cut out these high peaks at one point and then render again, they usually reappear at another point and I may cut out a small part again. These spikes don't always occur, but 1 out of 4 times approximately. I record with the program Streamlabs OBS and a Rode Podcaster USB microphone. The format is MP4. What can I do to solve this problem? It can not be the USB slots, I have already tried on several.

[@tutorialsforyou4012]

I fixed it. The problen was the AAC Audio Codec what is not so good. Change the format from MP4 to Quicktime and then go to Audio and choose the codec Linear PCM. Since I have a new XLR mic with interface (not an usb) I dont have these problems with my recordings.

[@ORTHODOX-PATH]

Hello Alex your Channel is Very interesting Thank you very much for your the point explanations I have a Question please .. First of all I have the Da Vinci resolve 18.1.4 resolve studio edition,and because i Record inside the churches speeches i.e from father's bible,I'm inside the orthodox church and I cannot avoid the ups and downs of his Voice for example I want to stabilize The Voice and I don't know how to decrease the volume when he Speaks loudly and in the other hand when he is whispering some how .. I found How to remove echo. Please if you can answer me I will appreciate so very much. Paul from Greece AThens. THANX!!!

[@AlexCameron-Depiqd]

This is a great question and one that I am sure a lot of people have trouble with. So what you’re talking about, if I’ve understood correctly, is balancing the levels of your audio which is a crucial step of the audio editing process. There are some things you can do like normalisation and also using a multi and compressor to help you smooth out the high and low points. Also, the Dialogue Leveller is very good when used correctly. All that said, there’s really not a hard and fast substitute for balancing audio simply using key frames. It’s much the same as with colour grading. Before you stick on a LUT or do any creative look building, you need to balance/normalise your shots so that you can then more broadly apply a look that works across all the clips on mostly the same way. It’s the same largely for audio too although I often start with normalisation and a multi and compressor to get me most of the way there. The better recorded the audio initially then the easier this job is too. I’d always recommend recording at a lower level as boosting in post and clean up is a lot easier nowadays and, unless you have 32bit floating point recording, you never want to have an issue when the audio gets too loud and clips because it simply is not recoverable. Does that help? Let me know either way, might be worth a video on this topic too so do stay tuned!

[@ORTHODOX-PATH]

@@AlexCameron-Depiqd thanx A LOT FOR THE ANSWER Alex!!! i appreciate so very much!!Αnd of course it helps with out doubt!..

[@EUROPETVEMEDIAAfroTAGTV]

Wow

[@cnrd79]

Fine. But what if a have this glitch repeatedly? In my case, caused by a bad mic. I’ve just heard about plugins for this. Do you know something about?

[@SlateRiverLeather]

What plugins do you know of?

[@tyronekavanagh9914]

Hi, My first time video editing... I'm a musician. I drag and drop my audio file, which is WAV, It's mixed and mastered and does not need changing. So it's raw audio. As soon as I start playing the audio through Davinci Resolve 17, it distorts. I went through the settings, playback processing buffer size and changed it to 4096, which decreased the distortion but some remains, I then decreased the dB and the distortion was removed, however I need the volume to say the same... Anyone that can help, please do. I was supposed to learn, create and upload today and everything has come to a stop, due to this stupid ass software that ruins audio. No my Mixed/Mastered final product in WAV format and it's original Logic Pro X file is not distorted.

[@aulcamedia]

Pretty sure I can still hear that click in the repaired clip.

[@zearkk]

Well We are making it in a few years ti

[@ValentinoMariotto]

useful info, but the video title should be more specific. Cheers

[@reyvaz2951]

Man I almost click away with that click click click, I think one was enough to get the point.

[@6h4f1b]

Thanks!

[@AlexCameron-Depiqd]

You bet!