Uploaded April 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
In this week's session, we have a look at some of the new features in DaVinci Resolve's Fairlight 18.5. Then we answer your sound for video questions.
If you’d like to learn how to make great dialogue audio for your film and video projects, please have a look at my courses at school.learnlightandsound.com including processing dialogue audio in Adobe Audition and DaVinci Resolve/Fairlight, recording sound, how to use the Zoom F4, F6, F8, and F8n, and how to get the most from the Sound Devices MixPre series of recorders. We have a course on sound for live-streaming with the ATEM Mini and just added Introduction to Izotope RX for Dialogue Audio.
Gear I often use or that we mentioned in this episode. The links below are Amazon.com, B&H Photo, Sweetwater, DVE Store, Waves, or other affiliate links. As an affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases:
- Earthworks ETHOS microphone — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/8G8UdBB
- RODECaster Pro II audio workstation — B&H, Sweetwater, DVE Store, Amazon geni.us/iFlEMB
- Sound Devices MixPre II Series Recorders - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/O8e0
- Panasonic GH5 camera - B&H, Amazon geni.us/InspOl
- Canon C200 Camera - B&H geni.us/9Zi4m4a
- Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 lens — B&H, Amazon geni.us/kZyU7e
- ATEM Mini Extreme & Extreme ISO - B&H, DVE Store, Amazon geni.us/b8my
- Allen & Heath SQ5 Digital Mixer - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/sRxFU90
- Rupert Neve Designs Shelford Channel, pre-amp, EQ, compressor - Sweetwater, B&H geni.us/9ZfE77
- Universal Audio 6176 channel strip pre-amp, EQ, compressor — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/505L55n
The intro and outro music for this episode is from Musicbed. Take your films to the next level with music from Musicbed. Sign up for a free account to listen for yourself: geni.us/G7by
Copyright 2023, Curtis Judd
00:00 Start
02:45 Beginning of stream
03:20 Agenda
04:03 About DaVinci Resolve 18.5
05:05 Edit & Mix Groups
09:40 AI-Based Classification
11:50 Elastic Wave – Voice
16:08 Neural Engine Subtitles
20:44 Fairlight panel controller review…?
22:40 Subtitle results
26:31 Neural Engine Text Editing
30:53 Mix groups vs mix bus
35:17 Signal chain: audio into separate mixer?
35:52 RODE Wireless ME setting change issue
39:57 Detailed speech-to-text settings
40:13 18.5 hardware requirements
41:32 Subtitle styling options
42:18 Post-NAB reflections
47:10 Subtitle export options
1:02:00 Classified automix test
1:03:45 End of stream
In this week's session, we have a look at some of the new features in DaVinci Resolve's Fairlight 18.5. Then we answer your sound for video questions.
If you’d like to learn how to make great dialogue audio for your film and video projects, please have a look at my courses at school.learnlightandsound.com including processing dialogue audio in Adobe Audition and DaVinci Resolve/Fairlight, recording sound, how to use the Zoom F4, F6, F8, and F8n, and how to get the most from the Sound Devices MixPre series of recorders. We have a course on sound for live-streaming with the ATEM Mini and just added Introduction to Izotope RX for Dialogue Audio.
Gear I often use or that we mentioned in this episode. The links below are Amazon.com, B&H Photo, Sweetwater, DVE Store, Waves, or other affiliate links. As an affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases:
- Earthworks ETHOS microphone — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/8G8UdBB
- RODECaster Pro II audio workstation — B&H, Sweetwater, DVE Store, Amazon geni.us/iFlEMB
- Sound Devices MixPre II Series Recorders - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/O8e0
- Panasonic GH5 camera - B&H, Amazon geni.us/InspOl
- Canon C200 Camera - B&H geni.us/9Zi4m4a
- Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 lens — B&H, Amazon geni.us/kZyU7e
- ATEM Mini Extreme & Extreme ISO - B&H, DVE Store, Amazon geni.us/b8my
- Allen & Heath SQ5 Digital Mixer - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/sRxFU90
- Rupert Neve Designs Shelford Channel, pre-amp, EQ, compressor - Sweetwater, B&H geni.us/9ZfE77
- Universal Audio 6176 channel strip pre-amp, EQ, compressor — B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/505L55n
The intro and outro music for this episode is from Musicbed. Take your films to the next level with music from Musicbed. Sign up for a free account to listen for yourself: geni.us/G7by
Copyright 2023, Curtis Judd
00:00 Start
02:45 Beginning of stream
03:20 Agenda
04:03 About DaVinci Resolve 18.5
05:05 Edit & Mix Groups
09:40 AI-Based Classification
11:50 Elastic Wave – Voice
16:08 Neural Engine Subtitles
20:44 Fairlight panel controller review…?
22:40 Subtitle results
26:31 Neural Engine Text Editing
30:53 Mix groups vs mix bus
35:17 Signal chain: audio into separate mixer?
35:52 RODE Wireless ME setting change issue
39:57 Detailed speech-to-text settings
40:13 18.5 hardware requirements
41:32 Subtitle styling options
42:18 Post-NAB reflections
47:10 Subtitle export options
1:02:00 Classified automix test
1:03:45 End of stream
