Resolve 18.6 added a new normalization setting for TH-cam. However, this does not apply compression to increase or adjust your loudness. The new tool basically is a volume knob on the entire mix based of your single loudest peak. The new tool is better than nothing, but won't do much for a video that has hardly any dynamics.
hey thanks for the great vids on davinci! been watching for a while. been having a feeling latly that my voice "feels quiet" like even though on the meters im at or above the target. my voice still just feels quiet got any tips for making voice overs "feel" louder?
I wondered. I’m struggling to get it close but am ok with my dynamics so wanted to see how the new TH-cam target works to get me a little closer. Good to know it’s not all that smart or fancy though.
To clarify because the last sentence is a bit confusing: I think you mean it won't do a whole lot if your mix has a large dynamic range. Normalization won't be able to bring up the valleys of the mix because the peaks will prevent a loudness increase. So your main advice still holds true: you want to shape your mix, typically by use of compression, such that the dynamic range window is smaller. The nice thing about having a normalization pass like in 18.6 is that you don't have to chase a target loudness anymore. If your mix is right, but too quiet, the normalization pass brings it up to the limit.
@@CreativeVideoTips nice tutorial, i have a question, on the limiter settings i can set the plus gain high as possible?, so i get the blue graph to yellow, for a like 1 hour plus video where the sound is changing 24/7?
Just a beginner here. Took over A/V at our church about a year ago. Just now discovering all I fix in DeVinci. I am 73, so not a techie. Thanks for your great and simple explanations.
Super helpful because there are so many videos on YT that recommend the limiter in the compressor panel, and they don't tell you that that limiter is NOT a hard limiter, but rather just the compressor with a higher ratio. It took me so many hours of confusion and frustration to figure out that I needed the hard limiter in EFFECTS > DYNAMICS > LIMITER
10000% of the time, YES. This is something that even big youtubers (or their editors) miss all the time and you end up with videos where the volume is just all over the place because they swap to different audio sources and never normalize audio.
Yes I agree. Im guilty of it too. At least Ive been able to get mine good enough to hear the dialogue in a car at freeway speed. Many of my favorite big tubers are paying for less quality sound editing. I will have to watch this about 6 times to get it right though LOL.
Chadwick, hands down, my favourite channel for all things Davinci. Man, you have a gift for explaining stuff and such an easy going way of connecting with viewers 👊 Thanks
Agreed. I've subscribed. And will learn a great deal. Perfect tone and delivery and not too fast. So much YT content is too fast. People aren't watching because they know and creators are charging through it but not here so great. THanks.
@@jonphebus6720 turns out my usual mixes between -18dB to -6dB are around -14 LUFS as far as I can tell after using Premieres Loudness Meter plugin a few times to check edits. So I didn’t have to change much.
I’m an intermediate at DR. Having switched to it just a year ago. Been editing videos with a Video Toaster system for 25 years. It always annoyed me when my You Tube videos played back too low. I will try your process on my next project. Thanks, your doing a great job.
Video Toaster! I have heard of that, but it just predates my editing days. I think a lot of the silly transitions, like the star wipe, in this video came from that system if I'm not mistaken. This is very helpful information . Thank you! I appreciate you taking the time to watch the tutorials.
I started using DVR 16 in June 2020, I switched to DVR Studio in November 2020. I would say I’m at intermediate level. This video has shown me a few ways to speed up my audio processing. Thank you. I like the pace you go at. I also make DVR tutorials and teach at a slower pace than most. I much prefer watching tutorials where I don’t have to keep rewinding because they go to fast. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for sharing David. This is helpful feedback for sure. Figuring out pacing is so hard when you have a camera pointed at yourself! Hopefully it sounds like I might be improving with practice. Thanks so much for being part of the channel - I gotta check yours out.
Beginner level here having only used iMovie, Audacity, and garageband in a very amateurish, playing blindly with the dials kind of way: THIS. IS. THE ULTIMATE VIDEO! There are a lot out there, in particular for DavinciResolve and they are all decent but they all explain only portions of this which leads to accidentally clumsily over course correcting since you don’t know what to do first and why and then end up with distorted sound. This was PERFECT! Thanks a million so glad i accidentally pumped into this! Subscribed!
This is just a nitch tip, I'm sure you are a solid intermediate. And this is super helpful info for me to try to not waste time teaching. Thank you so much for watching, I really appreciate it.
Awesome, totally love the tutorials, especially the clarity of instruction and pace, not too quick but fast enough to keep me interested. I’m an intermediate user of Resolve having used Final Cut, Avid and Premiere over the years. Really enjoying your great content, please keep up the good work, you are definitely up there with the best DaVinci tutors out there.
Thank you Paul, you certainly sound like a veteran having used all the apps! This is good for me to know so I can draw some parallels when it makes sense. Thank you for the nice feedback. I’m enjoying teaching things I’ve been learning along the way.
I'm a beginner, so I just found out that the default setting is too low (-23) after someone complained in a comment. Thanks for the video, this was more comprehensive that some that I watched and I'd rather learn a lot then just get a cookbook.
Thank you for this video. I'm a narrator so audio is literally integral to what I bring in my content. I recently listened to own my videos on my TV, and then listened to other creators in my genre and noticed I sounded audibly quieter than them - even though with headphones (DT770 Pro) I do not hear that difference. This video has helped me a bunch and taught me how to hear and visualize exactly what I need to adjust in my sound. Thanks so much. I'm feeling a lot more confident in this upcoming upload.
This video made a huge difference just before we exported our feature film to TH-cam. It's nice and loud now, and enjoyable and booming on a TV, which I've had trouble with in previous projects. The limiter/gain technique helped us get us as close as possible to 0db on YT's "content loudness" without peaking. Thank you again Chadwick!
I haven't even finished this video yet, and I'm pretty sure I've learned more about audio for video in 10 minutes, than I have in the last year. Glory to God! Thank You!
This is a great tutorial; thorough and we'll paced. As an absolute novice some of this went a bit over my head but I'll definitely come back to it before I upload my next video. Already slapped it into a new playlist to rewatch. Gotta get me that sweet -14!
Yes! That -14 LUFs, I got that in your head :). Thank so much for the feedback. It is looking like I will do some sort of beginner series in the coming months so for sure watch for that.
I really love this tutorial as so many people just focus on having you normalize the audio and honestly it does not sound so good afterwards thank you for this!
Great video dude! Although in my experience I would rather have a quieter channel, however better balanced, instead of hitting those -14 LUFS at all costs, as when it comes to compression and limiting, audio and music sacrifice quality. The LUFS theory in TH-cam should actually work the same way as with Spotify and Co. meaning that audio/music if being louder, will be reduced in volume to their LUFS norm and if being quieter, pushed up to the norm. What I have realized that TH-cam doesn't do it at all, which sucks, so no matter what LUFS the videos will have, it will not reduce the quality, (only if being louder than -14 LUFS). So my strategy is being around -23 LUFS, so I make sure that I don't have to use any additional processing like compressors, so I have still plenty of headroom to work with to make the video more "lifely" and more dynamic if I know that I want to create some exciting moments where things should be louder or quieter. If I try to hit -14 LUFS all the time, I couldn't do it, as -14 is already loud enough. So to summarize: I think it's far better to have a channel that has loudness consistency, rather than trying to aim for -14 LUFS at all costs, as well as that doesn't guarantee you any improvement of sound, only loudness. I see a lot of channels which compress/limit like hell and it just sounds awful, as most of those people don't know how to use those compressors at all, as it's not only about threshold or ratio, as well as attack and release times, and then it can become were tricky at times and can produce a lot of frustration, especially when your room where you record doesn't sound good in terms of the acoustics and it starts to sound super "roomy". So it's often times better to ride the faders as you have mentioned instead of squashing the signals.
This is incredible Chadwick! I've been editing videos for TH-cam for over a decade now and I've never seriously considered adding compression to my vocal tracks, I've always manipulated the volume via bus sliders or audio keyframes. The luf explanation, the decibel explanation...the techniques and tips you shared in this video is all gold my man. I wish I understood compression a bit better (even as a guitarist) but this is a good first step in the right direction for me. Infinite thanks for sharing this super useful information man.
I'm a super beginner at both resolve itself and video editing as a whole. I'm learning on the fly to try and produce better content for my own youtube channel (not the one I'm commenting from). I love these tutorials as they are helping me to not have to spend so much time thinking about the mechanics of editing so I can start to learn the art of editing.
00:00 How to Mix Louder Videos for TH-cam with Resolve 00:38 TH-cam - Stas For Nerds 01:23 What are LUFs? 02:00 Loudness vs Peak RMS 02:44 Loudness vs Peak Normalization 04:47 Fairlight - Project Settings 05:11 Analyze Audio Levels 06:35 Compound Meters and True Peak 09:35 Mixing Strategies for Loudness 11:28 Limiter Plugin Effect 13:24 Loudness History Graph
For some reason, when I render audio as an mp3 or .wav - it drops the audio to a way lower audio level. I import the files to Resolve and it shows them 10db quieter. I could make them peaking and it will just compress them down to max -10db. I can't find the settings anywhere.
I STILL refer to this video often...Will you please consider updating this important topic to include the expanding audio metering options in Fairlight options? Thanks Chadwick!
Beginner. Also fun thing, many people say, that Davinci has no loudness calculation and they resort to other tools. Bouncing and analyzing is a very nice tip here! Thanks! Learned a lot from this video alone
Great video! :) But the compressor was a bit over cooked, because that monologue sounded a bit squashed (too loud breaths). I would just let the limiter get me to the desired level in this case. ;) I bougt Davinci in 2019. I have used Premier and Final Cut before. But I mostly work with audio (in Pro Tools).
Hey thanks Erik. Yes! for sure that was way overdone and too much signal was tossed out - not my best example, but hopefully, folks can understand the loudness meter concept. Very cool to hear you're a Pro Tools guy. I could probably learn a lot from you.
Fabulous….I’ve always been slightly scared of the Fairlight tab and could never get my volume levels right without clipping. Both now solved, thanks very much, cheers, Phil.
Thanks Chadwick, that was very helpful indeed. I have only been using Resolve for 3 months but have been creating TH-cam videos for 3 years so I'm beginner - intermediate.
@@CreativeVideoTips Hi Chadwick, I was using Pinnacle Studio Versions 22, 23 then 24. I started with that because it has Multicam Editor and can record a number of camera simultaneously 🙂
This was an epic explanation and what I was searching for on bringing audio levels into check. I'm still learning Resolve and always looking to improve my skills. Thanks for the time and effort and look forward to learning about 18. Earned a new Sub!
Thank you for this clear and structured explanation. I'm a complete noob to video and audio production and I think I can finally upload a TH-cam video having halfway decent audio, thanks to you!
As a small TH-camr who just found out his video was -10 content loudness and struggling with loudness, this video was a huge help. Subbed and thank you so much for your help!
As a musician, audio engineer, and producer for over 30 years, I'm super glad you made this video because TH-cam creators' low/inconsistent volume levels are an absolutely angering, annoying epidemic!! Thank you. Subbed!
Thanks for the detailed breakdown Chadwick! I'm an intermediate Davinci Resolve user, and I realized recently that all my uploads seem too quiet when played on TH-cam. So I appreciate the tips!
In response to your question, I'm a new subscriber to your channel, and after publishing about 400 videos to TH-cam using iMovie, I finally got a Speed Editor and am converting my work to Davinci Resolve 17.6. I consider myself a beginner, and your videos have been very very helpful in the last few weeks. Thanks for asking!
I'm just a beginner, but this video was very helpful and easy to understand. I appreciate that you explained how TH-cam handles normalization and showed exactly where to find setting and graphs.
Intermediate. This video got recommended to me after I was feeling self conscious about my last video's levels. If the world ain't got me, TH-cam home page does. Great vid, thanks!
I've watched dozens of loudness tutorials for DaVinci Resolve and this one is the best I think. A lot of people skip over important information but you took the time to walk us though it.
Thanks for the instruction. I have had DaVinci for a total of 24 hours so far, with basically ZERO mixing experience. I've got a long, long way to go in both the recording and mixing processes for my TH-cam channel, but this video will be a huge help! Thanks again!
Thanks so much for the clear audio tips. Beginner Davinci user here, coming from iMovie. I'm finding getting the audio correct in Davinci the hardest part of Davinci. I much appreciate the clarity of your tips !
I'm a complete beginner, and a video like this, while some of it is a little confusing because I have a lot to learn, is still very helpful. I'm trying hard to figure out how I can make sure that I am hitting the audio sweet spot for TH-cam. Thanks for making this and keep 'em coming.
Chadwick. I'm a true beginner with DaVinci Resolve. Your instructional content has been a major factor in my skills acquisition. Love your teaching style and easy-going manner. Thank you!
Great video from my new source for all that is Davinci Audio . I have been a youtube creator for nearly five years now and you have finally shined the light on the reason why all my videos seem to be of lower volume than everybody else. You are the first person that has ever discussed the "target audio" settings. Bravo man and thanks for your help.
Pre-Beginner. But, I have to say, your pace is great. Thank you. Coming from 35 years radio veteran, who walked out a year ago from the on air stuff, to the streaming side of life. I know clear, keen, creative audio is key, because we learn by hearing. I never dove in the any of the technical side of radio/audio. Create, rip and read guy. So, all this is Greek geek to me. As I hear you and others, I wonder, If I will ever get a clue to what you are talking about and move up the scale of understanding. I realize, it's all about perseverance, and want-to and willing to fail in the learning curve. I fail almost daily. All this to say, again, thank you. Eventually I hope to grow in my skills as well. All the best to all.
EXACTLY what I needed! My first time editing a long YT video; it had a wide variety of volumes having been filmed over five days with wind at times and different cameras. Thank you!
Thank you so much for this tutorial. I've watched so many tutorials where the poster clearly doesn't understand the technical features of davinci resolve, so it's like the blind leading the blind. This was brilliant.
I'm a beginner-to-intermediate with DR, and much much more on the beginner side when it comes to audio. Thanks for the video, I know I'll have to watch it a few more times while I'm working on a project to try to implement some of this fine advice. Thanks.
Beginner here. I think this video was a bit above my knowledge base. When you said ‘dynamic range’ when explained the compressor feature, I know what you meant but it think it could have been helpful to explain what it means. Specially with a tutorial like this one, packed with way too much information. Amazing video by the way!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Chadwick, brother, I really appreciate your approach. Nice pace and right to the point. You've edited things down just right, so we get the info and aren't wading through a presenter stammering over an explanation. You also give a little space for us to digest what you're saying. This video is one of your better cuts. I've watched many of yours. Thank you for sharing what you know. I am grateful.
Thank you so much for this constructive and kind feedback. I've been trying to improve the teaching and so it's great to hear this. I'm very thankful for you taking the time to click and watch.
This is by far the best tutorial on getting the audio right in Resolve, really helped me. Thanks for putting all this together with a very clear explanation.
And in response to your question at the end - I am a beginner. Well, been using it for about a year and getting up close and personal with fairlight now :) Thanks!
Great tutorial. Thank you. I just started making videos for TH-cam, as well as using Resolve. My first four videos featured the raw, unmodified audio. I didn't know any better. Someone commented that I could stand to raise the volume a bit, which sent me down the whole Fairlight rabbit hole, and your video did an excellent job of helping me understand the tools available. I've still got tons to learn, and this tutorial was a great incremental step in building my knowledge base. Thank you!
From all the videos called „every (TH-camr) needs to see this“ - this one would truly deserve it. Audio levels are the thing that is taken care about the least I feel like. Great video, very educative. Intermediate here btw, seen enough basic stuff from Casey Farris etc and hardly finding intermediate videos like this one tbh.
thank you so much, I knew my videos were too low - I did set the LUFS to -14 at some point but something must have happened and it reset to -23 - with the meter in RELATIVE mode I did not have visibility of that. I also was not aware of the TP requirement so I am making some adjustments! Clear and useful video!
Call me “beginner plus.” 😊 I would be intermediate on consumer grade video editors, but DaVinci is SO much more complex! Your tutorials definitely provide excellent tips for constant improvement. Thanks!
From one Chadwick to another, this is a GREAT video! I switched to DaVinci Resolve from APP in January 2023 and I haven't looked back. The ease and sophistication of editing in DR has freed me up to be more creative and experimental when making my videos, knowing that I won't have to FIGHT to get stuff done in APP. It's truly remarkable how much better of an experience DR is. This audio tutorial will help me put that extra-polished finishing touch on my videos. Thank you for your great work!
I'm still in the early stages of learning how to properly edit the audio in my TH-cam videos and I found this tutorial extremely helpful. Thank you for explaining what all the features do and mean. I definitely learned a lot of new stuff from watching this video and I'm about to go apply it to the project I'm currently working on. Cheers!
I was wondering why my videos sound so quiet even when I kept the recommended decibal levels for youtube at around the suggested levels. Only after watching this video I've learned that "loudness" was a thing. Thank you so much for the simple explanation! And of course, I am a beginner, standing at only 3 videos, 3 very quiet videos. But the next one is not gonna be that quiet :)
This is the hands down the best video on audio for DaVinci on TH-cam. I have seen so much approximate stuff in other videos but yours is golden! Thank you!
Thanks man! This was exactly what I was looking for but it wasn’t showing up on my search. Instead it showed up later as a recommended video. I appreciate you sharing your knowledge and skills. 🙏
I am a novice at Resolve. The only audio program that I have used is Audacity. I will have to view this video many times to assimilate your instruction on increasing the volume on videos. Thank you for doing a fine job of explaining this function.
Beginner coming from Premiere. Speed editor should arrive tomorrow. Found your channel, and I am really appreciating your work. Well done. Great personality and education.
Welcome aboard! You're going to have some fun with that new tool. I really appreciate you taking your time to watch. I'm just super stoked to get to share what I'm learning along with you.
Im a beginner in resolve and the really helped my audio. I have multiple audio track in my vid and this tutorial really brought it some balance. Thanks for your hard work as creating youtube vids is not easy
Chadwick, awesome tips on DaVinci! I’ve recently started my DaVinci journey on my iPad Pro M1. I’ve been working with LumaFusion prior for the past few years, with about 8 years of tutorial video creations for product my employment offers. With DaVinci and your great tips, I’m hoping to step up my creativity, and raise the bar on what I can offer. Thank you again for your videos!
Hey Chadwick, thank you for these tutorials! They are super handy and helpful for me as I learn my way through DaVinici Resolve. I believe I'm intermediate on my skill set. I'm coming from Final Cut 7 & 10 (college years) and Adobe Premiere Pro CC for 10 years working with my church. Then in 2021 I moved to DaVinici Resolve 18 for free. I am now completely working in DaVinici Resolve 18 and teaching the other volunteers how to use the free version.
I came to Resolve from Lightworks in March 2023 - I have never looked back. I love your pacing and your natural way of speaking. Your work flow is super logical and you give us enough time to digest what you're saying and doing as you go (unlike the coke fueled presenters so ubiquitous on the you tubes!)
That was actually more interesting and useful than I had expected. I've been doing videos for a long time (not many, but spread out over two decades or so) and I've always neglected the audio side, brushing up my skills there now. This was cool.
I'm an intermediate user of Resolve, I know my way around fairly well but I always feel like I haven't learned it "properly" and I might be missing some good handy functions. I find your videos are great for filling in those gaps in knowledge! Great channel
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Resolve 18.6 added a new normalization setting for TH-cam. However, this does not apply compression to increase or adjust your loudness. The new tool basically is a volume knob on the entire mix based of your single loudest peak. The new tool is better than nothing, but won't do much for a video that has hardly any dynamics.
hey thanks for the great vids on davinci! been watching for a while. been having a feeling latly that my voice "feels quiet" like even though on the meters im at or above the target. my voice still just feels quiet got any tips for making voice overs "feel" louder?
I wondered. I’m struggling to get it close but am ok with my dynamics so wanted to see how the new TH-cam target works to get me a little closer. Good to know it’s not all that smart or fancy though.
@@Angzarrr smart move. Don’t over compress dialogue to try to hit that target.
To clarify because the last sentence is a bit confusing: I think you mean it won't do a whole lot if your mix has a large dynamic range. Normalization won't be able to bring up the valleys of the mix because the peaks will prevent a loudness increase. So your main advice still holds true: you want to shape your mix, typically by use of compression, such that the dynamic range window is smaller. The nice thing about having a normalization pass like in 18.6 is that you don't have to chase a target loudness anymore. If your mix is right, but too quiet, the normalization pass brings it up to the limit.
@@CreativeVideoTips nice tutorial, i have a question, on the limiter settings i can set the plus gain high as possible?, so i get the blue graph to yellow, for a like 1 hour plus video where the sound is changing 24/7?
Just a beginner here. Took over A/V at our church about a year ago. Just now discovering all I fix in DeVinci. I am 73, so not a techie. Thanks for your great and simple explanations.
Super helpful because there are so many videos on YT that recommend the limiter in the compressor panel, and they don't tell you that that limiter is NOT a hard limiter, but rather just the compressor with a higher ratio. It took me so many hours of confusion and frustration to figure out that I needed the hard limiter in EFFECTS > DYNAMICS > LIMITER
"... limiter is NOT a hard limiter, but rather just the compressor with a higher ratio." Is that true? Yikes!
10000% of the time, YES. This is something that even big youtubers (or their editors) miss all the time and you end up with videos where the volume is just all over the place because they swap to different audio sources and never normalize audio.
Thanks so much for watching. I'm no audio expert, but I'm glad you found this particular tip helpful :)
Yes I agree. Im guilty of it too. At least Ive been able to get mine good enough to hear the dialogue in a car at freeway speed. Many of my favorite big tubers are paying for less quality sound editing. I will have to watch this about 6 times to get it right though LOL.
Thanks for sharing the mysteries of audio mastering on resolve. I love this program soooo much. This is the heaven of video editing 😍
I agree entirely; it's one of the best-kept secrets of how powerful this tool is. Thanks for watching!
@@CreativeVideoTips Thank YOU. Have a blessed week 🙏
Chadwick, hands down, my favourite channel for all things Davinci. Man, you have a gift for explaining stuff and such an easy going way of connecting with viewers 👊 Thanks
Wow, thanks Gregg. This means a lot. I REALLY appreciate you and stoked to have you as a part of this channel.
Agreed. I've subscribed. And will learn a great deal. Perfect tone and delivery and not too fast. So much YT content is too fast. People aren't watching because they know and creators are charging through it but not here so great. THanks.
My words exactly. Cheers Chadwick !
Yeah, this and Mr Alex Tech. And Jay Lippman
That moment when you realize every tutorial told you to trupeak at -2 for YT and it was BS all along. Thank you for this.
As a beginner these videos are invaluable, thanks so much for explaining this 👍🏼
Thanks! Gonna try master for -14 LUFS. Usually I just sit the mix around -6 dB.
I too am graduating from "-6" rule of thumb as of this video! :-)
@@jonphebus6720 turns out my usual mixes between -18dB to -6dB are around -14 LUFS as far as I can tell after using Premieres Loudness Meter plugin a few times to check edits. So I didn’t have to change much.
Finally an explanation that fully covers how to check you final levels on TH-cam. Excellent work and thanks!
No problem! Just even that right click - analyze levels option is super handy. Thanks for watching.
Just watched several times to fully understand. Finally I know what the the meters at the top are for. Thank you. I've clicked the bell 😉
I’m an intermediate at DR. Having switched to it just a year ago. Been editing videos with a Video Toaster system for 25 years. It always annoyed me when my You Tube videos played back too low. I will try your process on my next project. Thanks, your doing a great job.
Video Toaster! I have heard of that, but it just predates my editing days. I think a lot of the silly transitions, like the star wipe, in this video came from that system if I'm not mistaken.
This is very helpful information . Thank you! I appreciate you taking the time to watch the tutorials.
@@CreativeVideoTips lol yup the Toaster :) I ran that to for a Second.
I started using DVR 16 in June 2020, I switched to DVR Studio in November 2020. I would say I’m at intermediate level. This video has shown me a few ways to speed up my audio processing. Thank you. I like the pace you go at. I also make DVR tutorials and teach at a slower pace than most. I much prefer watching tutorials where I don’t have to keep rewinding because they go to fast. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for sharing David. This is helpful feedback for sure. Figuring out pacing is so hard when you have a camera pointed at yourself! Hopefully it sounds like I might be improving with practice. Thanks so much for being part of the channel - I gotta check yours out.
@@CreativeVideoTips thank you so much. You can find my tutorial channel at: www.TH-cam.com/FuzzeeTutorials
Beginner level here having only used iMovie, Audacity, and garageband in a very amateurish, playing blindly with the dials kind of way:
THIS. IS. THE ULTIMATE VIDEO!
There are a lot out there, in particular for DavinciResolve and they are all decent but they all explain only portions of this which leads to accidentally clumsily over course correcting since you don’t know what to do first and why and then end up with distorted sound.
This was PERFECT!
Thanks a million so glad i accidentally pumped into this! Subscribed!
I thought I was intermediate, been then I watch your videos and know I'm just a newb!! Great stuff, audio is my cryptonite!!
This is just a nitch tip, I'm sure you are a solid intermediate. And this is super helpful info for me to try to not waste time teaching. Thank you so much for watching, I really appreciate it.
Awesome, totally love the tutorials, especially the clarity of instruction and pace, not too quick but fast enough to keep me interested. I’m an intermediate user of Resolve having used Final Cut, Avid and Premiere over the years. Really enjoying your great content, please keep up the good work, you are definitely up there with the best DaVinci tutors out there.
Thank you Paul, you certainly sound like a veteran having used all the apps! This is good for me to know so I can draw some parallels when it makes sense.
Thank you for the nice feedback. I’m enjoying teaching things I’ve been learning along the way.
Yep the pace is perfect as is the calmness of presentation style.
I'm a beginner, so I just found out that the default setting is too low (-23) after someone complained in a comment. Thanks for the video, this was more comprehensive that some that I watched and I'd rather learn a lot then just get a cookbook.
Thank you for this video. I'm a narrator so audio is literally integral to what I bring in my content. I recently listened to own my videos on my TV, and then listened to other creators in my genre and noticed I sounded audibly quieter than them - even though with headphones (DT770 Pro) I do not hear that difference. This video has helped me a bunch and taught me how to hear and visualize exactly what I need to adjust in my sound. Thanks so much. I'm feeling a lot more confident in this upcoming upload.
Glad it was helpful! I appreciate ya.
I use the same headphones as well. Just went through all my videos on TH-cam and realized how absurdly high I’ve mixed some 😳
You’re a great teacher of DaVinci Resolve. I love your fast pace and bite sized sections. Easy to follow and beautifully produced. Thanks so much.
Wow, thank you! That is extremely generous and kind. I have much more to come on the new features in version 18 in the coming weeks.
This video made a huge difference just before we exported our feature film to TH-cam. It's nice and loud now, and enjoyable and booming on a TV, which I've had trouble with in previous projects.
The limiter/gain technique helped us get us as close as possible to 0db on YT's "content loudness" without peaking. Thank you again Chadwick!
Coming from a home studio DAW background here, getting serious about video editing, and your tutorial was incredibly helpful. Thank you!
Hello, mate. New to your channel, and very new to DaVinci Resolve. Your videos are a HUGE help to me and my content creation! Thank you so much!
Great to hear! Thanks so much for the kind feedback. Don't hesitate to let me know your Resolve pain points so we can figure a fix out together.
I haven't even finished this video yet, and I'm pretty sure I've learned more about audio for video in 10 minutes, than I have in the last year. Glory to God! Thank You!
This is a great tutorial; thorough and we'll paced. As an absolute novice some of this went a bit over my head but I'll definitely come back to it before I upload my next video. Already slapped it into a new playlist to rewatch. Gotta get me that sweet -14!
Yes! That -14 LUFs, I got that in your head :). Thank so much for the feedback. It is looking like I will do some sort of beginner series in the coming months so for sure watch for that.
I really love this tutorial as so many people just focus on having you normalize the audio and honestly it does not sound so good afterwards thank you for this!
Thanks Mike, I really appreciate you watching.
Great video dude! Although in my experience I would rather have a quieter channel, however better balanced, instead of hitting those -14 LUFS at all costs, as when it comes to compression and limiting, audio and music sacrifice quality. The LUFS theory in TH-cam should actually work the same way as with Spotify and Co. meaning that audio/music if being louder, will be reduced in volume to their LUFS norm and if being quieter, pushed up to the norm. What I have realized that TH-cam doesn't do it at all, which sucks, so no matter what LUFS the videos will have, it will not reduce the quality, (only if being louder than -14 LUFS).
So my strategy is being around -23 LUFS, so I make sure that I don't have to use any additional processing like compressors, so I have still plenty of headroom to work with to make the video more "lifely" and more dynamic if I know that I want to create some exciting moments where things should be louder or quieter. If I try to hit -14 LUFS all the time, I couldn't do it, as -14 is already loud enough. So to summarize: I think it's far better to have a channel that has loudness consistency, rather than trying to aim for -14 LUFS at all costs, as well as that doesn't guarantee you any improvement of sound, only loudness.
I see a lot of channels which compress/limit like hell and it just sounds awful, as most of those people don't know how to use those compressors at all, as it's not only about threshold or ratio, as well as attack and release times, and then it can become were tricky at times and can produce a lot of frustration, especially when your room where you record doesn't sound good in terms of the acoustics and it starts to sound super "roomy". So it's often times better to ride the faders as you have mentioned instead of squashing the signals.
you're the GOAT i been looking for the past hour for a guide about this that didn't suck
This is incredible Chadwick! I've been editing videos for TH-cam for over a decade now and I've never seriously considered adding compression to my vocal tracks, I've always manipulated the volume via bus sliders or audio keyframes. The luf explanation, the decibel explanation...the techniques and tips you shared in this video is all gold my man. I wish I understood compression a bit better (even as a guitarist) but this is a good first step in the right direction for me. Infinite thanks for sharing this super useful information man.
I'm a super beginner at both resolve itself and video editing as a whole.
I'm learning on the fly to try and produce better content for my own youtube channel (not the one I'm commenting from). I love these tutorials as they are helping me to not have to spend so much time thinking about the mechanics of editing so I can start to learn the art of editing.
Love this! I'm glad you're here and learning to edit.
00:00 How to Mix Louder Videos for TH-cam with Resolve
00:38 TH-cam - Stas For Nerds
01:23 What are LUFs?
02:00 Loudness vs Peak RMS
02:44 Loudness vs Peak Normalization
04:47 Fairlight - Project Settings
05:11 Analyze Audio Levels
06:35 Compound Meters and True Peak
09:35 Mixing Strategies for Loudness
11:28 Limiter Plugin Effect
13:24 Loudness History Graph
For some reason, when I render audio as an mp3 or .wav - it drops the audio to a way lower audio level. I import the files to Resolve and it shows them 10db quieter. I could make them peaking and it will just compress them down to max -10db. I can't find the settings anywhere.
I STILL refer to this video often...Will you please consider updating this important topic to include the expanding audio metering options in Fairlight options?
Thanks Chadwick!
Thank you so much for your affords, sir)! Can you clarify please do we need to measure each track by meters or the entire project at once?
Intermediate Resolve user here. Love the way you showed different tools and explained everything alongside. Much appreciated!
Wow. So much useful information and guidance in this clip. Definitely worth watching it through a number of times. Great work.
Glad it was helpful! I really appreciate you Michael.
Beginner.
Also fun thing, many people say, that Davinci has no loudness calculation and they resort to other tools. Bouncing and analyzing is a very nice tip here! Thanks!
Learned a lot from this video alone
Great video! :)
But the compressor was a bit over cooked, because that monologue sounded a bit squashed (too loud breaths).
I would just let the limiter get me to the desired level in this case. ;)
I bougt Davinci in 2019. I have used Premier and Final Cut before. But I mostly work with audio (in Pro Tools).
Hey thanks Erik. Yes! for sure that was way overdone and too much signal was tossed out - not my best example, but hopefully, folks can understand the loudness meter concept.
Very cool to hear you're a Pro Tools guy. I could probably learn a lot from you.
Fabulous….I’ve always been slightly scared of the Fairlight tab and could never get my volume levels right without clipping. Both now solved, thanks very much, cheers, Phil.
You can do it! Thanks so much for watching.
I'm an intermediate beginner :) how does that sound? I just started, by making a video, then googling every step of the way
Thanks Chadwick, that was very helpful indeed. I have only been using Resolve for 3 months but have been creating TH-cam videos for 3 years so I'm beginner - intermediate.
Great to hear David. Can I ask what software you have switched over from?
@@CreativeVideoTips Hi Chadwick, I was using Pinnacle Studio Versions 22, 23 then 24. I started with that because it has Multicam Editor and can record a number of camera simultaneously 🙂
This was an epic explanation and what I was searching for on bringing audio levels into check. I'm still learning Resolve and always looking to improve my skills.
Thanks for the time and effort and look forward to learning about 18. Earned a new Sub!
Thank you for this clear and structured explanation. I'm a complete noob to video and audio production and I think I can finally upload a TH-cam video having halfway decent audio, thanks to you!
Beginner here, I love your videos and the way you explain! Thank you 🙏
After watching a bunch of videos on how to fix my audio in my videos I have to say that this is the best one I've seen yet. Thank you sir
As a small TH-camr who just found out his video was -10 content loudness and struggling with loudness, this video was a huge help. Subbed and thank you so much for your help!
This tutorial help finish a wedding video for my client. Sounds a lot more professional, thank you!
I love hearing that. Every little bit helps ;)
As a musician, audio engineer, and producer for over 30 years, I'm super glad you made this video because TH-cam creators' low/inconsistent volume levels are an absolutely angering, annoying epidemic!! Thank you. Subbed!
I'm a beginner to Davinci. I've only been using it about 6 months. Your channel has been so much help!! Thank you Chadwick!!
I’m making the switch to Resolve because I’m tired of paying the Adobe tax, and I appreciate the great tutorials you produce. Thanks!
I'm a total beginner. There is so much to learn, and I hate that I forget a lot of it. Thank you for this audio tutorial!
beginner here. I've never used these features, but I'll make sure to on my next edit. Very useful and clear video! thank you very much
Very cool, thanks so much for watching!
Beginner here, I didn't know about TH-cam LUFS, super easy explanation on how to use the Fairlight page. Great stuff, thanks!!
Thanks for the detailed breakdown Chadwick! I'm an intermediate Davinci Resolve user, and I realized recently that all my uploads seem too quiet when played on TH-cam. So I appreciate the tips!
As a beginner this has helped a lot, I've come back to this video many times already
In response to your question, I'm a new subscriber to your channel, and after publishing about 400 videos to TH-cam using iMovie, I finally got a Speed Editor and am converting my work to Davinci Resolve 17.6. I consider myself a beginner, and your videos have been very very helpful in the last few weeks. Thanks for asking!
I'm just a beginner, but this video was very helpful and easy to understand. I appreciate that you explained how TH-cam handles normalization and showed exactly where to find setting and graphs.
Intermediate. This video got recommended to me after I was feeling self conscious about my last video's levels. If the world ain't got me, TH-cam home page does. Great vid, thanks!
I've watched dozens of loudness tutorials for DaVinci Resolve and this one is the best I think. A lot of people skip over important information but you took the time to walk us though it.
I am a beginner and have saved this video, as I need to watch it at least 3 more times… Thank you.
Thanks for the instruction. I have had DaVinci for a total of 24 hours so far, with basically ZERO mixing experience. I've got a long, long way to go in both the recording and mixing processes for my TH-cam channel, but this video will be a huge help! Thanks again!
Thanks so much for the clear audio tips. Beginner Davinci user here, coming from iMovie. I'm finding getting the audio correct in Davinci the hardest part of Davinci. I much appreciate the clarity of your tips !
Glad it was helpful! Thanks so much for watching.
I'm a complete beginner, and a video like this, while some of it is a little confusing because I have a lot to learn, is still very helpful. I'm trying hard to figure out how I can make sure that I am hitting the audio sweet spot for TH-cam. Thanks for making this and keep 'em coming.
Chadwick. I'm a true beginner with DaVinci Resolve. Your instructional content has been a major factor in my skills acquisition. Love your teaching style and easy-going manner. Thank you!
Beginner. Finally a video I can follow at the right pace.
I'm a beginner with resolve and as a result of this video, a new subscriber to your channel. Thanks for your extremely helpful tips! 🙌🙌
Great video from my new source for all that is Davinci Audio . I have been a youtube creator for nearly five years now and you have finally shined the light on the reason why all my videos seem to be of lower volume than everybody else. You are the first person that has ever discussed the "target audio" settings. Bravo man and thanks for your help.
Been using DaVinci Resolve for about 4-5 months…. Your content has really been helpful along my journey of learning this program.
Pre-Beginner. But, I have to say, your pace is great. Thank you. Coming from 35 years radio veteran, who walked out a year ago from the on air stuff, to the streaming side of life. I know clear, keen, creative audio is key, because we learn by hearing. I never dove in the any of the technical side of radio/audio. Create, rip and read guy. So, all this is Greek geek to me. As I hear you and others, I wonder, If I will ever get a clue to what you are talking about and move up the scale of understanding. I realize, it's all about perseverance, and want-to and willing to fail in the learning curve. I fail almost daily. All this to say, again, thank you. Eventually I hope to grow in my skills as well. All the best to all.
35 years of radio experience! You are a gem of wisdom then. Thanks for being part of the channel. Happy holidays!
EXACTLY what I needed! My first time editing a long YT video; it had a wide variety of volumes having been filmed over five days with wind at times and different cameras. Thank you!
Great to hear! I've found it helpful to keep levels consistent from video to video. Thanks for watching!
Thank you so much for this tutorial. I've watched so many tutorials where the poster clearly doesn't understand the technical features of davinci resolve, so it's like the blind leading the blind. This was brilliant.
new to DVR, intermediate to video editing. I never understood why my videos were so quiet until now! excellent tutorial, thanks!
Beginner with 18.1.2 studio, still learning where things are and how to use them. This video is stretching me in a nice way. Thank you.
I'm a beginner-to-intermediate with DR, and much much more on the beginner side when it comes to audio. Thanks for the video, I know I'll have to watch it a few more times while I'm working on a project to try to implement some of this fine advice. Thanks.
This tutorial was sooo helpful. I knew nothing about mixing audio, but I think the tips in here has helped me improve my audio quality. Thank you!
I'm a beginner, still figuring out what all those buttons are for. Your tutorial was very helpful and pleasant to watch. Thanks!
Beginner here. I think this video was a bit above my knowledge base. When you said ‘dynamic range’ when explained the compressor feature, I know what you meant but it think it could have been helpful to explain what it means. Specially with a tutorial like this one, packed with way too much information.
Amazing video by the way!!
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Chadwick, brother, I really appreciate your approach. Nice pace and right to the point. You've edited things down just right, so we get the info and aren't wading through a presenter stammering over an explanation. You also give a little space for us to digest what you're saying. This video is one of your better cuts. I've watched many of yours. Thank you for sharing what you know. I am grateful.
Thank you so much for this constructive and kind feedback. I've been trying to improve the teaching and so it's great to hear this. I'm very thankful for you taking the time to click and watch.
This is by far the best tutorial on getting the audio right in Resolve, really helped me. Thanks for putting all this together with a very clear explanation.
And in response to your question at the end - I am a beginner. Well, been using it for about a year and getting up close and personal with fairlight now :) Thanks!
Audio is truly the most important part of a video. Thank you for the detailed video
I had looked for a lot of different explainer videos before but I couldn't understand them until I watched yours, which is great
Great to hear!
Great tutorial. Thank you. I just started making videos for TH-cam, as well as using Resolve. My first four videos featured the raw, unmodified audio. I didn't know any better. Someone commented that I could stand to raise the volume a bit, which sent me down the whole Fairlight rabbit hole, and your video did an excellent job of helping me understand the tools available. I've still got tons to learn, and this tutorial was a great incremental step in building my knowledge base. Thank you!
From all the videos called „every (TH-camr) needs to see this“ - this one would truly deserve it. Audio levels are the thing that is taken care about the least I feel like. Great video, very educative.
Intermediate here btw, seen enough basic stuff from Casey Farris etc and hardly finding intermediate videos like this one tbh.
Wow, thank you!
I’m just barely intermediate. Your content and expertise is greatly appreciated. Thanks so much
thank you so much, I knew my videos were too low - I did set the LUFS to -14 at some point but something must have happened and it reset to -23 - with the meter in RELATIVE mode I did not have visibility of that. I also was not aware of the TP requirement so I am making some adjustments! Clear and useful video!
Call me “beginner plus.” 😊 I would be intermediate on consumer grade video editors, but DaVinci is SO much more complex! Your tutorials definitely provide excellent tips for constant improvement. Thanks!
Holy F. I'm going to be watching this video every single time I edit until I have it down. Thank you so much for this.
From one Chadwick to another, this is a GREAT video! I switched to DaVinci Resolve from APP in January 2023 and I haven't looked back. The ease and sophistication of editing in DR has freed me up to be more creative and experimental when making my videos, knowing that I won't have to FIGHT to get stuff done in APP. It's truly remarkable how much better of an experience DR is. This audio tutorial will help me put that extra-polished finishing touch on my videos. Thank you for your great work!
I right clicked your video: "content loudness -0.9dB"! Well done mate! :)
I'm still in the early stages of learning how to properly edit the audio in my TH-cam videos and I found this tutorial extremely helpful. Thank you for explaining what all the features do and mean. I definitely learned a lot of new stuff from watching this video and I'm about to go apply it to the project I'm currently working on. Cheers!
I was wondering why my videos sound so quiet even when I kept the recommended decibal levels for youtube at around the suggested levels. Only after watching this video I've learned that "loudness" was a thing. Thank you so much for the simple explanation! And of course, I am a beginner, standing at only 3 videos, 3 very quiet videos. But the next one is not gonna be that quiet :)
This is the hands down the best video on audio for DaVinci on TH-cam. I have seen so much approximate stuff in other videos but yours is golden! Thank you!
Thanks man! This was exactly what I was looking for but it wasn’t showing up on my search. Instead it showed up later as a recommended video. I appreciate you sharing your knowledge and skills. 🙏
I am a novice at Resolve. The only audio program that I have used is Audacity. I will have to view this video many times to assimilate your instruction on increasing the volume on videos. Thank you for doing a fine job of explaining this function.
Beginner coming from Premiere. Speed editor should arrive tomorrow. Found your channel, and I am really appreciating your work. Well done. Great personality and education.
Welcome aboard! You're going to have some fun with that new tool. I really appreciate you taking your time to watch. I'm just super stoked to get to share what I'm learning along with you.
Dude, I just ran into this video.... I am going to have to watch it again...... very good stuff.
The info in your tutorials is way above my pay grade, but very inspiring, informative and exceptionally well presented.
Im a beginner in resolve and the really helped my audio. I have multiple audio track in my vid and this tutorial really brought it some balance. Thanks for your hard work as creating youtube vids is not easy
Chadwick, awesome tips on DaVinci! I’ve recently started my DaVinci journey on my iPad Pro M1. I’ve been working with LumaFusion prior for the past few years, with about 8 years of tutorial video creations for product my employment offers. With DaVinci and your great tips, I’m hoping to step up my creativity, and raise the bar on what I can offer. Thank you again for your videos!
Hey Chadwick, thank you for these tutorials! They are super handy and helpful for me as I learn my way through DaVinici Resolve.
I believe I'm intermediate on my skill set. I'm coming from Final Cut 7 & 10 (college years) and Adobe Premiere Pro CC for 10 years working with my church. Then in 2021 I moved to DaVinici Resolve 18 for free. I am now completely working in DaVinici Resolve 18 and teaching the other volunteers how to use the free version.
I came to Resolve from Lightworks in March 2023 - I have never looked back. I love your pacing and your natural way of speaking. Your work flow is super logical and you give us enough time to digest what you're saying and doing as you go (unlike the coke fueled presenters so ubiquitous on the you tubes!)
That was actually more interesting and useful than I had expected. I've been doing videos for a long time (not many, but spread out over two decades or so) and I've always neglected the audio side, brushing up my skills there now. This was cool.
I'm an intermediate user of Resolve, I know my way around fairly well but I always feel like I haven't learned it "properly" and I might be missing some good handy functions. I find your videos are great for filling in those gaps in knowledge! Great channel