The most common reason in my experience is an unbelievably annoying bug that still exists in Resolve. All you have to do is relaunch Resolve and open your project for it to clear up. Maybe one day they'll fix this (along with FX randomly dropping off audio clips, which persists after several versions now).
A restart usually fixes it because it will update the output device to the current output device. Instead of restarting, you can go into Preferences, System at the top, Video and Audio I/O on the left, then down to Audio I/O and just change the output. Hit save and you're done, it should work. A restart does basically the same thing.
Phenominal. It's frusterating to go to work on a project and wind up spending an hour trouble shooting instead, but this video not only solved my issue, it helped me understand the software better! Thank you XD
Just figured out a FIX (apologies if this was mentioned and I missed it). If you're playing back and the audio is cutting in and out, going left to right, or just not playing after a few seconds, go to PLAYBACK > DELETE RENDER CACHE > ALL. Worked for me right away!
You saved my sanity. I've been struggling with this all day. It was the volume selector on the inspector. WHY IS THE DEFAULT ZERO!!! Thank you. Now I can get to work tomorrow.
Guys, i was so frustrated with the whole issue and not even this video was able to help me! The issue I found out is that, when you use Windows 11, make sure that the "Windows Sonic for Headphones" is unchecked when working with DaVinci... Great Video anyways!
The most honest graphic program DaVinci review in history: 30+ minutes instruction of about: "18 very important thing to do", just only to U can have any sounds :)
When an audio clip doesn't have any sound even when you test in the imported media section, try the following: - Right-click on the clip in the Media section - Click replace the selected clip - Pick the exact file from the file selector This is useful when you test the mp3 file outside Davinci Resolve and it works but sound was lost when in Davinci.
If I can add my two cents here, when working with an MP4 file, if you once had sound, and suddenly lose it after generating proxy media, unlinking proxy media will bring it back. I recently imported a batch of MP4 video files and this exact scenario occurred. No issues with MOV thankfully.
It's talked about in this video and it was what worked for me. If you're on a Windows system then most likely it's this: System/Sound/Volume Mixer... Look down at DaVinci Resolve and if it's crossed out it's muted. Simply 'Unmute Davici Sound'.
Bravo!! I was wasted from working on my taxes, and when I went into DR for relief, I suddenly find no volume. But I got volume from TH-cam, so it likely had to be something in DR. I watched you TH-cam, and what do you know, something stupid that I never touch...the volume was muted. Quick fix. Back to taxes. Owed the gov money, but DR was back working. Thank you. In my wasted state, I probably would have wasted more time looking for mor complicated problems.
Thank you. My problem was that I was sending it to my sound interface and the computer was using it too. What fixed it was to use system's sound rather than selecting the interface
I edited a video a week ago and I wanted to do the voice over. I pluged my earphones to record my voice. Couldn't understand why I had sound only on certain clips! Well to my big surprise and thanks to this video, I unpluged my earphones and it now works fine. Sometimes, technology is a mystery !
I like that you included that little bit about windows specifically. And just in general how you use your experience with both os's to really help people and not just be informative to just Mac, or just Windows. Thanks!
You’re welcome! Most of the times from what I see the problems are on the PC side. I thought it only makes sense to include everybody in this video. One stop shop hopefully 😜 thank you for watching!
I have the following problem: i import the clip on davinci resolve but when i put it in the timeline the audio part doesn't show waveforms at all. I tried changing the clip format, i tried changing every setting of the audio indicated in this video, in davinci resolve and on the computer but there is no way. I'm desperate, i spent several hours on this and I have no idea about what to do. I have a brand new computer that is an hp15s with windows 11 home installed and the version i have of davinci resolve is 18.1.4 please🤕
In 18.6, my Patch Input/Output had no options for Audio Outputs. For anyone having this issue, read ahead for how I fixed it. I closed and opened Da Vinci Resolve and then it showed "Digital Audio (S/PDIF)" as my only option which doesn't output to my headphones. But my headphones did show up in Preferences/Video Audio IO/Output device, so I switched it from "Use system settings" to my headphones and that fixed the issue. Pretty strange that it mis-read my system settings. I wouldn't have figured that out without this video, thanks!
what actually worked for me was updating from 18 to 18.6.4 restarting, upgrading my project database and changing the io source accordingly. this was def not the experience i was expecting but im glad i got it working. thank you for posting this extensive review.
Awesome, thank you! For whatever reason Davinci decided it was going to send audio to output 9/10 of my interface instead of 1/2 where it’s been forever lol. Could not figure out where that setting was so this video is much appreciated!
@ 11:35 solution described, problem fixed. So frustrating how Resolve automatically and randomly changes settings. This has happened many times using Resolve Studio since version 15. Hate wasting time trying to fix things that were previously working. Thank you for creating this helpful video 🙌🏻
I took a video using my iPhone and converted the MOV file to MP4 using VLC. The MP4 video runs fine in VLC but I couldn't get a waveform on the audio clip when dragged to DaVinci. I tried all your suggestions to no avail .. then I remembered you mentioned Handbrake. So I took the MOV file and used Handbrake to encode to MP4. Now DaVinci shows the waveform. Thanks!
15:13 I had two audio tracks in my timeline. I muted one so I could only hear the other. When I unmuted it the sound didn't come back on. I was ready to join the bald side. After watching, I looked and the mix fader was all the way down 🤷♂ Thanks for the tip!
WOW!!!!! This video really saved the day! Not only because it provided exactly the steps I needed to take to restore the sound in DaVinci Resolve. But it was the positive attitude and energy of the video which kept me trying when the first couple of steps didn't work. It was the step of going to the Preferences and then clicking off "automatic speaker configuration" and then following the steps after that (Setting "Layout" "Output" for "Left" and "Right.") (Not sure relevant to share...but then when I went back I just clicked the "automatic speaker configuration" "off" and "on" and it also worked. Why bothered? Wasn't quite sure I had indicated the correct "output"). But the main reason for writing this comment is to communicate just how terrific it was to feel so frustrated (and worse) not to be able to hear the sound on DaVinci Resolve when it had worked perfectly last time I used it for - - and then to have somebody be so patient and thorough with every single step so that I could follow it!!!! Felt major major major relief and JOY!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wasn't finding the answers elsewhere and so if you hadn't taken the trouble I'd be totally stuck! Very very grateful that you took the time to share your expertise!!!!! Sandra
i attempted to record voice in davinci resolve fairlight but encountered issues. if you face a similar problem, try disconnecting external earphones, microphones, and headphones. check if the voice recording works with the system's built-in microphone and speakers. if it does, the problem likely lies with the external devices. in my case, I was using zebronics headphones with a detachable voice recorder, which I had removed previously without realizing it. consequently, the recording wasn't functioning with the zebronics headphones because the recorder wasn't connected. i only realized this oversight when I observed that recording without external devices worked fine. this highlights the importance of ‘separation of concerns’. after reconnecting the external microphone recorder to the zebronics headphones, the voice recording functioned as expected.
Thank you so much, my audio stopped working in middle of editing and I was going crazy, as I tried everything and didn’t work. Watched your video for 5min and fixed 🙌🏻🙌🏻
Thanks! My dumb ass had it muted in the edit tab. Sad to say it took me about an hour to get to this point. Literally checked everything except for that. Working great now! Thanks again!
Amazing job, your explanation for each step was spot on and very helpful, I watched the whole video just to find that DaVinci Resolve was not supporting my mp4 file for some reason, but I was able to easily convert it to an mpk file, and now it works! Idk if this is helpful to anyone, but thanks for the help Jason!
Ugh. I have *.mkv files and am converting them into *.mp4. His list says they should be supported. If not, DaVinci is useless to me. When my stream crashes, I have to meld files together, and my MKVToolNix turns out *.mkv files. It's already a pain having to convert those. 😭
The audio issue I'm running into is that the video has audio and it plays but when I generates proxies it removes the audio. There's an audio track but the wave forms flatline and can't hear a thing.
My last audio problem was because I normally access by studio computer by remote desktop, so I had Davinci preferences set to system audio rather than the audio interface that I use for mic and monitoring when shooting video. I opened Davinci on the studio computer though and although I could hear everything fine in Audacity I couldn't hear my clips in Davinci. I finally figured it out and set it to my audio interface. Later, when I connected remotely I couldn't hear audio again, but fortunately I remembered being able to select i/o device in the preferences.
So that is a wealth of things I could have never discovered on my own but what finally fixed it for me was dragging the clip to the timeline instead of the right click add thing. With the exceedingly amazing capability of DR I guess a glitch once in a while is a small price to pay. I do have Studio Version 18.5 and the Speed Editor Keyboard and highly recommend both but had to put a new NVidia GPU in to get it running. Thanks Jason!
Terrific. I was 3 minutes into your video and saw your lists of compatible formats. I'd been using OBS to record sound in MKV (which OBS recommends) then using VLC to convert that to 'MP3 (MP4)'. DaVinci hated this, so I tried setting the audio output in OBS to plain MP4 and DaVinci cheered up straight away, both my gameplay and commentary appeared on seperate tracks just as I'd wanted.
My audio isn't playing in fairlight, like it won't unpause and play. Followed everything and still having problems. It has waveforms, the bus output is bus 1, the preferences are set up to my headphone output. Not sure what my problem is.
Very strange, if it's just a playback issue, I'd try a restart first. Then I might adjust some of the playback settings to make it easier on your system and see if that helps.
sorry nothing worked. What did work on PC was holding ALT and duplicating my video source. Then my orginal video had audio again... so i just deleted the new one.
Amazing tips! Saved me tons of frustrations as soundless effect didn't stop at a few tips. Hence, CoPilot, OpenAI, Gemini were all hopeless. I did up to tip 18 or 19 and found the simple solution from your tips: simply turned on the BT speaker (understanding not recommended by Jason) prior to signing in DaVinci. Voila! Problem solved. Thanks a lot Jason. As a novice, I much enjoy your shows (and Casey's) the way you talked, and the information you presented. Best!
Thank you so much bless you. I was having problems and actually wanted to pull my hair out, but i watched this video and it started working. Earned a new sub :D
OMG YOU FIXED IT THANK YOU SO MUCH!! It doesn't recognize my headphones as a thing that exists, I guess. Then because it had attempted to connect to them and panicked, it wouldn't connect to anything else either and needed to be manually set in preferences. I never would have figured that out lol 10/10 video, can now hear sound :D
For WINDOWS users: Weirdly happened again today. Had to close Resolve, restart computer and re-open Resolve and switch preferences in resolve back to my usual setting TV speakers. For some reason it had defaulted back to realtek audio device when restarted. Before it looked as if everything was as it should be (tv speakers selected etc) but clearly wasn't. Anyway I'm just putting this here for posterity - may help other Windows users.
Thanks very much. In my case, after setting everything right in my Windows settings (Beringer UMC202HD External Sound card), In Resolve under "Audio I/O" / I/O Engine, I had to choose "System Audio " and all was fine again!
So much thank you my friend. 🙏 I’m using Bluetooth headphones. (Not for long now) and closing and opening Resolve AFTER the headphones connect was the fix that worked for me. I appreciate you.
TL:DR - If all else fails, restart your program and/your computer and the audio should work normally. I had this issue with the previous version of Resolve (18.5.0 or something) and I thought if I upgraded to the (at this time) current version 18.6.5 then it would solve my issue. It didn't. I then used these videos to try and fix my audio problem. Nothing worked. So I closed out the program and started it again and now I have audio.
Have you ever run into audio cutting in and out randomly? As an audio person I am losing my mind with this I have gone over all the usual suspects but it seems to be the clip. Not the actual clip but when it cuts out I go back a few seconds and play again and its there but then gone somewhere else. I would bouce but it shows up there too. ughh this is why I left premiere
I would say maybe it’s just a playback issue, I’d try deleting the render cache for the project, try dropping it into a new track, maybe try it in a new project too. Also just give everything a restart to see if that helps. I’d also check the sample rate of the project and see if that matches the clip sample rate and the speaker sample rate. Next I’d try converting the file with something like handbrake to see if that helps. Hopefully one of those helps.
Weird, I could hear the audio when I just played the video. I put the files in Real Player re-converted to MP4 and now DaVinci Resolve 18 hears the sound... something to do with the sound in the original file? Anyhow it worked!
I fixed my issue by right clicking the speaker logo within resolve (The one you click to mute/unmute on the right side above the mixer) and then noticed that the volume was set to zero, so I brought it up to 100%. It's kind of stupid that it shows sound levels playing even when this slider is set to zero.
@@JasonYadlovski video is also offline medi, after apply hevc extension vedio start playing but sound is not .. 2 sound track is showing without graph only straight lines ... my hours are wasted but sound problem is not solved... please help
Great video, very very thorough, left no stone unturned. However, there is one thing I found that caused this no audio with video problem, of course it's on a winblows machine, and that is the actual file itself. While it will play on your computer with sound just fine it will not have sound in Davinci Resolve 18, maybe even earlier versions too. So here's what happened. I downloaded a TikTok video to edit and remix, so far it hasn't mattered how I downloaded it there was no audio in Davinci Resolve 18. I tried exporting the file unchanged, and the exported file had no sound also. Not sure what is happening here yet. Maybe sommeone here can figure it out. To get the audio I had to view it in VLC, strip the audio out, import the audio into Davinci Resolve 18 and sync it to the original video and mute the original audio track, just to be safe that it wouldn't later interfere. So since all other view players have audio with these clips, there must be a bug or probelm with Davinci Resolve 18.
I'm not familiar with the correct terms so excuse me ahead of time. I've been experiencing a weird issue that prevents me from hearing audio at all when I'm navigating through the clips with the orange pointer, even though when I let the footage play I hear the audio fine. I've tried to fix this problem with reinstalling the software altogether and searching for the solution to the best of my abilities, but nothing has worked. please help me with this issue if you can
Hey! Sounds like you want to turn on Audio Scrubbing. Go to Timeline at the top, then down to Audio Scrubbing and make sure it's checked on. That should do it.
You havent been super active recently, I hope you are alright😁! Been here before like 8k subscribers. Anyways, I have been working on an edit in davinci, I was just wondering if there is any way to check how long you have spent editing a video, in statistics or something like that.
Thanks for being part of the community for so long! It’s been a crazy few weeks for me, a couple of my kiddos have been sick and I haven’t been able to make videos and get in the studio. Sometimes life gets a little busy and crazy. 😜 i’m hoping to hit the ground running this week again and get back on track. I don’t think there’s any way to look at your stats although I’ve never really checked around for something like that. If I come across it, I’ll make a video about it.
It might be wrong file format. Was working with .mp4 and the sound wasn't working (I couldn't even see the soundwaves). I converted it to .mov and now it works and I can see the soundwaves. 😐
That's a bummer, but on the bright side, you found the fix! and next time you''ll know what to check since you saw all of the other tips. 😜 Guaranteed it will happen again at some point.
Do you have another output device connected to your computer? Maybe try giving resolve a restart if you connected the extra audio device after Resolve was opened. I don't think it's a studio vs free version thing....🤔
Great video THANK YOU. Mien was working perfectly yesterday and didn't work today and I'd changed nothing. Turned out to be preferences Audio I/O. You're a saviour! Thanks again Jason.
Thanks for this man. Appreciate it very much as I almost pulled my hair out. 😅 it was the Bluetooth for me. I was using my AirPods and I couldn't hear anything.
sir can u pls help me.......recently since past few days whenever i add any video the audio doesn't play now i checked everything as per this video and all looks good but still no progress.....additionally when i try to play my audio through fairlight it doesn't play at all not like just playing and only audio is not there but nothing plays at all not even like my timeline progresses the line just stays still wt should i do 😭😭😭😭😭😭.......pls help
Are you seeing the meters move? Also double check in preferences - system - video and audio I/o that your source is set correctly. If you're on PC, people have had issues in your system settings where Resolve was muted. Scroll through the comments too, others have left fixes for them that I did't mention...
i cant even see the waveforms and im not sure what to do, its only when i download tiktoks and put them in there, the video works and the audio is fine when i just play it on my computer but when i put it into davinci it has no sound
I would double check the settings in preferences for audio outputs, that’s typically the culprit. If you don’t see, waveforms, it could be because the wrong audio channel is selected on the clip itself, right click on the Clips, go to clip attributes, go to the audio section, and see what he’s being output to the right and left channels. Also, double check that the file is compatible with resolve, if it’s not, you can convert it and then bring it in.
@@JasonYadlovski so i went to the clip attributes and there was no left or right audio it says mono where on my other clips that do work it says stereo, the clip is in mp4 which is what all my other clips are in so im not sure what the deal is but i think i will just record them with Geforce experience thank you for the help
OK Thank you. Hrs lost to windows muting da Vinci. I never would have found that setting without your video. Love your BIG WHITE HORSE you rode in on to save my a**. Killer man Cheers.
You have just saved my life thanks so much for this great video mate I've spent all morning trying to get the sound back on my project But thanks to you all is well in my world again
The most common reason in my experience is an unbelievably annoying bug that still exists in Resolve. All you have to do is relaunch Resolve and open your project for it to clear up. Maybe one day they'll fix this (along with FX randomly dropping off audio clips, which persists after several versions now).
A restart usually fixes it because it will update the output device to the current output device. Instead of restarting, you can go into Preferences, System at the top, Video and Audio I/O on the left, then down to Audio I/O and just change the output. Hit save and you're done, it should work. A restart does basically the same thing.
This worked for me! Thanks!
Yep that was all it needed.
Tysm, I was really confused because I was hearing it in Video Player but not in DR.
The same bug exists on the iPad, pro version of da Vinci resolve. Re-opening the app also seems to Fix it on that platform.
Phenominal. It's frusterating to go to work on a project and wind up spending an hour trouble shooting instead, but this video not only solved my issue, it helped me understand the software better! Thank you XD
You're welcome!
Just figured out a FIX (apologies if this was mentioned and I missed it). If you're playing back and the audio is cutting in and out, going left to right, or just not playing after a few seconds, go to PLAYBACK > DELETE RENDER CACHE > ALL. Worked for me right away!
Great! Yeah that Render Cache gets all kinds of clogged up and takes up tons of space if you don't clear it out from time to time. Thanks for sharing!
You saved my sanity. I've been struggling with this all day. It was the volume selector on the inspector. WHY IS THE DEFAULT ZERO!!! Thank you. Now I can get to work tomorrow.
Guys, i was so frustrated with the whole issue and not even this video was able to help me! The issue I found out is that, when you use Windows 11, make sure that the "Windows Sonic for Headphones" is unchecked when working with DaVinci... Great Video anyways!
Thank you for sharing your fix! As a Mac guy, I wouldn't have found that one, but it could help a lot of people. Thanks! 😁
Number 5 worked for me. Had my speakers at 192,000hz then set to 48,000hz and worked instantly. Shoots thanks man.
Man, just..... thanks.
You saved my LAST 5 hairs.
Merry Christmas!
Glad this video helped! Merry Christmas! 🎄
"bus 1" did it for me. Thanks for the great advice! :)
The most honest graphic program DaVinci review in history: 30+ minutes instruction of about: "18 very important thing to do", just only to U can have any sounds :)
Haha, most of the time you shouldn’t have a problem and she worked just fine. But if you do run into a problem, here’s some fixes. 😜
I want to thank you for saving my sanity today! Not every hero wears a cape. :D Gracias!
You’re welcome! 😜🦸♂️
When an audio clip doesn't have any sound even when you test in the imported media section, try the following:
- Right-click on the clip in the Media section
- Click replace the selected clip
- Pick the exact file from the file selector
This is useful when you test the mp3 file outside Davinci Resolve and it works but sound was lost when in Davinci.
THIS!!!
Still dont working, ive tried everything and resolve doesnt get the audio. Its a MP4 format, mono
it doesnt work .. i have the same issue but doesnt work... it has audio in m video player and loses audio (empty) when i insert in davinci...
@@_ok2073 Go to a online converter and convert the video to mp4 (even if it's already mp4). Then it will work.
@@Rippli679 Go to a online converter and convert the video to mp4 (even if it's already mp4). Then it will work.
If I can add my two cents here, when working with an MP4 file, if you once had sound, and suddenly lose it after generating proxy media, unlinking proxy media will bring it back. I recently imported a batch of MP4 video files and this exact scenario occurred. No issues with MOV thankfully.
Thanks for sharing!
It's talked about in this video and it was what worked for me. If you're on a Windows system then most likely it's this: System/Sound/Volume Mixer... Look down at DaVinci Resolve and if it's crossed out it's muted. Simply 'Unmute Davici Sound'.
Bravo!! I was wasted from working on my taxes, and when I went into DR for relief, I suddenly find no volume. But I got volume from TH-cam, so it likely had to be something in DR. I watched you TH-cam, and what do you know, something stupid that I never touch...the volume was muted. Quick fix. Back to taxes. Owed the gov money, but DR was back working. Thank you. In my wasted state, I probably would have wasted more time looking for mor complicated problems.
Glad you found the fix and it was easy! Doing taxes is no fun, I don’t enjoy it either. 😜👍
Yippee!!! #19 worked for me! Thank you!!!
Sweet! 👍
Thank you. My problem was that I was sending it to my sound interface and the computer was using it too. What fixed it was to use system's sound rather than selecting the interface
Thank you! That DR preferences setting helped me get sound.
You're welcome!
I edited a video a week ago and I wanted to do the voice over. I pluged my earphones to record my voice. Couldn't understand why I had sound only on certain clips! Well to my big surprise and thanks to this video, I unpluged my earphones and it now works fine. Sometimes, technology is a mystery !
Glad you were able to figure it out!
I like that you included that little bit about windows specifically. And just in general how you use your experience with both os's to really help people and not just be informative to just Mac, or just Windows. Thanks!
You’re welcome! Most of the times from what I see the problems are on the PC side. I thought it only makes sense to include everybody in this video. One stop shop hopefully 😜 thank you for watching!
Lifesaver as always!
Happy to help!
@@JasonYadlovski Lemme know if I can ever return the favor somehow. Your videos constantly save my editing lol.
I have the following problem: i import the clip on davinci resolve but when i put it in the timeline the audio part doesn't show waveforms at all.
I tried changing the clip format, i tried changing every setting of the audio indicated in this video, in davinci resolve and on the computer but there is no way. I'm desperate, i spent several hours on this and I have no idea about what to do. I have a brand new computer that is an hp15s with windows 11 home installed and the version i have of davinci resolve is 18.1.4
please🤕
Try clearing out your cache file, location, if it’s full, resolve might not create the waveforms.
@@JasonYadlovski how i do that?
Here’s a video how to do it: th-cam.com/video/czNHR2hm5FI/w-d-xo.html
My audio stops playing if I leave resolve open and don't work on it for 30 mins or so. I have to restart the program. So annoying.
In 18.6, my Patch Input/Output had no options for Audio Outputs. For anyone having this issue, read ahead for how I fixed it. I closed and opened Da Vinci Resolve and then it showed "Digital Audio (S/PDIF)" as my only option which doesn't output to my headphones. But my headphones did show up in Preferences/Video Audio IO/Output device, so I switched it from "Use system settings" to my headphones and that fixed the issue. Pretty strange that it mis-read my system settings. I wouldn't have figured that out without this video, thanks!
the audio isn't showing in flairlight but showing in cut and edit tab
By audio, do you mean the waveforms?
what actually worked for me was updating from 18 to 18.6.4 restarting, upgrading my project database and changing the io source accordingly. this was def not the experience i was expecting but im glad i got it working. thank you for posting this extensive review.
Glad you got it working. 👍
Awesome, thank you! For whatever reason Davinci decided it was going to send audio to output 9/10 of my interface instead of 1/2 where it’s been forever lol. Could not figure out where that setting was so this video is much appreciated!
Awesome, glad you figured it out! 😁👍
@ 11:35 solution described, problem fixed. So frustrating how Resolve automatically and randomly changes settings. This has happened many times using Resolve Studio since version 15. Hate wasting time trying to fix things that were previously working. Thank you for creating this helpful video 🙌🏻
I took a video using my iPhone and converted the MOV file to MP4 using VLC. The MP4 video runs fine in VLC but I couldn't get a waveform on the audio clip when dragged to DaVinci. I tried all your suggestions to no avail .. then I remembered you mentioned Handbrake. So I took the MOV file and used Handbrake to encode to MP4. Now DaVinci shows the waveform. Thanks!
23:20 moving the sound to another track is what worked for me! Thank you!!!
Great!
15:13 I had two audio tracks in my timeline. I muted one so I could only hear the other. When I unmuted it the sound didn't come back on. I was ready to join the bald side. After watching, I looked and the mix fader was all the way down 🤷♂ Thanks for the tip!
Glad you got it fixed and working!
Thank you bro turns out i just needed to change the output. You`ve definitely earn my sub :)
Awesome, you're welcome!
WOW!!!!! This video really saved the day! Not only because it provided exactly the steps I needed to take to restore the sound in DaVinci Resolve. But it was the positive attitude and energy of the video which kept me trying when the first couple of steps didn't work. It was the step of going to the Preferences and then clicking off "automatic speaker configuration" and then following the steps after that (Setting "Layout" "Output" for "Left" and "Right.") (Not sure relevant to share...but then when I went back I just clicked the "automatic speaker configuration" "off" and "on" and it also worked. Why bothered? Wasn't quite sure I had indicated the correct "output"). But the main reason for writing this comment is to communicate just how terrific it was to feel so frustrated (and worse) not to be able to hear the sound on DaVinci Resolve when it had worked perfectly last time I used it for - - and then to have somebody be so patient and thorough with every single step so that I could follow it!!!! Felt major major major relief and JOY!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wasn't finding the answers elsewhere and so if you hadn't taken the trouble I'd be totally stuck! Very very grateful that you took the time to share your expertise!!!!! Sandra
Awesome! Glad the video was helpful! Thank you for hour kind words Sandra, I'm glad Resolve is working good for you now. All the best! 😁
Very thorough analysis and will definitely resolve the issue (it resolved it for me)! Well done and thank you very much!!!
Glad it helped!
i attempted to record voice in davinci resolve fairlight but encountered issues. if you face a similar problem, try disconnecting external earphones, microphones, and headphones. check if the voice recording works with the system's built-in microphone and speakers. if it does, the problem likely lies with the external devices.
in my case, I was using zebronics headphones with a detachable voice recorder, which I had removed previously without realizing it. consequently, the recording wasn't functioning with the zebronics headphones because the recorder wasn't connected. i only realized this oversight when I observed that recording without external devices worked fine.
this highlights the importance of ‘separation of concerns’. after reconnecting the external microphone recorder to the zebronics headphones, the voice recording functioned as expected.
Thanks so much for sharing, I’m glad you were able to figure it out. Hopefully this will help somebody else out there too.
Thank you sir. My head of hair has been saved😅
Thank you so much, my audio stopped working in middle of editing and I was going crazy, as I tried everything and didn’t work. Watched your video for 5min and fixed 🙌🏻🙌🏻
Awesome, glad I could help get you back on track! Best of luck on the project!
Thanks! My dumb ass had it muted in the edit tab. Sad to say it took me about an hour to get to this point. Literally checked everything except for that. Working great now! Thanks again!
Amazing job, your explanation for each step was spot on and very helpful, I watched the whole video just to find that DaVinci Resolve was not supporting my mp4 file for some reason, but I was able to easily convert it to an mpk file, and now it works! Idk if this is helpful to anyone, but thanks for the help Jason!
Awesome, glad the video was helpful! Appreciate you watching!
Ugh. I have *.mkv files and am converting them into *.mp4. His list says they should be supported. If not, DaVinci is useless to me. When my stream crashes, I have to meld files together, and my MKVToolNix turns out *.mkv files. It's already a pain having to convert those. 😭
The audio issue I'm running into is that the video has audio and it plays but when I generates proxies it removes the audio. There's an audio track but the wave forms flatline and can't hear a thing.
@WolfsHaven Did you figure out a solution? Dealing with this rn.
@@Scope_of_Vision I did not. I wound up editing that project without proxies. Not fun.
when I got desperate, restarting the computer helped. so thank you bro 🙏
Great!
Took me all the way to 23:18 but you got me up and running thanks man!
The waveforms!!! That was my problem. Thank you soo much buddie!!!
You bet!
It was the "reset UI layout that worked", thanks for the video!
Glad it helped!
My last audio problem was because I normally access by studio computer by remote desktop, so I had Davinci preferences set to system audio rather than the audio interface that I use for mic and monitoring when shooting video. I opened Davinci on the studio computer though and although I could hear everything fine in Audacity I couldn't hear my clips in Davinci. I finally figured it out and set it to my audio interface. Later, when I connected remotely I couldn't hear audio again, but fortunately I remembered being able to select i/o device in the preferences.
Glad you figured it out! Yeah, Resolve likes to change outputs sometimes, that's always the first thing I check and is usually the problem.
I checked everything mentioned in this video and found nothing wrong. What did was shutdown and restart the software and bingo it worked!
I WAS SO CONFUSED MAN, WENT THROUGHT THE ENTIRE VIDEO THEN I FINALLY UPDATE MY LAPTOP WHICH I JUST BOUGHT AD BOOM EVERYTHING WORKS. THANKS!!!
Glad you got it working!
So that is a wealth of things I could have never discovered on my own but what finally fixed it for me was dragging the clip to the timeline instead of the right click add thing.
With the exceedingly amazing capability of DR I guess a glitch once in a while is a small price to pay.
I do have Studio Version 18.5 and the Speed Editor Keyboard and highly recommend both but had to put a new NVidia GPU in to get it running.
Thanks Jason!
😁👍
Thank you. Your video helped me so much.
You're welcome!
Terrific. I was 3 minutes into your video and saw your lists of compatible formats. I'd been using OBS to record sound in MKV (which OBS recommends) then using VLC to convert that to 'MP3 (MP4)'. DaVinci hated this, so I tried setting the audio output in OBS to plain MP4 and DaVinci cheered up straight away, both my gameplay and commentary appeared on seperate tracks just as I'd wanted.
Great!
My audio isn't playing in fairlight, like it won't unpause and play. Followed everything and still having problems. It has waveforms, the bus output is bus 1, the preferences are set up to my headphone output. Not sure what my problem is.
Very strange, if it's just a playback issue, I'd try a restart first. Then I might adjust some of the playback settings to make it easier on your system and see if that helps.
always great to go through your checklist, when the audio doesn´t work. Helped me twice already. Thanks a lot!
Awesome, glad I could help! 😁👍
sorry nothing worked. What did work on PC was holding ALT and duplicating my video source. Then my orginal video had audio again... so i just deleted the new one.
Amazing tips! Saved me tons of frustrations as soundless effect didn't stop at a few tips. Hence, CoPilot, OpenAI, Gemini were all hopeless. I did up to tip 18 or 19 and found the simple solution from your tips: simply turned on the BT speaker (understanding not recommended by Jason) prior to signing in DaVinci. Voila! Problem solved. Thanks a lot Jason. As a novice, I much enjoy your shows (and Casey's) the way you talked, and the information you presented. Best!
Thank you so so much. Moving audio into a new Track fixed the problem
Yep, Bluetooth headphones was my problem, cheers for the help.
Glad you figured it out!
I fixed the Bluetooth issue. Basically disable the input device in the normal windows sound settings.
Nice!
Thank you so much bless you. I was having problems and actually wanted to pull my hair out, but i watched this video and it started working. Earned a new sub :D
You're welcome! Thanks for the sub, I hope you find lots of good info!
OMG YOU FIXED IT THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
It doesn't recognize my headphones as a thing that exists, I guess. Then because it had attempted to connect to them and panicked, it wouldn't connect to anything else either and needed to be manually set in preferences. I never would have figured that out lol
10/10 video, can now hear sound :D
Glad I could help!
YOU’RE VIDEO HELPED BROTHER THANK YOU🙏🏼❤️
Awesome, happy to hear that!
love how the first few are fixed already just by watching lol
👍
For WINDOWS users: Weirdly happened again today. Had to close Resolve, restart computer and re-open Resolve and switch preferences in resolve back to my usual setting TV speakers. For some reason it had defaulted back to realtek audio device when restarted. Before it looked as if everything was as it should be (tv speakers selected etc) but clearly wasn't. Anyway I'm just putting this here for posterity - may help other Windows users.
Thanks for sharing your fix!
Thanks very much. In my case, after setting everything right in my Windows settings (Beringer UMC202HD External Sound card), In Resolve under "Audio I/O" / I/O Engine, I had to choose "System Audio " and all was fine again!
Awesome! Glad you got it working! Thanks for sharing your fix, hopefully it will help others too!
So much thank you my friend. 🙏 I’m using Bluetooth headphones. (Not for long now) and closing and opening Resolve AFTER the headphones connect was the fix that worked for me. I appreciate you.
Glad I could help!
Your are genius - I needed just to set my headset (Bluetooth) in Windows as default for DaVinci!
Nice! Glad you got it working!
Phew, Audio I/O- changed it to use system settings. Thank you for taking the time to do this video.
DR 19 Beta 5 - toggling from Bus 1 to an audio channel then back did the trick for me. issue only appeared on an individual timeline. likely a bug.
TL:DR - If all else fails, restart your program and/your computer and the audio should work normally.
I had this issue with the previous version of Resolve (18.5.0 or something) and I thought if I upgraded to the (at this time) current version 18.6.5 then it would solve my issue. It didn't. I then used these videos to try and fix my audio problem. Nothing worked. So I closed out the program and started it again and now I have audio.
Yes! A restart is the best thing to try first. 👍
Thank you!!!! For me, it was my Bluetooth speakers that was causing it! Much appreciated Jason!!! :D
You're welcome!
Changing track worked for me!
Your are the best! Thank You So Much!
Have you ever run into audio cutting in and out randomly? As an audio person I am losing my mind with this I have gone over all the usual suspects but it seems to be the clip. Not the actual clip but when it cuts out I go back a few seconds and play again and its there but then gone somewhere else. I would bouce but it shows up there too. ughh this is why I left premiere
I would say maybe it’s just a playback issue, I’d try deleting the render cache for the project, try dropping it into a new track, maybe try it in a new project too. Also just give everything a restart to see if that helps. I’d also check the sample rate of the project and see if that matches the clip sample rate and the speaker sample rate. Next I’d try converting the file with something like handbrake to see if that helps. Hopefully one of those helps.
My issue was bus outputs, and had to scroll down. Can't believe how complicated that was, but thanks man! You saved me hours of headache!
Awesome, glad you found the fix for your situation! Thanks for dropping comment, I appreciate you checking out the video. Happy editing!
Open and closing davicni resolve was the solution for me after trying all those trials.
Weird, I could hear the audio when I just played the video. I put the files in Real Player re-converted to MP4 and now DaVinci Resolve 18 hears the sound... something to do with the sound in the original file? Anyhow it worked!
Glad you got it working!
Blimey - thanks Jason !! (Somehow I stopped the bus and, not for the first time, I wasn't allowed back on it).
You're welcome!
Thank you! Got to point 7 and resolved my issue!! :) So simple but your guidance saved me from being really frustrated!
Excellent!
I fixed my issue by right clicking the speaker logo within resolve (The one you click to mute/unmute on the right side above the mixer) and then noticed that the volume was set to zero, so I brought it up to 100%. It's kind of stupid that it shows sound levels playing even when this slider is set to zero.
Nice fix!
Numbe r16 fixed mine, Great Video :)
Woaaah.. thank you.. the clip atributes way, its work for me!!! Thank you
Awesome, happy to help!
I upload a movie i has 2 sound track in different language ... only video is running but no sound is coming 😢
I'd check the audio output settings in preferences - system at the top - Video and Audio I/O, then audio outputs. See if that's set correctly...
@@JasonYadlovski video is also offline medi, after apply hevc extension vedio start playing but sound is not .. 2 sound track is showing without graph only straight lines ... my hours are wasted but sound problem is not solved... please help
Great video, very very thorough, left no stone unturned. However, there is one thing I found that caused this no audio with video problem, of course it's on a winblows machine, and that is the actual file itself. While it will play on your computer with sound just fine it will not have sound in Davinci Resolve 18, maybe even earlier versions too. So here's what happened. I downloaded a TikTok video to edit and remix, so far it hasn't mattered how I downloaded it there was no audio in Davinci Resolve 18. I tried exporting the file unchanged, and the exported file had no sound also. Not sure what is happening here yet. Maybe sommeone here can figure it out.
To get the audio I had to view it in VLC, strip the audio out, import the audio into Davinci Resolve 18 and sync it to the original video and mute the original audio track, just to be safe that it wouldn't later interfere. So since all other view players have audio with these clips, there must be a bug or probelm with Davinci Resolve 18.
Thanks for sharing your experience! There are definitely more things to troubleshoot on a PC than on a Mac.
I'm not familiar with the correct terms so excuse me ahead of time.
I've been experiencing a weird issue that prevents me from hearing audio at all when I'm navigating through the clips with the orange pointer, even though when I let the footage play I hear the audio fine. I've tried to fix this problem with reinstalling the software altogether and searching for the solution to the best of my abilities, but nothing has worked. please help me with this issue if you can
Hey! Sounds like you want to turn on Audio Scrubbing. Go to Timeline at the top, then down to Audio Scrubbing and make sure it's checked on. That should do it.
@@JasonYadlovski thank you so much, it was driving me nuts.
you're still helping people in the comments on a video over a year old! You're awesome👍
I didn't hear anything while moving in timeline, reseting the UI solve my problem! Thank you very much :DD
Great to hear!
THANK YOU!! ONLY REQUIRED THE TIP @12:29
You're welcome! Glad you found a fix!
You havent been super active recently, I hope you are alright😁! Been here before like 8k subscribers. Anyways, I have been working on an edit in davinci, I was just wondering if there is any way to check how long you have spent editing a video, in statistics or something like that.
Thanks for being part of the community for so long! It’s been a crazy few weeks for me, a couple of my kiddos have been sick and I haven’t been able to make videos and get in the studio. Sometimes life gets a little busy and crazy. 😜 i’m hoping to hit the ground running this week again and get back on track.
I don’t think there’s any way to look at your stats although I’ve never really checked around for something like that. If I come across it, I’ll make a video about it.
@@JasonYadlovski Hope your kids and you will make it out well, thanks for your time!🙂
It might be wrong file format.
Was working with .mp4 and the sound wasn't working (I couldn't even see the soundwaves).
I converted it to .mov and now it works and I can see the soundwaves. 😐
Glad it's working now, must have been something with the format.
I kinda hate how I watched 23 minutes of this video only for my problem to be number 19 lol
That's a bummer, but on the bright side, you found the fix! and next time you''ll know what to check since you saw all of the other tips. 😜 Guaranteed it will happen again at some point.
Bro. I don't have the option to change my output device. It's automatically set to my computer speakers and grayed out.
Do you have another output device connected to your computer? Maybe try giving resolve a restart if you connected the extra audio device after Resolve was opened. I don't think it's a studio vs free version thing....🤔
Great video THANK YOU. Mien was working perfectly yesterday and didn't work today and I'd changed nothing. Turned out to be preferences Audio I/O. You're a saviour! Thanks again Jason.
You’re welcome!
Just turned off Bluetooth like you said it worked just fine! Thanks
Awesome!
Thanks for this man. Appreciate it very much as I almost pulled my hair out. 😅 it was the Bluetooth for me. I was using my AirPods and I couldn't hear anything.
You're welcome!
Great video, bluetooth headphones was the culprit for me, worked instantly with wired headphones
Great! Yeah those Bluetooth headphones cause issues, I don’t know why.
Point 8 helped me. Thank you!
Great!
but in my case the clip is showing without an audio track, it happens when im restart the davinci resolve, how do i fix this?
oh nvm i forgot to turn on the v1 button XD
Thanks! my Buss outputs was not on...fixed my audio issue :)
Glad you found a fix!
sir can u pls help me.......recently since past few days whenever i add any video the audio doesn't play now i checked everything as per this video and all looks good but still no progress.....additionally when i try to play my audio through fairlight it doesn't play at all not like just playing and only audio is not there but nothing plays at all not even like my timeline progresses the line just stays still wt should i do 😭😭😭😭😭😭.......pls help
Are you seeing the meters move? Also double check in preferences - system - video and audio I/o that your source is set correctly. If you're on PC, people have had issues in your system settings where Resolve was muted. Scroll through the comments too, others have left fixes for them that I did't mention...
Oh, thank you so much, you saved my day!
Glad I could help!
i cant even see the waveforms and im not sure what to do, its only when i download tiktoks and put them in there, the video works and the audio is fine when i just play it on my computer but when i put it into davinci it has no sound
I would double check the settings in preferences for audio outputs, that’s typically the culprit. If you don’t see, waveforms, it could be because the wrong audio channel is selected on the clip itself, right click on the Clips, go to clip attributes, go to the audio section, and see what he’s being output to the right and left channels.
Also, double check that the file is compatible with resolve, if it’s not, you can convert it and then bring it in.
@@JasonYadlovski so i went to the clip attributes and there was no left or right audio it says mono where on my other clips that do work it says stereo, the clip is in mp4 which is what all my other clips are in so im not sure what the deal is but i think i will just record them with Geforce experience thank you for the help
OK Thank you. Hrs lost to windows muting da Vinci. I never would have found that setting without your video. Love your BIG WHITE HORSE you rode in on to save my a**. Killer man Cheers.
Awesome, glad the video helped you out!
You have just saved my life thanks so much for this great video mate I've spent all morning trying to get the sound back on my project But thanks to you all is well in my world again
Glad I could help!