Sound for Video Session — Fairlight Voice Isolation & Q&A
In this week's session, we'll demo the new Voice Isolation effect in DaVinci Resolve's Fairlight 18.1 and answer your sound for video questions.
If you’d like to learn how to make great dialogue audio for your film and video projects, please have a look at my courses at https://school.learnlightandsound.com including processing dialogue audio in Adobe Audition and DaVinci Resolve/Fairlight, recording sound, how to use the Zoom F4, F6, F8, and F8n, and how to get the most from the Sound Devices MixPre series of recorders. We have a course on sound for live-streaming with the ATEM Mini and just added Introduction to Izotope RX for Dialogue Audio.
Gear I often use or that we mentioned in this episode. The links below are Amazon.com, B&H Photo, Sweetwater, DVE Store, Waves, or other affiliate links. As an affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases:
- DaVinci Resolve Studio — B&H https://geni.us/5BRsBW
- Earthworks ETHOS microphone — B&H, Sweetwater https://geni.us/8G8UdBB
- Sound Devices MixPre II Series Recorders - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon https://geni.us/O8e0
- Panasonic GH5 camera - B&H, Amazon https://geni.us/InspOl
- Canon C200 Camera - B&H https://geni.us/9Zi4m4a
- Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 lens — B&H, Amazon https://geni.us/kZyU7e
- ATEM Mini Extreme & Extreme ISO - B&H, DVE Store, Amazon https://geni.us/b8my
- Allen & Heath SQ5 Digital Mixer - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon https://geni.us/sRxFU90
- Rupert Neve Designs Shelford Channel, pre-amp, EQ, compressor - Sweetwater, B&H https://geni.us/9ZfE77
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Copyright 2022, Curtis Judd
00:00 Start
02:46 Beginning of stream
03:15 Agenda
04:00 What is Voice Isolation and which versions of Fairlight include it?
06:17 How can we use Fairlight’s Voice Isolation?
12:00 Comments and impressions
15:21 Is the percent isolation scale the same across applications?
16:53 How much hardware power does this type of processing use?
22:07 When to use the dialogue leveler
29:31 Processing 24-bit vs. 32-bit float recordings
33:43 Avid panel compatibility
34:22 Gain up before or after using Dialogue Editor?
35:43 Do the Tentacle pocket recorders actually record in 32-bit float?
36:27 Apply Voice Isolation before or after other plugins?
37:43 EQ for artifact correction/attenuation
43:45 Gain reduced or normal? Line or mic level?
44:57 Multiple vs. single timecode box
45:54 What is a true 32-bit float recording?
49:40 Thoughts on Mac OS vs. Windows market share
52:27 Communicating mistakes to clients
53:20 Voice isolation plugins for live TV VoiceOver
54:34 Omnidirectional mic for 3-person round table?
54:59 Best 32-bit float recorder?
55:28 Record backup audio to camera while using all inputs?
57:04 Use Waves Clarity as a plugin in Fairlight?
58:10 1 vs. 2 boom mics for a 2-person interview
1:02:20 Wrap-up
1:03:25 End of stream