- Hey everyone.
Welcome back to another video.
In this video we're going to be looking at a few tips
in DaVinci Resolve feel like page
to sweeten the dialogue of our audios for our film.
If you're a commercial filmmaker,
then a ton of what you are editing
is often interview content
and piece to camera and perhaps some voiceover work.
So there's a lot of spoken word dialogue
underneath the visuals.
And as a video editor, we don't have to be an audio expert
to learn a few skills to sweeten the dialogue,
just to take the dialogue from 50% to 80%.
So we're gonna jump straight
into DaVinci Resolve feel like page
and look at a sample video
that we shot in less than ideal conditions for audio.
There are you problems that you'll see come up in the audio
that we'll fix,
but the three main areas of audio sweetening
that we're gonna look at today in this video
is one; Noise Reduction.
Two; Compression and three; EQ.
What we have is a really simple piece to camera edit
and something that would be quite similar
to a lot of commercial work that you see.
So we've got Tim he's actually my business partner.
He's speaking to camera with a lavalier on his shirt
and in this shot here, you can actually see it
just stuck right there below his collar.
And this is actually proven to be a little bit tricky
because there's a lot of Russell
or like movement in the shirt,
which you can hear a bit later.
Let's just dive in and listen
to the first 10 seconds of audio.
- Hi there, I'm Tim Williams.
One of the directors here at Lumiere.
We're a creative production studio based right here
in the heart of Nelson.
So here's the thing.
You have an amazing story to tell.
- All right, so already off the bit,
you can hear there's a range of different problems
that we need to fix or help sweeten.
In this case, there's a ton of background noise
which you can hear at the start here.
And then when Tim actually starts talking
you can hear there's a lot of reverb in the room.
- Hi, there, I'm Tim Williams.
One of the directors here at Lumiere.
- So the room feels very spacious
and it's not necessarily the best thing for dialogue
'cause you want the dialogue to be nice and crisp and clear.
So what we can do is jump over to the feel light page
over on the right hand side here, you have the mixer.
If you don't see the mixer, you can click on this icon
at the top and that will bring up the mixer.
And this is our channel strip,
and essentially this channel number one
represents all of the dialogue
that is coming from Tim's microphone.
And you can see here, there's a bunch of effects
and different things we can do to the signal
to help tweak the dialogue.
But the first thing we're gonna do
is look at a brand new plugin from waves
audio called Clarity VX.
In Clarity VX is able to be added through the effects
if we hit plus here.
We can also go over here into our effects menu
and search "Clarity".
And we'll just bring in the mono version
of that into our channel strip.
This is the plugin right here, and it's simple as it gets.
It's simply just one knob that you turn up
and you change between two different neural networks.
The effect is currently off because it's on zero
and we'll listen to the ambient noise
and see what we can do with it.
- Hi there I'm Tim Williams.
One of the directors here at Lumiere.
- If we push this up to let's go about 65%,
I'm gonna turn it off to begin with,
and then I'm gonna add it in halfway through
and you'll see the massive difference.
- Hey, there I'm Tim Williams.
One of the directors here at Lumiere.
We're a creative production studio based right here
in the heart of Nelson.
- So that to me is incredible.
This is before.
- Hi there.
- And this is after.
- Hi there, I'm Tim Williams.
- Now just for the of it, let's crank it up to a hundred
and see what that does.
- Hi there, I'm Tim Williams.
One of the directors here at Lumiere.
We're a creative production studio
based right here in the heart of Nelson.
So here's the thing.
- All right, I dunno if you can hear that
hopefully you have good headphones on
and you're listening in,
but there is absolutely no background noise
whatsoever in this take.
And the clarity of the dialogue is very impressive.
- Hi there, I'm Tim Williams.
One of the directors here at Lumiere.
- So all that reverbs still there
and the natural essence of the room
without any of the noise.
So I've backed it off to 80%,
and I think that that's a really good sweet spot
for retaining all of that clarity of the dialogue
but also just adding a touch of ambience.
So it's sitting in a really good place right now, I think.
- Hi there, I'm Tim Williams.
One of the directors here-
- Right, so we've gotten rid of the background noise
and the ambience.
One other thing that I will show you
that this clarity plugin does is reduce microphone rubbing
and Russell.
So if we turn off clarity right now
and listen to this section.
- And we'll contribute to over 82%
of all online traffic in 2022.
And we wanna help you be a part of that.
- Okay, let's listen to that again
and just pay attention to the rubbing of the microphone.
- Of all online traffic in 2022.
Online traffic in 2022.
- So there are a range of plugins
that can help reduce that,
but I'm just gonna check on clarity
and see what it does.
- Online traffic in 2022.
Of all online traffic in 2022.
Of all online traffic in 2022,
all online traffic in 2022.
- So it's incredible.
It's reduced a lot of that Russell.
It hasn't taken it away entirely
but we are trying to find the sweet spot
between reducing noise and retaining kind of the essence
of the microphone without creating too many artifacts.
And I think it's done a really great job.
Now, what we wanna do is increase the clarity
of the dialogue by reducing a little bit of reverb.
Now, iZotope have a suite of RX 7 plugins
that are incredible for sweetening up dialogue.
And we're gonna go ahead and use their De-reverb.
Now these are paid plugins
and I have spent a little bit of money acquiring these.
So let's listen through a section of dialogue
without the reverb plugin.
So this is just the raw sound
with the clarity noise reduction.
- So here's the thing.
You have an amazing story to tell
with an epic product or service and you-
- Hopefully, if you listen in,
you can really hear the reverb.
- So here's the thing.
You have an amazing story to tell.
- So what we're gonna do is put the RX 7 De-reverb on
and I'm just gonna increase it to 12
and just play it through and see what that does.
- So here's the thing.
You have an amazing story to tell
with an epic product or service
and you wanna share it with the world through video.
- So there you go.
It's taken away all of that reverb
and the dialogue is now very clear.
What I'm gonna do quickly now is actually bounce
these effects and render them off within a new audio stem
because the De-reverb and the Clarity VX
are really processor intensive.
And so I want my CPU back.
I dunno if you can hear the fans spinning in the background.
So I will just go over to the deliver tab,
and then I'm just going to render audio from track one
and I've muted track two, which is music
which we'll look at in a second.
And I'm just gonna render this as its own audio stem called
Dialogue Clarity and De-reverb.
I'm gonna save that, add to render cue and hit render.
What it's doing is it's going through
and it's simply just rendering the dialogue track
with the noise reduction and with the De-reverb engaged.
And then I will have a nice clean audio stem
to be able to pull in and tweak with my EQ
and additional compression.
Now that's done.
I can go back to my edit page
and I'm just going to add a new mono track
and I'm just gonna move this up
and drag in that render, which has just been completed.
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Right, let's get back into it.
So back and feel like, what I can do now
is just go ahead and turn off these effects
in the dialogue one channel.
Now dialogue two,
I'm going to treat separately, double click on this icon.
This plugin pops up and we can engage the compressor now.
So if we click this..
- You have an amazing story to-
- Gonna bring up the game.
- Tell with an epic product or service
and you wanna share it with the world through video.
However, it may be put in the too hard basket
or just seems like an impossible task.
- And now I'm gonna reduce the threshold
to about -30 and keep the ratio on 2:1.
- Statistics show that video
is the preferred form of communication online
and will contribute to over 82%
of all online traffic in 2022.
- So let's listen to that without the compressor
from the start.
- Hi there, I'm Tim Williams.
One of the directors here-
- And I'll engage the compressor as we are listening.
- At Lumiere.
We're a creative production studio based right here
in the heart of Nelson.
So here's the thing.
You have an amazing story to tell
with an epic product or service
and you wanna share it with the world through video.
However, it may be put in the too hard basket.
- So what the compressor has done
is it's given the dialogue some additional gain
while not clipping the peaks.
So at the peak of the dialogue
it's actually pulling them down
and compressing them while lifting the body of the dialogue.
So it's just giving it a bit more presence and volume.
What I can do now is go over to the EQ,
double click on this graph here.
And I'm just gonna dial in the EQ
to give it a little bit more body in the base
take out a bit of the boxiness in the mid
and then also increase the clarity and the highs.
So the first thing we'll do is click band one.
I'm just gonna drag one up.
And basically this is just getting rid
of all of that base detail that we don't need in dialogue.
- Or just seems like an impossible task.
Statistics show that video
is the preferred form of communication online.
- Now with band three,
I'm gonna move this around about a hundred Hertz
and increase the Q factor,
decrease the Q factor rather,
and roll that off really soft.
So I'm giving it a base boost.
- And we'll contribute to over 82%
of all online traffic in 2022.
And we wanna help you be a part of that.
We know video can be a-
- I find with a lot of lab marks,
there's some real boxiness to the microphone
and that is sitting around 250 Hertz generally.
So with my band four, I'm gonna drag that up to around 250
and increase the cue,
so it's a nice spike.
And I'll listen through
and I'm gonna wash this up and down
to really find where that boxiness is sitting.
- Daunting task.
So our experience team have come up
with a simplified, affordable, and accessible video package
for local businesses like.
- So around 250 Hertz there, a lot of gross frequencies
and boxiness that I wanna reduce.
So I'm just gonna drag this down in the opposite direction.
- Yours to communicate your brand story to the world.
Over the years, we've created hundreds of brand films
like these ones.
- Now listen to the difference what the EQ has done.
So if we go back, this is before.
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can be an expensive and long process.
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- Okay, so hopefully you can hear it's clarified
the base and mid of this voice taking out the boxiness
or kind of that roomy tone,
and it's give just a bit of depth.
Now, the last thing we can do
is just give it a bit of a high shelf.
So that's on this band 5
and just increasing the high details from about 2000 Hertz,
and it will give more of that high end articulation
or sparkle if you like.
- Over the course of a single day production
our crew we'll work with you to plan and film
your brain story on site.
We'll then head back to the studio to edit
and deliver your final film within one week.
- Okay, so now that's there, I'm going back to my dynamics
and I'm just gonna reduce that makeup gain a little bit.
- It's that simple.
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- All right, so we've come a long way from the beginning.
And this is by no means a perfect audio edit,
but it's just showing you there's some simple tools
that we can use such as noise reduction,
De-reverb, some dynamics and an EQ
to really transform the dialogue of this.
There are a lot of artifacts in there
and if you're an audio junkie,
you'll be picking up on all of these
thinking that this is terrible,
but I'm editing this keeping in mind
that it's going to be with music
and there's gonna be a nice music track underneath it,
and the music will hide a lot of what's going on
in the dialogue now.
The important thing is that the voice is clear
and has clarity, so that it punches through the audio
and doesn't get lost in the mix.
This is with all of the effects
just by itself without music.
- Hi, there I'm Tim Williams.
One of the directors here at Lumiere.
- And now let's add the music track into that.
What I first need to do is on my dynamics.
I'm going to send the compression detail
or the dialogue detail into my music track,
and I'm gonna listen on the dynamics of the music,
and basically apply a really light compression
over the music track every time the dialogue comes in.
So as Tim talks, it automatically reduces
or compresses the music track slightly
just to help the dialogue punch through
on the music a little bit.
The only additional adjustment that I have done on the music
is also just give a really soft cut to about 4k.
And this 2-4k range is the pocket of energy
where the dialogue often sits.
So the clarity of the dialogue is coming through
around 2-4,000 Hertz from Tim.
So if we create a little pocket within the music
it'll help the dialogue just really sit in there as well.
So let's listen to the dialogue now
with the music track and see where we're landing.
- Hi There, I'm Tim Williams.
One of the directors here at Lumiere.
We're a creative product studio based right here
in the heart of Nelson.
So here's the thing.
You have an amazing story to tell
with an epic product or service
and you wanna share it with the world through video.
However, it may be put in the too hard basket
or just seems like an impossible task.
Statistics show that video is the preferred form
of communication online.
It will contribute to over 82%
of all online traffic in 2022.
(upbeat techno music)
And we wanna help you be a part of that.
We know video can be a daunting task.
So our experience team have come up
with a simplified, affordable and accessible video package
for local businesses like yours
to communicate your brand story to the world.
(upbeat techno music)
Over the years, we've created hundreds-
- All right, so hopefully you can hear
that that's nice and clear.
What I'd love to do now is just show you the difference
between what we had and where we've ended up.
So here we go.
(upbeat techno music)
- Hi, there, I'm Tim Williams.
One of the directors here at Lumiere.
We're a creative production studio based right here
in the heart of Nelson.
(upbeat techno music)
So here's the thing.
You have an amazing story to tell
with an epic product or service
and you wanna share it with the world through video.
However, it may be put in the too hard basket or just see.
- So hopefully you can hear the difference.
There is quite a bit of big difference
if we just listen to it without the music, once more
this is with the effects.
- It's the thing.
You have an amazing story to tell
with an epic product
or service, - And without.
- And you wanna share it with the world through video.
However, it may be put in the too hard basket
or just seems like an impossible task.
Statistics show that video
is the preferred form of communication.
- All in all it is sitting in a really nice place
and that is big thanks to the clarity VX plugin.
And just a few tweaks with the EQ dynamics,
you can see that you can really explore
what it means to sweeten your audio.
By no means an audio expert,
and these are just a few things
that I would do to help sweeten the dialogue
particularly for first drafts of films.
And obviously if we have the budget
and the opportunity to send it off
to a professional audio engineer,
then by all means they would do their magic as well.
- Hi there, I'm Tim Williams.
One of the directors here at Lumiere.
We're a creative production studio based right here
in the heart of Nelson.
So here's the thing.
You have an amazing story to tell
with an epic product or service
and you wanna share it with the world through video.
However, it may be put in the too hard basket
or just seems like an impossible task.
Statistics show that video
is the preferred form of communication online.
- So there you have it,
hopefully you can hear the before
and after differences with this particular piece of dialogue
A lot of the time, the edits that we are producing
has less than ideal dialogue
and we just need to learn a few skills
to be able to combat these issues
and get the best out of the dialogue as possible.
Hopefully you saw the power
of that new waves Clarity VX plugin.
There'll be a link in the description to this video
below not sponsored in any way.
This channel's way too small for that
but it's just a plugin that I've purchased recently
and absolutely love and probably will be using
on almost every piece of dialogue in the future.
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