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Polishing the Camera Audio – Getting It in Sync

In this chapter, we will look at how recording separate audio can improve your video and how Resolve makes it easy to sync separate sounds up to your video. We will also look at how we can fix and enhance our audio quickly using Fairlight and AU Effects plugins.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:

  • Understand sound and whether to use an on-camera mic or separate mic to record audio and the best practices for recording it
  • How to sync separately recorded audio to video footage
  • Fix common sound issues using Fairlight FX on the Cut page
  • Use Voice Isolation to fix audio in the Inspector

Technical requirements

To follow along with the fixing sound exercises in this chapter, ...

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