We've just released a new course! This course covers the fundamentals of lighting for single-person interviews and talking-head videos. We cover the basic concepts of lighting, walk through the materials you'll need, and– finally– lead you through three different hands-on lighting design demonstrations. At the end of the course you'll be equipped with all the conceptual tools and experience you need to beautifully light your talking-head interviews with ease!
New Course: Fundamentals of Mixing in DaVinci Resolve Fairlight 18.1
This week, we're happy to announce our new course on how to edit and mix dialogue, prerecorded music intros and outros, and basic sound design in DaVinci Resolve's Fairlight! The course is available here at school.learnlightandsound.com.
DaVinci Resolve is an amazing video post app for editing, coloring, adding visual effects, and mixing sound. And with free and studio versions, anyone can produce very high quality videos and films.
Fairlight is the incredibly powerful audio mixing page within Resolve.
In the course, we’ll teach you how to do all of this in Resolve version 18.1:
- How to configure the Fairlight settings
- How to import and sync your audio clips
- How to get around the Fairlight page
- How to use track layers
- How to choose which mic channel (lav vs. boom) to use in a dialogue edit
- How to set up your channel mapping
- How to use effects to clean and sweeten the mix
- How to use key frames and automation to dynamically adjust track and clip levels
- How to add and mix basic sound design
- How and when to bounce tracks and timelines
- How to loudness normalize your final mix
What is NOT covered:
- Video editing in the Cut and Edit pages
- Color grading in the Color page
- Visual effects in the Fusion page
One of the tricks with online courses is what to do when you have a question. We have you covered there. You can email me any time when you sign up for the course. We also hold weekly Sound for Video Sessions where we cover sound for video topics in more depth and even have Q&A sessions once or twice a month.
Come on over to https://school.learnlightandsound.com and sign up to learn with us!
Zoom F4 Course Announced
If you work with the Zoom F4 or are planning to, this course will help you get up to speed and making great recordings quickly. You can see the details by clicking the School link above.
This one was the most requested course over the last 2 years. We finally managed to carve out enough time to put it together and I hope you find it useful if you work with the F4!
Fairlight Mini Course: Dialogue Mixing in DaVinci Resolve's Fairlight
DaVinci Resolve is an amazing video post app for editing, coloring, adding visual effects, and mixing sound. And with free and studio versions, anyone can produce very high quality videos and films. Fairlight is the incredibly powerful audio mixing module within Resolve.
We are happy to announce a new mini course on how to edit and mix dialogue and simple music intros and outros.
In the course, we’ll teach you:
- How to configure the Fairlight settings
- Import and sync your audio clips
- How to get around the Fairlight page
- How to use track layers
- How to choose which mic to use in a dialogue edit
- How to set up your channel mapping
- How to use keyframes and automation to dynamically adjust track and clip levels
- How and when to bounce tracks and timelines
- How to loudness normalize your final mix
One of the tricks with online courses is what to do when you have a question. We have you covered there. You can email me any time when you sign up for the course. We also hold weekly Sound for Video Sessions where we cover sound for video topics in more depth and even have Q&A sessions once or twice a month.
Music from Artlist: Sunday by Rich Young Pixies - Amazing Journey. You can receive a 2 month discount on a subscription to Artlist, a subscription service for stock music you can use with your videos. Check it out at Artlist.
Copyright 2019 by Curtis Judd
Sound for Video Session: Zoom F8/F8n Setting Gain Trim
In this week’s session, we share an excerpt from the upcoming online course, “Getting the Most From Your Zoom F8/F8n Recorder.” In this particular segment, we cover how to set the gain trim, the various track knob modes, and demonstrate how to optimize your gain in relation to the limiters. Lots of fun!
Gear and links discussed/used to record this episode:
Zoom F8n Audio Field Recorder (2018)
Zoom F8 Audio Field Recorder (2015):
Copyright 2018 by Curtis Judd
Outro music licensed from Artlist: Keep an Eye by Back to Dream. Artlist provides high quality music tracks for your film and video projects. You can receive two months off an Artlist account by using our link.