Sound design is the art of creating an audio experience that helps tell a story.
This can be anything from adding sound effects based on what your characters might hear, to non literal sounds that add emotion to a scene.
You can drag and drop clips you find, or edit sounds to your liking within Fairlight.
In this video from Blackmagic Design, you’ll learn about:
- Duplicating and overlapping clips
- Setting track levels
- Audio track layers
- Adjusting multiple clips in inspector
- Viewing markers list in the Index
- Viewing videos tracks in Fairlight timeline
- Elastic Wave feature
- Turning on audio scroller
- Downloading the free Fairlight sound library
- Finding clips in the Sound Library
- Auditioning clips with Sound Library
- Adjusting pitch
- Chorus plugin
- Bouncing a clip to new file
- Using the Equalizer
- Distortion plugin
- Bounce Mix to track
- Reverb effect
- Low pass filter
Follow along with this tutorial by downloading the project files from Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve Training page.

Gedaly is the Managing Editor of DVresolve.com. He is a professional editor, having cut national commercials for major companies, and does color & VFX for indie films at Mask & Feather. He’s also a filmmaker, writing and directing shorts & features. Gedaly is the co-founder of Working.Actor and former marketing strategist for large brands.