Resolve can do more than just import clips into a timeline, you can also record audio straight from your microphone!
Whether you need to record simple voice over (VO) or run a full automated dialogue replacement (ADR) session, there are tools to help you accomplish your goals.
You can even record from multiple sources simultaneously, which I didn’t know until watching this.
In this video from Blackmagic Design, you’ll learn about:
- Adding a track
- Showing video tracks
- Disabling a clip
- Patching microphone to a track
- Arm a track for recording
- Input monitor style
- Recording
- Changing clip color
- Show audio track layers
- Input Path Settings
- Creating a bin for recordings
- Setting up an ADR session
- Adding a list of cues for ADR
- Recording ADR
- Importing/Exporting Cue List
- Elastic Wave
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 and a Blackmagic Design Certified Trainer. He’s edited commercials for major brands and has done color & VFX for independent films. He consults on post-production workflow and creating online education. Gedaly is the co-founder of Working.Actor, a former marketing manager for large brands, and creates original film projects with his production company Razee.