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What is Audio Post Production?
Let’s start with a few basic terms. Audio post production refers to the process of making a
soundtrack for moving images. Notice the use of “moving images,” which encompasses all
projects great and small from movie theaters to streaming videos and everything in-between.
A soundtrack is simply the audio that accompanies a finished project.
How your audience experiences the finished project is greatly influenced by the soundtrack.
In fact, a well executed soundtrack may go unnoticed for hours by the audience while it is
immersed in show. On the other hand, it takes only a few seconds of an amateurish or sloppy
soundtrack to lose the audience not only from the story, but possibly from the theater or to a
different channel.
If you’ve ever recorded or watched a home movie, especially one shot at an exciting public
place such as the beach or an amusement park, then you’ve got first handexperience with
some of the inherent challenges in both recording and listening to natural production
sound. All those excess environmental sounds and distractions create a need for audio
post production to transform raw sound into successful soundtracks with clear dialogue,
realistic effects, and lush acoustic soundscapes wrapped in an emotionally powerful score.
What is the Audio Post
ProductionWorkflow?
Since the advent of synced sound in motion pictures, the first rule of audio post has been,
“Never start working on audio until the picture is locked.” Locked suggests that there will
be no more changes to the picture edit from this point forward.
In reality, changes always happen. Why does this matter? Because, soundtracks need to
maintain a frame accurate relationship with the picture to stay in sync. If they are off by as
little as one or two frames, the sight and sound will be noticeably out of sync, a situation
that is distracting, unprofessional and likely to lose your audience.
In a traditional post production workflow, changes to locked picture have a cascading
snowball effect on audio post. But when you’re working with DaVinci Resolve, which is the
only professional editing software that includes a full digital audio workstation (DAW),
nomatter what editing changes are made, you can update your project immediately and
efficiently. This gives you tremendous creative flexibility if you are working on your own,
because you can go back and forth between editing picture, audio work and color
correction as often as needed.
For larger productions, DaVinci Resolve solves the issue of updating, transferring files to
other systems, and conforming projects between editorial and audio post because editing
and audio post production are done in the same project without ever leaving the
application. Best of all, audio post production can start on the exact same timeline that the
editor used so you have zero chance of losing frames or going out of sync. Once audio
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