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The Audio Timeline
Track Header: At the left of each track is a header area that displays the track number,
track name, track color, audio channels, fader value and audio meters. The track
header also contains different controls for locking and unlocking tracks, plus solo and
muting controls. These controls can help to keep your tracks organized, and let you
preview individual tracks one at a time.
Tracks: Each track on the Fairlight page is divided into lanes, which show each
individual channel of clip audio for editing and mixing. The edit page hides these
individual audio channels, displaying only a single clip in the timeline to make it easier
to edit multi channel sources without needing to manage a huge number of tracks.
The track header on track A1 indicates a mono track with a single lane for mono audio,
and the A2 track header indicates a stereo track with two lanes to accommodate stereo audio
What is a Bus?
A bus is essentially a destination channel made up of audio sources grouped together into a
single signal that can be controlled via a single channel strip. Fairlight automatically creates a
bus for you and all the audio tracks in your timeline are sent to this bus by default, this means
you can adjust the overall level of your audio mix once you have adjusted the level of each
individual track.
If your edit is a bit more complex you can create more buses and combine multiple tracks of
audio that belong to the same category such as dialogue, music or effects so that everything in
that category can be mixed as a single audio signal. For example, if you have five dialogue
tracks, you can route the output of all five dialogue tracks to a separate bus, and the level of all
dialogue can then be mixed with a single set of controls.
The Fairlight Flexbus structure gives you complete flexibility over bus types and signal routing
including the option for bus-to-bus, track-to-bus and bus-to-track routing. For more information
on audio bus settings in Fairlight, refer to the DaVinci Resolve manual.
The Mixer
Each audio track in your timeline corresponds to an individual channel strip in the Mixer, and by
default there’s a single strip on the right for the default bus labeled ‘Bus 1’. Additional channel
strips will appear on the right hand side with a set of controls for each additional bus you create.
A set of graphical controls allows you to assign track channels to output channels, adjust EQ
and dynamics, set levels and record automation, pan stereo and surround audio, and mute and
solo tracks.
236Using DaVinci Resolve
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