A very common question at this stage in the video edit is,

which do I do first audio or ad B roll?

And I think what you'll find as you continue to edit is that

it kind of doesn't matter.

It's gonna make more sense.

For instance, if you're working on a music video

to add the music first.

But when you're working on like something, you know,

like a documentary, it might make more sense

to structure the video and the B roll

before you begin to add in uh, music and sound effects.

But what ends up happening a lot of times is you'll do one

and then you'll have to adjust the other.

And it's kinda like a little bit of a back and forth game.

But for us, we're gonna start with some audio.

Let's get some audio in the mix.

Alright here, so we left off on the media page.

So let's bounce on back over to the edit page.

And depending on what folder you clicked on in the media

page is where your media pull will start in the edit page.

So the first thing that I'd like us to do is

to pick an audio track to use and we've got three here.

Now, if you muted your audio in the last section,

make sure it is unmuted so that we can preview our audio.

And what I'd like you to do is one of two things.

One, I'd like you to preview the music

and make a decision on which one you'd like to introduce.

And there's two ways to do that in DaVinci resolve.

The first way to do that, if you remember right a few videos

ago, we actually collapsed our, uh,

video player here into one viewer.

So we can undo that by going up to the top right

and clicking the split rectangle here

to get back our second preview window.

And this preview window is specifically set to preview

footage in your media pool.

So I can double click on anything in my media pool

to preview it here on the left while maintaining the, uh,

imagery from our timeline on the right.

So what we can do is begin to preview our music

by hitting the space bar.

Now by default, most music is normalized

or it has their audio level max to the max level.

So it might be pretty loud when you preview it.

If it is coming in a little bit loud,

you can always adjust your volume over here

by dragging it over to the left just a little bit

so your eardrums aren't completely smashed out.

So that's one way we can preview our music.

The other way would be, uh, again,

I like wor I just like working with one window at a time.

I'm gonna collapse this left window here by going over again

to the upper right and clicking our giant rectangle

and now we can just double click instead

to preview whatever's in our media pool.

That being said, we do lose what's happening over here

in our timeline, but for simpler edits

and simpler videos, there's often not a need

to have both up at the same time.

And I will show you when it is appropriate to have both

and when it makes a little bit more sense.

But I like just having one window again,

it's completely up to you.

There's not a wrong answer here.

So let's go ahead and preview our audio.

Okay, so this is kind of like a lo-fi track.

Now a question that might have formed in your nogging over

there is, uh, how do I know which one of these is, is good

as we begin playing through them, well, listen to me,

you're gonna have to make a choice, an informed choice.

Remember, editing is a creative field so

you can have some creative liberty for what makes sense.

There's gonna be more appropriate choices for music

and sound effects, uh, as opposed to others, right?

So like if we're doing a a sad emotional scene,

it's probably not gonna make sense to have some kind

of like thumping EDM music in the background.

But like I've said once,

and I'll continue to say it throughout this course,

there's not, there's not a correct answer,

it's just what makes sense to you.

So if you're looking for a little bit of guidance into

what kind of song should you begin looking for, well again,

we have to think about the overall message of the video.

What is being said in this segment

and what kind of audio is gonna feel appropriate.

So if I were to click my mouse back on

the timeline, we're gonna lose our preview.

But remember this video is me talking about some

basic editing mistakes.

So the music that we choose to use shouldn't feel intrusive.

We will probably just want something

that sits in the background that just fills in some

of the gaps in between the talking points.

So I'm gonna double click on that lo-fi song again

to continue to preview it.

I kinda like the rhythm in that song oftentimes

as well when I'm previewing music, what you can kind of do,

and again remember we're trying to train ourselves

with recognizing waveforms is I'll kind of skim ahead

to moments where the beat kicks in

or there's a needle drop moment.

So you can kind of see here the regularity

of the waveform increases.

And right around here is probably where the main verse

of the song kicks in.

So I'll kind of scrub over to here.

Perfect, make him a little mental note of that.

Let's check out on the last

song over here, I'm gonna double click it.

So again, when I immediately pull this up,

the thing I noticed is we've got two kind

of driving moments here where there's a lot

of stuff going on and then kind of like a down moment.

So I'll probably preview a snippet in here

and then a snippet in here to see how each sounds.

And if I didn't call it out earlier,

unfortunately you can't drag

and move the uh, playhead in this main working area.

You have to use this upper section

here to scrub through the song.

You can also use this little bit down here

and the jog wheel just like we talked

about in the last section.

So I'm gonna go ahead and hit play

and right away this is a a lot more upbeat than

that lo-fi track that we were using.

Okay, I think I've got a general

gist of what that sounds like.

Lemme go ahead and click forward, see

what this little area sounds like.

Interesting. Okay, so each

of these songs brings a slightly different vibe and energy.

So what should we use?

We've got this one called cinematic

documentary soft Background.

We've got a lo-fi song

and the soft background music.

To me personally,

this last track sounds a little bit more like it's a news

update and the cinematic one sounds like it's meant

for a a documentary.

I don't know if it quite fits the tone that I'm looking for.

There's something about it

that invites a little bit more drama

that I think that I'm looking for.

So I'm gonna bring in the lo-fi background to do so.

Uh, well we just go to our media poll, we go to that file

and we're gonna drag and drop it in.

And what you're gonna kind of see me do is drag

and swing it around over here

'cause I don't want a happen chance

to overwrite some of the dialogue.

So what can happen and don't follow this step is you bring

in your music, you go here and then you go shoot.

So what I'm gonna do is go ahead

and drag our song, swing it down and around.

Uh, common follow up question when it comes

to importing music and sound

and footage even is what if I don't want the whole thing?

So obviously we're not gonna use all two minutes

and 13 seconds of the song, so

what if I only want it to go up to here?

But what you can do is say in

and out points on any of the media in your media pool o is

for out and see

how our player preview gets cut off short here.

If I were to drag my playhead to the left, I is for n

so I equals NO equals out.

And if you're currently previewing that media,

you can also just drag

and pulled down from the media preview itself

and see how we have a much smaller snippet here.

I'm gonna go ahead and hit backspace again.

And the reason why I'm not hitting F

remember F is ripple delete.

When I hit F, it's gonna look

to ripple delete this entire segment from left to right.

So watch what happens, see

how it shifts everything over to the left.

So we gotta be careful with our rippling

and our deleting Nate controls Z again,

select our music track backspace to get rid of it.

I'm gonna double click the song preview again.

Uh, how do we reset our in and out points?

Well we're gonna hit alt plus I and alt plus O.

The alt key is a modifier.

I'm not sure if I've mentioned it yet,

but we will talk more about modifiers later in the future.

So again, I equals in o equals out

alt plus I resets the endpoint.

Alt plus O resets the al point.

Alright, lemme go ahead

and d drag re drag in our music track here.

I'm gonna go to the end of our video and then hit A to cut.

Now you notice here that I didn't actually have

the song selected.

Before I do that, if you don't have a particular file

selected when you go to make a cut,

it will cut every single track.

So watch as I hit a, it's gonna make a cut on everything.

So with that said, we just need

to make sure we're intentional

with our cuts now moving forward

that we have multiple tracks

and more than one thing happening.

And hit control ZA couple times

and then delete this back portion of the music.