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How to change clip volume in DaVinci Resolve

Updated 5 stepsFor DaVinci Resolve

The short answer

Select the clip and change Volume in the Inspector's Audio tab, or drag the thin volume line on the clip up or down in the timeline. For a whole track, use its fader in the Mixer.

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5 steps

In DaVinci Resolve

  1. 01Use the Inspector
  2. 02Or drag the line
  3. 03Change level over time
  4. 04Several clips at once
  5. 05A whole track

  1. 01

    Use the Inspector

    Select the clip, open the Inspector's Audio tab and drag or type a Volume value in dB.

  2. 02

    Or drag the line

    Make the audio track taller, then drag the horizontal volume line across the clip up or down.

  3. 03

    Change level over time

    Option-click (Mac) or Alt-click (Windows) the volume line to add keyframes, then drag the points to raise or lower one section.

  4. 04

    Several clips at once

    Select several clips and change Volume in the Inspector to move them together, or use Normalize Audio Levels to set them to a target.

  5. 05

    A whole track

    Open the Mixer (the Mixer button on the Edit page, or the Fairlight page) and move the track's fader.

Good to know

Before you start

Note 1
Clip volume and the track fader add up. If a clip is still too loud, check the track fader and the main bus.

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Do it in Eddie

Ask Eddie to set a clip's level, and the Resolve FCPXML carries it.

Say "Bring this clip up 3 dB" or "Mute the second clip." The range is -24 dB to +12 dB and it's free. The Resolve FCPXML carries the level as the clip's volume.

Back to Resolve

Open the edit, click Export and choose Resolve. The default is a Resolve project (.drp) that opens with the timeline built; behind the arrow is a Resolve FCPXML you bring into the project you have open with File > Import > Timeline. In the desktop app, Send to DaVinci Resolve builds the timeline in the Resolve you have running, through Eddie's script (Workspace > Scripts > Eddie AI AE).

If you imported the footage through the desktop app, the timeline points at your original camera files. If you uploaded on the web or pulled from cloud storage, it points at Eddie's proxy media: relink to those in the Media Pool with Relink Selected Clips, not to the camera originals.

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From the help center

FAQ

Questions

How do I make a clip louder than +12 dB?
Raise the clip volume, then the track fader. If it is still quiet, normalize it, or add gain with a Fairlight effect.
How do I mute one clip in DaVinci Resolve?
Select it and press D to disable it, or set its volume all the way down in the Inspector.

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