DaVinci Resolve · Audio
How to record a voiceover in DaVinci Resolve
The short answer
In DaVinci Resolve 20 and later, choose Timeline > Record Voiceover on the Edit page (or click the microphone button on the timeline toolbar), pick your mic and record track, and click Record. In any version, you can also patch the mic to a track on the Fairlight page, arm it and record.
6 steps
In DaVinci Resolve
- 01Connect the mic
- 02Edit page voiceover tool
- 03Record the take
- 04Or patch a Fairlight track
- 05Arm and record
- 06For takes over picture
01
Connect the mic
Plug in the microphone and choose it as the input in Resolve's audio settings (DaVinci Resolve > Preferences > System > Audio I/O on Mac, File > Preferences on Windows).
02
Edit page voiceover tool
In Resolve 20 and later, choose Timeline > Record Voiceover or click the microphone button on the timeline toolbar. Enter a file name, choose your mic as the Audio Input and pick a Record Track or Auto.
03
Record the take
Park the playhead where the voiceover starts and click the Record icon. Click it again to stop; the playhead returns to the start of the take. A new take in the same place replaces the timeline clip, and earlier takes stay in the Media Pool.
04
Or patch a Fairlight track
On the Fairlight page, choose Fairlight > Patch Input/Output, select your mic as the source and an empty track as the destination, and click Patch.
05
Arm and record
Click the R (arm) button on the track header, park the playhead and click record in the transport controls. Press Space to stop.
06
For takes over picture
For dialogue replacement, the ADR panel on the Fairlight page manages cue lists, beeps and multiple takes.
Good to know
Before you start
- Note 1
- Wear headphones while recording so the timeline audio doesn't bleed into the mic.
Eddie AI
Do it in Eddie
Eddie can write and generate a voice-over.
Give Eddie a script of up to 2,000 characters per voice-over, or ask it to write one, and pick a voice. A generated voice-over costs about 178 credits per 1,000 characters. You can't set how a word is pronounced yet. Voice-over clips arrive in Resolve on their own audio track, and you can record over them there.
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.
From the help center
FAQ
Questions
- Why is my recorded voiceover silent in DaVinci Resolve?
- The track isn't patched to your mic, or the wrong input is selected. Check Fairlight > Patch Input/Output and the track's input.
- Where do earlier voiceover takes go?
- Recording again in the same place replaces the take on the timeline, but earlier takes stay in the Media Pool.
