The Audio Upgrade
Clean, Design and Master Your Film Audio in DaVinci Resolve
A one‑day workshop on sound design, dialogue editing and audio mastering inside DaVinci Resolve’s Fairlight page.
1-Day Masterclass
From R7 500 per participant
Standard
R4,125
1 seat
Full-day practical workshop
Workshop manual
Camera, lighting and audio checklists
Content-planning templates
Certificate of completion
Premium
R5,500
1 seat
Everything in Standard
Pre-workshop content audit
Priority filming feedback
30-minute post-workshop review
Feedback on one extra video within 14 days
Team
R8,250
3 seats
Train three people for R2,750 per participant.
Everything in Standard, for three attendees
Public workshop tickets
What This Workshop
Is About
Most video production problems are actually audio problems. Audiences will forgive imperfect pictures; they will not forgive bad sound. This one‑day workshop teaches you to treat audio with the same craft and attention you give to the image. Working entirely inside DaVinci Resolve’s Fairlight page, you will learn to clean and repair location audio, design an atmospheric soundscape, score a sequence with music, and master the final mix to broadcast loudness standards. You will leave with a fully mixed and mastered film and a sound design methodology you can apply to every project.
What You'll Leave With
Three Outcomes.
One Day.
Master your final mix to broadcast loudness standards and export a deliverable‑ready audio track
Design and layer a professional soundscape with foley, ambience and music that serves the story
Clean and repair location audio using noise reduction, EQ and dialogue editing tools in Fairlight
Curriculum
What We Cover
Audio Mastering, Loudness & Final Delivery
Finish your mix to a professional, deliverable standard. Understand loudness standards for broadcast, streaming and social platforms — LUFS targets, true peak limits and how they affect your mix decisions. Use the Fairlight loudness meter and limiter to master the final mix, perform a full QC pass across dialogue, music and effects, and export your final audio as a stereo or multi‑channel deliverable alongside the finished film.
Fairlight Page Orientation & Dialogue Editing
Get fully oriented inside DaVinci Resolve’s Fairlight audio workstation. Understand the mixer, bus routing, clip gain and track‑level controls. Import and sync audio, edit dialogue clips for clean in‑points and out‑points, and use the Voice Isolation and Noise Reduction tools to repair location recordings affected by room tone, wind or background noise.
EQ, Compression & Audio Repair
Apply the essential processing tools of professional audio. Use parametric EQ to remove problem frequencies, add presence and clarity to dialogue and shape the tonal character of music. Apply dynamic compression to control level inconsistencies and add punch. Use de‑essing, de‑reverb and the hum remover to deal with common location audio problems cleanly and without artefacts.
Sound Design: Foley, Ambience & Music Scoring
Build the audio world beneath your picture. Learn the principles of sound design: how layered ambience creates place, how foley creates physical presence and how music shapes emotion. Work with a sound library to select, place and blend foley and ambient sounds against picture, and practise music editing — cutting, looping and transitioning tracks to fit the rhythm and arc of the film.
Derwent
Founder · Conniston Films
Derwent is the founder of Conniston Films, a premium video production company built around the belief that great video starts with great strategy. With clients including Heineken, BMW, Mercedes, Savanna, Nivea and Johnson’s, he brings real‑world production experience into every masterclass — not theory, not templates, but the exact system he uses on high‑end brand productions.
