Click & Pop in Edit page but not on Fairlight

[Preditor J]

Compound Question

I have a timeline that is 47 minutes. in the first 7mininute there is a lot of clicking and popping (5-7x per 2secs). However, when I go to the Fairlight page, this is more like 1-2x per 2sec. I am sorta new to Resolve with less than 20 projects completed in the suite. I do, however, have extensive experience with Adobe products.

The method I planned to use to fix this was to manually lower the pops and clicks like I would do in Audition. When I go into use the range selector of Fairlight to highlight the pop, I can not find the means to lower the gain for that ONE pop in the audio.

Q1
Why is it that I can hear more pops & clicks in the Edit page than the Fairlight Page?

Q2
Which audio should I trust to be more like what I should expect in the exported file ( Edit Page or Fairlight Page)

Q3
How do I lower the volume of a selected range in Fairlight?

 

[oldschool47]

This is a tough one, could be a lot of things. What version of DVR are you on? Are these pops part of your recorded audio or do you only hear them during playback in DVR?

• In your project settings -> timeline format, is your playback framerate matching your timeline framerate?
• Do you have multiple audio file formats in your timeline? In my experience DVR doesn't like mp3's, and likes .wav files, but that's just my experience.
• Are you on a windows or a mac? If windows it could be your gpu settings, but I'm not too knowledgable in that area.

I've personally found fairlight to be kind of buggy. There is a dehummer tool which allows you to lower specific frequencies in the audio, also a deEsser. There's also a noise reduction effect in fairlight. I'm not sure if these would help you though if the pops are not part of your recorded audio.

 

[Preditor J]

The click and pop is in the footage, but more pronounced in the audio on the edit page.

• The framerates match
• These waves are all from a smartphone that was recorded at 4k/29.97. Though as a note, switching from a 23.97 to a 29.97 timeline made Fairlight and edit closer, but still not identical.
• I am on a Mac using DVR Studio. And it normally does not have this behavior, even if I have heavy mix audio and video formats.

Thanks for replying. I am going to trust the edit page overall. I think it may best represent the output of all elements.

 

[oldschool47]

You definitely want your timeline framerate to match your footage framerate. Having them mismatched can cause weird issues to happen. The fact that the pops are embedded into your footage is actually good news because it means you can manually edit them. If they do not overlap directly with dialogue you can literally just select those pops using the blade tool and delete them, and replace them by copying in clean audio from another spot in your footage, it's a pretty simple operation you just have to use a bit of elbow grease depending on how many pops there are.

 

[Preditor J]

Yeah, but i wish the range sector tool would allow me to lower their volume without needing a blade.