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Compatible Audio Formats
DaVinci Resolve is compatible with WAVE, Broadcast WAVE, AIFF, MP3, AAC (M4A), CAF
(macOS only), both MTS and QuickTime containers that use the AC3 audio format, and
Enhanced AC-3 (macOS and Windows only). DaVinci Resolve is compatible with audio at
sample rates including 32, 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96, and 192 kHz.
Editing Audio Clips Into the Timeline
The Fairlight page offers a complete audio editing environment that lets you either record and
assemble clips from scratch, or refine tracks full of audio clips that have been edited together in
different ways. There are four ways of adding media to the Timeline in the Fairlight page,
depending on the type of work you do:
 Recording new audio into one or more tracks (for more information, see Chapter 152,
“Recording”)
 By dragging and dropping new audio clips from the Media Pool into the
Fairlight timeline
 By editing audio clips into audio tracks on the Edit page
 By importing a project with audio clips
However audio clips come to be in your timeline, the rest of this chapter covers the myriad
methods available to edit and sweeten the contents.
Overwriting Vs. Layering Clips That Overlap
When you add clips to the Timeline, what happens when you add a clip that overlaps another
clip that’s already in the track you’re editing to depends on the Timeline > Layered Audio
Editing setting. By default, with Layered Audio Editing turned off, overwriting one audio clip with
another results in the overlapping part of the overwritten clip being non-destructively deleted
from the Timeline by the incoming clip.
However, if you turn Layered Audio Editing on, then incoming clips do not overwrite overlapping
clips in the Timeline; instead, they’re layered within that track, such that the incoming audio clip
takes precedence over what was previously there, but overlapping audio segments that were
previously in the Timeline are preserved, which can be seen when you choose View >
ShowAudio Track Layers.
In this way, you can choose whether you want to overwrite previously edited clips, or layer
newly edited clips, as your needs require, regardless of whether or not Audio Track Layers are
visible. Audio layering can be enabled in both the Edit and Fairlight pages.
For more information about audio layering, see the section later in this chapter.
Choosing Parts of Clips to Edit in the Media Pool
The Media Pool has a preview player at the top that provides a place to open selected source
clips in the Media Pool, play them, add marks to log them, and set In and Out points in
preparation for editing them into the Timeline via drag and drop. The Media Pool Preview Player
effectively acts as a Source monitor for editing in the Fairlight page.
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