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One of the ways Fairlight achieves that is through the flexibility of its interface, a trait it has in common with the other Resolve editing tools but is particularly useful here. The panels needed for a particular operation easily slide open and closed: there when you need them, tucked neatly away when you don’t. The other design element that makes this possible is that you can zoom from a view of all the tracks in your timeline all the way in to sub-frame editing of a waveform. You mix and edit in the same interface. But possibly the element I appreciated the most is the ease with which I can apply virtually the same controls and effects to either a clip or an entire track. Sound Instruction According to the remarkably great, two-part Fairlight tutorial Blackmagic Design provides, the key to getting the most out of the program is organizing your work. In Fairlight, tools for naming, color-coding, grouping and linking are always right at hand. The tutorial stresses that the most important part of your work will always be dialog. (Sound design and effects may get the Oscars, but if the dialog isn’t clear, you won’t even get an audience.) Thus, the training focuses first on “checkerboard editing” dialog—separating out the voices on a clip to their own tracks. Generally each need their own unique kind of enhancement. In some cases, they will need to be synced up to an ADR (additional dialog replacement) track recorded separately. Fairlight has the ability load multiple takes of the same dialog clip onto a track, essential for that process. As with the video editing pages, Resolve does it’s best to keep the most-used functions and controls near at hand, but it still pays to learn as many keyboard shortcuts as you can. One thing that takes a bit of getting used to: in Fairlight, more of them require a modifier key (Command, Control, etc.) where in the video editing pages, many more are single-key operations. Playback and scrubbing still use the familiar J-K-L sequence. One tool unique to Fairlight is the Range Selection Mode crosshair. With it, you can select a section of a track, letting it be moved or changed with a mouse-click. This is the trick that makes setting up for a checkerboard edit so easy. It’s also how