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VST effects aren’t installed in a standard location, so it may sometimes be necessary to add a newly installed directory of VST plugins that you’ve just installed on your system. To help you deal with this, the Audio Plugins panel of the Preferences window has a list that lets you manually add and remove VST plugin directories, if necessary.
Once you’ve added one or more VST directories to the list, a second list underneath shows all audio plugins that are available within these directories. Each plugin on the list has a checkbox that shows whether or not it’s currently enabled. Any VST plugins that cause DaVinci Resolve to crash while loading them during startup will be automatically disabled. You can use this list to see which plugins have been disabled, for troubleshooting purposes, and to reenable such “blacklisted” plugins, by turning their checkboxes back on.
The Fairlight Page
The audio controls of the Edit page are geared more towards simple mixing to have sensible levels as you work putting a program together. For comprehensive audio sweetening, mixing, automation, and mastering controls, the Fairlight page is only one click away.
For more information, see Part 12, “Fairlight.”
Pro Tools Export
It bears mentioning that, if the audio editing, mixing, and effects capabilities of DaVinci Resolve aren’t enough for you to take care of the audio in your program, you can also export an AAF with audio and a reference movie to Pro Tools using the Deliver page. The resulting media can be handed off to a Pro Tools-based audio facility to be worked on by a dedicated team of audio specialists, who will most likely output a stereo or 5.1 mix file that you can then reinsert in the Timeline you’re using to master the final output of your program.
For more information on exporting AAF for Pro Tools in the Deliver page, see Chapter 186, “Using the Deliver Page.”