Auto Align Post 2 - some questions

Auto-Align Post
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I hope this is the right place. I am thinking of getting AAP for Resolve although I am reading quite a few issues on the forums.

Mostly this is for dialogue and I have a specific project right now with a lot of overlapping lavs. But in this project I also have a Piano recording with 9 mics.

Will AAP also phase sync the static 9 mics of the recording? I ask because I see people wanting to also buy AA as well as AAP but I thought AAP could do both static and dynamic set ups? So is there some other differences between the two plug ins specific to music?

My other questions are really about workflow.

My source recordings are all multi hour long lavs (float 32) but they are linked into the video clips by timecode. So my timeline is all edited from the clips, with multi channel linked audio files.

I am wondering whether the best approach is to take the very long source audio files and align them as a pre processing task and relink them in Resolve. Or whether I will need to link thousands of smaller edits bit by bit (because there is no one continuous reference track but 9 lavs where audio from everyone can be heard across all lavs). I hope that makes sense. It’s a general workflow question I guess.

These tracks in Fairlight are also part of a mix, with NR, Voice isolation and other processing going on.

thanks for any insights
Paul

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Hi Paul, welcome!

Both Auto-Align and Auto-Align Post were designed to fix comb-filtering and phase-related cancellations caused in a multi-mic recording of a source.
AA2 was built with music in mind, while AAP2 was designed for post, where mics/subjects are moving.
In your case, you should get great results aligning the piano with AAP2 in Static Mode.

Some Resolve users reported issues on the forum – we’ve since fixed those, and we’re still improving AAP2, so if anything comes up, we do our best to fix it as soon as possible.

I would suggest starting a 14-day trial using the latest Auto-Align Post v2.2.3 Beta, which includes many Davinci-related fixes:

Workflow-wise: once your timeline is cut and synced, you can start by aligning one track to its ref. That shouldn’t take long. Then move on to the next track. No need to relink clips – AAP2 will mute the source track and create a new aligned track at the bottom of the timeline.

For best results, run AAP2 before noise reduction/voice isolation.
Currently, those processes won’t carry over automatically, so you’ll need to copy them manually if needed.

If you have any questions, feel free to reach us at support@soundradix.com.

Thanks,
Oran