Challenge 1: Why This Course Exists Alongside Video Editing Fundamentals' Own Audio Chapter — Solution Walkthrough

The answer:

Video Editing Fundamentals' own Chapter 7 covers audio that already
lives inside a video project — Fairlight, DaVinci Resolve's built-in
DAW-style page, handling narration, ducking, EQ, and compression
against a picture timeline. That audio always has video sitting right
next to it, and the tools are built around keeping the two in sync.

This course covers a genuinely different starting point: audio that
doesn't begin as part of any video project at all. A standalone
podcast recording, a narration track being cleaned up before it's ever
imported anywhere, a quick noise-reduction pass on one file — none of
these have a picture timeline involved in the first place.

Why this isn't overlap or repetition:

The two chapters aren't teaching the same skill twice. Fairlight's own
job is audio synced to video; Audacity's own job is audio that stands
entirely on its own. The tool, the interface (waveform vs. clip-based
timeline), and the actual task are all different, even though both
involve editing sound.

WHY THIS WORKS AS AN ANSWER
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This exercise checks that the distinction between "audio inside a
video project" (Fairlight, Video Editing Fundamentals Ch.7) and
"audio that starts and ends as audio" (Audacity, this course) is
understood as a genuine difference in scope, not a duplicated topic.