DaVinci Resolve 17 features new image processing for the latest wide gamut HDR, a powerful audio engine, immersive 3D audio workflows and more! Colorists get new HDR grading tools, AI based magic mask and more. Fairlight upgrades mouse and keyboard based edit selection tools along with Fairlight audio core, a high performance audio engine that supports 2,000 tracks on a single system! Editors get a new metadata based "slate" view with bin dividers to organize and find footage faster, zoomed waveforms for audio editing, smart reframing, proxies, live effect previews and more. In addition, effects, titles or transitions created on the Fusion page can be used on the edit and cut pages!
All In One Solution for Post Production DaVinci Resolve is divided into "pages," each of which gives you a dedicated workspace and tools for a specific task. Editing is done on the cut and edit pages, visual effects and motion graphics on the Fusion page, color correction on the color page, audio on the Fairlight page, and media organization and output on the media and deliver pages. All it takes is a single click to switch between tasks!
Color - Hollywood’s favorite color corrector! The DaVinci Resolve color page is Hollywood’s most advanced color corrector and has been used to color and finish more high end feature films and television shows than any other system! It’s also approachable with exciting new features designed to make it easier for new users to get great results while they continue to learn the advanced tools. For example, new primary control sliders will be familiar to anyone that’s used image editing software, making it easy to adjust contrast, temperature, midtone detail, saturation and more. The color page has an incredible range of primary and secondary color grading features including PowerWindows™, qualifiers, tracking, advanced HDR grading tools and more!
Media and Delivery - Incredibly wide format support, finishing and mastering! The media and delivery pages have everything you need to import, manage and deliver final projects. While you can import and organize footage into bins on both the cut and edit pages, the media page gives you a dedicated full screen workspace so you can focus on preparing footage, syncing clips, organizing footage into bins and adding metadata before you start editing. The media page also lets you clone camera media cards for backup purposes. The quick export tool lets you output and upload files to YouTube, Vimeo and Twitter from anywhere in the software, but the deliver page gives you total control over all encoding options and formats, along with a render queue for exporting multiple jobs!
Resolve FX DaVinci Resolve Studio 17 features over 100 GPU and CPU accelerated Resolve FX in categories such as blurs, light effects, noise, image restoration, beauty enhancement, stylize and more! Version 17 adds 11 new plugins for texture pop, detail recovery, creating video collages, 3D keyer, HSL keyer, luma keyer, smear, motion trails, noise reduction, image transforms and false color. The video collage plug-in is perfect for picture in picture zoom style videos, virtual choirs and more! There are also improvements to the object removal, dead pixel fixer, dust buster, blur and film grain plug?ins. All Resolve FX can be animated using the new unified inspector on the cut, edit and Fusion pages!
DaVinci Resolve Color Panels DaVinci Resolve color panels let you adjust multiple parameters at once so you can create unique looks that are impossible with a mouse and keyboard. The incredibly small DaVinci Resolve Micro Panel is great for new colorists just getting started or anyone that needs a portable panel. It features three high quality trackballs, knobs for primary adjustment controls and buttons for playback and navigation. The DaVinci Resolve Mini Panel features additional controls and screens for accessing virtually all palettes and tools. For the ultimate in control, the DaVinci Resolve Advanced Panel gives high end professional colorists access to every single feature and command mapped to a specific button!
Color • DaVinci Resolve Advanced Panel keycaps kit and new optimized menus. • RCM2 with improved color tagging and smooth tone and gamut mapping. • HDR perceptually accurate primary grading tools with tonal range control. • Color warper to qualify and change hue vs saturation and luma vs chroma. • Magic mask using the DaVinci neural engine generates tracking masks. • Redesigned primary interface to show all controls concurrently. • Grading tools are colorspace aware in color managed timelines. • Support for user selectable colorspace and gamma for HDR grading tools. • Support for timeline clips to bypass color management. • Support for sat vs lum mode in the curve tool. • Support for generating a 17-point cube 3D LUT. • Support for LUTs designed for video range. • Support for saving smart filters to be shown in all projects. • Support for smart filters for marker keywords added to timeline clips. • Support for diagonal, venetian blinds and checkerboard reference wipes. • Support to set input colorspace, gamma and IDT on preconform timelines. • Support for a pop-out floating window for the curves panel. • Support for fast review from the playback menu on the color page. • Support for a 3x3 grid view and multiple GPU scopes of the same type. • Support for a floating video scopes window in dual screen layouts. • Improved scaling and style options for waveforms and vectorscopes. • Support for processing the timeline node graph in nested timelines. • Improved handling of alpha channel scaling in ACES and RCM workflows. • Support for loading IDTs and ODTs as a DCTL file or ACES RRT. • Support for non-parametric DCTL IDT and ODT formats. • Support for defining LUTs inside a DCTL file. • Support for multiple simultaneous client connections in remote grading. • Support for advanced and mini panels networking for remote grading. • Support for a split screen playhead viewing mode. • Support for improved split screen layouts. • Support for converting in-out ranges to duration markers. • Improved behavior when drawing bezier power windows using a mouse. • Option for a more serial node numbering for the node graph. • Support for dragging stills to the viewer or node graph to apply grade. • Copying grades and nodes in the Color page is now focus-based. • Option to use a Rec.2020 matrix for 4:2:2 video monitoring.
Resolve FX • Resolve FX Smear frame blending for motion blur and other effects. • Resolve FX Motion Trails temporal motion blur, object trails, disco effects. • Resolve FX Transform clip moving, stretching and rotation with motion blur. • Resolve FX False Color overlays replicating camera HUDs and other looks. • Resolve FX Texture Pop for fine image detail and contrast control. • Resolve FX Detail Recovery for detail and grain recovery. • Resolve FX Noise Reduction native noise reduction tools as Resolve FX. • Resolve FX Video Collage to quickly position a stack of clips into a grid. • Resolve FX Luma, HSL and 3D native keying tools as Resolve FX. • Improved Resolve FX Film Grain with new optimized mode. • Improved Resolve FX Dead Pixel Fixer with freehand fill, softness etc. • Improved Resolve FX Dust Buster with shape drawing, clone fixes etc. • Improved Resolve FX Object Removal for scene mode, adaptive blending. • Improved Resolve FX Blur defaults for directional, radial and zoom blurs. • Improved Resolve FX Tilt Shift with alpha channel support for depth masks.
Audio • Support for the Fairlight Mini Console. • Fairlight Audio Core to natively CPU process up to 2000 audio tracks. • FlexBus routing system to permit bus to bus routing and mixing. • ADM import, playback and export of Dolby Atmos IMF IAB masters. • Fairlight FX Surround Analyzer meters. • Full implementation of the 9.1.6 and 22.2 surround sound bus formats. • Native support for 44.1 KHz sample rate audio clips and instruments. • Analyzing and navigating to audio transients in a track. • Offline clip-based audio loudness analyzer. • Selection of absolute or relative scales and loudness meter dialog gating. • Support for Netflix loudness standards in the Fairlight loudness analyzer. • Pro Tools keyboard customization preset. • Full range of video controls in the new unified and tabbed inspector. • Updated editing, range and selection behavior in edit selection mode. • Support for importing AES31 audio timelines. • Support for pre-viewing video when sliding clips, markers and ranges. • Support for reversing audio clips. • Support for flattening audio track layers. • Support to have automation following clip edit changes. • Support for saving, recalling, creating timelines via configuration presets. • Support for editing linked clips. • Support for marquee selection of multiple mixer tracks. • Support for changing the track type of multiple selected tracks. • Support to directly edit in the mixer track and VCA group names. • Support for deleting multiple empty tracks from the track header. • Support for deleting marked extents on selected tracks. • Support for per-timeline views, selections, range and playhead location. • Support for changing clip gain using shortcuts. • Improved clip gain with change tooltips and fine control using shift. • Support for bouncing linked groups to a multi channel file. • Support for quick export from the Fairlight page. • Support for track record, mute, solo, arm control in the application menu. • Support for viewer to be off, floating, docked or full screen. • Support for toggling interface between normal and cinema viewer mode. • Support for monitoring volume dB level tooltip. • Support for selecting multiple monitor sources from Fairlight audio editors. • Support for pre & post roll control from the Fairlight audio editors. • Support for selection of Fairlight Audio Interface phantom power, gain etc. • Improved waveform display when zooming into a clip waveform. • Improved metering displays for timelines with lots of audio tracks. • Improved keyboard mappings for edit selection mode. • Improved MPEG-H workflow and export support.
Cut • Support for the DaVinci Resolve Speed Editor. • Full featured unified inspector with tabs and keyframe control. • File tab in the inspector with camera raw settings and clip metadata. • Media pool clip properties can now be viewed and edited in the inspector. • Media pool slate and sort view with grouping based on clip metadata. • Audio trim on the viewer and timeline. • Live scrubbing previews for effects library transitions, titles and effects. • Support for a new relink icon and dialog in the cut page. • Support quickly switching source tape bins from the media pool. • Support for showing the media pool in a flattened view. • Playhead indicators for distance to adjacent edits when using sync bins. • Support for a change duration dialog with presets in the cut page. • Support for entering the clip duration in the viewer duration field. • Support for navigating edit points and markers in the cut page. • Support for a thumbnail view in the effects library. • Support for a full screen preview icon on the viewer. • Support for selecting safe area guides and aspect ratios on the cut page. • Support for a cinema viewer with sync bin multi-views. • Support for switching timelines in the viewer. • Support for importing frame sequences as individual still images. • Improved markers entry using the DaVinci Resolve Editor keyboard.
Edit • Full featured unified inspector with tabs and keyframe control. • File tab in the inspector with camera raw settings and clip metadata. • Media pool clip properties can now be viewed and edited in the inspector. • Significantly improved DaVinci neural engine deinterlacing quality option. • Significantly improved processing of interlaced timelines and deliveries. • Real time removal of 3:2 pull down. • Scene cut detection directly on the timeline using DaVinci neural engine. • Automatically framing shots based on content using DaVinci neural engine. • Quick and clean chroma keying with Resolve FX Luma, HSL and 3D Keyer. • Resolve FX Video Collage for multiple source picture in picture grid. • Burn away transition with options to control burning, melting and shriveling. • Sync of multiple audio clips to a single video clip. • Aligning edits on the timeline using waveform or timecode matching. • Importing BorisFX Continuum plugins, transitions etc. from AAFs. • Live scrubbing previews for effects library transitions, titles and effects. • Media pool slate and sort view with grouping based on clip metadata. • Deleting gaps based on clip selection, ranges or the whole timeline. • Support for rendering sections of the timeline in place with effects baked in. • Support for motion blur controls for motion based video transitions. • Support for dragging effects directly into the inspector. • Support for conversion of basic transitions into Fusion transitions. • Support for timeline compositing using Resolve FX & OpenFX alpha. • Support to retain image position in the crop section of the inspector. • Support to navigate the timeline with arrow keys without affecting selection. • Support to change clip selection using arrow keys and command modifier. • Support for a thumbnail view in the effects library. • Support for sorting timelines alphabetically, creation date or recent use. • Support for disabling timelines within the media pool. • Improved timecode entry with multiple modes and dedicated action. • Support for copy paste of timecode or frame in viewers based on mode. • Support for compositing using track mattes or external alpha. • Support for Fusion effect templates in the edit page. • Support for viewer overlays for Fusion templates and titles. • Support to save and show smart bins in all projects. • Support for creating multiple multicam clips by splitting at gaps. • Support for compound clip or timeline conversion into multicam clips. • Support to optionally zoom timeline at the cursor or the playhead. • Support for a fast play review from the playback menu. • Support for hovering on title font names to preview on viewer. • Support for monitoring HDR and SDR outputs for Dolby Vision projects. • Support for monitoring stereoscopic 3D timelines. • Support for creating DCTL based transitions. • Support for importing EDL, XML etc. without media to empty media pool. • Support for floating video scopes in media view in a dual monitor mode. • Support for closing take selector or retime using escape. • Support for creating a new timeline using an IMF composition playlist. • Improved behavior when switching between clip and edit point selections. • Improved waveform syncing when creating multicams or aligning clips. • Improved track compositing when the media doesn't cover the full canvas. • Support for independent track height and view mode options.
Fusion • Audio playback along with waveform display in the keyframes panel. • Viewing and editing clip and timeline markers in the keyframes panel. • Resolve FX Dead Pixel Fixer, DCTL and Patch Replacer. • Support for bookmarks to switch between different views in the node editor. • Anim curves modifier for convenient easing and shaping of animations. • Support for user customization of the Fusion toolbar above the node editor. • Support for auto creating a composition when adding tools or media. • Support for additional dual screen layouts. • Support for full featured unified inspector with tabs and keyframe control. • Initial support for a GPU accelerated 2D shapes toolkit for motion graphics. • Improved optical flow behavior. • Improved handling of SVG images in Fusion.
Workflow Integrations • Open toolkit to create DaVinci Resolve Studio workflow integration plugins.
Codecs • Directly uploading to Twitter from within DaVinci Resolve. • Per frame metadata from Blackmagic RAW clips. • Per frame metadata from ARRI, RED, Canon and Sony cameras. • Decoding and rendering per-frame EXR metadata. • Updated metadata support for Sony MXF clips. • Open plugin SDK toolkit for encoder developers. • Growing file support in the media pool. • Decoding QuickTime PNG clips. • Decoding uncompressed RGB 8-bit and YUV 10-bit AVI clips. • Decoding spanned Panasonic 8K SHV clips. • Decoding and encoding GoPro CineForm clips with non multiple of 16 res. • Decoding and encoding mp3 audio in Linux. • Decoding and encoding high-throughput JPEG 2000 (HTJ2K). • Bypass re-encodes for supported JPEG 2000 profiles on renders. • Encoding IMF MCA audio metadata. • Encoding IMF and DCP as reels based on duration or edits. • Exporting non-HDR DCP metadata option. • Exporting HDR tags in DCP workflows. • Support for reading RAW clips and audio clips from Frame.io. • Support for decoding 32 bit PSD format images. • Support for additional NVIDIA encoder parameters for H.264 and H.265. • Improved decoding and encoding for H.265 on Mac OS with alpha support. • Support for rendering alpha channel in single clip render mode. • Support for rendering 10-bit HDR IMF clips. • Support for a 16 bit SDR IMF preset. • Support for Photon 4.8.0 for IMF validation.
General • Proxy media workflow supporting internal and externally generated media. • Optimized media is now automatically available across projects. • Generation of optimized media can now be limited to edit extents. • In and out ranges are now synchronized between pages. • Significantly improved performance with large collaboration projects. • Stability improvements with new GPU detection and initialization. • Better interactivity and playback performance on multi-GPU systems. • Consistent pan, zoom and scroll behavior with mouse and trackpads. • Support for importing and exporting individual timelines using .drt files. • Support for importing and exporting individual bins using .drb files. • Support for exporting .drt files for media managed timelines. • Support for auto linking .drt files to source camera clips. • Support for auto linking .drt files generated using media management. • Improved error handling for media management jobs. • Support for a warning about media offline when creating render jobs. • Support for smart bins and smart filters to check if media is offline. • Support to scan all connected databases for remote rendering jobs. • Support for new resize filter options in project settings and edit inspector. • Support for render caching adjustment clips. • Support to adjust numeric field entries using arrow keys based on cursor. • Support to ignore unsupported OpenFX plugin packages in preferences. • Support for independently configuring capture and playback devices. • Support for displaying source frame number in data burn-in. • Support for source and record timecode tags for custom data burn-in text. • Support for adjusting text opacity for data burn-in. • Support for configuring multiple custom LUT paths. • Support for Thai & Vietnamese UI localizations. • Support for a render codec tag for render path and file name. • Support for ITU-R BT.2111-1 HDR test bar patterns. • Support for showing fast forward & rewind speed. • Support for NVLink high speed interconnect with supported NVIDIA GPUs. • Support for xGMI high speed interconnect with supported AMD GPUs. • Support for an integrated title bar in the application window on Mac OS. • Support for previous and next navigation across Frame.io markers. • Support for triggering a script at the start or end of a render. • Collaboration workflows are now available in DaVinci Resolve. • DaVinci Resolve can now connect to remote PostgreSQL databases. • Multiple scripting API improvements. • Multiple performance and stability improvements.
Minimum system requirements for Windows: - Windows 10 Creators Update. - 16 GB of system memory. 32 GB when using Fusion - Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 10.4.1 or later - Integrated GPU or discrete GPU with at least 2GB of VRAM - GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 11 - NVIDIA/AMD/Intel GPU Driver version – As required by your GPU - A minimum NVIDIA driver version of 451.82 is recommended.
Key Features • Hardware accelerated Apple ProRes on Apple M1 Pro and M1 Max. • 120Hz support on Apple M1 Pro and M1 Max for smoother UI and playback. • Faster DaVinci Neural Engine performance on Mac OS 12. • Native HDR viewers on supported Mac hardware. • Comments and annotations sync between Dropbox Replay and DaVinci Resolve Studio. • Markers and comments sync between Dropbox and DaVinci Resolve Studio. • Export timeline markers titles as YouTube video or Quicktime chapters. • Steinberg VST3 support giving access to even more audio effects. • Simplifi ed color management, SDR and HDR selection and ne w automatic project settings. • New Resolve FX including fi lm halation. Page 3 of 8• Improved 3D keyer and matte fi nes se controls. • Text+ support for combining glyphs, vertical layouts and right to left for Arabic, Hebrew etc. • Signifi cantly faster ProRes decode, encode and AI performance for M1. • Subtitle backgrounds auto resize and nested timelines decompose to parent. Support for Apple M1 Pro and M1 Max • Hardware accelerated Apple ProRes on Apple M1 Pro and M1 Max. • 120Hz support on Apple M1 Pro and M1 Max for smoother UI and playback. • Faster DaVinci Neural Engine performance on Mac OS 12. • Native HDR viewers on supported Mac hardware. • Native full screen mode on Mac. Dropbox Comment Integration • Dropbox login within DaVinci Resolve preferences. • Render directly to Dropbox or Dropbox Replay. • Automatic background uploads when render completes. • Comments and annotations sync between Dropbox Replay and DaVinci Resolve Studio. • Markers and comments sync between Dropbox and DaVinci Resolve Studio. Edit • Subtitle and caption backgrounds now auto-resize to fi t text content. • Subtitle tracks in nested timelines now decompose to the main timeline. Page 4 of 8• Adding a new subtitle caption now auto-focuses on the text area. • Simple titles and subtitles are faster on Apple Silicon systems. • Improved ease in and out functionality for position curves in the timeline. • Options to include effects and grades for render in place operations. • Switch multicam angles in the edit page with the speed editor. • Ability to mark selection for timeline gaps. • Edit asymmetric audio transitions created in the Fairlight page. • Trim video and audio transitions asymmetrically using cmd/ctrl. • Fine audio clip gain adjustments using shift + mouse drag. • Support for pasting retime attributes on audio clips. • Option to limit audio sync to the fir st timecode match. • Preview composite modes by hovering over each mode in the inspector. • Ability to set per-clip deinterlace quality in the inspector. • New square iris transition. • Support for custom aspect ratio controls for shape transitions. • Improved overlays for Fusion tools in the viewer. • Improved undo support for Fusion effects and Text+ in the inspector. • Support for folder based organization of effect templates. • New customizable key actions to go to previous/next timeline tabs. • Ability to close timeline tabs with middle click. • Preview generators and titles from the effects panel in the cut viewer. Color • Support for an automatic mode for color managed projects. • Support for ACES 1.3, gamut compression and new CSC transforms. • New 3D Keyer with new modes, better selection/stroke logic, live feedback. • Improved HSL and Luma keyers with updated matte fi nes se controls. • Track forward and back with a single action in trackers and magic masks. • Node tooltips now indicate LUT and effect type present. • Dragging new links to layer and key mixers auto-creates node inputs. • Dragging color nodes over key links creates key-to-RGB connections. • Added individual primary and secondary tool icons for faster switching. • Clip fi lters for timeline clips with Dolby Vision analysis or trim. • Disabled clips are now shown as gray in the timeline. • Support for applying camera LUTs and CDLs to ARRI MXF ProRes clips. • The printer light state is now persisted across application restart. • Navigating to markers in the timeline now auto scrolls to center marker. Resolve FX • Film halation emulates fi lm stock refl ections and scatter with Studio. Page 5 of 8• Custom mixer to combine effects and grades with fi ner control. • Improved 3D, HSL and Luma keyers in edit and Fusion. • Better noise handling and key refi nement for existing keyers. • Improved patch replacer with ability to align source and target. • Film grain with interactive previews and grain freeze options. Fairlight • Support for Steinberg VST3 audio plugins on Mac OS and Windows. • Ability to reorder, move and duplicate effects in the mixer. • Support for copying clip ranges with partial fades. • Single sided audio transitions are now displayed as fades. • Support for multi channel audio outputs on Linux. • Better waveform displays at smaller track heights and lower zoom levels. • Ability to shift -click and cmd-click on k eyframe selections in the timeline. • Navigating to previous or next timeline marker now selects the marker. • Improved default processing order in Fairlight mixers. • Automation curves display current values when no automation is present. • Point selections now fl ash in edit selection mode. • Improved column order and search behavior in the clip index. • Improved jog, scroll and shuttle with the editing keyboard and speed editor. • Fairlight FX meters have resizable displays and improved channel labels. • Improved audio performance when using Blackmagic monitoring devices. Page 6 of 8Fusion • Text+ support for combined glyphs and right to left language layouts. • Improved vertical Text+ layout, vertical glyphs, rotation and line direction. • Improved Text+ character grouping, spacing, underlining and borders. • Text+ supports per-character stylistic sets for supported fonts. • Support for OpenType features, including old-style numbers in Text+. • Multiple Text+ improvements for character styling and animation. • Hover to show tool descriptions in the effects panel and add tool window. • Improved default tracker search and pattern size for grid warps. • New search area scale slider in tracker options. Codecs and File I/O • Improved encode settings for YouTube render preset. • Option to export a timeline marker color as YouTube video chapters. • Option to export a timeline marker color as QuickTime chapter markers. • Support for decoding opus audio in QuickTime and MP4 clips. • Hardware accelerated Panasonic 8K AVC decodes on Apple Silicon. • Improved decode speeds for ARRI ARX clips. • Hardware accelerated H.265 encodes on free version on Windows. • H.264 encode profi le options on supported Nvidia systems with Studio. • H.264/H.265 encode bit rate controls on supported Windows Intel systems. • Faster encodes and decodes for Windows Intel systems with Studio. • Support for encoding to ZIP1 EXR format. • Ability to add custom languages in DCP/IMF composition naming options. • Ability to use approved operator / rating / region lists for DCP naming. • Marker support in the IO encode plugin SDK • Ability to bypass re-encodes for Sony XAVC Intra clips. • Improved retention of comments metadata for third party XML workflo ws. • Improved display of render job names with tooltips. General • Right click audio icon to adjust volume on media, color and deliver pages. • Auto-identifying media storage sequential image formats as stills or clips. • Prompt to overwrite existing projects when invoking save as. • Locked project indicator for PostgreSQL databases with usage info tooltip. • Ability to clone a PostgreSQL database from the project manager. • Ability to export PostgreSQL access keys from the project manager. • Option to import into current timeline when importing an AAF. • Scripting API support to access inspector properties for video clips. • Scripting API support to set playhead position on the timeline. Page 7 of 8• Scripting API support to get color version for video clips. • Scripting API support for refl ecting upload status in render job APIs. • Scripting API support for setting network optimization in render jobs. • Scripting API support for H.264 multi-pass encode option in Mac OS. • Improved scripting property set when querying MediaIn nodes. • General performance and stability improvements.
