What's New
DaVinci Resolve 20 introduces more than 100 new features including powerful AI tools designed to assist you with all stages of your workflow. Use AI IntelliScript to create timelines based on a text script, AI Animated Subtitles to animate words as they are spoken, and AI Multicam SmartSwitch to assemble a timeline with camera angles based on speaker detection. The cut and edit pages introduce a dedicated keyframe editor and voiceover palettes, and AI Audio Assistant analyzes your audio and intelligently creates a professional audio mix. In Fusion, explore advanced multi layer compositing workflows. The Color Warper now includes Chroma Warp, plus Magic Mask and Depth Map have huge updates.
Cloud Collaboration
Blackmagic Cloud
DaVinci Resolve supports Blackmagic Cloud, so you can host your project libraries and additionally choose to sync all of your media. You can share Blackmagic Cloud projects and work collaboratively with editors, colorists, VFX artists and audio engineers at the same time, anywhere in the world!
Share Cloud Folders
Cloud folders let you easily share extra clips, images or graphics for a project with other collaborators. All cloud content appears as virtual clips and folders until used in a project, after which it is synced locally. You can access large amounts of media while keeping your media pool organized.
URL Presentations Sharing
Now you can review projects in Presentations with clients who don’t have a Blackmagic Cloud account. To activate guest access simply generate a URL link of the Presentation you want to review and share it with clients. You can review clips, make notes on the timeline using markers and even group chat.
Icon View with Thumbnails
Cloud storage features an icon view that displays thumbnails of all clips so you can visually identify them and manage your media. Hovering over thumbnails lets you scrub through the content for quick media preview. The inspector panel displays camera and clip metadata, as well as production notes.
Blackmagic Cloud for Organizations
The Organizations web app lets larger companies define a single organization or company within Blackmagic Cloud. Now you can create groups or teams and quickly share projects to an entire group rather than one by one. You can also manage storage access, share Presentations, and create a single sign on!
DaVinci Resolve Studio Licenses
The Organizations app also lets you rent DaVinci Resolve Studio licenses. This makes it easier for companies to assign and manage the allocation of licenses within large groups. Licenses can be costed against specific projects and then removed when it’s complete.
Blackmagic Proxy Generator
The Blackmagic Proxy Generator App automatically creates and manages proxies from camera originals. Create a watch folder and new media is automatically converted into H.264, H.265 or ProRes proxies to accelerate editing workflows. You can extract proxies into a separate folder for offline work!
Simplified Proxy Workflow
Switch between camera original footage and proxies with a single click. With Blackmagic proxy generated proxies, DaVinci Resolve knows where in the file tree to find them, instantly linking to the camera originals in the media pool. Edit with proxies, then relink to camera originals to grade!
Blackmagic Cloud Camera Sync
Blackmagic URSA Cine and PYXIS can now upload proxy files, followed by the camera originals, to Blackmagic Cloud. With automatic sync to DaVinci Resolve projects, you can start editing and grading quickly using proxies, speeding up your workflow. It’s a fast, seamless and automatic way to collaborate.
Cut and Edit
New Layout for Vertical Timelines
When a vertical timeline or project is loaded, the cut, edit and color page layouts now automatically rearranged to optimize working with a vertical viewer. Tools and palettes are moved to ensure that you have maximum use of the screen without wasted space and without the need to constantly zoom.
Voice Over Palette
The voiceover palette on the cut page records a voice over track during timeline playback. You get cue, record, and stop controls, plus quick access to voice isolation and dialogue leveling tools. A dedicated track is added automatically. You can load and work with a prompter script and a countdown.
Refined Keyframe Editing
A dedicated keyframe editor in the cut and edit pages allows for finer parameter animation. Use the keyframe curves and parameter modes to edit keyframes and customize animation shape with ease controls. You can also use the keyframe tray below the timeline to review and navigate timeline keyframes.
Improved Text+ Graphic Layout
The Text+ tool has been updated to include the layout’s point, text box, circle or path styles giving you more refined control over the layout of your text graphics. When working with PSD files on a timeline, you can choose to split the PSD layers in place in order to work with each individual layer.
Create Unique Text Layers
The MultiText tool creates multiple text layers in one place for greater flexibility! Use the inspector tabs to set individual style parameters within each text layer, including appearance, layout, warping and keyframe animation. The text list lets you navigate, rearrange, lock, and delete layers.
New Live Overwrite Controls
On the cut page, you can now drag directly in the viewer to live overwrite a camera angle directly into the timeline. With the sync bin active, or when in multi source mode, you can drag horizontally to live paint at the playhead, or drag down to turn the angle into a draggable clip.
Source Viewer Timeline Editing
On the edit page, you can open a timeline in the source viewer to review, compare and edit between two timelines. The source viewer timeline has a blue playhead to quickly identify the active timeline. Work faster using stacked timelines to compare, and drag and drop media between the timelines.
Safe Trimming Mode
The cut page now has a safe trimming mode to prevent you from accidentally overwriting crucial edits. You can drag trim points to quickly fill gaps in the timeline. When you reach a cut point, DaVinci Resolve will pause. If you do want to overwrite the edit, keep dragging to trim the adjacent clip.
New Audio Mixer
The cut page now features a full audio mixer with professional loudness metering. Each channel strip has a left-right pan slider, fader, solo, and mute buttons, plus professional panning, EQ, Dynamics, and FX controls. Now you can mix and monitor audio while you record, edit and finish your show.
Voice Over Tool
On the edit page, the voiceover tool lets you record directly into the timeline. There are quick controls to set file name, audio input and destination track. With automatic track selection and customization options like countdown and input monitoring, creating a voice over has never been easier!
Multi Source
Multi Source lets you see all your live cameras, or even just clips in a bin with a common timecode, in a multiview screen to look for any point of interest. You can scrub, play and select shots to add to the timeline or simply play to air. You can even switch live from any of the available angles.
Point of Interest
When watching live cameras or a multiview of clips and a signifiant event occurs, capture the moment with a POI marker. The POI is placed on all the clips at that same time so you can quickly find the event on every camera angle, play them to air and even automatically build a highlights timeline.
Replay Palette
The pace of live TV is frantic so the replay controls are clear and quick to navigate. Set a POI with a single key, select a camera and cue the event. Then select run to play to air automatically via ATEM. You can switch cameras or once it’s done, simply dump the playout to prepare the next replay.
Auto Stinger
Stingers are moving graphics and sound transition to let the viewer know you have switched from live to a replay, then back, or even just switched to a new scene. Select auto stingers from the media pool and play in real time at the head and tail of a replay, even when the replay is in slow motion.
Color
Chroma Color Warp
Chroma warp lets you intuitively adjust color and saturation with a single motion in the viewer. The stroke control moves colors in one direction, while the point to point mode isolates regions for more precise hue correction. You can add pin points to isolate regions you do not want to affect.
Remote Monitoring Improvements
When streaming remotely, you can choose to display power windows and other overlays on the reference monitor. This is helpful for remote workflows where the grading system is in a separate location from the colorist, or their client, and their local monitor. You can also now stream H.265 4:2:2.
UltraNR Noise Reduction
UltraNR is a new DaVinci AI Neural Engine driven denoise mode in the Color page’s spatial noise reduction palette. Use it to dramatically reduce digital noise from a frame while maintaining image clarity. Combine with temporal noise reduction for even more effective denoising in images with motion!
Film Look Creator
The new Film Look Creator lets you add cinematic looks that replicate film properties like halation, bloom, grain, flicker, gate weave and vignetting. Adjust exposure in stops and use subtractive saturation, richness and split tone controls to achieve looks usually found on the big screen!
ColorSlice Six Vector Grading
The ColorSlice palette uses subtractive color processes to adjust image color density, saturation and hue, allowing you to produce rich filmic colors and looks. Parameters in each customizable vector slice let you enhance and deepen color without spill, in a way that looks naturally pleasing.
Marker Overlays and Annotations
The Color page viewer now supports marker overlays and annotations for timeline and clip markers. Open the marker interface to leave written notes with your visual feedback. Select a marker color and thickness, and draw directly in the viewer or use the arrow tool to point to areas of interest.
Composite Mode within Nodes
Corrector nodes in the color page node editor now features composite mode. These composite modes will allow you to affect how node values blend into the pipeline without the need of a layer mixer. This means your node graph looks cleaner and it’s faster and easier to read the signal flow.
Original Footage
After Depth Map
Automatic Depth Map
The new depth map effect lets you instantly generate a 3D depth matte of a scene to quickly grade the foreground separately from the background, and vice versa. You can bring attention to action in the foreground, help interview subjects stand out, or add atmosphere in the background of a scene!
Fusion
Deep Image Compositing
Fusion now offers deep image compositing tools, so you can access the depth data found in deep image EXR files. A range of new nodes allows you to merge, transform, resize, crop, recolor, and generate holdouts. Render from Fusion’s 3D environment and export deep EXR’s with the Fusion saver node.
PSD File
Layer
Multi Layer Pipeline
In version 20, Fusion supports multi-layer images across all nodes. Fusion can read multi-layer EXRs or photoshop files, preview the layers in the viewer, and access and manipulate any layer in any node. Now artists have seamless layer interaction without needing independent renders of a source file.
Vector Warping Toolset
Vector warp, vector transform, and vector denoise are new optical flow vector tools integrated within Fusion. These tools enable intricate temporal effects by leveraging motion vectors. Utilizing a clip's natural movement for warping and denoising presents a powerful time saving solution for artists.
Support for 180 VR
Fusion’s PanoMap, spherical stabilizer, LatLong patcher, 3D VR camera and the 3D viewers have been updated to support 180-degree angle of view to allow production of immersive content. You can also render 3D scenes to VR180 using a spherical camera and Renderer3D for a simplified production process.
3D Scene Dome Light
The enhanced Dome light is a 3D tool that simulates natural ambient lighting in a 3D scene. It allows the integration of 360 HDRI images for accurate reflections and global illumination. Now you can create more realistic environments, ensuring your 3D models respond convincingly to light conditions.
View Color Grade in Fusion
You can now preview color page clip grades directly in the Fusion page viewer through the MediaOut node. This will give you a better representation of your final composition and save you time by not requiring you to leave the Fusion page every time you need to review the final look of a clip.
Advanced Volume Rendering
uVolume lets you directly import volumetric VDB files into Fusion eliminating time consuming conversions. It also adds creative control of imported effects such as smoke, fire, clouds and explosions. You get complete control over density, temperature and color parameters of the VDB file in DaVinci!
MultiPoly Tool
The new MultiPoly tool displays all of your masks in a single list eliminating switching between nodes for faster, more accurate rotoscoping! Perfect for complex projects, you can view, select, add to and modify specific shapes, toggle their visibility and adjust parameters all from one location.
Fairlight
6 Band Clip EQ
Clip EQ now features 6 bands on the cut, edit and Fairlight pages. This allows for more tonal control at the clip level, and matches the track EQ in the mixer. So now you can easily copy and paste settings between the clip, track and EQ plug-in for more consistent, flexible and precise control.
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EQ and Level Matcher
Two new clip processing options let you adjust a target clip’s audio to match a reference clip’s level or tonal spectrum. EQ match is dynamic and is automatically automated across your clip to maintain a tonal match. Level Matcher lets you seamlessly intercut clip sections without manual changes.
Chain FX
If you have a favorite group of plugins that you need to apply together, you can now build a Chain FX to include them, each with customized settings and saved as presets. You can have up to six effects within a chain and also combine Chain FX plugins for longer chains in the channel effects slots.
Automation Improvements
Fairlight now features per-channel automation mode selection allowing for more flexibility and creative control when mixing your projects. In a single pass you can now dynamically adjust multiple individual tracks and have some channel automation settings in Snap, some in Latch, and others in Trim.
Auto Panning Left to Right
AI Audio Panning to Video
The new IntelliTrack AI point tracker lets you automatically generate precision audio panning by tracking people or objects as they move across 2D and 3D spaces! With AI audio panning to video, you can track on screen subjects, accurately generating panning data to match movement against picture!
AI Fairlight FX
The AI based dialogue separator FX lets you rebalance dialogue against background sound and the reverberant sound of the room. You get controls for voice, background and ambience so you can reduce, remix or remove competing sounds. It’s perfect for field recordings and interviews in busy locations.
Fairlight Ducker Track FX
The ducker track FX lets one track auto adjust the level of another track without the need for setting up complex side chain compression or automation curves. You can automatically set music or background noise to lower when dialogue is present, then fine tune the audio mix with advanced controls.
Ambisonic Surround Sound
Record, mix, monitor and deliver full sphere Ambisonic surround soundtracks! Fully integrated native operation with 1st to 5th order busses and tracks, native effects processing, 2D and 3D spherical panning, binaural and channel based monitoring, dynamic in-viewer metering and head tracking support.
Next Generation
Engineering
DaVinci Resolve features some of the most cutting edge technology in the industry today. The DaVinci AI Neural Engine is an advanced machine learning system powering many of the software’s most powerful tools, and is fully supported in Apple M series and Snapdragon X Elite. Inclusion of the latest version of Dolby Vision means that users can view HDR on supported monitors, including laptops. The future proof DaVinci Wide Gamut and Intermediate log grading environment let you work on media from any source. You can deliver to every projection, monitoring and archiving standard in use today. Plus DaVinci Resolve is the only software that you can use to edit and grade 8K footage in real time!
Remote Monitoring via SRT
When remote monitoring from Blackmagic Cloud, SRT streaming ensures high-quality, low latency video, ideal for live collaboration and feedback. SRT minimizes lag and jitter resulting in seamless playback and the end-to-end transmission encryption keeps your streams safe from unauthorized access.
AI Set Extender
The AI Set Extender creates a scene extension to fill an entire frame based on a simple text prompt! Highlight the area you want to extend, and missing regions caused by limited clip angles, blanking and cropping will be auto generated. You can even create new backgrounds behind foreground objects!
Apple Immersive Workflows
New tools and parameters are being added in DaVinci Resolve to support Apple Immersive workflows, including support for spatial audio. This means you will be able to import clips shot on a Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive camera to edit, grade, mix and professionally deliver media for Apple Vision Pro.
DaVinci Wide Gamut Color Space
DaVinci wide gamut and intermediate are timeline color space and gamma standards that provide a universal internal working color space. It’s larger than what cameras can capture, even larger than BT.2020, ARRI wide gamut and ACES AP1. You’ll never lose image quality, no matter where it comes from!
8K Real Time Color Correction
Only DaVinci Resolve supports 8K digital negative debayering editing and grading in real time! Working directly on RAW footage when compositing and grading ensures the most accurate results, to avoid limited resolutions, compression artifacts and banding that might impact your creative decisions!
Technology
and Creativity
DaVinci Resolve provides some of the most intelligent AI and advanced feature algorithms available in post production! These tools produce quick, accurate results that will elevate the visual quality of your project while saving you hours of time. The magic mask needs only a single stroke to locate and track people, features, and objects. Smart reframe repurposes footage to dramatically different aspect ratios by recognizing the action in a scene and panning within it. Tools like object removal and the patch replacer allow you to remove unwanted equipment from a scene with the click of a few buttons. Plus the tracker has been the industry leader for over 20 years.
AI Tools
AI IntelliScript
Use AI IntelliScript to automatically generate timelines based on the original project script. AI IntelliScript will match the transcribed audio in media clips to the script and construct a timeline of the best selected takes, with any alternative takes placed on additional tracks for editor review.
AI Dialogue Matcher
Dialogue Matcher is a powerful tool that automatically matches the tone, level, and room environment of dialogue. You can match audio from two totally different clips for audio consistency. Match dialogue recorded in different environments, on different devices, or on shoots spanning several days.
AI Music Editor
Automatically adjust a music track’s length to fit your video! The audio clip is analyzed and a music edit is extended or shortened to match. You get four versions to chose from, visual edit indicators, and the ability to decompose sections. It’s a fast, flexible way to tailor music to your visuals.
AI Animated Subtitles
Keep your viewers attention in your videos with subtitles that are animated as words are spoken! Use the transcription tool to generate a subtitle track on your timeline and then drag the animated Fusion title templates onto the track header to change the appearance and animation style of the text.
AI Multicam SmartSwitch
In the edit page, Multicam SmartSwitch automatically switches multi-cam angles based on the active speaker in a scene. After creating a multi-cam clip, click SmartSwitch in the multi-cam viewer. SmartSwitch analyzes and automatically selects clip angles based on audio, and lip movement in the video!
AI Voice Convert
The revolutionary Voice Convert tool applies a pre-generated voice model to an existing voice recording, retaining its inflections, pitch variation, and emotion. Improve your own voice if recorded in a noisy environment, or create perfect ADR using the original actor’s own voice.
Upscale with Regular NLE
Upscale with DaVinci Resolve
New AI SuperScale
DaVinci Resolve’s SuperScale now features 3x and 4x enhanced upscaling, ensuring the highest visual quality of all media in a project, regardless of source resolution. Perfect for working with archival material or stock footage that needs to be matched to the deliverable resolution.
AI Magic Mask 2
Magic Mask has been updated for even more accurate tracking within a single mode. Use points to select people, objects and regions, and paint tools to refine the selection faster than ever. Magic Mask intuitively tracks the motion of a selected area, even around obstructions and in low quality clips.
AI Resolve FX Depth Map 2
The Depth Map effect has been updated for faster scene analysis and more practical mattes. Quickly isolate foreground characters to make them pop against their environment or apply lens blur to the background of a shot. You can refine the resulting matte and isolate specific depths for grading.
AI IntelliCut Audio Processing
IntelliCut provides powerful clip-based audio processing, automating time consuming tasks in seconds. Remove silence removes low level or silent areas for a cleaner audio track. You can split dialogue into a separate track per speaker for individual mixing and create an ADR list to replace dialogue.
AI Audio Assistant
When a timeline has audio elements that are not mixed or balanced, AI Audio Assistant can automatically create a professional audio mix. Audio Assistant organizes tracks, evens out dialogue levels, adjusts sound effects and music to the dialogue track, and automatically creates a mastered final mix.
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AI Detect Music Beats
When editing to the beat, you can use the AI Detect Music Beats function to analyze audio clips containing beat-driven music and automatically place markers to indicate beats. You can use these as visual indicators for cut points, or drag to snap clips to the beat’s markers at the nearest frame.
IntelliTrack AI Tracking
IntelliTrack is powered by the DaVinci AI Neural Engine, optimizing tracking and stabilization in the color and Fusion pages. It can also be used in Fairlight to track on screen subjects and auto generate audio panning within a scene, saving time and producing more immersive audio!
Music Remixer FX
The music remixer track FX lets you adjust music to fit with the style of your show. Controls include mute and level adjustments for voice, drums, bass, guitar and more! You can turn a vocal piece into an instrumental, automate changes and refocus the music mix to the instruments you want to hear.
Person Mask
The magic mask palette uses the DaVinci Neural Engine to detect people and track their movement in a shot. The person mask produces clean traveling mattes for secondary grades or effects. You can make characters stand out in an under lit shot, or invert the mask and stylize the background.
Tools for Content Creators
Vertical Resolution for Social Media
For content creators on TikTok, Instagram, X, YouTube shorts, Snapchat and more, there is now a selection of square and vertical video resolutions available in the project and timeline settings. Combine with Smart Reframe to quickly setup your timeline for vertical or square resolution videos.
Upload Directly to Social Media
Link your social media accounts to DaVinci Resolve in order to upload videos directly to YouTube, TikTok, Vimeo and X as you export. Compression settings have been developed based on each site’s best recommendations, meaning your videos will be optimized for visual quality and playback speed.
Import ATEM Mini Projects
Live production projects from ATEM Mini ISO models can be opened as a timeline. The sync bin with multiview lets you fine tune edits from the original live production or even replace shots. You can use the ISO recordings from ATEM or relink to Blackmagic RAW camera files for finishing in Ultra HD!
Original Footage
After Noise Reduction
Advanced Noise Reduction
Two powerful tools restore noisy digital footage, even if captured in low light. The GPU accelerated temporal noise reduction algorithm removes noise while intelligently retaining areas of high detail. While the spatial noise tool analyzes the remaining noise pattern to lift it from the image.
Optical Flow Speed Change
The advanced retiming algorithm analyzes a scene’s content, building new frames so you can slow down and extend the action in a sequence without repeating or blending frames into each other. Every frame created with optical flow is sharp, and intelligently constructed from existing visual data.
Mix 2,000 Tracks in Realtime!
Fairlight Audio Core is a low latency, next gen audio engine that intelligently manages workloads by using all CPU cores, substantially expanding mixing capacity. That means sound elements can be split into up to 2,000 tracks each real time EQ, dynamics and 6 plugin inserts, all on a single system!
Track and Follow Objects
The tracker palette lets you effortlessly follow objects and people to apply secondary grading or effects. When a window is placed on a subject, the tracker can follow its contents in 3D space, resulting in a quick and accurate mask. You can easily emphasize vital elements of a scene!
Hardware and Software Integration
Streamline your workflow with editing keyboards, grading panels and audio consoles designed to work with DaVinci Resolve software. Faster than just software, dedicated features are placed directly at your fingertips. Adjust multiple parameters simultaneously on the same panels used in Hollywood!
