DaVinci Resolve

Blackmagic Design has released the final version of their DaVinci Resolve 20 software. This update brings support for over 100 new features. The Cut and Edit pages now include a dedicated keyframe editor and a voice over palette . Also new are the vector tools for optical flow and the multi-track compositing tools in the Fusion tab. In addition, this version includes an improved Text+ graphics layout, a new safe trimming mode, grading with the Chroma Color Warp tool, and a new Multitext tool.

The Studio version brings support for more than 100 new AI-powered features and tools such as AI IntelliScript to create a timeline based on a text script, AI Animated Captions to animate words as they are pronounced, AI Multicam SmartSwitch to automatically build a timeline with camera switching based on speaker detection, and AI Audio Assistant. AI Fairlight's IntelliCut feature can then remove silence and checkerboard dialogue between speakers. Version 20 also includes significant improvements to Magic Mask and Depth Map, for example.

Major new features:

- Improved keyframe handling with dedicated curve display
- Voice over tool with recording and monitoring capabilities
- Import of folders shared via Blackmagic Cloud
- AI IntelliScript creates timelines based on a given scenario
- AI Magic Mask v2 with brush capability
- AI Dialogue Matcher unifies the tone, volume and reverb of individual clips
- AI Audio Assistant automatically creates the final audio mix
- AI IntelliCut removes silence and checkerboard dialogue between speakers

The update can be downloaded here.

Blackmagic Design has released the 4th public beta of their DaVinci Resolve 20 software, which brings additional enhancements including a new "flat" mode for keyframe easing. This means that when editing animations on the "Edit" or "Cut" page, you can more quickly ease-in and ease-out from a pause or standtill position. For example, if you're animating a bouncing ball, "flat" mode will ensure the ball naturally stops at the top of the bounce before it starts to fall again - mimicking real physics.

This update also adds the ability to display "clip handles" (clip edges) when using the curve editor. This allows you to use keyframes even in unused frames before and after the clip, making it easier to control the application of effects like opacity, position, zoom and more at the beginning or end of the clip. Another improvement when working with curves is the ability to right-click on a keyframe and select easing options. This will bring up an overlay window that allows for quick edits and avoids inadvertently shifting keyframes - thus speeding up the entire editing process.

For Studio version users, this update brings DaVinci RemoteMonitoring support for Intel and AMD Windows systems. A greater number of computers will now support live streaming of the DaVinci Resolve Studio preview to a remote monitor - making it easier to edit and color correct remotely.

In addition, this release improves support for animations of manually created or imported titles. DaVinci Resolve now calculates animation timing based on timeline position, length and word count - making animations of individual words or letters appear smoother and more natural.

The update is now available as a free download here.

Blackmagic Design released the 3rd public beta of their DaVinci Resolve 20 software.The new version brings a number of enhancements, including improved character styling and MultiText layer labeling. You can now assign editable names to individual MultiText layers, making them easier to identify when editing. In addition, character styling and text resizing is now correctly applied to all selected layers, greatly simplifying working with multiple text elements at once.

This update also brings more responsive editing of keyframes and curves in the curve editor. Large position changes - for example, when transforming or cropping - will no longer affect the visibility of keyframes. Audio synchronization for subclips has also been improved, so that the "in" and "out" points will now exactly match both the original high-res footage and the proxy versions.

Performance has been improved when playing timelines or clips with burnt in data (e.g. timecode, source file names or grading versions). This means smoother playback even when reviewing footage with this data.

For Studio users, the update brings more accurate subtitle animation for a wider range of languages. When working with languages with specific character spacing, such as Chinese or Thai, the word distribution will now be correctly detected and the animation of each word applied accurately.

The DaVinci Resolve 20 Public Beta 3 update is now available for free download here.

Blackmagic Design has released a public beta of their DaVinci Resolve 20! This major update includes over 100 new features to help you in all phases of your workflow. The new features include a number of powerful AI-powered tools. These include AI IntelliScript to create a timeline based on a text script, AI Animated Subtitles to animate words as they are spoken, and AI Multicam SmartSwitch to create a timeline with footage based on speaker detection (by audio and video).

Editing and editing sections include a dedicated keyframe editor and voiceover palettes. Fairlight's AI feature IntelliCut can remove silence and checkerboard dialogue between speakers.

The Fusion tab lets you implement advanced workflows with multi-layered compositions. Here you will find the Color Warper, which now includes Chroma Warp. At the same time, Magic Mask and Depth Map have been dramatically improved.

The update is available for free download here.

Blackmagic today released Blackmagic Video Assist 3.18, an update that adds support for Blackmagic RAW recording from Panasonic UB10 cameras to the Video Assist 5" 12G HDR and Video Assist 7" 12G HDR models.

When recording Blackmagic RAW using Video Assist 12G HDR, you can also save camera settings to metadata. This means that white balance and exposure are encoded into a file that DaVinci Resolve can read. However, you can still overwrite these settings later when color correcting the RAW palette.

The Blackmagic Video Assist 3.18 update is now available as a free download here.