Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve Studio

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.

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!

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

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 features designed to make it easier for new users to get great results while they continue to learn the advanced tools. For example, primary control sliders will be familiar to anyone who’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!

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.

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!

The Fusion page lets you create cinematic visual effects and broadcast quality motion graphics right inside of DaVinci Resolve! Fusion features a node based workflow that makes it faster and easier to create sophisticated effects and animations than you could ever create using a layer based approach. You get hundreds of 2D and 3D tools for visual effects and motion graphics, along with advanced animation curve and keyframe editors that allow you to create incredibly organic and realistic animations. Fusion has everything from point, planar and 3D camera tracking to rotoscope and keying tools for creating photorealistic composites, stunning animated titles, 3D particle systems and more!

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.

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

The Fairlight page features hundreds of pro tools for audio post production. It’s like having a professional digital audio workstation (DAW) built into your editing and color system! The Fairlight Audio Core lets you work with up to 2,000 tracks at a time with realtime effects, EQ, and dynamics processing! You get sample accurate editing tools, advanced ADR and Foley, and Fairlight FX such as reverb, de-esser, and hum remover, plus AI effects like Voice Isolation and Music Remixer and more. IntelliTrack AI tracking lets you use video to track the Fairlight audio panner and you can mix and master stereo, 5.1, 7.1, and even immersive 3D audio formats including 5th order ambisonics! 

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.

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.

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.

Media and Delivery

The media and delivery pages have everything you need to import, manage and deliver final projects. The media page is a dedicated full screen workspace that lets you prepare footage, sync clips, organize media into bins and add metadata before you start editing. Use the clone palette to ensure every bit of data in the camera media cards is copied during backup. During edit or grading, stream video outputs to a remote client monitor via DeckLink. You can output and upload files to YouTube, Vimeo and X from anywhere page using the quick export tool. 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 20 features over 100 GPU and CPU accelerated Resolve FX such as blurs, light effects, noise, image restoration, lens flair, stylize and more! Version 19 adds even more plugins such as background defocus for portrait shots and film look creator. Film look creator alters color shading, vibrance, hue and the luminance of an image so you can easily apply many film looks. You can even add film grain! There are improvements to the face refinement box and profile handling, additional controls for skin refinements, smoother sub pixel animation and finer control for directional blur. All Resolve FX effects can be applied and animated in the cut, edit, Fusion and color pages!

DaVinci AI Neural Engine

The DaVinci AI Neural Engine uses state of the art deep neural networks and machine learning, along with artificial intelligence to power features such as facial recognition, object detection, smart reframing, speed warp retiming, super scale, auto color and color matching and more! The DaVinci AI Neural Engine is entirely cross platform, using the latest GPU innovations for AI and deep learning to provide unparalleled performance and quality. The DaVinci AI Neural Engine provides simple tools to solve complex, repetitive and time consuming problems. For example, it enables facial recognition to sort and organize clips into bins based on people in the shot, to reframe shots and more.

Works with 3rd Party Plug‑Ins and Storage

With all the different workflows and systems available, you need a post production solution that’s compatible and open enough to handle anything! DaVinci Resolve can be used with any type of storage ranging from direct attached hard drives to NAS and SAN systems. You can extend DaVinci Resolve with third party Open FX and audio plugins, or add third party title and motion graphics templates. New workflow integration and encoding APIs let developers integrate workflow and asset management systems with DaVinci Resolve. Plus, it works with all major file formats and post production software, making it easy to move files between DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, Media Composer, and Premiere Pro.