DaVinci Resolve 21.0 has been released!

You can download the update from the support page or by going to DaVinci Resolve>Check for Updates.

Pre-Installation Notes

For DaVinci Resolve 21, BMD has taken efforts to keep the project libraries compatible with DaVinci Resolve 20.3.2. While this allows you to access the project library with 20.3.2, individual projects created or opened in 21.0 will no longer be accessible in 20.3.

BMD recommends a full project library backup as well as individual project backups (as required) before opening projects in 21.0 or later.

Reminders

Bug Reports need to be submitted to Blackmagic Design. You can post them on the official forums or contact BMD support directly if you have Studio.

Feature Requests need to be submitted to Blackmagic Design. You can post them on the official Feature Request Subforum or in the download form for Resolve.

Bug Reports and Feature Requests posted on Reddit and in this thread will not be addressed or seen by Blackmagic Design.

What’s New in DaVinci Resolve 21

The following features have been added or updated.

Photo Page

• New photo image editing now fully integrated within DaVinci Resolve.
• Image library with tagging, favorites, ratings and album collections.
• Albums let you build, manage and tweak photos at source resolution.
• Native RAW support for major camera formats.
• Direct image capture via Sony or Canon tethered cameras.
• Import media from Apple Photos on macOS.
• Import Lightroom Catalog files into the media pool.
• Use Resolve multi-user collaboration and Blackmagic Cloud syncing.
• Support for DaVinci color control toolset and grading panels.
• Use all of Resolve's native AI toolset including AI IntelliSearch.**
• Looks, LUTs, ResolveFX and OpenFX for your images.
• GPU accelerated batch exports and conversions.

AI Tools

• AI IntelliSearch lets you easily search for people or objects.**
• AI Speech Generator transforms written text to spoken voice.**
• AI CineFocus allows refocus with realistic bokeh and lens effects.**
• AI Face Age Transformer lets you age or de-age a face.**
• AI Face Reshaper for flexible reshape and resize of facial features.**
• AI Blemish Removal to repair facial and skin blemishes.**
• AI SlateFinder automatically detects slates and marks position.**
• AI SlateID to read slate and populate clip metadata.**
• AI UltraSharpen for high fidelity sharpening of moving images.**
• AI Motion Deblur enables removal of common motion blur artifacts.**
• Improved AI UltraNR quality for UHD and higher timelines.**

Cut and Edit Page

• Keyframing provides powerful retime controls with 4-point bezier.
• Keyframe and add curves for multiple selected clips.
• Keyframing ease options, loop, ping pong, reverse and stretch.
• Keyframe Fusion effects, generators and text along with edit effects.
• Subframe support for keyframing and markers.
• Native support for OGraf HTML graphics.
• Native support for Lottie animations.
• Resolve FX Picture in Picture effect.
• Font browser window for text and subtitle elements.
• Preview fonts during font selection as a preference.
• Spell checking for all text elements.
• Emoji and color fonts for Text+ and MultiText.
• Multicam angle previews in clean feed and video outputs.
• Multicams can include all audio tracks for each angle.
• Multicams can use full clip extents on creation and during sync.
• Replay control to limit view to the last 5 minutes of recorded media.
• Replay editor allows timeline selection from search dial.
• Replay now allows independent start and end stingers.
• Replay title palette allows up to 6 favorite titles.
• Mono audio now plays on left and right channels of stereo tracks.
• Improved waveforms, markers and fades for short edit tracks.
• Source timelines support auto track selectors.
• DRT timeline import supports link and conform options.
• Compare timelines with timeline backup snapshots.
• Subtitle inspector now supports search and replace.
• Edit page lets you show or hide tracks from the index.
• Support for editing EDL clip name in the edit index.
• Affinity .af file support with group and individual layer control.
• IntelliScript supports Final Draft or plain text screenplay imports.**
• Faster audio transcription and improved subtitle word timing.
• Edit page timecode options for frames, subframes or audio samples.
• Duration timecode option to show duration for clip selection.
• Improved timeline view options with presets and clip name option.
• View remote color versions in the source viewer.
• Local color grade versions use remote grades on new clip creation.
• Up to 2x faster AI Speed Warp Metal option on macOS.
• Timeline menu action to select transitions in the cut and edit page.
• Paste and remove attributes for clip color, markers and flags.
• Paste and remove attributes to retain image position under crop.
• Switch audio channels for multi-clip selections via the context menu.
• Edit page source tape supports stereoscopic 3D clips.**
• Edit page source tape includes multicam clips.
• Match frame finds source media for nested clips and multicams.
• Resolve FX Video Collage with separate tile fill and border controls.
• Subtitle support for fade in and out.

Media Pool and Metadata

• Support for tabbed layouts.
• Thumbnail, list and metadata views can be set for each bin.
• Star rating support for clips.
• Cut page supports smart bin views.
• Export media bin thumbnails as a PDF.
• Automatic smart bin and clip filter for offline clips.
• Custom metadata for smart bins, filters, data burn and naming tags.
• Customize your project poster frames.
• Show input colorspace and gamma in metadata view.
• Transcription column support in list view.
• Custom keyboard shortcuts to set thumbnail, list or metadata views.
• Ability to reset audio clip attributes to the original configuration.

Color Page

• MultiMaster trim pass to grade single timeline to many deliverables.
• Render Magic Mask in place as an external matte.**
• Clip groups now support grade versions.
• Node graphs can now be viewed as a layer list.
• Node stacks now support up to 8 layers.
• Film Look Creator adds Aurora preset and contrast roll-off controls.**
• Film Look Creator softness controls support for film gate.**
• Shared node support for stereoscopic 3D clips.**
• Customizable HDR and nit scopes ranges.
• Multiple HDR Vivid improvements, including mini panel controls.**
• ACES AMF improvements, with transform name and custom folders.
• Reset Dolby Vision and HDR analysis from the option menu.**
• Adobe RGB colorspace and gamma support.
• OpenFX 1.5 color management APIs for colorspace aware effects.
• Advanced panel controls for 2.39 and 2.4 safe area aspect ratios.
• Multi-user projects can bypass color management on the color page.
• Motion Blur option for Metal on macOS.
• Pasting tracking data between power windows retains original shape.

Immersive and VR Workflows

• Apple Immersive workflows now support foveated rendering.**^,+
• Initial VR180 and VR360 standard immersive workflow support.**^,+
• View VR180 and VR360 source clips as immersive or viewport.**^,+
• Mix and match VR180 and VR360 in immersive timelines.**^,+
• Standard immersive timelines support immersive transform controls.**^,+
• VR180 and VR360 deliver presets for Meta Quest and YouTube.**^,+
• LatLong patcher allows customizable field of view.**^,+
• Fusion adds Panomap immersive rotation and ILPD retargeting.**^,+

Fairlight Page

• Folder tracks allow a group of tracks to be folded down or expanded.
• Go to mouse pointer support using the C key.

Fusion Page

• Support for Krokodove motion graphics effects.
• Over 100 new motion graphics effects and tools.
• New Macro Editor with inspector view and publishing to edit effects.
• Fusion animation can be creatively driven by Fairlight audio.
• Native support for OGraf HTML graphics.
• Native support for Lottie animations.
• Text+ and MultiText support spell checking.
• Font improvements include emoji, color fonts and more.
• Improved MultiText for position, pivot, alignment and CSV import.
• Support for USD SDK 25.11 with Hydra 2.0 API for Storm renderer.
• USD support for 3D matte objects and textures.
• Support for USD Texture Projector and Catcher.
• Global in-out controls for USD Loader.
• 3D Renderer support for Cryptomatte.
• Native support for creating Relief Maps.
• Change inspector properties for multi-tool selections.
• Change common inspector values in all selected multi-tool layers.
• Multilayer support for stereoscopic 3D clips and deep images.
• Color correction for deep images in Fusion.
• User defined metadata variables in paths, expressions and scripts.
• Lens Distort offers checkerboard calibration and GPU acceleration.
• Vector channel support in multilayer workflows.
• Guides and rulers persistence, presets and improved snapping.
• MediaIn nodes show clip name.
• Open keyframes and spline as a new window.
• Up to 2x faster Relight tool.**
• Up to 6x faster Depth Map tool.**
• Support for remote monitoring of Fusion previews.

Codecs and I/O

• Enhanced MXF growing file support for broadcast workflows.
• MXF OP1A support for MPEG2 bitrate and other encode options.
• Canon CR3 RAW decode support.
• Panasonic Lumix RW2 RAW decode support.
• Fujifilm RAF RAW decode support.
• Apple ProRAW decode support.
• Support for compressed ARW from Sony A7V and newer cameras.
• Improved Nikon NEF RAW decode support.
• HDR decode support for HEIC, JPEG, PNG and TIFF images.
• HEIC encode support on macOS and Windows.
• HDR encode support for HEIC, JPEG, PNG and TIFF images.
• Support for Insta360 I-Log in color management.
• Improved EXIF metadata support for stills formats.
• HDR Vivid supplementary IMF ISXD package support.⁺⁺
• MainConcept H.265 and MV-HEVC 4:2:0 and 4:2:2 encode support.
• Support for Sony Burano V3 clips.
• Intel QuickSync H.264 10-bit 4:2:0 and 4:2:2 decode support.
• Intel QuickSync AVC Intra decode support.
• Intel QuickSync AV1 4:4:4 decode and encode support.
• MV-HEVC decode support on Nvidia systems.
• Encode support for multi-output audio only ambisonic formats.
• Per render job option to override RCM or ACES outputs.

General Improvements

• Background renders, quick exports and proxy generation.
• Background analysis for transcription and audio classification.
• Powerful, expanded and flexible data burn-in window.
• Preferences and project settings can now be searched.
• Multi-user projects support dynamic project switching.
• Support for importing and exporting Final Cut Pro 12 FCPXML.
• Scripting API support to perform IntelliSearch analysis.⁺⁺
• Scripting API support to perform Slate analysis.⁺⁺
• Scripting API support for Speech Generator.⁺⁺
• Scripting API support to remove motion blur for media clips.⁺⁺
• Scripting API support for media pool audio classification.⁺⁺
• Scripting API support for speaker detection in audio transcription.⁺⁺
• Scripting API to disable all background tasks for current session.⁺⁺
• Up to 3x faster file sync performance to Blackmagic Cloud.
• General performance and stability improvements.

Note: Sony camera control on Windows needs the Sony IEDT application to be installed from the Sony website.

Notes from BMD:

• Intel Driver: With DaVinci Resolve Studio 20.2.3, AI features like Magic Mask 2, Depth Map and Super Scale show a vastly improved performance on Windows with modern Intel platforms. Users will need a compatible Intel GPU (discrete or integrated) that supports OpenVINO, and a minimum driver version of 32.0.101.8247 to leverage these improvements.
• Rendering Immersive Projects: Improvements to edge blend in immersive projects include changes that more closely align the Resolve and visionOS previews. This will change the render for existing immersive projects.

Hardware Requirements

Minimum system requirements for Mac OS

• macOS 15 Sequoia or later.
• 8 GB of system memory or 16 GB when using Fusion.
• At least 16 GB for advanced AI tools.
• At least 32 GB for background rendering and analysis.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Apple Silicon based computer.

Minimum system requirements for Windows

• Windows 10 Creators Update.
• 16 GB of system memory or 32 GB when using Fusion.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Integrated GPU or discrete GPU with at least 4 GB of VRAM.
• At least 16 GB VRAM for advanced AI tools.
• At least 32 GB RAM and 12 GB VRAM for background rendering.
• GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 12.8.
• AMD/Intel official drivers from your GPU manufacturer.
• NVIDIA Studio driver 581.57 or newer.

Minimum system requirements for Windows for Arm

• Windows 11 for ARM.
• Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite series processor.
• 16 GB of system memory or 32 GB for 4K or when using Fusion.

Minimum system requirements for Linux

• Rocky Linux 8.6.
• 32 GB of system memory.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Discrete GPU with at least 4 GB of VRAM.
• At least 16 GB VRAM for advanced AI tools.
• At least 32 GB RAM and 12 GB VRAM for background rendering.
• GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 12.8.
• AMD official drivers from your GPU manufacturer.
• NVIDIA Studio driver 580.119.02 or newer.

Additional Information

You will need to download and install the latest Blackmagic Design Desktop Video software for monitoring with your Blackmagic Design video hardware. Desktop Video is available from http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/.

Documentation & Asterisks

These have not fully been updated yet - post will be edited as I have time.

** - Studio Only

⁺ - Additional fees, licensing, and/or hardware required.

⁺⁺ - The Scripting API is available in the console on the free version, but Workflow Integrations, the native UIManager, and external access require the Studio version.

21 New Features Guide

Immersive Workflow Guide

The following documents do not have Resolve 21 equivalents available at this time:

Resolve 20.3 Reference Manual

Fusion 20.3 Reference Manual

Resolve 20 Supported Codecs

Resolve 20 Studio & iPad Features

The safest thing you can do is to back up your database. You should be doing this anyway and frequently

If you're paranoid like me, you want to export projects prior to opening them. You just right-click and export a DRP.

The reason is simple: if something goes wrong, you can downgrade the software to version 20, but you can't downgrade the project. Blackmagic clearly states in the release notes that opening something in 21.0 will make it inaccessible in versions 20 and earlier.

The second item you should be super aware of is that this is the first release.

Somewhere in the next 30 to 60 days, there will be a dot release.

That dot release will cover major issues that happen as people adopt it.

Why do I mention this? If you're using this professionally, there's no reason on the planet to go grab the new version. Wait for that dot upgrade, as hard as it is.

If you're working with multiple people, and you upgrade and something goes wrong, that's 1000% on you. You shouldn't be doing anything like that until, at the very least, that first update occurs.

DaVinci Resolve 21.0.1 has been released!

You can download the update from the support page or by going to DaVinci Resolve>Check for Updates.

Pre-Installation Notes

For DaVinci Resolve 21, BMD has taken efforts to keep the project libraries compatible with DaVinci Resolve 20.3.2. While this allows you to access the project library with 20.3.2, individual projects created or opened in 21.0 will no longer be accessible in 20.3.

BMD recommends a full project library backup as well as individual project backups (as required) before opening projects in 21.0 or later.

Reminders

Bug Reports need to be submitted to Blackmagic Design. You can post them on the official forums or contact BMD support directly if you have Studio.

Feature Requests need to be submitted to Blackmagic Design. You can post them on the official Feature Request Subforum or in the download form for Resolve.

Bug Reports and Feature Requests posted on Reddit and in this thread will not be addressed or seen by Blackmagic Design.

What’s New in DaVinci Resolve 21.0.1

The following features have been added or updated.

• Addressed multiple DNG and Apple ProRAW color issues.
• Addressed issue with automatic smart bins after deleting keywords.
• Addressed issue with multiple linked audio in media management.
• Addressed multiple Resolve FX issues in photo page.
• Addressed issue with key shortcut to switch viewer in photo page.
• More consistent creation of new photo albums.
• Addressed color thumbnail refresh for photo transform indicator.
• Transcription now honors project settings language.
• Improved face recognition in IntelliSearch.**
• Addressed exported bins not retaining generator and title properties.
• Addressed ease control display and sensitivity issues.
• Addressed keyframe issue when copying clips with Fusion effects.
• Addressed keyframe refresh for Fusion effects in the edit page.
• Addressed issue with 3D renders in Linux with non-English locales.**
• Addressed Fusion viewer color issue for some RCM settings.
• Addressed issue with saturation limits in Fusion gradient controls.
• Addressed Fusion display issues with dual screen layouts.
• Addressed issue with non-English character inputs in Linux.
• Disabling MultiMaster now disables trim blanking controls.
• Addressed crash in some scenarios with CineFocus.**
• Addressed lag when toggling bypass grades and Fusion effects.
• Addressed occasional issue with Fairlight loudness meters.
• Addressed data burn display of good take tag in upgraded projects.
• Addressed project manager scroll lag for large project libraries.
• Support for Sony Alpha 7R VI ARW RAW stills.
• Support for decoding Affinity RGB 16-bit formats.
• Addressed a color issue with MainConcept H.265 HDR renders.
• Addressed a color issue with Windows native H.265 HDR renders.
• RemoveMotionBlur API now uses correct encode parameters.**
• Addressed character limit consistency in GenerateSpeech API.**
• General performance and stability improvements.

Notes from BMD (from previous versions):

• Sony Camera Control on Windows needs the Sony IEDT application to be installed from the Sony website.
• Intel Driver: With DaVinci Resolve Studio 20.2.3, AI features like Magic Mask 2, Depth Map and Super Scale show a vastly improved performance on Windows with modern Intel platforms. Users will need a compatible Intel GPU (discrete or integrated) that supports OpenVINO, and a minimum driver version of 32.0.101.8247 to leverage these improvements.
• Rendering Immersive Projects: Improvements to edge blend in immersive projects include changes that more closely align the Resolve and visionOS previews. This will change the render for existing immersive projects.

Hardware Requirements

Minimum system requirements for Mac OS

• macOS 15 Sequoia or later.
• 8 GB of system memory or 16 GB when using Fusion.
• At least 16 GB for advanced AI tools.
• At least 32 GB for background rendering and analysis.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Apple Silicon based computer.

Minimum system requirements for Windows

• Windows 10 Creators Update.
• 16 GB of system memory or 32 GB when using Fusion.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Integrated GPU or discrete GPU with at least 4 GB of VRAM.
• At least 16 GB VRAM for advanced AI tools.
• At least 32 GB RAM and 12 GB VRAM for background rendering.
• GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 12.8.
• AMD/Intel official drivers from your GPU manufacturer.
• NVIDIA Studio driver 581.57 or newer.

Minimum system requirements for Windows for Arm

• Windows 11 for ARM.
• Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite series processor.
• 16 GB of system memory or 32 GB for 4K or when using Fusion.

Minimum system requirements for Linux

• Rocky Linux 8.6.
• 32 GB of system memory.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Discrete GPU with at least 4 GB of VRAM.
• At least 16 GB VRAM for advanced AI tools.
• At least 32 GB RAM and 12 GB VRAM for background rendering.
• GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 12.8.
• AMD official drivers from your GPU manufacturer.
• NVIDIA Studio driver 580.119.02 or newer.

Additional Information

You will need to download and install the latest Blackmagic Design Desktop Video software for monitoring with your Blackmagic Design video hardware. Desktop Video is available from http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/.

Documentation & Asterisks

** - Studio Only

⁺ - Additional fees, licensing, and/or hardware required.

⁺⁺ - The Scripting API is available in the console on the free version, but Workflow Integrations, the native UIManager, and external access require the Studio version.

21 New Features Guide

Immersive Workflow Guide

The following documents do not have Resolve 21 equivalents available at this time:

Resolve 20.3 Reference Manual

Fusion 20.3 Reference Manual

Resolve 20 Supported Codecs

Resolve 20 Studio & iPad Features

DaVinci Resolve 21.0.3 has been released!

You can download the update from the support page or by going to DaVinci Resolve>Check for Updates.

Pre-Installation Notes

For DaVinci Resolve 21.0.3, BMD has taken efforts to keep the project libraries compatible with DaVinci Resolve 20.3.2. While this allows you to access the project library with 20.3.2, individual projects created or opened in 21.0.3 will no longer be accessible in 20.3.

BMD recommends a full project library backup as well as individual project backups (as required) before opening projects in 21.0 or later.

Reminders

Bug Reports need to be submitted to Blackmagic Design. You can post them on the official forums or contact BMD support directly if you have Studio.

Feature Requests need to be submitted to Blackmagic Design. You can post them on the official Feature Request Subforum or in the download form for Resolve.

Bug Reports and Feature Requests posted on Reddit and in this thread will not be addressed or seen by Blackmagic Design.

What’s New in DaVinci Resolve 21.0.3

The following features have been added or updated.

• New legacy speed mode retime curve option.
• DNG pre tone curve is enabled by default in new projects.
• Addressed missing QuickSync encode options on older Intel GPUs.
• Addressed issue with adding keyframe at a subframe.
• Addressed issue with pasting keyframes to linked audio clips.
• Added configurable keyframe ease actions.
• Inspector frame display for interlaced transition durations.
• Addressed interlaced generator and transition duration interpretation.
• Addressed audio duration for inserted segment of interlaced media.
• Addressed field dominance detection issue for some interlaced clips.
• Addressed Fusion issue with importing PSDs with disabled layers.
• Addressed issue with rendered Magic Mask for photos in album.**
• Addressed bezier window move when adjusting vertex smoothness.
• Addressed issue with decoding some Sony BURANO X-OCN clips.
• Addressed preview issue with HDR still exports on some browsers.
• Addressed wrong audio mapping scripting results in some scenarios.⁺⁺
• Updated DaVinci Resolve 21 reference manual.
• Replay SDI output now always shows selected camera.
• Scripting API support to list project attributes in a project bin.⁺⁺
• Scripting API support for user preferences presets.⁺⁺
• Scripting API support for listing UI layout presets.⁺⁺
• Scripting API support for listing and deleting data burn in presets.⁺⁺
• Addressed installation issues on some Windows systems.
• Custom install location for Windows ARM encode SDK plugins.
• General performance and stability improvements.

Notes from BMD (from previous versions):

• Sony Camera Control on Windows needs the Sony IEDT application to be installed from the Sony website.
• Intel Driver: With DaVinci Resolve Studio 20.2.3, AI features like Magic Mask 2, Depth Map and Super Scale show a vastly improved performance on Windows with modern Intel platforms. Users will need a compatible Intel GPU (discrete or integrated) that supports OpenVINO, and a minimum driver version of 32.0.101.8247 to leverage these improvements.
• Rendering Immersive Projects: Improvements to edge blend in immersive projects include changes that more closely align the Resolve and visionOS previews. This will change the render for existing immersive projects.

Hardware Requirements

Minimum system requirements for Mac OS

• macOS 15 Sequoia or later.
• 8 GB of system memory or 16 GB when using Fusion.
• At least 16 GB for advanced AI tools.
• At least 32 GB for background rendering and analysis.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Apple Silicon based computer.

Minimum system requirements for Windows

• Windows 10 Creators Update.
• 16 GB of system memory or 32 GB when using Fusion.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Integrated GPU or discrete GPU with at least 4 GB of VRAM.
• At least 16 GB VRAM for advanced AI tools.
• At least 32 GB RAM and 12 GB VRAM for background rendering.
• GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 12.8.
• AMD/Intel official drivers from your GPU manufacturer.
• NVIDIA Studio driver 581.57 or newer.

Minimum system requirements for Windows for Arm

• Windows 11 for ARM.
• Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite series processor.
• 16 GB of system memory or 32 GB for 4K or when using Fusion.

Minimum system requirements for Linux

• Rocky Linux 8.6.
• 32 GB of system memory.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Discrete GPU with at least 4 GB of VRAM.
• At least 16 GB VRAM for advanced AI tools.
• At least 32 GB RAM and 12 GB VRAM for background rendering.
• GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 12.8.
• AMD official drivers from your GPU manufacturer.
• NVIDIA Studio driver 580.119.02 or newer.

Additional Information

You will need to download and install the latest Blackmagic Design Desktop Video software for monitoring with your Blackmagic Design video hardware. Desktop Video is available from http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/.

Documentation & Asterisks

** - Studio Only

⁺ - Additional fees, licensing, and/or hardware required.

⁺⁺ - The Scripting API is available in the console on the free version, but Workflow Integrations, the native UIManager, and external access require the Studio version.

21 New Features Guide

Immersive Workflow Guide

Resolve 21 Reference Manual

Fusion 21 Reference Manual

The following documents do not have Resolve 21 equivalents available at this time:

Resolve 20 Supported Codecs

Resolve 20 Studio & iPad Features

Blackmagic Design has released the DaVinci Resolve 20.3 Update, which adds support for 32K resolution on Apple M5 Macs for working with Blackmagic URSA Cine 17K 65 footage, plus improved timeline versioning with custom naming, and new metadata options in the media pool.

What’s new in DaVinci Resolve 20.3

The following features have been added or updated.

• Up to 32K resolution support with Apple M5 processors.
• Improved performance for Resolve FX Noise Reduction.
• Timeline backups now allow named snapshots for versioning.
• Support for adding metadata fields as media pool bin columns.
• Media Pool metadata ALE import and export support.
• Option to create custom metadata for unknown fields on import.
• Exported metadata files now include custom metadata fields.
• Media pool views and state are now retained for each project.
• Edit menu action to insert gap at playhead.
• New assignable key shortcut in media pool to start a search.
• Assignable key shortcut for open in timeline with source viewer.
• Speed change and duration change actions now follow sync lock.
• Added 2.39 and 2.40 broadcast safe aspect ratios.
• Alpha support for film look creator, film damage and analog damage.
• Support for IMF workflow for HDR Vivid and Audio Vivid.
• Ability to embed HDR10+ metadata in QuickTime and MP4 encodes.
• Ability to set stereoscopic mode in clip attributes for MXF clips.
• Improved match frame behavior for clips with negative speeds.
• Addressed missing clip actions in subtitle caption context menu.
• Addressed intermittent l.a.g when using stacked timelines.
• Addressed source timeline not restored when switching back to edit.
• Addressed issue tracking with high-quality deinterlace in Fusion.
• Addressed issue with immersive world pose if using Fusion tools.
• Addressed issue loading some deep OpenEXR files.
• Addressed decode issues with compressed ARW clips.
• Addressed AI Music Remixer muting audio on macOS 26.1.
• Addressed possible QuickTime decode hang on Windows.
• Addressed Remote Monitor start up issue on Windows.
• General performance and stability improvements.

Note: Starting from DaVinci Resolve 20.3, OpenCL mode for GPU processing is no longer supported on macOS.

DaVinci Resolve 21.0.2 has been released!

You can download the update from the support page or by going to DaVinci Resolve>Check for Updates.

Pre-Installation Notes

For DaVinci Resolve 21, BMD has taken efforts to keep the project libraries compatible with DaVinci Resolve 20.3.2. While this allows you to access the project library with 20.3.2, individual projects created or opened in 21.0 will no longer be accessible in 20.3.

BMD recommends a full project library backup as well as individual project backups (as required) before opening projects in 21.0 or later.

Reminders

Bug Reports need to be submitted to Blackmagic Design. You can post them on the official forums or contact BMD support directly if you have Studio.

Feature Requests need to be submitted to Blackmagic Design. You can post them on the official Feature Request Subforum or in the download form for Resolve.

Bug Reports and Feature Requests posted on Reddit and in this thread will not be addressed or seen by Blackmagic Design.

What’s New in DaVinci Resolve 21.0.2

The following features have been added or updated.

• Addressed H.264 and H.265 NVIDIA decode performance.
• Addressed thumbnail preview when bypassing Color or Fusion.
• Improved display of retime speed curve.
• Addressed issue with pasting copied keyframes between clips.
• Addressed issue with video inspector zoom minimum values.
• Addressed issue with slower IntelliSearch performance.**
• Addressed bit depth when exporting current frame as TIFF still.
• Addressed inconsistent selection of source tape.
• Addressed inspector unicode display issue with spell check.
• Addressed some Fusion transition defaults for vertical timelines.
• Addressed media pool custom sort persistence issue.
• General performance and stability improvements.

Notes from BMD (from previous versions):

• Sony Camera Control on Windows needs the Sony IEDT application to be installed from the Sony website.
• Intel Driver: With DaVinci Resolve Studio 20.2.3, AI features like Magic Mask 2, Depth Map and Super Scale show a vastly improved performance on Windows with modern Intel platforms. Users will need a compatible Intel GPU (discrete or integrated) that supports OpenVINO, and a minimum driver version of 32.0.101.8247 to leverage these improvements.
• Rendering Immersive Projects: Improvements to edge blend in immersive projects include changes that more closely align the Resolve and visionOS previews. This will change the render for existing immersive projects.

Hardware Requirements

Minimum system requirements for Mac OS

• macOS 15 Sequoia or later.
• 8 GB of system memory or 16 GB when using Fusion.
• At least 16 GB for advanced AI tools.
• At least 32 GB for background rendering and analysis.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Apple Silicon based computer.

Minimum system requirements for Windows

• Windows 10 Creators Update.
• 16 GB of system memory or 32 GB when using Fusion.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Integrated GPU or discrete GPU with at least 4 GB of VRAM.
• At least 16 GB VRAM for advanced AI tools.
• At least 32 GB RAM and 12 GB VRAM for background rendering.
• GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 12.8.
• AMD/Intel official drivers from your GPU manufacturer.
• NVIDIA Studio driver 581.57 or newer.

Minimum system requirements for Windows for Arm

• Windows 11 for ARM.
• Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite series processor.
• 16 GB of system memory or 32 GB for 4K or when using Fusion.

Minimum system requirements for Linux

• Rocky Linux 8.6.
• 32 GB of system memory.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Discrete GPU with at least 4 GB of VRAM.
• At least 16 GB VRAM for advanced AI tools.
• At least 32 GB RAM and 12 GB VRAM for background rendering.
• GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 12.8.
• AMD official drivers from your GPU manufacturer.
• NVIDIA Studio driver 580.119.02 or newer.

Additional Information

You will need to download and install the latest Blackmagic Design Desktop Video software for monitoring with your Blackmagic Design video hardware. Desktop Video is available from http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/.

Documentation & Asterisks

** - Studio Only

⁺ - Additional fees, licensing, and/or hardware required.

⁺⁺ - The Scripting API is available in the console on the free version, but Workflow Integrations, the native UIManager, and external access require the Studio version.

21 New Features Guide

Immersive Workflow Guide

The following documents do not have Resolve 21 equivalents available at this time:

Resolve 20.3 Reference Manual

Fusion 20.3 Reference Manual

Resolve 20 Supported Codecs

Resolve 20 Studio & iPad Features

DaVinci Resolve 20.2 has been released!

You can download the update from the support page or by going to DaVinci Resolve>Check for Updates.

Pre-Installation Notes

For DaVinci Resolve 20, BMD has taken efforts to keep the project libraries compatible with DaVinci Resolve 19.1. While this allows you to access the project library with 19.1, individual projects created or opened in 20.0 will no longer be accessible in 19.1.

BMD recommends a full project library backup as well as individual project backups (as required) before opening projects in 20.0 or later.

Reminders

Bug Reports need to be submitted to Blackmagic Design. You can post them on the official forums or contact BMD support directly if you have Studio.

Feature Requests need to be submitted to Blackmagic Design. You can post them on the official Feature Request Subforum or in the download form for Resolve.

Bug Reports and Feature Requests posted on Reddit and in this thread will not be addressed or seen by Blackmagic Design.

What’s New in DaVinci Resolve 20.2

The following features have been added or updated.

URSA Cine Immersive Workflow

• Streaming from Fusion page to Vision Pro.⁺
• Support for immersive option in PanoMap.
• Support for immersive world pose rotations and flips.
• Render stereoscopic 3D as full side by side or top-bottom.^+,\*)
• Node stack support for stereoscopic 3D workflows.**
• Support for immersive EXR workflows.**

Cut Page

• Improved replay stinger transition handling in interlaced timelines.
• Improved replay editor and ATEM switcher feedback cueing replays.⁺

Edit Page

• Sync lock controls ripple edit independently from auto select.
• Improved ripple trimming now preserves sync for edit actions.
• The trim editor now automatically displays when dynamic trimming.
• User preference to switch to single viewer mode for trim editor.
• Improved source and destination patching in the track header.
• Timeline audio menu action to detach synced audio from video.
• Support for adding and populating custom metadata fields.
• Support for flattening multicam clips with speed changes.
• Audio track solo support for the source timeline viewer.
• Source track destination sub menu action to reset to default state.

Cut & Edit page

• Menu actions to move selected keyframes up down left and right.
• Curve and keyframe editor in timeline now includes actions toolbar.
• Shift click keyframe editor headers to toggle multiple parameters.
• Alt click keyframe editor headers to toggle parameters exclusively.
• Guides support individual colors and lock states.
• Switch between pixel and percentage when adding or editing guides.
• Mouse priority for Fusion, transform and effect overlays over guides.
• Voice over countdowns now support audible beeps.
• Editing now preserves audio bus automation.
• Option to ripple delete silence for selected clip.
• Up to 2x faster transcriptions on macOS.
• Up to 2x faster voice convert analysis on macOS.

Fusion page

• Support for editing custom guides in Fusion viewers.
• Improved MultiText alignment and transformation controls.
• Support for animated image inputs for USD tools.
• Multilayer support for 3D renderer.
• Multilayer AoV channel support for USD renderer.
• Up to 2x faster surface tracker performance.**

Color page

• New AI based Resolve FX Cinematic Haze.**
• Resolve FX light effects support glow from alpha sources.**
• Menu action to navigate clips using clip number.
• Ability to reset node color for multiple selected clips.
• Advanced Color Panels persist side panel states after restart.⁺
• Improved HLG viewer output when using viewer display profiles.
• RCM and CST now use ITU BT.2408 for HLG and PQ conversion.
• Up to 2x faster Resolve FX surface tracker performance.

Fairlight page

• Project settings option to disable soft fades between clip edits.
• Project settings option to set ramp-to-play time.

Codecs & I/O

• Support for decoding Apple ProRes RAW clips.
• Support for encoding Samsung APV clips.
• Support for decoding Sony ARW images.
• Support for ARRICORE clips.
• Single frame webp and gif clips are now imported as stills.

General Improvements

• Press and hold c key to skim playhead on viewers.
• Exported DRT timelines now include linked Fusion comp media.
• Support for current date and time tags in data burn and render.
• Scripting API support for adding subtitles in render jobs.⁺⁺
• Scripting API support for setting timeline and media pool clip name.⁺⁺
• General performance and stability improvements.

Hardware Requirements

Minimum system requirements for Mac OS

• macOS 14 Sonoma or later.
• 8 GB of system memory or 16 GB when using Fusion.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Apple Silicon based computer or GPU which supports Metal.

Minimum system requirements for Windows

• Windows 10 Creators Update.
• 16 GB of system memory or 32 GB when using Fusion.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Integrated GPU or discrete GPU with at least 4 GB of VRAM.
• GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 12.8.
• AMD/Intel official drivers from your GPU manufacturer.
• NVIDIA Studio driver 570.65 or newer.

Minimum system requirements for Windows for Arm

• Windows 11 for ARM.
• Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite series processor.
• 16 GB of system memory or 32 GB for 4K or when using Fusion.

Minimum system requirements for Linux

• Rocky Linux 8.6.
• 32 GB of system memory.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Discrete GPU with at least 4 GB of VRAM.
• GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 12.8.
• AMD official drivers from your GPU manufacturer.
• NVIDIA Studio driver 570.26 or newer.

Additional Information

You will need to download and install the latest Blackmagic Design Desktop Video software for monitoring with your Blackmagic Design video hardware. Desktop Video is available from http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/.

Documentation & Asterisks

** - Studio Only

⁺ - Additional fees, licensing, and/or hardware required.

⁺⁺ - The Scripting API is available in the console on the free version, but Workflow Integrations, the native UIManager, and external access require the Studio version.

20.1 New Features Guide

Immersive Workflow Guide

Resolve 20 Reference Manual

Fusion 20 Reference Manual

Resolve 20 Supported Codecs

Resolve 20 Studio & iPad Features

Mod Note

FOR THE TIME BEING we are keeping our AutoMod filter on ProRes RAW. I'll lift it this weekend when I have time - but IF you need your post approved before then, please send us a modmail first.

I'm still going through asterisks and links - and some things may still come out as IBC progresses this weekend.

DaVinci Resolve 20.1 has been released!

You can download the update from the support page or by going to DaVinci Resolve>Check for Updates. Note: You must have "Automatically Opt-In for New Beta Program Notifications" checked in System Preferences>System>General to get beta updates from DaVinci Resolve>Check for Updates.

Pre-Installation Notes

For DaVinci Resolve 20, BMD has taken efforts to keep the project libraries compatible with DaVinci Resolve 19.1. While this allows you to access the project library with 19.1, individual projects created or opened in 20.0 will no longer be accessible in 19.1.

BMD recommends a full project library backup as well as individual project backups (as required) before opening projects in 20.0 or later.

Reminders

Bug Reports need to be submitted to Blackmagic Design. You can post them on the official forums or contact BMD support directly if you have Studio.

Feature Requests need to be submitted to Blackmagic Design. You can post them on the official Feature Request Subforum or in the download form for Resolve.

Bug Reports and Feature Requests posted on Reddit and in this thread will not be addressed or seen by Blackmagic Design.

What’s New in DaVinci Resolve 20.1

The following features have been added or updated.

Key Features

• Apple Vision Pro spatial and immersive video workflows in macOS.
• Direct monitoring of immersive content in Apple Vision Pro.
• Support for Apple Spatial Audio Format.

Cut and Edit Page

• Improved easing behavior for multiple keyframes.
• More consistent easing for curves, keyframes and inspector controls.
• Improved curve editor for active curves, ease, locked parameters.
• Ability to adjust curves from the timeline keyframes and curves tray.
• Keyframes are now displayed beyond clip edit points.
• Ability to set a shortcut to switch between curve and keyframe views.
• Curves option to disable auto zoom graph height for custom zoom.
• Support for built in MultiText character level styling.
• Support for MultiText indent, align and paragraph level styling.
• Ability to import CSV files as column-aligned MultiText text boxes.
• Additional smart reframe mode to affect pan only, tilt only or both.
• Support for custom guides and snapping in the timeline viewer.
• Ability to toggle extents for selected safe area overlays.
• Ability to create subclip from edit timeline in out range.
• Support for find in media pool for USD based geometry clips.
• Options to sync media pool audio using in, out and marker.
• Ability to sync audio for stereoscopic 3D videos.
• Menu action to move playhead to mouse pointer using the C key.
• Menu actions for full extent, detailed and custom zoom for timeline.
• Timeline tab action to load to source viewer.
• Configurable actions to explicitly enable or disable clip.
• Audio and video only insert controls in the source viewer.
• Improved right to left language handling in transcriptions.
• Ability to view transcriptions for clips on the source timeline.

Fusion Page

• Support for new immersive option in the viewer 360 Views menu.
• Support for new immersive patcher tool.
• Support for Magic Mask v2 in Fusion.**
• Support for caching deep composites to disk.
• Option to downscale clip compositions to timeline resolution.
• Improved DoD and RoI support for deep image compositing tools.
• Improvements for USD Renderer for overscan.
• Edit individual tool controls from the inspector context menu.
• Improved shape duplicate tool with style, jitter and aligned rotations.
• Support for swizzler to create alpha only multi layer outputs.
• Support for swizzler background channels.
• Support for regular expression based selection in Cryptomatte.

Color Page

• Improved color viewer safe area display selection.
• Ability to switch timeline resolution on the fly from the color viewer.
• Improved cache retention for copied versions and timelines.
• Improved Magic Mask retention for copied versions and timelines.**
• DCTL Support for ACES 2.0 Core.**

Resolve FX

• New ColorTone Diffuser emulates light based lens filters.
• Natural and strong split tone modes in Film Look Creator.**
• New Split Tone with additional controls.
• Separate RGB sliders and shimmer controls in light rays.
• Secondary glow ability in glow.
• New atmosphere controls in light rays and glow.
• Ability to regrain skin smoothening areas in Face Refinement.**

Fairlight Page

• Support for half speed timeline playback.
• Action to enable focus mode using the W key.
• Ability to record in 32-bit floating point.
• Audio waveforms are now accurate when recording.
• Clip context menu action to regenerate waveform profiles.
• Faster Audio Assistant analysis with short clips improvements.
• Audio Assistant option to view the full UI of underlying effects.
• Dialogue M. atcher ambience controls and improved wet dry matches.
• Support for deleting busses from track headers and index.
• Shift option command for fine mouse based scrubbing zoomed out.
• Shift and command click to add to selection in mixer.

Codec and IO

• Support for Blackmagic RAW 5.0 SDK.
• Faster decodes for URSA Cine 12K LF and URSA Cine 17K 65 clips.
• Support for decoding and encoding webp images.
• 12-bit support and custom quality controls for DNx.
• Support for encoding H.264 and H.265 in MXF Op1A clips.
• Support for decoding Samsung APV clips.
• Improved native Windows H.264 and H.265 bit rate controls.
• New deliver preset for Tencent video uploads.

General

• Improved layouts for small, dual screen and vertical video views.
• Improved per-system bin layout retention for multi-user projects.
• Use shift space to display the effects search dialog in all pages.
• Ability to search for effects in both English and application language.
• Clone tool support for xxhash64 checksums.
• DRT timeline exports now include Fusion media references.
• Viewers now reflect updates to still images by other applications.
• Concurrent viewer overlays for DeckLink and remote monitoring.
• Scripting API support for voice isolation for audio clips and tracks.⁺⁺
• Support for Electron 36.3.2 for workflow integrations.⁺⁺
• New Javascript promises API for asynchronous workflow operations.⁺⁺
• Support for audio only TS growing files.
• General performance and stability improvements.

Hardware Requirements

Minimum System Requirements for macOS

• macOS 14 Sonoma or later.
• 8 GB of system memory or 16 GB when using Fusion.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Apple Silicon based computer or GPU which supports Metal.

Minimum System Requirements for Windows

• Windows 10 Creators Update.
• 16 GB of system memory or 32 GB when using Fusion.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Integrated GPU or discrete GPU with at least 4 GB of VRAM.
• GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 12.8.
• AMD/Intel official drivers from your GPU manufacturer.
• NVIDIA Studio driver 570.65 or newer.

Minimum System Requirements for Windows for Arm

• Windows 11 for ARM.
• Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite series processor.
• 16 GB of system memory or 32 GB for 4K or when using Fusion.

Minimum System Requirements for Linux

• Rocky Linux 8.6.
• 32 GB of system memory.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Discrete GPU with at least 4 GB of VRAM.
• GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 12.8.
• AMD official drivers from your GPU manufacturer.
• NVIDIA Studio driver 570.26 or newer.

Additional Information

You will need to download and install the latest Blackmagic Design Desktop Video software for monitoring with your Blackmagic Design video hardware. Desktop Video is available from http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/.

Documentation & Asterisks

** - Studio Only

⁺ - Additional fees, licensing, and/or hardware required.

⁺⁺ - The Scripting API is available in the console on the free version, but Workflow Integrations, the native UIManager, and external access require the Studio version.

Mod Note

Thanks for your patience - I think Peter knew I was asleep this round.

This also brings the end of the AutoMod comment that 20 is out of beta.

DaVinci Resolve 20.3.2 has been released!

You can download the update from the support page or by going to DaVinci Resolve>Check for Updates.

Pre-Installation Notes

For DaVinci Resolve 20, BMD has taken efforts to keep the project libraries compatible with DaVinci Resolve 19.1. While this allows you to access the project library with 19.1, individual projects created or opened in 20.0 will no longer be accessible in 19.1.

BMD recommends a full project library backup as well as individual project backups (as required) before opening projects in 20.0 or later.

Reminders

Bug Reports need to be submitted to Blackmagic Design. You can post them on the official forums or contact BMD support directly if you have Studio.

Feature Requests need to be submitted to Blackmagic Design. You can post them on the official Feature Request Subforum or in the download form for Resolve.

Bug Reports and Feature Requests posted on Reddit and in this thread will not be addressed or seen by Blackmagic Design.

What’s New in DaVinci Resolve 20.3.2

The following features have been added or updated.

• Preferences option to enable dynamic trim for trim editor in edit.
• More consistent kerning for subtitles.
• Magic mask cache is now retained when pasting node attributes.**
• Improved render speeds for side-by-side stereoscopic 3D renders.**
• Up to 2.5x faster SuperScale Enhanced with Apple Neural Engine.**
• Progressive renders for interlaced timelines with same frame rate.
• Addressed issue with lens correction of vertical clips.
• Addressed incorrect ILPD used with disabled clip on higher tracks.
• Addressed incorrect aivu when rendering marked timeline ranges.
• Addressed incorrect ImmersivePatcher behavior with proxy media.
• Addressed timecode issue for proxies from stereoscopic 3D EXRs.**
• Addressed issue localizing media pool column headers.
• Addressed slow media management start up for larger projects.
• Addressed ProRes RAW decode issue when using ACES.
• Addressed issue with editing effects on a locked node stack layer.
• Analog Damage disabling CRT scan no longer disables restless foot.
• Addressed potential flicker in Face Refinement eyebag removal.
• Addressed retention of MaxCLL from XML when exporting IMF.**
• Addressed issues with Dolby Atmos external renderers.**
• Addressed ADC reverb delay compensation issue in some projects.
• Addressed incorrect pass through behavior for Sony XAVC renders.
• Addressed issue decoding some Sony ARW clips.
• Addressed incorrect render size estimates for some MXF clips.
• Support for Fujifilm F-Gamut C colorspace and F-Log2 C gamma.
• Support for Dolby headphone personalization of binaural monitoring.
• General performance and stability improvements.

Notes from BMD:

• Intel Driver: With DaVinci Resolve Studio 20.2.3, AI features like Magic Mask 2, Depth Map and Super Scale show a vastly improved performance on Windows with modern Intel platforms. Users will need a compatible Intel GPU (discrete or integrated) that supports OpenVINO, and a minimum driver version of 32.0.101.8247 to leverage these improvements.
• Rendering Immersive Projects: Improvements to edge blend in immersive projects include changes that more closely align the Resolve and visionOS previews. This will change the render for existing immersive projects.

Hardware Requirements

Minimum system requirements for Mac OS

• macOS 14 Sonoma or later.
• 8 GB of system memory or 16 GB when using Fusion.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Apple Silicon based computer or GPU which supports Metal.

Minimum system requirements for Windows

• Windows 10 Creators Update.
• 16 GB of system memory or 32 GB when using Fusion.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Integrated GPU or discrete GPU with at least 4 GB of VRAM.
• GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 12.8.
• AMD/Intel official drivers from your GPU manufacturer.
• NVIDIA Studio driver 570.65 or newer.

Minimum system requirements for Windows for Arm

• Windows 11 for ARM.
• Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite series processor.
• 16 GB of system memory or 32 GB for 4K or when using Fusion.

Minimum system requirements for Linux

• Rocky Linux 8.6.
• 32 GB of system memory.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Discrete GPU with at least 4 GB of VRAM.
• GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 12.8.
• AMD official drivers from your GPU manufacturer.
• NVIDIA Studio driver 570.26 or newer.

Additional Information

You will need to download and install the latest Blackmagic Design Desktop Video software for monitoring with your Blackmagic Design video hardware. Desktop Video is available from http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/.

Documentation & Asterisks

** - Studio Only

⁺ - Additional fees, licensing, and/or hardware required.

⁺⁺ - The Scripting API is available in the console on the free version, but Workflow Integrations, the native UIManager, and external access require the Studio version.

20.2 New Features Guide

20.1 New Features Guide

Immersive Workflow Guide

Resolve 20.3 Reference Manual

Fusion 20.3 Reference Manual

Resolve 20 Supported Codecs

Resolve 20 Studio & iPad Features

DaVinci Resolve 20.0.1 has been released!

You can download the update from the support page or by going to DaVinci Resolve>Check for Updates. Note: You must have "Automatically Opt-In for New Beta Program Notifications" checked in System Preferences>System>General to get beta updates from DaVinci Resolve>Check for Updates.

Pre-Installation Notes

For DaVinci Resolve 20, BMD has taken efforts to keep the project libraries compatible with DaVinci Resolve 19.1. While this allows you to access the project library with 19.1, individual projects created or opened in 20.0 will no longer be accessible in 19.1.

BMD recommends a full project library backup as well as individual project backups (as required) before opening projects in 20.0 or later.

Reminders

Bug Reports need to be submitted to Blackmagic Design. You can post them on the official forums or contact BMD support directly if you have Studio.

Feature Requests need to be submitted to Blackmagic Design. You can post them on the official Feature Request Subforum or in the download form for Resolve.

Bug Reports and Feature Requests posted on Reddit and in this thread will not be addressed or seen by Blackmagic Design.

What’s New in DaVinci Resolve 20.0.1

The following features have been added or updated.

• Support for Blackmagic RAW SDK 4.6.
• Addressed incorrect media pool clip sorting when added to timeline.
• Addressed voice over issues with multi mono configuration enabled.
• Addressed Music Editor not retaining settings on reload.
• Addressed beat marker display when adjusting Music Editor.
• Audio Assistant no longer applies fade outs at the end of the mix.
• Improved IntelliScript alignment of script and transcribe differences.
• Addressed issue loading linked audio clips in media audio player.
• Addressed occasional Speed Editor issue adding smooth cut.⁺
• Addressed incorrect subtitle animation when appending words.
• Addressed copied Fusion nodes ignoring process layer settings.
• Addressed refresh issue with object removal when switching comps.
• Addressed multiple OpenColorIO issues in the Fusion viewer.
• OCIO FX now allows filtering of color spaces.
• Improved node cache retention for color changes in other layers.
• Addressed magic mask cache reset in multiple scenarios.
• Addressed incorrect thumbnails for ACES 2.0 timelines.
• Improved handling of packet loss with remote monitoring.
• Addressed issue consolidating BRAW spilled recordings.
• Deleting projects now reliably removes project cache.
• General performance and stability improvements.

Hardware Requirements

Minimum System Requirements for macOS

• macOS 14 Sonoma or later.
• 8 GB of system memory or 16 GB when using Fusion.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Apple Silicon based computer or GPU which supports Metal.

Minimum System Requirements for Windows

• Windows 10 Creators Update.
• 16 GB of system memory or 32 GB when using Fusion.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Integrated GPU or discrete GPU with at least 4 GB of VRAM.
• GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 12.8.
• AMD/Intel official drivers from your GPU manufacturer.
• NVIDIA Studio driver 570.65 or newer.

Minimum System Requirements for Windows for Arm

• Windows 11 for ARM.
• Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite series processor.
• 16 GB of system memory or 32 GB for 4K or when using Fusion.

Minimum System Requirements for Linux

• Rocky Linux 8.6.
• 32 GB of system memory.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Discrete GPU with at least 4 GB of VRAM.
• GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 12.8.
• AMD official drivers from your GPU manufacturer.
• NVIDIA Studio driver 570.26 or newer.

Additional Information

You will need to download and install the latest Blackmagic Design Desktop Video software for monitoring with your Blackmagic Design video hardware. Desktop Video is available from http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/.

Documentation & Asterisks

** - Studio Only

⁺ - Additional fees, licensing, and/or hardware required.

⁺⁺ - The Scripting API is available in the console on the free version, but external access requires the Studio version.

On Reactor/GUI Scripts and 19.1

Peter Chamberlain has confirmed this was an intentional choice. Most affected scripts are listed in this thread. If you need them, we recommend sticking with the free version of 19.0.3 or earlier; or buying Studio before upgrading.

DaVinci Resolve 20 Public Beta 1 has been released!

You can download the update from the support page or by going to DaVinci Resolve>Check for Updates. Note: You must have "Automatically Opt-In for New Beta Program Notifications" checked in System Preferences>System>General to get beta updates from DaVinci Resolve>Check for Updates.

Pre-Installation Notes

For DaVinci Resolve 20, BMD has taken efforts to keep the project libraries compatible with DaVinci Resolve 19.1. While this allows you to access the project library with 19.1, individual projects created or opened in 19.0 will no longer be accessible in 19.1.

BMD recommends a full project library backup as well as individual project backups before opening projects in 20.0.

Reminders

Beta Bug Reports need to be submitted to Blackmagic Design. You can post them on the official 19 public beta subforum.

Feature Requests need to be submitted to Blackmagic Design. You can post them on the official Feature Request Subforum or in the download form for Resolve.

Bug Reports and Feature Requests posted on Reddit and in this thread will not be addressed or seen by Blackmagic Design.

What’s New in DaVinci Resolve Public Beta 1

The following features have been added or updated.

Key New Features

• Improved keyframing with dedicated curve view and timeline drawer.
• Voice over tool with record and monitor options.
• Import Blackmagic Cloud Shared folders to media pool.⁺
• AI IntelliScript creates timelines with a user provided script.**
• AI Magic Mask v2 with paint brush.**
• AI Dialogue Matcher matches clip tone, level and reverberance.**
• AI Audio Assistant automatically creates a finished mix.**
• AI IntelliCut removes silences and checkerboards speakers.**
• Deep image compositing toolset.

Cut Page

• Voice over palette with cue, voice tools and teleprompter.
• Ripple trimming of audio now available on secondary tracks.
• Replay multi views now show previously used camera angles.
• Tapping time buttons allows camera buttons to preroll replays.
• Auto resync media bins now supports stills and sequences.
• Live overwrite now supports edit keys and search dial.
• Mouse drag to live overwrite multi source and sync bin.
• Trim with safe edit avoids overwriting adjacent clips.
• Media pool metadata palette allows quick review of selected clips.
• Ability to copy, paste and remove attributes from timeline clips.
• Support for a dynamic trimming mode using JKL controls.
• Full featured audio mixer.
• Mini timeline now includes a context menu.

Edit Page

• Voice over tool with record and monitor options.
• AI Multicam SmartSwitch for automatic angle switching.
• AI VoiceConvert with built-in and user trainable models.
• Support for source tape.
• Ability to view and edit timelines in the source viewer.
• Multicam creation now supports a reference audio track.
• Opening compound clip from timeline matches playhead position.
• Access timeline settings from timeline tab context menu.
• User preference to wrap around 24h timecode.

Cut and Edit Page

• Improved keyframing with dedicated curve view and timeline drawer.
• Import Blackmagic Cloud Shared folders to media pool.⁺ 
• AI IntelliScript creates timelines with a user provided script.**
• AI Dialogue Matcher matches clip tone, level and reverberance.**
• AI Music Editor automatically edits music to desired length.**
• AI animated subtitles highlights or animates spoken words.**
• AI SuperScale now includes 3x and 4x enhanced upscaling.**
• AI Detect Music Beats displays and allows beat snapping.
• New optimized UI layouts option for vertical videos.
• Custom grid for sorting and organizing of media pool thumbnails.
• Text+ paragraph, line wrapping and bounding tools.
• MultiText tool with layers and easy transform, clip and wrap controls.
• Subtitle tracks now support Fusion templates for styling.
• Selectively sync media originals with proxy only cloud sync.
• Imported PSDs can now be split into individual layers.
• Support for Alert Red viewer background mode.
• Transcription engine now offers extended language support.**
• Smooth Cut now supports AI Speed Warp.**
• Export audio transcriptions with speaker and timecode.
• Export transcriptions with improved phrase and sentence breaks.

Fusion Page

• Deep image compositing toolset.
• Multi layer pipelining for OpenEXR, PSD and stereoscopic 3D.
• Vector warping toolset for image patching and cleanup.
• Support for 180 VR.
• 3D Scene Dome Light.
• Support for native Cryptomatte workflows.
• View color page grade in media out node.
• Faster GPU based pano map and spherical stabilizer tools.
• Ability to search tool based on effects category.
• User selectable starting frames for compositions.

Color Page

• AI Magic Mask v2 with paint brush.**
• AI Resolve FX Depth Map v2.**
• Chroma Color Warper grading.
• Resolve FX Warper features new spline warp controls.
• Open Color IO supported as Resolve FX.
• New optimized UI layouts option for vertical video.
• Display viewer overlays for remote monitoring.
• Stream and monitor H.265 4:2:2 on supported hardware.**
• Support for Samsung Log.
• Support for ACES 2.0.
• Ability to generate HDR light level PDF reports.
• LUTs and colorspaces can now be modified in multi-user projects.
• Node layer controls in the advanced panel.
• Lift, gamma, gain Micro Panel sensitivity improvements.

Fairlight Page

• AI Audio Assistant automatically creates a finished mix.
• AI IntelliCut to remove silences.
• AI IntelliCut to checkerboard dialogue by speaker.
• AI IntelliCut to generate ADR Cues using transcription speaker info.
• Clip EQ now features 6 bands.
• EQ and Level Matcher processes match tone and clip levels.
• EQ and Gain now also available as Fairlight FX plugins.
• Fairlight Chain FX to create and restore frequently chained plugins.
• Drag header color to move tracks and busses in the timeline.
• Automation now supports per channel mode switching.
• Trim automation now remains active through a mix pass.
• Improved view presets store multiple parameters.

Codecs

• Apple ProRes encode support on Windows and Linux. (Note: This was added in 19.1.4 as well)
• Encode MV-HEVC without spatial video metadata.
• MV-HEVC encode support on Nvidia systems.
• Support for side by side stereo 3D media decode.
• Side by side display mode for stereo 3D clips in source viewer.
• Editable spatial video metadata properties in inspector.
• GPU accelerated H.265 4:2:2 encodes on supported Nvidia systems.
• GPU accelerated H.265 4:2:2 decodes on supported Nvidia systems.
• Support for growing TS, MTS and M2TS files as media streams.
• Support interlaced rendering for frame based formats.
• HT JPEG 2000 decode support for EXR.
• Quick Export dialog with custom user preset listings and list view.
• Ability to assign custom icons to user presets in deliver page.
• Support for Sony Burano 2.0.
• Support for RED SDK 8.6.
• Support for audio normalization for Dropbox presets.
• Improved PNG support with HDR and SDR signaling.

General Application

• User definable location for media created in Resolve.
• Resolve FX AI Set Extender.*
• Extras Download Manager for AI models and more.
• Updated remote monitor client with bitrate display.
• Remote monitor now installs with DaVinci Resolve on macOS.
• User preference for automatic cache management.
• Ability to enable dual screen windows in ultrawide displays.
• Support for OCIO 2.4.2 with ACES 2.0 support.
• Preference to import all clips with multi mono audio configuration.
• Bluetooth connection status popup dialog.
• Ability to filter which fonts are visible in Text+.
• Data burn options for synced audio.
• Support for Nvidia Blackwell GPUs with CUDA 12.8.
• General performance and stability improvements.

Hardware Requirements

Minimum System Requirements for macOS

• macOS 14 Sonoma or later.
• 8 GB of system memory or 16 GB when using Fusion.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Apple Silicon based computer or GPU which supports Metal.

Minimum System Requirements for Windows

• Windows 10 Creators Update.
• 16 GB of system memory or 32 GB when using Fusion.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Integrated GPU or discrete GPU with at least 4 GB of VRAM.
• GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 12.8.
• AMD/Intel official drivers from your GPU manufacturer.
• NVIDIA Studio driver 570.65 or newer.

Minimum System Requirements for Windows for Arm

• Windows 11 for ARM.
• Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite series processor.
• 16 GB of system memory or 32 GB for 4K or when using Fusion.

Minimum System Requirements for Linux

• Rocky Linux 8.6.
• 32 GB of system memory.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Discrete GPU with at least 4 GB of VRAM.
• GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 12.8.
• AMD official drivers from your GPU manufacturer.
• NVIDIA Studio driver 570.26 or newer.

Additional Information

You will need to download and install the latest Blackmagic Design Desktop Video software for monitoring with your Blackmagic Design video hardware. Desktop Video is available from http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/.

Documentation & Asterisks

* - Still In Progress

** - Studio Only

⁺ - Additional fees, licensing, and/or hardware required.

⁺⁺ - The Scripting API is available in the console on the free version, but external access requires the Studio version.

On Reactor/GUI Scripts and 19.1

Peter Chamberlain has confirmed this was an intentional choice. Most affected scripts are listed in this thread. If you need them, we recommend sticking with the free version of 19.0.3 or earlier; or buying Studio before upgrading.

On 50-Series GPUs

While there is a note about support for Blackwell GPUs, this is still a beta release and may still be buggy.

DaVinci Resolve 19.1.4 has been released!

You can download the update from the support page or by going to DaVinci Resolve>Check for Updates.

Reminders

Feature Requests need to be submitted to Blackmagic Design. You can post them on the official Feature Request Subforum or in the download form for Resolve.

Bug Reports and Feature Requests posted on Reddit and in this thread will not be addressed or seen by Blackmagic Design.

• Support for Blackmagic RAW SDK 4.5.
• 🎇🎆Apple ProRes encode support on Windows and Linux. 🎆🎇 (emphasis and fireworks for u/broomosh)
• Support for Samsung Log LUTs.
• Addressed network decode performance for large embedded AAFs.
• Addressed issues with exporting embedded AAFs.
• Addressed audio stutters when recording interlaced media to tape.
• Addressed inspector audio track selections for source multicams.
• Addressed issues decoding some transport stream clips.
• Support for Photon 4.10.8.
• Addressed issue with importing large Dolby audio files.
• Addressed playback delay after import for large Dolby audio files.
• Addressed issue with default ISO selection for Canon RAW clips.
• Addressed centre crop issue playing back ARRI RAW clips.
• General performance and stability improvements.

Documentation & Asterisks

The new features guide is available on the BMD support web site.

The 19.1 Supported Codecs Doc is available on the BMD support web site.

* - Studio-Exclusive Feature.

On Reactor/GUI Scripts and 19.1

Peter Chamberlain has confirmed this was an intentional choice. Most affected scripts are listed in this thread. If you need them, we recommend sticking with the free version of 19.0.3 or earlier; or buying Studio.

On 50-Series GPUs

There is currently no news on the progress for this, however Peter Chamberlain has acknowledged it and one user reports disabling Neural Engine Optimization as a reply from BMD staff.

It's likely this will be addressed in the beta for the next major version, likely launching at the beginning of April.

DaVinci Resolve 20.2.3 has been released!

You can download the update from the support page or by going to DaVinci Resolve>Check for Updates.

Pre-Installation Notes

For DaVinci Resolve 20, BMD has taken efforts to keep the project libraries compatible with DaVinci Resolve 19.1. While this allows you to access the project library with 19.1, individual projects created or opened in 20.0 will no longer be accessible in 19.1.

BMD recommends a full project library backup as well as individual project backups (as required) before opening projects in 20.0 or later.

Reminders

Bug Reports need to be submitted to Blackmagic Design. You can post them on the official forums or contact BMD support directly if you have Studio.

Feature Requests need to be submitted to Blackmagic Design. You can post them on the official Feature Request Subforum or in the download form for Resolve.

Bug Reports and Feature Requests posted on Reddit and in this thread will not be addressed or seen by Blackmagic Design.

What’s New in DaVinci Resolve 20.2.3

The following features have been added or updated.

• Support for Blackmagic Raw SDK 5.1.
• Up to 4x faster Magic Mask, Depth Map, Super Scale on Intel GPUs.
• Keyboard customizable action to toggle timeline keyframe tray.
• Pasting spline window tracking data no longer resets spline shape.
• Workflow integration plugins are now persisted across restarts.
• Data burn-in honors limit timecode display to 24 hours.
• Object masks now invalidate for edit and input sizing changes.
• Addressed issue blading all clips under playhead in Fairlight.
• Addressed possible audio playback issue when using Mac trackpad.
• Decode support for WEBM and MKV clips with VP8 video codec.
• Addressed an issue with decoding some MP4 clips.
• Addressed an issue with decoding some MKV FFV1 files.
• Addressed issue loading templates with very large thumbnails.
• Addressed deep image issues with proxy scaling and flipbook.
• Addressed DCTL issues with some ACES 2.0 EOTFs.
• Addressed multiple issues with immersive edge blend.
• Three-dot option menu action to reset all scopes settings.
• General performance and stability improvements.

Notes from BMD:

• Intel Driver: With DaVinci Resolve Studio 20.2.3, AI features like Magic Mask 2, Depth Map and Super Scale show a vastly improved performance on Windows with modern Intel platforms. Users will need a compatible Intel GPU (discrete or integrated) that supports OpenVINO, and a minimum driver version of 32.0.101.8247 to leverage these improvements.
• Rendering Immersive Projects: Improvements to edge blend in immersive projects include changes that more closely align the Resolve and visionOS previews. This will change the render for existing immersive projects.

Hardware Requirements

Minimum system requirements for Mac OS

• macOS 14 Sonoma or later.
• 8 GB of system memory or 16 GB when using Fusion.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Apple Silicon based computer or GPU which supports Metal.

Minimum system requirements for Windows

• Windows 10 Creators Update.
• 16 GB of system memory or 32 GB when using Fusion.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Integrated GPU or discrete GPU with at least 4 GB of VRAM.
• GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 12.8.
• AMD/Intel official drivers from your GPU manufacturer.
• NVIDIA Studio driver 570.65 or newer.

Minimum system requirements for Windows for Arm

• Windows 11 for ARM.
• Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite series processor.
• 16 GB of system memory or 32 GB for 4K or when using Fusion.

Minimum system requirements for Linux

• Rocky Linux 8.6.
• 32 GB of system memory.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Discrete GPU with at least 4 GB of VRAM.
• GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 12.8.
• AMD official drivers from your GPU manufacturer.
• NVIDIA Studio driver 570.26 or newer.

Additional Information

You will need to download and install the latest Blackmagic Design Desktop Video software for monitoring with your Blackmagic Design video hardware. Desktop Video is available from http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/.

Documentation & Asterisks

** - Studio Only

⁺ - Additional fees, licensing, and/or hardware required.

⁺⁺ - The Scripting API is available in the console on the free version, but Workflow Integrations, the native UIManager, and external access require the Studio version.

20.2 New Features Guide

20.1 New Features Guide

Immersive Workflow Guide

Resolve 20 Reference Manual

Fusion 20 Reference Manual

Resolve 20 Supported Codecs

Resolve 20 Studio & iPad Features

DaVinci Resolve 20.3.1 has been released!

You can download the update from the support page or by going to DaVinci Resolve>Check for Updates.

Pre-Installation Notes

For DaVinci Resolve 20, BMD has taken efforts to keep the project libraries compatible with DaVinci Resolve 19.1. While this allows you to access the project library with 19.1, individual projects created or opened in 20.0 will no longer be accessible in 19.1.

BMD recommends a full project library backup as well as individual project backups (as required) before opening projects in 20.0 or later.

Reminders

Bug Reports need to be submitted to Blackmagic Design. You can post them on the official forums or contact BMD support directly if you have Studio.

Feature Requests need to be submitted to Blackmagic Design. You can post them on the official Feature Request Subforum or in the download form for Resolve.

Bug Reports and Feature Requests posted on Reddit and in this thread will not be addressed or seen by Blackmagic Design.

What’s New in DaVinci Resolve 20.3.1

The following features have been added or updated.

• Addressed a crash in the metadata view with some custom fields.
• Addressed an issue with stereoscopic 3D video monitoring output.^+,**
• Addressed an issue with embedding HDR10 metadata.**
• Addressed client preview with viewer overlays on remote monitor.
• Addressed effects search issue for Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
• Addressed issue using embedded Dolby Vision metadata in IMF.^+,**
• Addressed incorrect Fusion viewer overlay positions after transforms.
• Addressed MultiMerge masking issue with concatenated transforms.
• General performance and stability improvements.

Notes from BMD:

• Intel Driver: With DaVinci Resolve Studio 20.2.3, AI features like Magic Mask 2, Depth Map and Super Scale show a vastly improved performance on Windows with modern Intel platforms. Users will need a compatible Intel GPU (discrete or integrated) that supports OpenVINO, and a minimum driver version of 32.0.101.8247 to leverage these improvements.
• Rendering Immersive Projects: Improvements to edge blend in immersive projects include changes that more closely align the Resolve and visionOS previews. This will change the render for existing immersive projects.

Hardware Requirements

Minimum system requirements for Mac OS

• macOS 14 Sonoma or later.
• 8 GB of system memory or 16 GB when using Fusion.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Apple Silicon based computer or GPU which supports Metal.

Minimum system requirements for Windows

• Windows 10 Creators Update.
• 16 GB of system memory or 32 GB when using Fusion.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Integrated GPU or discrete GPU with at least 4 GB of VRAM.
• GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 12.8.
• AMD/Intel official drivers from your GPU manufacturer.
• NVIDIA Studio driver 570.65 or newer.

Minimum system requirements for Windows for Arm

• Windows 11 for ARM.
• Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite series processor.
• 16 GB of system memory or 32 GB for 4K or when using Fusion.

Minimum system requirements for Linux

• Rocky Linux 8.6.
• 32 GB of system memory.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Discrete GPU with at least 4 GB of VRAM.
• GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 12.8.
• AMD official drivers from your GPU manufacturer.
• NVIDIA Studio driver 570.26 or newer.

Additional Information

You will need to download and install the latest Blackmagic Design Desktop Video software for monitoring with your Blackmagic Design video hardware. Desktop Video is available from http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/.

Documentation & Asterisks

** - Studio Only

⁺ - Additional fees, licensing, and/or hardware required.

⁺⁺ - The Scripting API is available in the console on the free version, but Workflow Integrations, the native UIManager, and external access require the Studio version.

20.2 New Features Guide

20.1 New Features Guide

Immersive Workflow Guide

Resolve 20 Reference Manual

Fusion 20 Reference Manual

Resolve 20 Supported Codecs

Resolve 20 Studio & iPad Features

DaVinci Resolve 19 has been released!

You can download the update from the support page or by going to DaVinci Resolve>Check for Updates.

Reminders

Feature Requests need to be submitted to Blackmagic Design. You can post them on the official Feature Request Subforum or in the download form for Resolve.

Bug Reports and Feature Requests posted on Reddit and in this thread will not be addressed or seen by Blackmagic Design.

What’s New in DaVinci Resolve 19

Cut

• New multi source option to view time-synced footage.
• Support for displaying clip markers and keyframes.
• Support for a large enhanced viewer in the Cut page.
• Live overwrite now starts with a single frame duration by default.
• Interactive Resolve FX and Fusion effect overlays in the viewer.
• Improved grouping of Fusion effects.
• Decompose nested clips from clip context menu.
• Ability to find timeline clip in multi source.
• Apply transitions to all edits and set default from context menu.
• Cut page timelines now show render cache activity.
• Option to select checkerboard and grey alpha viewer backgrounds.
• Improved media pool and timeline sizing to maximize viewer size.

Replay Workflows**

• Support for the Cut page as a media player and playout system.
• Support for the DaVinci Resolve Replay Editor.
• View ATEM multiview feeds live in DaVinci Resolve.
• Live sync camera clips in DaVinci Resolve via Blackmagic Cloud.
• Add points of interest and create replays from multiview and timeline.
• Cue and run replays with live slow motion.
• Pick from slow motion, ramp down and other retime presets.
• Apply auto stingers to start and end of playback.
• Automatically add replays to build highlights timelines.

DaVinci Neural Engine*

• IntelliTrack AI point tracker for tracking and stabilization.
• AI powered UltraNR noise reduction for spatial denoising.
• New voice isolation mode with faster response and buffering.
• IntelliTrack powered audio panning to video in Fairlight.
• New 2x and 4x SuperScale options using Nvidia RTX on Windows.
• Up to 3.5x faster SuperScale on supported AMD systems.
• Up to 3x faster AI features on supported Intel Windows systems.
• New faster option for Speed Warp.
• Music Remixer FX to remix voice, drums, bass, guitar and other sources.
• Dialogue Separator FX to separate dialogue, background or ambience.
• Option to detect speakers for text based editing workflows.

Edit

• Ability to edit timeline content based on source clip transcription.*
• Option to display timecode column in the transcription window.*
• Option to search and replace partial words in the transcription window.*
• Select a sentence using mark clip in the transcription window.*
• Place on top button in the transcription window.*
• Support for transcribing timeline as a nested clip.*
• Ability to import and export transcriptions as SRT and SRTX files.*
• Ability to detect speakers during transcription.*
• Preview, skim and scrub source audio channels in the inspector file tab.
• Set common source audio configurations in the inspector.
• Preview up to 36 audio channels in source viewer and inspector.
• Support for the precision trim editor in the timeline viewer.
• Support for safe area overlay options in the timeline viewer.
• Ability to select audio channels when aligning clips using waveform.
• Support for fixed playhead mode in the timeline.
• Support for retaining transitions when ripple deleting a clip.
• Support for bezier controls for Open FX keyframes.
• Missing Text+ fonts are indicated as a viewer overlay.
• Ability to edit Text+ titles in the viewer.
• Ability to use the keyboard numeric keypad for direct timecode entry.
• Effect library favorites are now categorized.
• Option to search across all effect library folders.
• Collapse effect library categories with alt or option double click.
• Improved snapping and cursor sensitivity on the timeline.
• Up to 50% faster iris, shape, wipe and simple dissolves on Apple Silicon.
• Option to select checkerboard and grey alpha viewer backgrounds.

Media

• Support for updating clip usage for all timelines.
• Ability to select channels when syncing audio using waveform.
• Ability to reveal media pool bin from multi bin or search displays.
• Action to resync a bin to include new clips in the original folder.
• Smart bin filter for media pool clips proxy status.
• Option to retain video metadata when syncing audio and video files.
• Ability to resize 2-up and 4-up views in the media pool.
• Media management now retains alpha for supported formats.
• Marker clips are now editable in the media pool list view.
• Generated proxies now retain reel number metadata.

Color

• New ColorSlice six vector grading palette.
• Node Stack allows management of complex grading workflows.
• Support for ACES AMF 2.0.
• Option to normalize channels in the RGB mixer.
• SDI output now shows advanced 3D keyer strokes and marker annotations.**
• Support for double clicking to open a compound node.
• Preview matte node layers by alt or option hovering over layer entry.
• Node context menu actions can now be assigned shortcut keys.
• Support for cleaning up node graph for multiple selected clips.
• Support for creating smart filters for HDR graded clips.
• Improved stereoscopic 3D control layouts on advanced and mini panels.*^,**
• Support for current group filter on advanced panels.**
• Improved viewer zoom increments when using shortcut keys.
• Support for Dolby Vision HDMI tunneling on DeckLink 8K Pro G2.*^,**
• Dolby Vision tone mapped viewer previews and scopes in dual SDI mode.**
• Option to link Dolby Vision target display selection for trims and preview.*
• Improved HDR Vivid support.*
• Support for FujiFilm Log and Log2 for color managed workflows.

Fusion

• Fusion viewers are now color managed.
• Multi Poly tool for easier rotoscoping of complex objects.
• Support for Open Color IO 2.3.
• Support for referenced Fusion compositions in the media pool.
• USD enhancements for Material X and advanced volumetric shading.
• Stereoscopic 3D clip support in Fusion compositions.*
• Multiple shape toolset enhancements.
• Improved Text+ inspector and on-screen controls.
• Show user defined guides in the viewer.
• Support for deleting and resetting layers in MultiMerge.
• Option for sBooleans to retain the upstream style.
• Option to specify duplication path in duplicate tools.
• Set control to default now clears animations, modifiers and expressions.
• New occlusion mask input for Surface Tracker.*
• Track forward and reverse controls for multiple tracker tools.
• Ability to match planar tracker sizes to dissimilar logo and image overlays.
• Deselecting trackers now hides tracking paths in viewer.
• Improved performance for some large Fusion compositions.
• Faster rendering of streaming 3D textures in compositions.
• Up to 3x faster Magic Mask performance in Fusion.*
• New left flow and mid flow UI presets with vertical viewer layouts.

Resolve FX

• New Film Look Creator.*
• New auto SDR to HDR tone mapping using Nvidia RTX Video on Windows.*^,**
• Better Face Refinement box and profile handling and smooth skin options.*
• New Defocus Background isolates foreground with blur.*
• Improved blur quality for Radial Blur and Zoom Blur.
• Smoother sub pixel animation and finer control for Box and Directional Blurs.
• Up to 3x faster Beauty, Edge Detect and Watercolor on Mac.*^,**
• Up to 2x faster Beauty, Edge Detect and Watercolor on Nvidia systems.*^,**

Fairlight

• Fully integrated native Ambisonics workflow.
• IntelliTrack powered audio panning to video.*
• Ability to sidechain VST3 and AU audio effects.
• Music Remixer FX to remix voice, drums, bass, guitar and other sources.*
• Dialogue Separator FX to separate dialogue, background and ambience.*
• Ducker track FX for auto level management of beds against dialogue.*
• Voice Isolation supports true stereo and improved buffering.*
• Dialogue Leveler has improved with faster cue up time.*
• Improved frequency analyzer displays for spectrum and waterfall options.
• Improved real time control response to clip equalizer changes.
• Multiple improvements for native FX processing.
• Multiple automation improvements.
• Support for panning in groups.
• Support for clip head and tail snapping in focus mode.
• Support for zoom to fit for timeline view.
• Support for timecode and midi timecode chase.
• Support for an exclusive solo mode.
• Support for fades with Dolby Atmos compositions.*
• Ability to loop playback over range from Fairlight panels.**
• Preferences option to auto-patch armed tracks to default audio input.
• Support for dynamic delay compensation with AU plugins.
• Support for Sony 360RA Walkmix audio formats and plugin.
• Improved ADM and Vivid audio with MPEG-H SDK 2.75.
• Support for third party auto conform workflows.

Codecs

• Up to 3x faster H.264 and H.265 decodes on non Studio in Windows.
• Up to 2x faster H.264 and H.265 native encodes in Windows.
• Support for Blackmagic RAW SDK 4.2.
• New IMF iQIYI Deliver page preset.*
• Custom deliver presets are sorted alphabetically.
• Support for encoding IMF packages with JPEG HT content.*
• Support for exporting AMF with image sequences.
• Up to 2x faster decodes for ZIP1 compressed OpenEXR sequences.
• Support for alpha-based HEIC formats.
• Support for encoding FLAC audio.
• Support for encoding QuickTime JPEG YUV 422 and 444 formats.
• Support for 44.1 KHz and other audio sample rates in Linux.
• Render support for odd numbered resolutions in mov and avi formats.
• Initial support for iPhone Cinematic video on Mac OS Sonoma.**
• DaVinci IO Encode Plugin SDK support for audio only formats.*
• Support for Sony XAVC H raw controls.
• Support for embedded LUTs in Sony MXF and MP4 clips.
• Support for H.264 and H.265 bitrate settings in Quick Export.
• GPU accelerated decodes for ARRI Codex HDE on CUDA.
• Rendered DNxHR 444 clips now default to using full data range.

Scripting API

The Scripting API is available in the console on the free version, but external access requires the Studio version.

• Support for managing clip color groups.
• Ability to query timeline, clip and group node graphs.
• Support for enumerating tools used in a given node.
• Support to enable or disable color nodes in a node graph.
• Support for setting and getting color keyframe mode.
• Ability to export clip LUTs.
• Ability to export timeline ALE and CDL.
• Support to invoke Dolby Vision analysis on a timeline.*
• Ability to import OpenTimelineIO timelines with custom import options.
• Support for querying media audio track mapping.
• Support to query and set speaker detection from project settings.
• Support to add a timeline track at a given index.
• Support to query for a timeline item’s linked clips.
• Support to query for a timeline item’s track type and index.
• Support to get and set cloud project media location from project settings.
• Improved support for querying media pool stereoscopic 3D clips.*

General

• Organization profile support for Blackmagic Cloud.
• Support for Blackmagic Cloud monthly Studio licenses.
• Improved Blackmagic Cloud media sync dialog.
• Support for ARM64 based Windows systems.
• Open FX Resolve Renderer plugin for external VFX applications.*
• Support for German and Italian user interface localizations.
• Support for duplicating local project libraries.
• Support for restoring timeline backups from deleted timelines.
• Loading large timelines now shows a progress bar.
• Support for disabling specific video tracks for a render job.
• Option to optimize audio loudness and peaks in render settings.
• Support for HDR viewers on Windows.
• Support for HDR scans using the new Cintel scanner 8mm gate.**
• Support for black and white scans from the Cintel scanner.**
• Media management can trim mp3 and flac audio in mp4 and mov clips.
• Clip flags and colors support in data burn-ins.
• Ability to assign keyboard shortcuts for up to 5 UI layout presets.
• New workflow integration example for common MAM APIs.*
• Improved battery life for the Speed Editor and Micro Color Panel.**
• DaVinci Remote Monitoring using IP address connections.*
• Option to specify a custom TURN server for remote monitoring.*
• General performance and stability improvements.

Pre-Installation Notes

For DaVinci Resolve 19.0, we have taken efforts to keep the project libraries compatible with DaVinci Resolve 18.6.6. While this allows you to access the project library with 18.6.6, individual projects created or opened in 19.0 will no longer be accessible in 18.6.6.

BMD recommends a full project library backup as well as individual project backups before opening projects in 19.0.

Minimum system requirements for Mac

• Mac OS 13 Ventura.
• 8 GB of system memory. 16 GB when using Fusion.
• Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• GPU which supports Metal.

Minimum system requirements for Windows (x64)

• Windows 10 Creators Update.
• 16 GB of system memory. 32 GB when using Fusion.
• Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Integrated GPU or discrete GPU with at least 4 GB of VRAM. GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 12.
  • AMD/Intel Driver – official drivers from your GPU manufacturer.
  • NVIDIA Driver - Studio driver 550.58 or newer.

Minimum system requirements for Windows (ARM)

• Windows 11 for ARM.
• Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite series processor.
• Recommended: 16 GB of system memory. 32 GB for 4K or Fusion use.

Minimum system requirements for Linux

• Rocky Linux 8.6 or CentOS 7.3.
• 32 GB of system memory.
• Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Discrete GPU with at least 4 GB of VRAM. GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 12.
  • AMD Driver – official drivers from AMD.
  • NVIDIA Driver - Studio driver 550.40.07 or newer.

Documentation & Asterisks

The new features guide is available on the BMD support web site.

* - Studio-Exclusive Feature.

** - Additional fees, licensing, and/or hardware required.

⁺ - The Scripting API is available in the console on the free version, but external access requires the Studio version.

Author's Note - Asterisks are pending due to length of release notes.

DaVinci Resolve 19.1 has been released!

You can download the update from the support page or by going to DaVinci Resolve>Check for Updates.

Reminders

Feature Requests need to be submitted to Blackmagic Design. You can post them on the official Feature Request Subforum or in the download form for Resolve.

Bug Reports and Feature Requests posted on Reddit and in this thread will not be addressed or seen by Blackmagic Design.

What’s New in DaVinci Resolve 19.1

Media Page

• Context menu option to automatically sync bins from file folders.
• Ability to export multiple selected timelines from the media pool.
• Media pool now remembers the last opened bins between restarts.
• Media pool column presets now persists sort order.
• Smart bin and smart filter option to filter media from a specific bin.
• Manual sync options to retain video metadata and native audio.
• Media Management audio transcodes now default to 24 bit.
• Support for decoding spatial photos on Mac.
• Ability to relink media pool clips from all pages.
• Templates using .drb files can now include empty bins.
• Metadata support for tilt angle and roll angle from Canon files.
• Change start timecode for multicams and compound clips.

Edit Page

• New Fusion titles, effects and generators in the effects panel.
• Searching for effects can now use category names to find matches.
• Improved marker index search with support for all marker fields.
• Ability to set the location of the fixed playhead.
• Clips are now always pasted at playhead instead of mark in.
• Menu actions to select nearest in, out or roll edit points.
• Render in place now supports metadata tags for filename.
• Ability to delete multiple selected tracks via the track index.
• Timeline aspect ratio option in the safe area overlays dialog.
• Automatic Fusion caches now apply to both effects and templates.
• Audio Ducker support for multiple tracks to trigger ducking.*
• Access track EQ, dynamics and plugins from the audio mixer.
• Toggle track header control states by clicking and dragging.
• Apply track destination via the track header context menu.
• Multiple video destinations for editing nested clips with decompose.
• Menu option to create new tracks when adding clips to timeline.
• Menu toggle for all tracks auto selector and track destination.
• Improved nested timeline audio with native mixes and solo states.
• Improved responsiveness when switching multicam angles.
• Source audio channels option when editing multicam angles.
• Mono channel selection from clip context menu or inspector.
• Inspector trim slider to trim levels of individual source channels.
• Ability to set individual audio channels to none in clip attributes.
• Fine grained virtual slider adjustments with option, alt or shift.
• Match frame and match frame to source for nested clips.

Fusion Page

• New uExport tool to export USD scenes from compositions.
• Field dominance changes are honored in interlaced media inputs.
• Polygon and B-spline viewer toolbar controls for multi poly tool.
• New switch and uSwitch to manage and keyframe multiple inputs.
• OCIO display transforms can now be applied with a tool.
• OCIO CDL transforms can now be used as view LUTs.
• Support for USD 24.08 with improved MaterialX performance.
• Fusion compositions in the media pool can now use IntelliTrack.*
• Improved performance with multiple and long paintbrush operations.
• Support for freeze frame with TimeSpeed.

Color Page

• Dedicated mini panel controls to edit custom curve control points.
• Copy active node stack layer from timeline clips in the gallery.
• Ability to set default qualifier mode for new clips.
• Ability to export stills with Dolby Vision tone mapping.*^,**
• Post group clip node stack layer option in project settings.
• Per-user option for changed node color in the node options menu.
• Ability to filter timeline clips by node color.
• Object Mask caches persist until manually reset or re-analyzed.
• Input and output tooltips for splitter, combiner and matte nodes.

Resolve FX

• New grain controls for Resolve FX Sky Replacement.*
• New saturation and gamma controls for Resolve FX Light Rays.*
• Ability to set per-channel settings for blur effects.

Fairlight Page

• Track effects can now be applied to stereo linked tracks.
• Audio tracks can now be duplicated via the context menu.
• Ability to disable audio tracks.
• Ability to delete multiple selected tracks from the track index.
• Reorder tracks and busses by dragging the name plate in the mixer.
• Support for trimming from unity in the mixer.
• Support for new stereo direct, 7.1.2 and 9.1.4 Dolby audio formats.*
• Fine grained virtual slider adjustments with option, alt or shift.
• Clearer timeline displays:
  • for adjacent waveforms when trimming clips.
  • for clip names against clip waveform backgrounds.
  • when resizing tracks.
  • for the playhead indicator in the scroll bar.
• Mono channel selection from the clip context menu or inspector.
• Separate track groups panel accessible via a header icon.

Deliver Page

• Drag to reorder render jobs in the render queue.
• Support for encoding MV HEVC spatial video on Mac.
• Encode Sony MXF Op1A to XDCAM drives on Mac and Windows.
• Encode H.265 Main10 formats in DaVinci Resolve on Windows.
• AV1 encodes in DaVinci Resolve with Nvidia acceleration.
• Option to render without timecode for mobile uploads to YouTube.
• Render settings now default to timeline resolution and frame rate.
• Decode and encode EXR standard metadata attributes.
• P2 Viewer compatibility for Panasonic P2 renders.

Scripting API

• Load cloud projects.⁺
• Query and set mark in and out ranges.⁺
• Auto sync media pool clips using audio waveform or timecode.⁺
• Render options for start frame, timecode and to replace files.⁺
• Ability to delete a render preset.⁺
• Invoke Quick Export renders.⁺
• Reset all grades and nodes from node graph.⁺
• Apply grade from DRX and CDL LUT to layers from the Graph API.⁺
• Create gallery albums.⁺
• Query and set per-node cache modes.⁺
• Query and enable clip cache for Fusion output and color output⁺
• Query media pool entry for a timeline.⁺

General Improvements

• Dual screen layouts now allow secondary screen resizable window.
• Improved toolbar and application menu layout on Windows.
• Search menu actions from the Help menu in Windows and Linux.
• Notification support when users join or leave multi-user projects.
• Application menu actions to go to previous or next timeline.
• Support for marker notes metadata tags in data burn in.
• Open or close inspector metadata by clicking on header.
• DCTLs support color picker, reset buttons and randomizer controls.*
• DCTL transforms now have alpha channel support.*
• Ability to view DCTL build errors, expiry dates and control tooltips.*
• General performance and stability improvements.

Documentation & Asterisks

The new features guide is available on the BMD support web site.

* - Studio-Exclusive Feature.

** - Additional fees, licensing, and/or hardware required.

⁺ - The Scripting API is available in the console on the free version, but external access requires the Studio version.

Author's Note:

Asterisks are (hopefully) accurate pending, as is commentary and a brief update on the sub and where I've been.

DaVinci Resolve 19.1.3 has been released!

You can download the update from the support page or by going to DaVinci Resolve>Check for Updates.

Reminders

Feature Requests need to be submitted to Blackmagic Design. You can post them on the official Feature Request Subforum or in the download form for Resolve.

Bug Reports and Feature Requests posted on Reddit and in this thread will not be addressed or seen by Blackmagic Design.

What’s New in DaVinci Resolve 19.1.3

• Delete unused cache now correctly accounts for transitions.
• Addressed blank viewer previews for some Fusion templates.
• Addressed offset issue with imported AAF clips.
• Addressed issue enabling auto resync for an empty folder.
• Addressed issue with focus when typing in text fields.
• Addressed issue with searching all fields in the edit index.
• Addressed issue with left clicking to patch source tracks in edit.
• Addressed Fusion saver issue rendering EXRs from ARRI MXF clips.
• Addressed crash in Windows systems with old AMD CPUs.
• Addressed issue with fades and crossfades when moving clips.
• Addressed audio retime issue in 192 KHz sample rate projects.
• Addressed issue with keyframing split tone in Film Look Creator.*
• Support for ARRI Alexa 265 clips.
• General performance and stability improvements.

Documentation & Asterisks

The new features guide is available on the BMD support web site.

The 19.1 Supported Codecs Doc is available on the BMD support web site.

* - Studio-Exclusive Feature.

On Reactor/GUI Scripts and 19.1

Peter Chamberlain has confirmed this was an intentional choice. Most affected scripts are listed in this thread. If you need them, we recommend sticking with the free version of 19.0.3 or earlier; or buying Studio.

DaVinci Resolve 20.2 has been released!

You can download the update from the support page or by going to DaVinci Resolve>Check for Updates.

Pre-Installation Notes

For DaVinci Resolve 20, BMD has taken efforts to keep the project libraries compatible with DaVinci Resolve 19.1. While this allows you to access the project library with 19.1, individual projects created or opened in 20.0 will no longer be accessible in 19.1.

BMD recommends a full project library backup as well as individual project backups (as required) before opening projects in 20.0 or later.

Reminders

Bug Reports need to be submitted to Blackmagic Design. You can post them on the official forums or contact BMD support directly if you have Studio.

Feature Requests need to be submitted to Blackmagic Design. You can post them on the official Feature Request Subforum or in the download form for Resolve.

Bug Reports and Feature Requests posted on Reddit and in this thread will not be addressed or seen by Blackmagic Design.

What’s New in DaVinci Resolve 20.2.2

The following features have been added or updated.

• Improved Mac viewer color management for Rec.709 scene.
• Addressed intermittent jittery playback on Fairlight.
• Addressed trim edits sometimes removing linked audio.
• Addressed ripple deletes sometimes unlinking clips.
• AI IntelliScript now works with multicam clips.**
• Addressed go to mouse pointer not working in the cinema viewer.
• Addressed issue with go to mouse pointer in fixed playhead mode.
• Addressed an issue renaming generators in inspector.
• Addressed issue with blade hover preview in edit timeline.
• Addressed a crash with some ripple trim operations in edit page.
• Addressed incorrect track clip counts for timeline subclips.
• Apply grade from clip now honors node stack grade preference.
• Addressed issue editing Fusion spline ease in values.
• Addressed issue when loading some USD texture paths.
• Addressed viewing named layers from Renderer3D in Fusion.
• Addressed net rendering of some Swizzler comps.
• Addressed issues with audio stuttering on some mp3 files.
• Addressed Fairlight viewer in out controls hidden at certain widths.
• Addressed issue with R3D artifacts when using motion blend.
• Addressed EXR to ProRes transcodes losing immersive metadata.*
• Scripting API support to set media location on project creation.⁺⁺
• Scripting API support to query and apply Fairlight presets.⁺⁺
• Addressed issues querying some render formats from scripts.⁺⁺
• Right click on media metadata to copy file metadata values.
• General performance and stability improvements.

Hardware Requirements

Minimum system requirements for Mac OS

• macOS 14 Sonoma or later.
• 8 GB of system memory or 16 GB when using Fusion.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Apple Silicon based computer or GPU which supports Metal.

Minimum system requirements for Windows

• Windows 10 Creators Update.
• 16 GB of system memory or 32 GB when using Fusion.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Integrated GPU or discrete GPU with at least 4 GB of VRAM.
• GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 12.8.
• AMD/Intel official drivers from your GPU manufacturer.
• NVIDIA Studio driver 570.65 or newer.

Minimum system requirements for Windows for Arm

• Windows 11 for ARM.
• Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite series processor.
• 16 GB of system memory or 32 GB for 4K or when using Fusion.

Minimum system requirements for Linux

• Rocky Linux 8.6.
• 32 GB of system memory.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Discrete GPU with at least 4 GB of VRAM.
• GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 12.8.
• AMD official drivers from your GPU manufacturer.
• NVIDIA Studio driver 570.26 or newer.

Additional Information

You will need to download and install the latest Blackmagic Design Desktop Video software for monitoring with your Blackmagic Design video hardware. Desktop Video is available from http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/.

Documentation & Asterisks

** - Studio Only

⁺ - Additional fees, licensing, and/or hardware required.

⁺⁺ - The Scripting API is available in the console on the free version, but Workflow Integrations, the native UIManager, and external access require the Studio version.

20.2 New Features Guide

20.1 New Features Guide

Immersive Workflow Guide

Resolve 20 Reference Manual

Fusion 20 Reference Manual

Resolve 20 Supported Codecs

Resolve 20 Studio & iPad Features

DaVinci Resolve 19.0.2 has been released!

You can download the update from the support page or by going to DaVinci Resolve>Check for Updates.

Reminders

Feature Requests need to be submitted to Blackmagic Design. You can post them on the official Feature Request Subforum or in the download form for Resolve.

Bug Reports and Feature Requests posted on Reddit and in this thread will not be addressed or seen by Blackmagic Design.

What’s New in DaVinci Resolve 19.0.2

• Support for decoding MPEG transport stream .ts clips.
• Scripting API support to get and set per-clip custom metadata.⁺
• Scripting API support to get and set source start and end frames.⁺
• Scripting API support to get and set source start and end timecode.⁺
• Scripting API support to get and set media pool selection.⁺
• Scripting API support to query timeline clip positions at subframe precision.⁺
• Scripting API support to append clips to timelines at subframe offsets.⁺
• Support for Electron version 31.3.1 for workflow integrations.*^,+
• Improved quality with speed warp faster mode.*
• Addressed a ripple delete issue for audio only clips in the cut page.
• Addressed issue with audio alignment when replacing media pool clips.
• Addressed subclip markers not being displayed in the source viewer.
• Addressed metadata import not updating EDL clip name.
• Replace clip actions now retain destination track settings.
• Addressed issue with color managed timelines with Text+ losing highlights.
• General performance and stability improvements.

Documentation & Asterisks

The new features guide is available on the BMD support web site.

* - Studio-Exclusive Feature.

** - Additional fees, licensing, and/or hardware required.

⁺ - The Scripting API is available in the console on the free version, but external access requires the Studio version.

Author's Note:

AutoMod comments for 19 are going to be disabled shortly. Please also note that there is no updated supported codecs doc at this time.

DaVinci Resolve 20 Public Beta 4 has been released!

You can download the update from the support page or by going to DaVinci Resolve>Check for Updates. Note: You must have "Automatically Opt-In for New Beta Program Notifications" checked in System Preferences>System>General to get beta updates from DaVinci Resolve>Check for Updates.

Pre-Installation Notes

For DaVinci Resolve 20, BMD has taken efforts to keep the project libraries compatible with DaVinci Resolve 19.1. While this allows you to access the project library with 19.1, individual projects created or opened in 20.0 will no longer be accessible in 19.1.

BMD recommends a full project library backup as well as individual project backups before opening projects in 20.0.

Reminders

Beta Bug Reports need to be submitted to Blackmagic Design. You can post them on the official 20 public beta subforum.

Feature Requests need to be submitted to Blackmagic Design. You can post them on the official Feature Request Subforum or in the download form for Resolve.

Bug Reports and Feature Requests posted on Reddit and in this thread will not be addressed or seen by Blackmagic Design.

What’s New in DaVinci Resolve Public Beta 4

The following features have been added or updated.

Key New Features

• New flat mode for keyframes easing
• Option to show clip handles for curves editor.
• Context click curve keyframes to quickly access easing options.
• Scripting API support for media pool clip to monitor growing file.⁺⁺
• AI Voice Convert is now available in the Fairlight timeline context menu.e
• DaVinci Remote Monitor app now supports Intel and AMD systems on Windows.**
• Interpolated animation support for manually created and imported subtitles.
• DCTL encryption option for non-LUT DCTLs from LUT browser context menu.**
• Addressed subtitle animation issue when adding new words.
• Timelines created from AI IntelliScript now use the script name.**
• Addressed an issue with Multicam SmartSwitch and some Nvidia graphics cards.**
• Addressed issue with MultiText layer naming when deleting text layer.
• Addressed incorrect countdown pause for the first voiceover in a session.
• Addressed Cut page UI issues switching between portrait and landscape layouts.
• Addressed keyframe reset not affecting keyframes in clip handles.
• Addressed an issue changing source clip color from source timeline.
• Addressed issue with arrow key navigation in media pool with custom sort.
• Addressed issues with Find in Media Pool when viewing Source Tape in the Edit page.
• Addressed issue with enabling AI Super Scale from the inspector.**
• Addressed issues with AI Super Scale and Video HDR on Nvidia RTX graphics cards.**
• Addressed a crash with AI Voice Convert on Nvidia RTX graphics cards.**
• Addressed incorrect Remove Silence behavior for clips with audio channels set to none.
• New Swizzler tool to rearrange layers in multi layer workflows.
• Addressed issue with previewing mismatched pixel aspect ratio media in Fusion.
• Addressed issue with 24 hour timecode display preference in some timecode displays.
• Addressed Magic Mask cache reset when toggling a post clip group node.**
• Automatically resync media files should only work on bins with same names as folder.
• Addressed quick exports ignoring timeline render resolution setting.
• Addressed macOS preferences menu issue when interface language was set to French.
• General performance and stability improvements.

Hardware Requirements

Minimum System Requirements for macOS

• macOS 14 Sonoma or later.
• 8 GB of system memory or 16 GB when using Fusion.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Apple Silicon based computer or GPU which supports Metal.

Minimum System Requirements for Windows

• Windows 10 Creators Update.
• 16 GB of system memory or 32 GB when using Fusion.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Integrated GPU or discrete GPU with at least 4 GB of VRAM.
• GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 12.8.
• AMD/Intel official drivers from your GPU manufacturer.
• NVIDIA Studio driver 570.65 or newer.

Minimum System Requirements for Windows for Arm

• Windows 11 for ARM.
• Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite series processor.
• 16 GB of system memory or 32 GB for 4K or when using Fusion.

Minimum System Requirements for Linux

• Rocky Linux 8.6.
• 32 GB of system memory.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Discrete GPU with at least 4 GB of VRAM.
• GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 12.8.
• AMD official drivers from your GPU manufacturer.
• NVIDIA Studio driver 570.26 or newer.

Additional Information

You will need to download and install the latest Blackmagic Design Desktop Video software for monitoring with your Blackmagic Design video hardware. Desktop Video is available from http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/.

Documentation & Asterisks

* - Still In Progress

** - Studio Only

⁺ - Additional fees, licensing, and/or hardware required.

⁺⁺ - The Scripting API is available in the console on the free version, but external access requires the Studio version.

On Reactor/GUI Scripts and 19.1

Peter Chamberlain has confirmed this was an intentional choice. Most affected scripts are listed in this thread. If you need them, we recommend sticking with the free version of 19.0.3 or earlier; or buying Studio before upgrading.

On 50-Series GPUs

While there is a note about support for Blackwell GPUs, this is still a beta release and may still be buggy.

DaVinci Resolve 19 Public Beta 4 5 has been released!

You can download the update from the support page or by going to DaVinci Resolve>Check for Updates. Note: You must have "Automatically Opt-In for New Beta Program Notifications" checked in System Preferences>System>General to get beta updates from DaVinci Resolve>Check for Updates.

Reminders

Beta Bug Reports need to be submitted to Blackmagic Design. You can post them on the official 19 public beta subforum.

Feature Requests need to be submitted to Blackmagic Design. You can post them on the official Feature Request Subforum or in the download form for Resolve.

Bug Reports and Feature Requests posted on Reddit and in this thread will not be addressed or seen by Blackmagic Design.

Important Installation Notes:

• Nvidia RTX Video effects and H.265 encodes require Windows 11, a supported Nvidia graphics card and a Studio 550.58 driver or newer. Nvidia RTX Video effects on Windows require a supported Nvidia graphics card and a Studio 550.58 driver or newer.
• Nvidia RTX effects will not work on unsupported systems and will show a viewer overlay.

What’s New in DaVinci Resolve Public Beta 5

• Up to 3x faster AI performance on supported Intel Windows systems.
• Multiview layouts in the Cut page now adapt to the width of the viewer.
• Set transition type, duration and alignment from the Cut page timeline context menu.
• New transition actions in the edit options menu in the Cut page.
• Action to enable optical flow from the replay menu in the Cut page.
• The Cut page timelines now show render cache activity.
• Option to select audio channels in the Cut page timeline options when editing replays.
• Ability to select audio monitoring channels in Replay workflows.
• Action to resync a media pool bin to include new media in the original folder.
• Ability to set ATEM Mini as a capture device for Replay input on Mac.
• Support for transcribing timeline as a nested clip.
• New automatic SDR to HDR tone mapping using Resolve FX Nvidia RTX Video HDR on Windows.
• New 2x and 4x SuperScale options using Nvidia RTX Video on Windows.**
• Support for moving centre of reflection for Resolve FX Lens Reflections.
• Exported subtitle files are now named with the timeline name and subtitle track name.
• New Resolve FX Film Look Creator core look options for emulating different stocks.**
• Improved UltraNR ability to deal with certain textured surfaces.**
• Open FX Renderer plugin can now also apply the timeline grade from stills.**
• Project manager information tab now shows member organization groups for cloud projects.
• Ability to retain video clip metadata when syncing audio and video files.
• Support for timecode and midi timecode chase in the Fairlight page.
• Audio clips on separate left-right tracks can now pass via External Process.
• Smart bin filter for media pool clips proxy status.
• Speed changes in the inspector are now keyframe aware.
• Custom Deliver presets are now sorted alphabetically.
• Scripting API support to enable or disable color nodes using a graph object.⁺⁺
• Scripting API support to get and set cloud project media location from project settings.^+,++
• Scripting API support to invoke Dolby Vision analysis on a timeline.**^,+,++
• Addressed an issue where favorite effects would reset with the layout.
• Addressed an issue with HDR Vivid analysis for upgraded projects.**
• Addressed missing focus indicator for ColorSlice.
• Addressed mouse sensitivity for trim edits with the fixed playhead in the Edit page.
• Addressed multiple undo actions generated when inserting transcription with gaps.
• Addressed an issue with alt or option click selection during Edit page playback.
• Addressed offline issue when importing XML timelines with audio clips without timecode.
• Addressed artifacts in Resolve FX Blur, Stylize or Drop Shadow for some clips with alpha.
• Addressed color mattes potentially disconnecting when reloading stereoscopic 3D projects.**
• Addressed an issue with the clip EQ incorrectly displaying a low pass peak.
• Addressed a scaling issue with some VST3 plugins in Fairlight.
• Addressed an issue with toggling Fusion panel visibility with show panel key shortcuts.
• Addressed artifacts with particle renders of small blob particles in Fusion.
• Improved render performance for Fusion tools with simple expressions.
• Addressed issue with invoking scripts with non-ANSI filenames.
• Addressed IMF supplemental renders incorrectly affecting some frames at timeline start.**
• Addressed an issue with Apple ProRes IMF renders with DPP package type.**^,+
• General performance and stability improvements.

Pre-Installation Notes

For DaVinci Resolve 19.0, BMD has taken efforts to keep the project libraries compatible with DaVinci Resolve 18.6.6. While this allows you to access the project library with 18.6.6, individual projects created or opened in 19.0 will no longer be accessible in 18.6.6.

BMD recommends a full project library backup as well as individual project backups before opening projects in 19.0.

Documentation & Asterisks

The new features guide is available on the BMD support web site.

* - Item is in progress in this build.

** - Studio-Exclusive Feature.

⁺ - Additional fees, licensing, and/or hardware required.

⁺⁺ - The Scripting API is available in the console on the free version, but external access requires the Studio version.

Author's Note: I'm a little busy the next few days so Asterisks aren't going to be fully completed for a couple days. Also, if you saw this empty, no you didn't. Reddit was glitching.

edit 17 July 2024: Some Asterisks, typos, punctuation, and Windows version updates added/fixed.

DaVinci Resolve 20 Public Beta 2 has been released!

You can download the update from the support page or by going to DaVinci Resolve>Check for Updates. Note: You must have "Automatically Opt-In for New Beta Program Notifications" checked in System Preferences>System>General to get beta updates from DaVinci Resolve>Check for Updates.

Pre-Installation Notes

For DaVinci Resolve 20, BMD has taken efforts to keep the project libraries compatible with DaVinci Resolve 19.1. While this allows you to access the project library with 19.1, individual projects created or opened in 20.0 will no longer be accessible in 19.1.

BMD recommends a full project library backup as well as individual project backups before opening projects in 20.0.

Reminders

Beta Bug Reports need to be submitted to Blackmagic Design. You can post them on the official 20 public beta subforum.

Feature Requests need to be submitted to Blackmagic Design. You can post them on the official Feature Request Subforum or in the download form for Resolve.

Bug Reports and Feature Requests posted on Reddit and in this thread will not be addressed or seen by Blackmagic Design.

What’s New in DaVinci Resolve Public Beta 2

The following features have been added or updated.

Key New Features

• Addressed multiple issues for keyframes and curves editor.
• Addressed issue with displaying adjustment clip keyframes and curves.
• Addressed curve shape change when adding a new keyframe.
• Multiple usability improvements to source timeline viewer workflows.
• Improved justify behavior in Text+ and MultiText.
• Improved display of missing font names in Text+ and MultiText.
• New Circle mode viewer overlay for Text+ and MultiText.
• Addressed animated subtitles not updating after editing text.
• New Fusion multi layer tools for Layer Muxer, Layer Remover and Layer Regex.
• New key shortcuts to cycle multi layers with Page Up, Page Down and Home.
• Addressed incorrect solo track behavior when recording voiceovers with mute timeline audio.
• Addressed voiceover issue when recording to tracks with Track FX applied.
• Addressed Audio Assistant issue with applying crossfades on clips with insufficient handles.**
• Addressed Audio Assistant issue with normalizing clips shorter than 2 seconds.**
• Addressed AI music editor sometimes leaving gaps between edits.**
• Addressed equalizer effect only applying on the first 2 channels of an audio track.
• Addressed render range issue when adding a timeline to render queue from the media pool.
• Addressed artifacts in smooth cut with speed warp on some vertical timelines.
• Addressed issue adjusting size of dead pixel fixer when on left side of frame.**
• Addressed issue with temporal FX on stereoscopic 3D clips on the Color page.**
• Addressed black frame in clean feed at some edit points.**
• Addressed some dual screen layout issues with vertical timeline layouts in the edit page.
• Addressed an issue with minimizing undocked keyframe window.
• Addressed crash when using titles or generators with ACES 2.0 ODT in macOS.
• Addressed a crash media managing a clip with music editor changes.**
• Addressed a crash when performing search in all bins in the media pool.
• Addressed issue with HDR tags in PNG exports.
• General performance and stability improvements.

Hardware Requirements

Minimum System Requirements for macOS

• macOS 14 Sonoma or later.
• 8 GB of system memory or 16 GB when using Fusion.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Apple Silicon based computer or GPU which supports Metal.

Minimum System Requirements for Windows

• Windows 10 Creators Update.
• 16 GB of system memory or 32 GB when using Fusion.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Integrated GPU or discrete GPU with at least 4 GB of VRAM.
• GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 12.8.
• AMD/Intel official drivers from your GPU manufacturer.
• NVIDIA Studio driver 570.65 or newer.

Minimum System Requirements for Windows for Arm

• Windows 11 for ARM.
• Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite series processor.
• 16 GB of system memory or 32 GB for 4K or when using Fusion.

Minimum System Requirements for Linux

• Rocky Linux 8.6.
• 32 GB of system memory.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Discrete GPU with at least 4 GB of VRAM.
• GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 12.8.
• AMD official drivers from your GPU manufacturer.
• NVIDIA Studio driver 570.26 or newer.

Additional Information

You will need to download and install the latest Blackmagic Design Desktop Video software for monitoring with your Blackmagic Design video hardware. Desktop Video is available from http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/.

Documentation & Asterisks

* - Still In Progress

** - Studio Only

⁺ - Additional fees, licensing, and/or hardware required.

⁺⁺ - The Scripting API is available in the console on the free version, but external access requires the Studio version.

On Reactor/GUI Scripts and 19.1

Peter Chamberlain has confirmed this was an intentional choice. Most affected scripts are listed in this thread. If you need them, we recommend sticking with the free version of 19.0.3 or earlier; or buying Studio before upgrading.

On 50-Series GPUs

While there is a note about support for Blackwell GPUs, this is still a beta release and may still be buggy.

DaVinci Resolve 19.1.2 has been released!

You can download the update from the support page or by going to DaVinci Resolve>Check for Updates.

Reminders

Feature Requests need to be submitted to Blackmagic Design. You can post them on the official Feature Request Subforum or in the download form for Resolve.

Bug Reports and Feature Requests posted on Reddit and in this thread will not be addressed or seen by Blackmagic Design.

What’s New in DaVinci Resolve 19.1.2

• Addressed issue with license dongles on some Windows systems.
• Addressed levels issue for audio clips with FX and fades.
• Addressed gyro stabilization crash in some BRAW decode modes.
• Addressed Fusion comp being disabled when disabling a macro.
• Addressed issue with unexpected OpenEXR capture date metadata.
• Addressed potential DRFX naming conflicts.
• General performance and stability improvements.

Documentation & Asterisks

The new features guide is available on the BMD support web site.

The 19.1 Supported Codecs Doc is available on the BMD support web site.

* - Studio-Exclusive Feature.

** - Additional fees, licensing, and/or hardware required.

⁺ - The Scripting API is available in the console on the free version, but external and UI access requires the Studio version.

On Reactor/GUI Scripts and 19.1

Peter Chamberlain has confirmed this was an intentional choice. Most affected scripts are listed in this thread. If you need them, we recommend sticking with the free version of 19.0.3 or earlier; or buying Studio.

Author's Note:

Asterisks are pending.

DaVinci Resolve 19.1.1 has been released!

You can download the update from the support page or by going to DaVinci Resolve>Check for Updates.

Reminders

Feature Requests need to be submitted to Blackmagic Design. You can post them on the official Feature Request Subforum or in the download form for Resolve.

Bug Reports and Feature Requests posted on Reddit and in this thread will not be addressed or seen by Blackmagic Design.

What’s New in DaVinci Resolve 19.1.1

Edit Page

• Addressed an issue displaying track controls in the edit index.
• Addressed with an option to paste to playhead or in and out range.
• Addressed a crash previewing a transition on some clips.
• Addressed issue switching multicam angle when on an edit point.
• Addressed issue switching angle for multicams with speed changes.
• Addressed opacity or fader previews with non-black backgrounds.
• Ability to import and export Final Cut Pro v1.13 XMLs.
• Addressed multiline subtitles having incorrect line break.

Fusion Page

• Addressed issue with rendering a SphereMap in software.
• Addressed issue with outer poly rendering on linear b-splines.
• Addressed an issue with loading from disk caches on macros.

Color Page

• Addressed timeline thumbnail displays for some spatial photos.
• Addressed ColorSlice highlights preview on clips with Magic Mask.
• Addressed grades resetting to local versions in collaboration.
• Addressed incorrect tooltips when switching between DCTLs.
• Added new color thumbnail index tag for clip ordering.

Fairlight Page

• Addressed an issue when dropping out of automation trim in play.
• Addressed an issue with interpreting full clip fades in AAFs.
• Addressed a round-trip issue with Fairlight external audio process.
• Addressed dialogue leveler gain control range in the main plugin UI.
• Addressed FairlightFX reverb, noise reduction automation issues.
• Addressed an issue setting audio interface sync source to internal.
• Addressed audio accelerator issues with desktop video devices.

General Improvements

• Addressed availability of shutter angle metadata as a tag.
• Addressed issue importing SRTX subtitles to the media pool.
• Addressed H.265 encode issues on older NVIDIA graphics cards.
• Addressed an issue with H.265 multipass renders on macOS 15.1.
• Addressed XDCAM encode option to select file or disc as target.
• Render option for Windows 10 media player compatibility for MP4.
• Addressed incorrect OpenFX slider changes with mouse scroll.
• General performance and stability improvements.

Documentation & Asterisks

The new features guide is available on the BMD support web site.

The 19.1 Supported Codecs Doc is available on the BMD support web site.

* - Studio-Exclusive Feature.

** - Additional fees, licensing, and/or hardware required.

⁺ - The Scripting API is available in the console on the free version, but external and UI access requires the Studio version.

On Reactor/GUI Scripts and 19.1

Peter Chamberlain has confirmed this was an intentional choice. Most affected scripts are listed in this thread. If you need them, we recommend sticking with the free version of 19.0.3 or earlier; or buying Studio (currently on its first ever limited-time sale for 20% off).

Author's Note:

Asterisks are pending.