Exciting news about the DaVinci Resolve 15. Not too long before we can expect stock in SA.
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What’s new in DaVinci Resolve 15 Fusion Key new features • Fully integrated into the DaVinci Resolve timeline • Improved workflows removing the need for round trip renders to Fusion • Initial support for a full Metal, CUDA or OpenCL GPU processing pipeline • Improved UI for faster and more fluid workflow • New node graph (Flow) • New viewers • New toolbar • New inspector • Fusion page now includes ◦ Media Pool ◦ Tools library with Templates ◦ Timeline with Thumbnails ◦ Spline Editor ◦ Keyframe Timeline ◦ Metadata • Dual screen layouts for the Fusion page • Support for Fusion in collaborative projects • Support for various geometry files for Fusion in Media Storage and Media Pool • Support for importing and exporting Fusion composition files • Support for caching Fusion page output for clips with Fusion effects applied • Support for Fusion planar tracker is now available on the non Studio version of DaVinci Resolve • Support for Fusion planar stabilization is now available on the non Studio version of DaVinci Resolve • Support for Fusion planar transforms of roto is now available on the non Studio version of DaVinci Resolve • Support for Fusion planar tracked roto is now available on the non Studio version of DaVinci Resolve • Support for Fusion optical flow retiming is now available on the non Studio version of DaVinci Resolve • Support for processing Fusion compositions in linear gamma with color managed and ACES workflows • Support for Fusion memory cache options in the playback menu • Support for copying Fusion compositions by middle clicking clip thumbnails • Support for a Fast Gaussian filter in the Fusion Blur tool • Support for modifying MediaIn trims and media properties for clips dragged into the Fusion node graph • Initial support for saver nodes • Initial support for OpenFX plugins • Support for GPU accelerated OpenFX plugins • Initial support for temporal OpenFX plugins • Initial support for using ResolveFX plugins Visual effects features • Vector Paint • 2D and 3D Compositing • 3D Camera Tracking in DaVinci Resolve Studio • Planar Tracking and Rotoscoping • Node Based Workflow • 3D Workspace • Keying and Mattes • Rotoscoping • Tracking and Stabilization • 3D Particles • Scripting • Shot Cleanup • Open Color I/O • Virtual Set Extensions Broadcast design and motion graphics features • 2D and 3D Titles • 3D Logos • Animated Text • Spline Based Animation • Replicate Objects • Expressions and Macros • VR tools in DaVinci Resolve Studio • Import 3D Models and Scenes • Built-in 3D Objects • Realistic Lighting and Shading • Comprehensive Stereoscopic 3D Tools in DaVinci Resolve Studio • Deep Pixel Compositing • Volumetric Effects Fairlight Key new features • ADR (Automatic Dialog Replacement) • Audio Bounce of a range in selected tracks to layers • Audio Bounce of one or multiple buses to tracks • Audio Automation Editing • Fixed playhead timeline • Audio scrollers • Video scroller • 3D audio pan • Sound Library • Support for native FairlightFX ◦ Chorus ◦ De-Esser ◦ De-Hummer ◦ Delay ◦ Distortion ◦ Echo ◦ Flanger ◦ Modulation ◦ Noise Reduction ◦ Pitch ◦ Reverb ◦ Stereo Width ◦ Vocal Channel General improvements • Support for audio normalization in the Edit and Fairlight pages • Support for pitch control for clips • Support for Media Pool preview of audio • Support for audio fade in and out to playhead in the Fairlight timeline • Support for mixed audio track formats from source clips • Support for trim to playhead operations in the Fairlight timeline • Support for preset library for equalizer, dynamics, plugins and global track properties • Support for inbuilt tone generator • Support for Compound clips path bar below Fairlight page timeline • Support for native audio on Linux • Support to show audio waveforms while recording • Support for input monitoring to the native audio engine • Support for reordering audio plugins in the inspector for audio clips • Support for audio retiming for clips with variable speed changes • Support for Paste and Remove Attributes for audio clips • Support for pre-roll and post-roll time in Fairlight timeline • Support for Loop Jog controls in user interface • Support for an indicator on the Fairlight timeline when there is an offset between audio and video • Support for the Fairlight Audio Interface installer on Windows • Support for a mode to stop and jump to the last position • Support for track selection and deselection using the track destination selection commands • Support for selecting buses in the mixer to view and modify their properties in the inspector • Support for viewing video tracks on the Fairlight timeline • Support for transport controls from the DaVinci Resolve grading panels on the Fairlight page • Support for improved timeline view options in the Fairlight timeline • Support for search in the track and marker index • Support for resetting edited audio samples in a clip • Support for subframe audio fades on the timeline • Improved speaker selection with support for device selections in monitor sets • Improved consistency of navigation and selection hotkeys between the Edit and Fairlight pages Performance • Support for project versioning snapshots to store project backups at set intervals • Support for only loading the last used timeline when opening a project • Support for an option to load all the timelines when opening a project • Support for bypassing color processing on all pages for improved performance on low power systems • Support for trimming H.264 and other temporal codec formats in Media Management • Support for GPU acceleration for the ResolveFX Match Move plugin • Support for GPU acceleration for the stabilizer with a speed up of more than 10x • Support for new system preference to use optimized image transfers for viewers on supported systems • Improved performance when rendering H.264 clips • Improved save and load performance with database optimizations for large projects • Improved CUDA performance for high resolution clips and timelines • Improved playback performance when monitoring on a single GPU system with scopes enabled • Improved playback performance with mismatched output and monitoring resolutions with Blackmagic Design playback devices • Improved decode and encode speeds for JPEG2000 clips • Improved performance when encoding to the GoPro Cineform codec • Improved performance when decoding JPEG image sequences • Improved responsiveness for OpenFX and ResolveFX on-screen controls • Improved performance when using optical flow • Improved performance when using Gaussian Blur in the Fusion page Edit • Support for adding, managing and delivering Subtitles and Closed Captions • Support for 2D and 3D title templates with ability to expand and customize in the Fusion page • Support to load multiple clips into the source viewer and access the 10 most recent clips • Support for stacked and tabbed timelines • Support for position curves in curve editor • Support for viewing and modifying keyframe curves beyond edit extents for clips with transitions centered on the edit • Support for menu actions to create Flags and Markers with a specific color • Support for timecode entry in the Marker dialog • Support for marker annotations on the viewer • Support for new Change Clip Duration to modify the duration of one or multiple clips • Support for finding the source viewer clip in the Media Pool • Support for caching compound clips, Fusion clips and nested timelines • Support for caching of titles and generator • Support for keyframing of OpenFX and ResolveFX plugins • Support for alpha channel in compound clips • Support for copying and pasting timecode in the viewer timecode displays • Support for multiple track gap deletion • Support for single viewer mode for the dual screen layout • Support for marking in and out points in Cinema Mode in the Edit page • Support for optionally showing the iXML channel names for audio files in the timeline • Support for replacing multiple shots across tracks while retaining grades and effects by Ctrl/Command dragging clips • Support for categories of video transitions in the Effects Library • Support for a new Play Again command on Media, Edit and Fairlight players • Support for optionally disabling ganged moving of audio and video clips across tracks • Support for rippling clips on the timeline when pasting retime attributes to other clips • Support for converting between Duration markers and In/Out marks • Support for viewing clip marker overlays on the timeline viewer • Support for an indicator for clips with Fusion effects on the Edit and Color pages • Support for toggling the track-destination state • Support for improved timeline view options in the Edit timeline • Support for performing an insert operation by holding Cmd/Ctrl+Shift while dragging • clips from the media pool or source viewer • Support for swapping clips in the Edit timeline using Cmd/Ctrl+Shift and dragging • Support for a dynamic trim mode icon in the Edit page toolbar with a slip and slider indicator • Support for an option to insert nested and compound clips in their decomposed state during edit operations • Support for deleting transitions across clips when one of the clips is deleted • Support for slipping clips with speed changes applied by a single frame • Support for performing match frame for the selected clip in the timeline • Support for improved results when compositing images with transparency • Support for importing Final Cut Pro X XML version 1.8 • Improved separation and handles between video and audio tracks on the timeline • Improved timecode entry and playhead navigation • Improved optical flow for speed changes • Improved Smooth Cut • Improved keyboard shortcut mapping • Improved previews when performing blades on a multi track edit • Improved ripple cut and ripple delete behavior • Improved automatic track creation when dragging clips to new tracks Media • Support for generation 4 color science when decoding CinemaDNG clips from Blackmagic Design cameras • Support for Blackmagic Design Film generation 4 to Extended Video LUTs • Support for Cintel HDR capture • Support for importing clip markers from a Final Cut Pro 7 XML file • Support for importing marker colors and duration markers on clips when importing media using FCP7 XML files • Support for preserving bin hierarchy when importing media and metadata from a Final Cut Pro 7 XML file • Support clip type icon in list view for both Clip names and File Names • Support for showing Clip names instead of File names as the default • Support for replacing a media file and all its instances in the Media Pool • Support to navigate to synced audio files from a video clip in the Media Pool • Support for automatically creating subclips by dragging a clip from the viewer to the Media Pool • Support for source clips with high speed capture frame rates in the Media Pool • Support for retaining empty folders when importing folders to the Media Pool • Support for improved LTC detection from clips with multiple audio tracks • Support for larger clip thumbnails in the Media Pool • Support for showing clip color indicator in the Media Pool thumbnails • Support for improved Media Pool column listing • Support for modifying the extents of subclips from the Media Pool and the timeline • Support for displaying iXML channel names in clip attributes • Support for viewing waveforms for audio clips in thumbnail mode in the Media Pool and Media Storage • Support for live preview of audio clips in the Media Pool and Media Storage • Support for multiple bin views in collaborative projects • Support for smaller Media Pool floating windows • Support for native IMF decoding in DaVinci Resolve Studio • Support for native Kakadu based JPEG2000 decoding • Support for decoding unencrypted DCP packages using the Kakadu codec • Support for ARRI LF camera files • Support for decoding H.264 clips in the MXF or MTS format • Support for Canon Log3 in Resolve Color Management • Support for alpha channel with DNxHR 422 codecs • Support for decoding 8-bit Phantom Cine clips • Support for reading color space and gamma information from QuickTime and MXF clips • Support for alpha channel when decoding from Cineform RGB • Support for storing the alpha channel when caching to Uncompressed 10-bit float formats • Support for storing the alpha channel when caching to Uncompressed 16-bit float – HDR • Support for automatically setting alpha mode based on metadata when importing still images • Support for decoding FLAC audio files • Support for HEIF decode on Mac and DaVinci Resolve Studio on Windows and Linux • Support for decoding TGA images • Support for decoding DPX RGBA 10bit image sequences • Support for reading orientation from JPEG and QuickTime files • Support for decoding GrassValley HQ and HQX codecs in the AVI format • Support for colorspace, gamma and LUT options for clips from DJI X7 camera • Support for hardware accelerated decode of Long GOP Panasonic AVC clips on NVIDIA hardware • Support for Canon C200 IDTs in ACES • Support for displaying REDCODE metadata for R3D clips • Support for XAVC-Intra OP1A HDR metadata • Improved Resolve Color Management support for Sony clips where input color space and gamma are set automatically using metadata • Improved support for audio waveform sync in multicam clips • Improved support for decoding MXF XDCAM clips • Improved reading of Quicktime file metadata • Updated smart render cache settings to no longer cache H.264 clips automatically Color • Support for new SuperScale option for high quality resolution upscaling • Support for multiple timeline playheads with DaVinci Resolve Advanced panel control • Support for a new LUT browser in the Color page • Support for live preview of LUTs and gallery stills • Support for browsing grades from other timelines in the gallery • Support for browsing grades from other projects in the expanded gallery view • Support for batch color version management • Support for simultaneous HDR and SDR monitoring on supported Blackmagic Design playback devices • Support for switching between previous and next version for multiple clips • Support for modifying the qualifier by dragging the controls in the user interface • Support for denoise in the qualifiers matte finesse controls • Support for alpha matte shrink and grow in the qualifiers matte finesse controls • Support for ganging the timeline wipe with the current clip • Support for option to disable thumbnails in the node graph • Support for improved Color page node graph user interface • Support for improved user interactions for selecting nodes and modifying node connections • Support for enabling and disabling multiple selected nodes in the Color page • Support for a node context menu option to lock the node • Support for shared nodes for powerful group management • Support for Camera RAW controls for Canon RAW clips • Support for Camera RAW controls for Panasonic RAW clips • Support for setting Tint globally for all clips in the Camera RAW project settings • Support for the Media Pool in Color page • Support for GPU accelerated Dolby VisionTM HDR to SDR metadata generation in DaVinci Resolve Studio – BETA • Support for license activated GPU accelerated Dolby VisionTM internal CMU in DaVinci Resolve Studio – BETA • Support for Alt/Option + middle click to copy Dolby VisionTM trim metadata for the current target display • Support for Alt/Option + Shift + middle click to copy Dolby VisionTM trim metadata for all target displays • Support for an option to bypass all the trims in Dolby VisionTM • Support for native HDR10+ controls in DaVinci Resolve Studio • Support for a clip thumbnail indicator to show clips analyzed for Dolby VisionTM and HDR10+ on the Color page • Support for enabling or disabling tone mapping for Dolby VisionTM and HDR10+ projects • New ResolveFX Plugins ◦ ResolveFX Aperture Diffraction in DaVinci Resolve Studio ◦ ResolveFX Automatic Dirt Removal in DaVinci Resolve Studio ◦ ResolveFX Deflicker in DaVinci Resolve Studio ◦ ResolveFX Dust Buster in DaVinci Resolve Studio ◦ ResolveFX Film Damage ◦ ResolveFX Flicker Addition ◦ ResolveFX Lens Reflections in DaVinci Resolve Studio ◦ ResolveFX Patch Replacer in DaVinci Resolve Studio • Support for DaVinci CTLs user parameters accessible via ResolveFX DCTL in DaVinci Resolve Studio • Support for using DaVinci CTLs as input and output LUTs in project settings • Support for controlling DCTL execution based on DaVinci Resolve version • Support for the 3D Lookup table interpolation option for DCTLs • Support for a clipping option when converting from a larger gamut and/or gamma in ResolveFX Color Space Transform • Support for ResolveFX Match Move is now available on the non Studio version of DaVinci Resolve • Support for random frame access when using temporal OpenFX plugins is now available on the non Studio version of DaVinci Resolve • Support for on-screen controls and overlays for various ResolveFX plugins • Support for stereoscopic convergence on Power Windows • Support for improved mouse interactivity when selecting or modifying control points on a power window • Support for showing marker overlays in the Color page viewer • Support for a dynamic keyframe indicator for nodes in the node graph • Support for tooltip for Edit page FX icons to display the list of plugins applied • Support for compound node path bar in the display node graph window • Support for applying LUTs on compound nodes • Support for copying nodes and pasting specific values by selecting parameters and using Paste Value • Support for previewing LUTs by holding Alt/Option pressed while mousing over the LUT context menu • Support for previewing composite modes in the layer mixer context menu • Support for listing and navigating to timeline markers from the Color page viewer option menu • Support for processing a node in a different Resolve Color Managed colorspace or gamma • Support for selected LUTs in split-screen mode • Support for previewing the selected album in split-screen mode • Support for drawing a selection box to select multiple points in ResolveFX Warper • Support for improved and smoother masks in ResolveFX Face Refinement • Support for a new enhanced mode for improved noise reduction • Support for changing the sensitivity of the jog wheel and shuttle control in the DaVinci Resolve Advanced panel • Support for smart filter options for shared nodes • Support for smart filter options for clips with Fusion effects • Support for showing clip color indicator in timeline thumbnails • Support for assigning colors to nodes • Support for clip level output blanking overrides • Support for tool usage badges • Support for listing the entire gallery still path in the Still Properties window • Support for RED SDK based Gamut Mapping for Red IPP2 based workflows • Support for option to process node LUTs in ACEScc AP1 timeline color space or ACES AP0 color space • Improved cropping quality and behavior when using the advanced video stabilization • Improved ResolveFX Lens Blur with support for custom aperture shapes • Improved onscreen controls for ResolveFX Match Move and ResolveFX Dead Pixel Fixer • Improved viewer mouse interaction and behavior when working on a node with multiple power windows • Improved DCTLs with ability to include code from headers and use LUTs in DaVinci Resolve Studio ◦ Check Developer Documentation in the Help menu for more details • Improved generators, transitions and titles with support for Resolve Color Management and ACES Deliver • Support for embedding a subtitle track when encoding QuickTime files • Support for embedding CEA-608 closed captions when encoding QuickTime files • Support for embedding CEA-608 closed captions when encoding MXF OP1A files • Support for embedding CEA-708 closed captions when encoding MXF OP1A clips • Support for native IMF encoding in DaVinci Resolve Studio • Support for native Kakadu based JPEG2000 decoding and encoding • Support for native Kakadu based lossless JPEG 2000 encoding in DaVinci Resolve Studio • Support for encoding unencrypted DCP packages using the Kakadu codec • Support for improved codec and format listing in the Deliver page • Support for modifying the filename field in the Deliver page • Support for writing color range, color space and other image metadata when encoding to Quicktime DNxHR • Support for encoding EXR clips with alpha channels • Support for encoding an alpha channel when rendering TIFF sequences • Support for alpha channel when encoding to Cineform RGB • Support for encoding GrassValley HQ and HQX codecs in the AVI format • Support for replacing existing frame based files in-place during renders • Support for using the clip name as a data burn-in and Deliver page tag • Support for option to retain sub-black and super-white data for renders • Support for rendering with Dolby VisionTM/HDR10+ tone mapping applied • Improved support for encoding HDR and mastering metadata for MXF and IMF formats in DaVinci Resolve Studio General • Support for Portuguese in the DaVinci Resolve user interface • Support for French in the DaVinci Resolve user interface • Support for single seat Fusion Studio dongles • Support for external scripting of DaVinci Resolve Studio from local and network locations ◦ Check Developer Documentation in the Help menu for more details • Support for a console dialog with scripting support available in the Workspace menu • Support for Fairlight Audio Accelerator drivers in the DaVinci Resolve installer on Windows • Support for a new system preference to control Audio I/O Processing block size • Support for launching DaVinci Resolve and loading the project when opening a DRP file in the file browser • Support for a new application level system memory limit in Preferences • Support for a system preference to enable or disable hardware acceleration of H.264/HEVC and other supported codecs • Support for system preference to enable or disable Direct IO for media storage locations on Windows • Support for Metal when using RED GPU debayer on Mac • Support for system preference to enable or disable RED GPU Debayer • Support for a floating timecode window • Support for ability to bypass Fusion effects and/or Color changes on the viewers in the Edit, Fairlight and Color pages • Support for changing clip color from the application menu on the Media, Edit and Color pages • Support for saving the audio volume, dim and mute across application restarts • Support for a title bar for a floating Media Pool bin • Support for keyframing OpenFX dropdown and checkbox based parameters • Support for listing backups for a specific project from the project manager context menu • Support for backing up and versioning projects when using Live Save • Support for switching the top bar and page switcher bar to an icons only mode • Support for importing audio clip levels from AAF imports • Support for importing audio-only AAF timelines • Support for synced audio file name and sync offset in ALE exports • Support for sending problem reports to Blackmagic Design • GPU processing now defaults to Metal for modern Mac hardware running macOS 10.13 or newer • Improved application menu layouts • Improved and clearer contextual menu layouts • General performance and stability improvements |
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