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What's new in DaVinci Resolve 18.6.6

• Ability to encode Panasonic AVC 100 and 50 in MXF Op Atom formats.
• Option to encode big endian LPCM audio in QuickTime.
• Addressed default alpha mode interpretation for some QuickTime media.
• Addressed incorrect path separators in some project settings on Windows.
• Addressed some Sony XAVC H clips being shown as offline.
• Addressed a media management issue trimming Sony 8K X-OCN clips.
• General performance and stability improvements.

Minimum system requirements for Mac OS

• macOS 12 Monterey
• 8 GB of system memory. 16 GB when using Fusion
• Blackmagic Design Desktop Video version 12.0 or later
• Integrated GPU or discrete GPU with at least 2 GB of VRAM.
• GPU which supports Metal or OpenCL 1.2.

Minimum system requirements for Windows

• Windows 10 Creators Update.
• 16 GB of system memory. 32 GB when using Fusion
• Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 10.4.1 or later
• Integrated GPU or discrete GPU with at least 2 GB of VRAM
• GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 11
• NVIDIA/AMD/Intel GPU Driver version – As required by your GPU

Minimum system requirements for Linux

• Rocky Linux 8.6 or CentOS 7.3
• 32 GB of system memory
• Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 10.4.1 or later
• Discrete GPU with at least 2 GB of VRAM
• GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 11
• NVIDIA/AMD Driver version – As required by your GPU

What's new in DaVinci Resolve 18.6.3

• Support for syncing media from network folders for cloud projects.
• Option to prevent sleep when uploading files or generating proxy for cloud.
• Configuration dialog when importing projects to a cloud project library.
• Cloud projects with no media sync now use proxy settings in preferences.
• Deliver settings option to use proxy media for web presets.
• Support for per output audio normalization during renders.
• ACEScg support in RCM with combined gamut and gamma mode.
• Support for decoding 4:2:2 HEIF and HIF clips.
• Ability to close the current project from the file menu.
• Ability to customize aspect ratio for Dolby Vision exports.
• Improved sort order for Dolby Vision combo boxes.
• Improved handling of inactive clients in collaboration projects.
• Addressed an issue with copying projects across cloud libraries.
• Addressed an issue changing source folder for clips with proxies.
• Addressed a windowing issue on Macs with Sonoma 14.1.
• Addressed an issue displaying flags on thumbnails of video only media.
• Addressed restoring active local version when restoring removed media.
• Addressed image quality issues with scene cut detected interlaced clips.
• Addressed an issue with opening the take selector on retimed clips.
• Addressed an issue changing speed for unlinked audio in the inspector.
• Addressed an issue with deleting transitions with an in out range in edit.
• Addressed a performance issue when ripple editing large timelines.
• Addressed an issue with color picker in Resolve FX 3D keyer in edit.
• Addressed gaps when ripple deleting interlaced clips with frame alignment.
• Addressed multiple tracking and drawing issues for magic mask in Fusion.
• Improved speed of transforming objects with MaterialX materials in Fusion.
• Copying grade with mattes now prioritizes layer name over index.
• Addressed incorrect saturation with HDR custom curve soft clipping.
• Addressed power window flicker in dual SDI stereoscopic 3D previews.
• Addressed gamut limiting issues on ACES ODTs with a P3 D65 gamut.
• Addressed an issue with power bin timeline matte usage on node graph.
• Pasted HDR Vivid trim presets now honor the selected mode.
• Addressed an issue creating new HDR zones in the color page.
• Addressed an audio sync issue when bouncing audio with voice isolation.
• Addressed an issue with the arrange modifier in the Fairlight timeline.
• Improved keyword manager layout.
• General performance and stability improvements.

Minimum system requirements for Mac OS

• macOS 12 Monterey
• 8 GB of system memory. 16 GB when using Fusion
• Blackmagic Design Desktop Video version 12.0 or later
• Integrated GPU or discrete GPU with at least 2 GB of VRAM.
• GPU which supports Metal or OpenCL 1.2.

Minimum system requirements for Windows

• Windows 10 Creators Update.
• 16 GB of system memory. 32 GB when using Fusion
• Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 10.4.1 or later
• Integrated GPU or discrete GPU with at least 2 GB of VRAM
• GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 11
• NVIDIA/AMD/Intel GPU Driver version – As required by your GPU

Minimum system requirements for Linux

• Rocky Linux 8.6 or CentOS 7.3
• 32 GB of system memory
• Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 10.4.1 or later
• Discrete GPU with at least 2 GB of VRAM
• GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 11
• NVIDIA/AMD Driver version – As required by your GPU

What's new in DaVinci Resolve 18.6.2

• Duplicating timelines now retains the correct settings.
• General performance and stability improvements.

What's new in DaVinci Resolve 18.6.1

• Systems now default to prefer proxy for single and multi user projects.
• Addressed a cloud sync issue with projects updated from 18.5.
• Addressed delays when performing ripple edits on long timelines.
• Addressed issue where editing or moving clips would stop playback.
• Addressed issue showing retimed clips with handles on the color page.
• Addressed issue navigating clips with show handles enabled.
• Addressed issue with grabbing stills after deleting a gallery album.
• Addressed issue importing suffixed multi mono files from media storage.
• Addressed waveform jump issue when performing multiframe nudges.
• Addressed issue navigating powergrades album in certain sort modes.
• Improved in or out point behavior in the transcription window.
• Dolby Vision 300 nit target display is now available.
• Addressed issue with multiple timelines showing as current timeline.
• Addressed a crash when using certain fonts on Text3D.
• Addressed issue with grid depth occlusion in the USD viewer.
• Addressed issue with disappearing key markers in the splines view.
• Addressed issue with moving locked point selections in the splines view.
• Addressed issue with polyline point scale and twist in the Edit viewer.
• General performance and stability improvements.

What's new in DaVinci Resolve 18.6

• New Blackmagic Camera cloud workflow syncs captures to cloud projects.
• Support for Blackmagic Cloud Storage with synced project media and files.
• Automatic proxy generation and upload to Blackmagic Cloud Storage.
• Support for outer text stroke in titles and subtitles.
• Ability to assign and apply favorite keywords to clips and markers.
• Support for Fusion USD scenes with materials and volumes.
• Import multiple mono audio files with suffixes as a multichannel clip.
• Support for target audio loudness standards on renders.

Cut and Edit

• Selected sync bin clips can now be edited in the inspector.
• Ability to trim gaps in edit with the Speed Editor and Editor Keyboard.
• Interlace project and timeline option to edit at frame or field boundaries.
• Support for font case on subtitles.
• Support for outer text stroke in titles and subtitles.
• Ability to copy and paste markers in the source viewer and timeline.
• Change speed for multiple selected clips from dialog and inspector.
• Adding an effect to a clip switches the inspector to the effects tab.
• Support for a source resolution option when performing render in place.
• The playhead position is restored when undoing edit actions.
• Option to show timecode toolbar on edit viewers.
• Source viewer displays marker clip extents.
• Configurable actions to switch recently viewed clips or timelines in viewers.
• Keyboard customization support for multiple track context actions.
• Ability to reconform multiple selected timelines.
• Ability to assign and apply favorite keywords to clips and markers.
• Retime curve context menu now displays both curves.

Fusion

• Support for extruding and beveling 3D shapes.
• Support for polygon shape tool.
• Support for rendering USD scenes with materials and volumes.
• Support for replacing materials with imported MaterialX files.
• Support for modifying imported cameras and lights.
• Improved USD toolset including uVisibility and uVariant.
• Improved USD Loader with Trim, Loop and Reverse support.
• New scene tree dialog for object selection in USD.
• Context menu option in the node and keyframe views to reset tool trims.
• Support for DaVinci Intermediate conversion options in Fusion tools.

Color

• Dolby Vision CM 4.0 L1 analysis with user-selected filtering support.
• Stereoscopic 3D support for Dolby Vision workflows.
• Option to bypass input color management for RAW clips in RCM.
• Support for monitoring audio in Resolve Live mode.
• New option to export only .drx files when exporting stills.
• New default smart filter for clips in current group.
• Configurable actions to switch recently viewed timelines in viewer.
• Ability to create smart filters with custom PAR values.
• Output colorspace tag for ACES DCTL ODT.
• Improved controls for switching wipe modes from the advanced panels.
• Keyframes mode for all, color and sizing is now persisted across sessions.

Fairlight

• Import multiple mono audio files with suffixes as a multichannel clip.
• Support for target audio loudness standards on renders.
• Support for loudness standards for YouTube and Disney workflows.
• New Fairlight FX Loudness Meter with ability to monitor multiple busses.
• Intelligent abbreviation of long channel names.
• Support for panning presets for 3D audio height control.
• Support for parallel bus sends and outputs with up to three per bus tile.
• Support for Auto Safe and Auto Off over multiple tracks or busses.
• Manage audio FX for multiple tracks or busses via keyboard shortcuts.
• Keyboard customization support for multiple track context actions.
• Support for the UWA Audio Vivid 3D spatial audio format.
• Assign Fairlight FX default settings from effect dialog context menu.

General

• Up to 2x faster Neural Engine performance with Nvidia TensorRT.
• Up to 4x faster Neural Engine performance on modern AMD GPUs.
• Ability to access Blackmagic Cloud services using HTTPS proxy.
• Quick access to recent projects from the application menu.
• Looped playback now detects and loops ranges if present.
• Scripting API support to import and export render and data burn presets.
• Scripting API support to import stills and list powergrades.
• Scripting API support for per-timeline Resolve Color Management.
• General performance and stability improvements

Media & Codecs

• Support for Blackmagic RAW SDK 3.4.
• Support for RED SDK 8.4.0.
• Support for Apple Log video formats.
• Ability to decode Sony XAVC H and XAVC HS clips.
• Ability to remove unused media from a project.
• New media pool column and smart bin filter for transcription status.
• Right click to add media pool timelines to the render queue with presets.
• Ability to import and export power bins as .drb files.
• Ability to import and export render presets.
• Import multiple XMLs, AAFs, FCP XMLs or EDLs as a single action.
• Support for importing and exporting Final Cut Pro v1.11 XMLs.
• Ability to encode interlaced formats as uncompressed QuickTime clips.
• Accelerated H.265 interlaced encodes on modern Windows Intel systems.
• Option to render individual clips with full media extents.
• Support for decoding low latency AAC formats in Mac.
• Support for decoding GIF clips.
• Support for lens and vignette metadata for Nikon raw clips.

Minimum system requirements for Mac OS

• macOS 12 Monterey
• 8 GB of system memory. 16 GB when using Fusion
• Blackmagic Design Desktop Video version 12.0 or later
• Integrated GPU or discrete GPU with at least 2 GB of VRAM.
• GPU which supports Metal or OpenCL 1.2.

Minimum system requirements for Windows

• Windows 10 Creators Update.
• 16 GB of system memory. 32 GB when using Fusion
• Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 10.4.1 or later
• Integrated GPU or discrete GPU with at least 2 GB of VRAM
• GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 11
• NVIDIA/AMD/Intel GPU Driver version – As required by your GPU
• Minimum system requirements for Linux
• Rocky Linux 8.6 or CentOS 7.3
• 32 GB of system memory
• Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 10.4.1 or later
• Discrete GPU with at least 2 GB of VRAM
• GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 11
• NVIDIA/AMD Driver version – As required by your GPU

What's new in DaVinci Resolve 17.4.5

• Improved nested timeline decompose for audio, plugins and automation.
• Support for decoding 6K and 8K clips from the Sony Venice 2.
• Faster 12K Blackmagic RAW decode and playback on Apple silicon.
• Ability to set output colorspace in DaVinci YRGB projects.
• Addressed Dolby Vision tone mapping for DaVinci YRGB projects.
• Addressed layout and refresh issues after using the cinema viewer.
• Addressed an issue with missing Text+ fonts in Mac OS Monterey.
• Addressed issues when extruding 3D text from specific TrueType fonts.
• Addressed retime and mixed frame rate issues when importing AAFs.
• Addressed an issue rendering additional outputs with data burn-in.
• Addressed trims not applied from imported Dolby Vision 2.9 XML metadata.
• Addressed ProRes 422 artifacts for some rendered clips on Apple silicon.
• Addressed playback glitches for some long GOP formats in Apple silicon.
• General performance and stability improvements.

What's new in DaVinci Resolve 17.4.4

• Support for Blackmagic RAW SDK 2.3
• Support for browser based authentication for Dropbox and YouTube.
• Support for Deep Link Hyper Encode for multiple Intel GPU systems.
• Hardware accelerated VP9 decodes on Apple silicon.
• Support for encoding H.265 Main10 4:2:2 on Apple silicon.
• Support for generating Rec.2020 Dolby Vision IMFs.
• Ability to specify encoding primaries in Dolby Vision XML exports.
• Improved DaVinci Neural Engine performance on Macs with AMD GPUs.
• Improved performance for clips with Fusion effects.
• Addressed an issue rippling speed changes in the edit timeline.
• Addressed viewer preview when dragging a clip under the playhead.
• Addressed artifacts with keys feeding layer mixer nodes on Apple silicon.
• Addressed inconsistent edit previews for HDR in RCM projects.
• Addressed gamut compression issues for custom ACES DCTL IDTs.
• Addressed AAF export issues with crossfades and small edits.
• Addressed an issue with renaming disk database projects in Linux.
• Addressed an issue with printer light keyboard shortcuts in Linux.
• TIFF files are now read as sequences in Auto mode.
• General performance and stability improvements.

What's new in DaVinci Resolve 17.4.2

• Improved playback performance for Fusion titles and effects.
• Addressed an issue with parts of H.264 clips showing offline on Windows.
• Addressed an issue where changes to date created would not be saved.
• Addressed display issue with installed transitions in the edit page.
• Addressed rescanning on startup issue with crashed VST3 plugins.
• Addressed an issue scanning VST3 plugins on certain system languages.
• Addressed an issue with rescanning unlicensed audio plugins on startup.
• Addressed an issue with dynamic delay compensation with VST3 plugins.
• Addressed incorrect cached VST3 plugins names in the inspector.
• Addressed an issue with some plugin alliance VST3 plugins not working.
• Addressed issue with retaining positions of locked Fairlight plugin windows.
• Addressed an issue with EQ icon display on a track in the Fairlight page.
• Addressed an issue with B-Chain groups display in the Fairlight page.
• Addressed issue with updating the flag color selection in the Fairlight page.
• Addressed issues with multichannel audio output in Linux.
• Addressed an issue with project save after importing a Dolby Atmos master.
• Addressed an issue exporting to Pro Tools with handles.
• Addressed an issue with moving a power window after pasting attributes.
• Addressed an issue with the 3D keyer when compositing multiple layers.
• Addressed an issue with glow in the Resolve FX halation plugin.
• Addressed issues using power windows with Resolve FX face refinement.
• Addressed an issue with Canon cinema gamut in RCM.
• Addressed issues with positioning text for some Fusion titles.
• Addressed slow performance issues on some OpenCL Windows systems.
• Support for latest RED SDK.
• Addressed an issue with incorrect resolution display for Sony Raw clips.
• Addressed issues rendering some MXF files to Windows network storage.
• Addressed an issue with easyDCP composition name generator.
• Addressed issue with sync of media managed audio and video clips.
• Addressed a crash when rotating a power window with the advanced panel.
• Addressed startup crash on some systems using different locales.
• Addressed startup crash with old Intel graphics drivers on Windows.
• General performance and stability improvements.

What's new in DaVinci Resolve 17.4.1 ?

• Improved frame based imports from Finder.
• Addressed an issue with HDR on viewers on Mac.
• Addressed an issue with banding on video clean feed on Mac.
• Addressed incorrect fades when trimming in the edit timeline.
• Addressed an issue displaying certain unicode characters in Text+.
• Addressed an issue where Text+ expressions would not work.
• Addressed slow playback for Text+ with character styling.
• Addressed retention of smart filters between projects.
• Addressed nested macros not rendering or showing previews in Fusion.
• Addressed incorrect Fusion viewer behavior with tablet input devices.
• Addressed trim interpolation for imported XML Dolby Vision metadata.
• Addressed incorrect PAR values on some Blackmagic RAW clips.
• Addressed issue with lost customized subtitle backgrounds.
• Addressed an issue with unintended markers on Sony MXF clips.
• Addressed a decoding issue with Panasonic XAVC clips on Mac.
• General performance and stability improvements.

What's new in DaVinci Resolve 17.3.2 ?

• Support for Blackmagic RAW SDK 2.2.
• Addressed instability issues when using the color warper.
• Addressed incorrect HDR highlight when using DaVinci Wide Gamut.
• Addressed a naming issue for recorded clips in the Fairlight timeline.
• Addressed incorrect reloading of cached audio effects on linked tracks.
• Addressed missing EQ and other automation issues in Fairlight.
• Addressed incorrect Fairlight Spaceview display for specific AMD drivers.
• Addressed potential freezes after using Fusion tracker modifiers.
• Addressed a Fusion planar transform issue on small images.
• Addressed an issue with uploads for renders on Apple Silicon systems.
• Addressed an issue with the classic stabilizer on Apple Silicon systems.
• Addressed an issue with LUT generation on Apple Silicon systems.
• Addressed out of order frames when decoding certain XAVC clips.
• Addressed an issue with importing malformed CLF LUTs.
• General performance and stability improvements.

DaVinci Resolve 17.2 and DaVinci Resolve Studio 17.2

This software update is now available for download.
It includes:

• Dramatically improved application startup performance
• Live save is now on by default
• Support for custom naming for individual timeline clips
• Support for adding transitions by double clicking or dragging to viewer
• Support for decoding AV1 clips on Windows
• Accelerated AV1 decodes on supported Intel, NVIDIA and AMD platforms
• Support for decoding MKV clips
• Support for exporting IMSC-1 compatible TTML captions in IMF clips
• Support for option to include project name subfolder in media management
• Support for pasting HDR and color warper attributes in the Color page
• Support for Fusion template bundles
• Support for applying and managing crossfades in the Fairlight timeline
• Support for a batch fade and crossfade editor in the Fairlight page
• Support for persisting Fairlight edit mode between application restarts
• Support for moving audio clips to match timeline timecode position
• Support for setting handles when performing audio only renders
• Support for controlling track processing order in the Fairlight mixer
• Support for accessing Fairlight patch and link in the edit and deliver page
• Ability to show or hide specific audio I/O ports for patching in Fairlight
• Support for Fairlight console firmware 1.6 with full FlexBus mixing support
• Improved waveform displays in the Fairlight timeline
• Improved auto scroll behavior when dragging clips in the Fairlight timeline
• Support for ACES color science 1.2
• Support for selecting per-clip ACES DCTLs from context menu
• Support for new IDTs for the Canon EOS-R5 cameras
• Option to use white point adaptation in project settings for RCM workflows
• Option to use white point adaptation in Resolve FX color space transform
• Support for codec passthrough when rendering IMF JPEG2000 clips
• Support for trimming Sony Raw and XAVC MXF in media management
• Support for reading gyroscopic metadata on Sony Venice clips
• Ability to update RMD metadata files for R3D clips
• Improved spatial and temporal deinterlace quality
• Improved curves range display for position and zoom on the edit timeline
• Improved color management for Blackmagic RAW Gen 5 color science
• Improved decode performance for 8K H.265 clips on Apple Silicon systems
• Improved scripting API with the ability to import custom frame sequences
• Improved scripting API with the ability to delete timelines
• Improved scripting API with the ability to query current page
• Improved scripting API with the ability to add generators and titles
• Improved scripting API with the ability to specify render alpha options
• Improved scripting API with the ability to switch layout presets
• Improved scripting API with the ability to quit the application
• Improved iXML data support with AAF export workflows
• General performance and stability improvements

DaVinci Resolve 17.1 Released

What's New in DaVinci Resolve 17

• Support for Apple Silicon based Mac OS systems
• H.265 4:2:2 hardware decode support on Apple Silicon
• H.265 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 Intel decode support in DaVinci Resolve Studio
• H.265 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 Intel encode support in DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Support for GPU decoding of RED clips in OpenCL processing mode
• Option to always perform copy and paste actions on selected color nodes
• General performance and stability improvements

What's new in DaVinci Resolve 17.0

Colour

• DaVinci Resolve Advanced Panel keycaps kit and new optimized menus.
• RCM2 with improved color tagging and smooth tone and gamut mapping.
• HDR perceptually accurate primary grading tools with tonal range control.
• Color warper to qualify and change hue vs saturation and luma vs chroma.
• Magic mask using the DaVinci neural engine generates tracking masks.
• Redesigned primary interface to show all controls concurrently.
• Grading tools are colorspace aware in color managed timelines.
• Support for user selectable colorspace and gamma for HDR grading tools.
• Support for timeline clips to bypass color management.
• Support for sat vs lum mode in the curve tool.
• Support for generating a 17-point cube 3D LUT.
• Support for LUTs designed for video range.
• Support for saving smart filters to be shown in all projects.
• Support for smart filters for marker keywords added to timeline clips.
• Support for diagonal, venetian blinds and checkerboard reference wipes.
• Support to set input colorspace, gamma and IDT on preconform timelines.
• Support for a pop-out floating window for the curves panel.
• Support for fast review from the playback menu on the color page.
• Support for a 3x3 grid view and multiple GPU scopes of the same type.
• Support for a floating video scopes window in dual screen layouts.
• Improved scaling and style options for waveforms and vectorscopes.
• Support for loading IDTs and ODTs as a DCTL file or ACES RRT.
• Support for defining LUTs inside a DCTL file.
• Support for multiple simultaneous client connections in remote grading.
• Support for advanced and mini panels networking for remote grading.
• Support for a split screen playhead viewing mode.
• Support for improved split screen layouts.
• Support for converting in-out ranges to duration markers.
• Improved behavior when drawing bezier power windows using a mouse.
• Option to use a Rec.2020 matrix for 4:2:2 video monitoring.
• Resolve FX
• Resolve FX Smear frame blending for motion blur and other effects.
• Resolve FX Motion Trails temporal motion blur, object trails, disco effects.
• Resolve FX Transform clip moving, stretching and rotation with motion blur.
• Resolve FX False Color overlays replicating camera HUDs and other looks.
• Resolve FX Texture Pop for fine image detail and contrast control.
• Resolve FX Detail Recovery for detail and grain recovery.
• Resolve FX Noise Reduction native noise reduction tools as Resolve FX.
• Resolve FX Video Collage to quickly position a stack of clips into a grid.
• Resolve FX Luma, HSL and 3D native keying tools as Resolve FX.
• Improved Resolve FX Film Grain with new optimized mode.
• Improved Resolve FX Dead Pixel Fixer with freehand fill, softness etc.
• Improved Resolve FX Dust Buster with shape drawing, clone fixes etc.
• Improved Resolve FX Object Removal for scene mode, adaptive blending.
• Improved Resolve FX Blur defaults for directional, radial and zoom blurs.
• Improved Resolve FX Tilt Shift with alpha channel support for depth masks.

Audio

• Support for the Fairlight Mini Console.
• Fairlight Audio Core to natively CPU process up to 2000 audio tracks.
• FlexBus routing system to permit bus to bus routing and mixing.
• ADM import, playback and export of Dolby Atmos IMF IAB masters.
• Fairlight FX Surround Analyzer meters.
• Full implementation of the 9.1.6 and 22.2 surround sound bus formats.
• Native support for 44.1 KHz sample rate audio clips and instruments.
• Analyzing and navigating to audio transients in a track.
• Offline clip-based audio loudness analyzer.
• Selection of absolute or relative scales and loudness meter dialog gating.
• Pro Tools keyboard customization preset.
• Full range of video controls in the new unified and tabbed inspector.
• Updated editing, range and selection behavior in edit selection mode.
• Support for importing AES31 audio timelines.
• Support for pre-viewing video when sliding clips, markers and ranges.
• Support for reversing audio clips.
• Support for flattening audio track layers.
• Support to have automation following clip edit changes.
• Support for saving, recalling, creating timelines via configuration presets.
• Support for editing linked clips.
• Support for marquee selection of multiple mixer tracks.
• Support for changing the track type of multiple selected tracks.
• Support to directly edit in the mixer track and VCA group names.
• Support for deleting multiple empty tracks from the track header.
• Support for deleting marked extents on selected tracks.
• Support for per-timeline views, selections, range and playhead location.
• Support for changing clip gain using shortcuts.
• Improved clip gain with change tooltips and fine control using shift.
• Support for bouncing linked groups to a multi channel file.
• Support for track record, mute, solo, arm control in the application menu.
• Support for viewer to be off, floating, docked or full screen.
• Support for toggling interface between normal and cinema viewer mode.
• Support for monitoring volume dB level tooltip.
• Support for selecting multiple monitor sources from Fairlight audio editors.
• Support for pre & post roll control from the Fairlight audio editors.
• Support for selection of Fairlight Audio Interface phantom power, gain etc.
• Improved waveform display when zooming into a clip waveform.
• Improved metering displays for timelines with lots of audio tracks.
• Improved keyboard mappings for edit selection mode.
• Improved MPEG-H workflow and export support.

Cut

• Support for the DaVinci Resolve Speed Editor.
• Full featured unified inspector with tabs and keyframe control.
• File tab in the inspector with camera raw settings and clip metadata.
• Media pool clip properties can now be viewed and edited in the inspector.
• Media pool slate and sort view with grouping based on clip metadata.
• Audio trim on the viewer and timeline.
• Live scrubbing previews for effects library transitions, titles and effects.
• Support for a new relink icon and dialog in the cut page.
• Support quickly switching source tape bins from the media pool.
• Support for showing the media pool in a flattened view.
• Playhead indicators for distance to adjacent edits when using sync bins.
• Support for a change duration dialog with presets in the cut page.
• Support for entering the clip duration in the viewer duration field.
• Support for navigating edit points and markers in the cut page.
• Support for a thumbnail view in the effects library.
• Support for a full screen preview icon on the viewer.
• Support for selecting safe area guides and aspect ratios on the cut page.
• Support for a cinema viewer with sync bin multi-views.
• Support for switching timelines in the viewer.
• Support for importing frame sequences as individual still images.
• Improved markers entry using the DaVinci Resolve Editor keyboard.

Edit

• Full featured unified inspector with tabs and keyframe control.
• File tab in the inspector with camera raw settings and clip metadata.
• Media pool clip properties can now be viewed and edited in the inspector.
• Significantly improved DaVinci neural engine deinterlacing quality option.
• Significantly improved processing of interlaced timelines and deliveries.
• Real time removal of 3:2 pull down.
• Scene cut detection directly on the timeline using DaVinci neural engine.
• Automatically framing shots based on content using DaVinci neural engine.
• Quick and clean chroma keying with Resolve FX Luma, HSL and 3D Keyer.
• Resolve FX Video Collage for multiple source picture in picture grid.
• Burn away transition with options to control burning, melting and shriveling.
• Sync of multiple audio clips to a single video clip.
• Aligning edits on the timeline using waveform or timecode matching.
• Importing BorisFX Continuum plugins, transitions etc. from AAFs.
• Live scrubbing previews for effects library transitions, titles and effects.
• Media pool slate and sort view with grouping based on clip metadata.
• Deleting gaps based on clip selection, ranges or the whole timeline.
• Support for rendering sections of the timeline in place with effects baked in.
• Support for motion blur controls for motion based video transitions.
• Support for dragging effects directly into the inspector.
• Support for conversion of basic transitions into Fusion transitions.
• Support for timeline compositing using Resolve FX & OpenFX alpha.
• Support to retain image position in the crop section of the inspector.
• Support to navigate the timeline with arrow keys without affecting selection.
• Support to change clip selection using arrow keys and command modifier.
• Support for a thumbnail view in the effects library.
• Support for sorting timelines alphabetically, creation date or recent use.
• Support for disabling timelines within the media pool.
• Improved timecode entry with multiple modes and dedicated action.
• Support for copy paste of timecode or frame in viewers based on mode.
• Support for compositing using track mattes or external alpha.
• Support for Fusion effect templates in the edit page.
• Support for viewer overlays for Fusion templates and titles.
• Support to save and show smart bins in all projects.
• Support for creating multiple multicam clips by splitting at gaps.
• Support for compound clip or timeline conversion into multicam clips.
• Support to optionally zoom timeline at the cursor or the playhead.
• Support for a fast play review from the playback menu.
• Support for hovering on title font names to preview on viewer.
• Support for monitoring HDR and SDR outputs for Dolby Vision projects.
• Support for monitoring stereoscopic 3D timelines.
• Support for creating DCTL based transitions.
• Support for importing EDL, XML etc. without media to empty media pool.
• Support for floating video scopes in media view in a dual monitor mode.
• Support for closing take selector or retime using escape.
• Support for creating a new timeline using an IMF composition playlist.
• Improved behavior when switching between clip and edit point selections.
• Improved waveform syncing when creating multicams or aligning clips.
• Improved track compositing when the media doesn't cover the full canvas.
• Support for independent track height and view mode options.

Fusion

• Audio playback along with waveform display in the keyframes panel.
• Viewing and editing clip and timeline markers in the keyframes panel.
• Resolve FX Dead Pixel Fixer, DCTL and Patch Replacer.
• Anim curves modifier for convenient easing and shaping of animations.
• Support for user customization of the Fusion toolbar above the node editor.
• Support for auto creating a composition when adding tools or media.
• Support for additional dual screen layouts.
• Support for full featured unified inspector with tabs and keyframe control.
• Initial support for a GPU accelerated 2D shapes toolkit for motion graphics.
• Improved optical flow behavior.
• Workflow Integrations
• Open toolkit to create DaVinci Resolve Studio workflow integration plugins.

Codecs

• Directly uploading to Twitter from within DaVinci Resolve.
• Per frame metadata from Blackmagic RAW clips.
• Per frame metadata from ARRI, RED, Canon and Sony cameras.
• Decoding and rendering per-frame EXR metadata.
• Updated metadata support for Sony MXF clips.
• Open plugin SDK toolkit for encoder developers.
• Growing file support in the media pool.
• Decoding QuickTime PNG clips.
• Decoding uncompressed RGB 8-bit and YUV 10-bit AVI clips.
• Decoding spanned Panasonic 8K SHV clips.
• Decoding and encoding GoPro CineForm clips with non multiple of 16 res.
• Decoding and encoding mp3 audio in Linux.
• Decoding and encoding high-throughput JPEG 2000 (HTJ2K).
• Bypass re-encodes for supported JPEG 2000 profiles on renders.
• Encoding IMF MCA audio metadata.
• Encoding IMF and DCP as reels based on duration or edits.
• Exporting non-HDR DCP metadata option.
• Exporting HDR tags in DCP workflows.
• Support for reading RAW clips and audio clips from Frame.io.
• Support for additional NVIDIA encoder parameters for H.264 and H.265.
• Support for rendering 10-bit HDR IMF clips.
• Support for a 16 bit SDR IMF preset.
• Support for Photon 4.8.0 for IMF validation.

General

• Proxy media workflow supporting internal and externally generated media.
• Optimized media is now automatically available across projects.
• Generation of optimized media can now be limited to edit extents.
• In and out ranges are now synchronized between pages.
• Significantly improved performance with large collaboration projects.
• Stability improvements with new GPU detection and initialization.
• Better interactivity and playback performance on multi-GPU systems.
• Consistent pan, zoom and scroll behavior with mouse and trackpads.
• Support for importing and exporting individual timelines using .drt files.
• Support for importing and exporting individual bins using .drb files.
• Support for exporting .drt files for media managed timelines.
• Support for auto linking .drt files to source camera clips.
• Support for auto linking .drt files generated using media management.
• Improved error handling for media management jobs.
• Support for a warning about media offline when creating render jobs.
• Support for smart bins and smart filters to check if media is offline.
• Support to scan all connected databases for remote rendering jobs.
• Support for new resize filter options in project settings and edit inspector.
• Support for render caching adjustment clips.
• Support to adjust numeric field entries using arrow keys based on cursor.
• Support to ignore unsupported OpenFX plugin packages in preferences.
• Support for independently configuring capture and playback devices.
• Support for displaying source frame number in data burn-in.
• Support for adjusting text opacity for data burn-in.
• Support for configuring multiple custom LUT paths.
• Support for Thai & Vietnamese UI localizations.
• Support for a render codec tag for render path and file name.
• Support for ITU-R BT.2111-1 HDR test bar patterns.
• Support for showing fast forward & rewind speed.
• Support for NVLink high speed interconnect with supported NVIDIA GPUs.
• Support for xGMI high speed interconnect with supported AMD GPUs.
• Support for an integrated title bar in the application window on Mac OS.
• Support for previous and next navigation across Frame.io markers.
• Support for triggering a script at the start or end of a render.
• Multiple scripting API improvements.
• Multiple performance and stability improvements.

Minimum system requirements for macOS

• macOS 10.14.6 Mojave
• 16 GB of system memory. 32 GB when using Fusion
• Blackmagic Design Desktop Video version 10.4.1 or later
• Integrated GPU or discrete GPU with at least 2GB of VRAM.
• GPU which supports Metal or OpenCL 1.2.

Minimum system requirements for Windows

• Windows 10 Creators Update.
• 16 GB of system memory. 32 GB when using Fusion
• Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 10.4.1 or later
• Integrated GPU or discrete GPU with at least 2GB of VRAM
• GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 11
• NVIDIA/AMD/Intel GPU Driver version – As required by your GPU
• A minimum NVIDIA driver version of 451.82 is recommended.

Minimum system requirements for Linux

• CentOS 7.3
• 32 GB of system memory
• Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 10.4.1 or later
• Discrete GPU with at least 2GB of VRAM
• GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 11
• NVIDIA/AMD Driver version – As required by your GPU
• A minimum NVIDIA driver version of 450.51.06 is recommended.

What's new in DaVinci Resolve 16.2.5

• Support for importing ATEM Mini Pro ISO projects in DaVinci Resolve.
• Improved listing of numbered still frames in the media pool.
• Addressed flashing offline frame issues for some H.264 clips on Windows.
• Addressed an issue with relinking AAF clips in different folders.
• Addressed issues with syncing playhead in the sync bin and timeline.
• Multiple performance and stability improvements.

What's new in DaVinci Resolve 16.2.3

• Support for Dolby Vision 4.1 CM algorithm to generate v2.9 trims from v4.
• Option to export a Dolby Vision v2.9 XML from a v4 project.
• Support for RED SDK 7.3.2.
• Faster Metal decoding for Canon EOS-1D X Mark III and EOS R5 clips.
• Addressed incorrect playback for some ARRIRAW clips.
• Addressed an issue with ACES IDTs for some ARRI MXF clips.
• Addressed a focus and text entry issue for editable media pool fields.
• Addressed an issue rippling audio extend edits in trim mode.
• Addressed display issues with track and edit index in Fairlight page.
• Addressed a layered editing issue when cloning audio clips.
• Addressed incorrect behavior moving tracks over linked audio tracks.
• Addressed incorrect masking in Text+ when using image shading.
• Addressed incorrect behavior deleting gradient points in inspector.
• Addressed multiple issues with blank Fusion previews.
• Addressed an issue persisting viewer LUTs with comps in Fusion page.
• Addressed an issue with offline reference wipe sizing in the viewer.
• Multiple performance and stability improvements.

What's new in DaVinci Resolve 16.2.1

• Support for decoding H.265 4:4:4 12-bit on supported NVIDIA GPUs.
• Support for encoding H.265 4:4:4 10-bit on supported NVIDIA GPUs.
• Support for encoding 32 bit float audio in QuickTime clips.
• Support for trimming QuickTime audio clips during media management.
• Support for Metal based R3D decode with the RED 7.3 RC SDK.
• Support for double clicking drp files in Windows and Linux.
• Support for performing open with on FCP7 XML files on Windows.
• Improved decode support of H.265 4:4:4 clips up to 10-bit.
• Improved performance with ProRes clips on high end CPUs.
• Improved performance with DNxHR clips on high end CPUs.
• Improved playback performance with compressed OpenEXR clips.
• Improved performance for Dolby Vision analysis.
• Improved stability on Windows systems with Intel graphics.
• Addressed an issue with clean feed previews in Mac 10.15.4.
• Addressed an issue with decoding phone camera clips with AAC audio.
• Addressed an issue with truncated node labels on some displays.
• Addressed issues with HDR tone mapping when using adjustment layers.
• Addressed an issue with the sync bin work working with an empty timeline.
• Addressed an issue with transitions when dragging clips across timelines.
• Multiple performance and stability improvements.

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