DaVinci Resolve is the world’s first solution that combines professional offline and online editing, color correction, audio post production and now visual effects all in one software tool. You get unlimited creative flexibility because DaVinci Resolve makes it easy for individual artists to explore different toolsets. It also lets you collaborate and bring people with different creative talents together. With a single click, you can instantly move between editing, color, effects, and audio. Plus, you never have to export or translate files between separate software tools because, with DaVinci Resolve, everything is in the same software application.
DaVinci Resolve is the only post production software designed for true collaboration. Multiple editors, assistants, colorists, VFX artists and sound designers can all work on the same project at the same time! Whether you’re an individual artist, or part of a larger collaborative team, it’s easy to see why DaVinci Resolve is the standard for high end post production and is used for finishing more Hollywood feature films, episodic television programing and TV commercials than any other software.
New applications with the DaVinci Resolve and DaVinci Resolve Studio installers
The DaVinci Resolve installer now includes a new standalone application, Blackmagic Proxy Generator Lite. The DaVinci Resolve Studio installer includes the new Blackmagic Proxy Generator and the new DaVinci Resolve Monitoring app. In addition to these, a new version of the DaVinci Resolve Project Server can be downloaded for Mac OS and Windows from the Blackmagic Design Support page.
What"s new in DaVinci Resolve 18.5:
Key Features
- Multiple cut page improvements.
- Support for Blackmagic Cloud Presentations.
- DaVinci Neural Engine based subtitles from audio in Studio.
- DaVinci Neural Engine powered text based editing in Studio.
- Support for Universal Scene Description based workflows in Fusion.
- New Fusion multi merge tool for compositing multiple layers.
- Multiple remote monitoring improvements.
- Support for fast per-timeline backups.
- Per-timeline Resolve Color Management.
- Support for edit and mix groups in Fairlight.
- Support for AI-based audio classification in Studio.
Cut
- Multiple timeline display improvements.
- Support for subtitles in the cut timeline.
- Enlarge a track by clicking on icon in the track header.
- Options to display clip names and indicators.
- Improved smart indicator and edit point display.
- Out of sync indicators for edited sync clips.
- Multiple timeline action improvements.
- Automatically detect and create captions from timeline audio.
- Perform DaVinci Neural Engine scene cuts in the cut timeline.
- Add audio, video and subtitle tracks.
- Split and join adjacent clips.
- Ripple option to toggle ripple edits on main track.
- Add markers and set default marker color.
- New edit actions.
- Ability to create split edits by rolling or trimming audio.
- Alt or Option trim to bypass ripple and add a gap on the main track.
- Trim and extend edit clip start or end to playhead.
- Resync misaligned synced clips.
- Reorganized toolbar for quick access to view options and edit actions.
- Right click on smooth cut to access favorite transitions on the toolbar.
- Cut page track numbering unified with other pages.
- Export current frame as still from media, cut and edit viewers.
- New motion graphic effects templates and transitions in cut and edit.
Media
- Support for AI-based audio classification in Studio.
- Support for fast per-timeline backups.
- Support for additional automatic smart bins.
- Import and export timelines using the OpenTimelineIO format.
- New 2x Enhanced Super Scale algorithm.
- Ability to set Super Scale settings for media from the inspector.
- Metadata panel support for marker subclips.
- Ability to clear in-out ranges for multiple clips.
- Ability to change the starting timecode for multiple timeline selections.
- Ability to reorder favorites in media storage.
- Ability to clear recent media history in the source viewer.
- Support for custom pixel aspect ratios in clip attributes.
- Improved proxy linking for clips without timecode. [full release notes]
Download page: DaVinci Resolve 18.5 | 2330 MB (Free, paid upgrade available)
Links: DaVinci Resolve Website | Screenshot | What"s new in DaVinci Resolve 18
