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What's new in this version:
DaVinci Resolve 16
Key new features
- Addition of all-new Cut page
- Support for the DaVinci Resolve Editor Keyboard
- Multiple performance improvements with significantly faster Fusion processing
- Collaboration workflow improvements - DaVinci Resolve Studio
- Speed Warp motion estimation powered by the DaVinci Neural Engine in DaVinci Resolve Studio
- Timeline level resolution, frame rate, scaling and monitoring settings within the same project
- Upload directly to YouTube and Vimeo
- Quick Export for quickly performing renders from various pages
- Adjustment Clips to apply filters, effects and grades on top of a range of timeline clips
- Frame.io integration supporting media imports, direct uploads, marker and comment syncing - DaVinci Resolve Studio
- Significantly improved GPU accelerated real-time scopes
- Initial immersive 3D audio support including Dolby Atmos, Auro-3D and SMPTE ST 2098 - DaVinci Resolve Studio
DaVinci Resolve 15.2.4
- Change log not available for this version
DaVinci Resolve 15.2.2
- Added an option to start remote rendering from the project manager context menu
- Addressed an issue where switching to the Fusion page in dual screen mode would sometimes cause artefacts in the user interface
- Addressed an issue with Intel GPUs on Windows where the viewer would show black frames on playback and cause crashes
- Addressed an issue where some MacOS laptops with Intel GPUs would cause a crash on start up
- Addressed an issue where clicking through media pool thumbnails for certain codecs would sometimes show an offline frame
- Addressed an issue where creating multicam clips from clips with time of day timecode would sometimes cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where position controls in the Inspector would sometimes show incorrect limits
- Addressed an issue where render cache for clips with alpha or cropping would show incorrect results
- Addressed an issue where applying an output sizing preset would sometimes show incorrect power window positions on the viewer
- Addressed an issue where some OpenFX and ResolveFX plugins would not work correctly for clips with custom output scaling
- Addressed an issue where selecting a marker from the marker list in the Color page viewer would sometimes cause a crash on Windows
- Addressed an issue where playing back a timeline with a large number of markers in the Color page would impact playback performance
- Addressed an issue where the context menu for Color page thumbnails would not show the selected clip group
- Addressed an issue where splitting an audio clip with cached audio effects would result in incorrect audio during playback
- Addressed an issue where deleting a bus would not delete plugins associated with that bus
- Improved behavior for FairlightFX Distortion
- Addressed an issue where clips with FairlightFX Echo applied would not playback correctly after an application restart
- Addressed an issue where playback for clips with FairlightFX Reverb would sometimes produce artifacts when replaying the clip
- Addressed an issue where writing multiple automation parameters simultaneously would sometimes cause gaps in the automation in the Fairlight timeline
- Addressed an issue where transitions would sometimes be drawn incorrectly in the Fairlight timeline
- Addressed an issue where loading audio clips with unsupported sample rates would cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where video tracks could not be hidden on the Fairlight page
- Addressed an issue where moving audio tracks up or down in the Fairlight timeline would not preserve its hidden state
- Addressed an issue where video track names edited from the Fairlight page would not be persisted correctly across application restarts
- Addressed an issue where custom shortcuts would not be correctly reflected in the Fairlight timeline context menu
- Addressed an issue where loading a project with video and audio scrollers enabled would sometimes cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where loading specific Fusion compositions would cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where rotoscoping using the BSpline tool in the Fusion page would sometimes cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where editing offsets of Media In nodes in a Fusion clip would sometimes cause previews in the Fusion page to flicker between cached and uncached images
- Addressed an issue where importing some FLAC audio clips would cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where importing some PNG files would cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where some Panasonic VariCam clips with multiple audio channels would be decoded with audio artefacts
- Addressed an issue where certain QuickTime clips would sometimes show a repeated frame
- General performance and stability improvements
DaVinci Resolve 15.2.1
- Addressed an issue where rendering to the MXF OP1A format would cause a crash or generate a corrupt file
- Addressed an issue where opening projects using the context menu would sometimes cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where the dynamic project switching option would reflect an incorrect state across application restarts
- Addressed an issue where switching databases when working on a collaboration project would sometimes cause an application hang
- Addressed an issue with creating a new multicam or compound clip in a project with drop frame enabled
- Addressed an issue where adding a folder containing subtitle files to the media pool would cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where deleting a clip with retime controls enabled would cause a crash in the Edit page
- Addressed an issue where the duplicate clip action would not work when Fusion compositions were selected
- Addressed an issue where audio in rendered QuickTime clips would be incorrectly tagged as dual mono instead of stereo on Windows and Linux
- Addressed an issue with color space and gamma tagging when rendering to XAVC
- Addressed an issue where the highlights in certain Canon raw clips would have a purple tint
- Addressed an issue where switching monitor scaling mode would have no effect on Media and Edit pages
- Addressed an issue with keyboard shortcuts to switch the viewer between source and timeline when in single viewer mode
- Addressed an issue where performing a match frame on the timeline viewer would not switch focus to the source viewer
- Addressed an issue where keyboard shortcuts for Go to In or Out actions would not work when the Edit timeline was in focus
- Addressed an issue where keyboard shortcuts for Import Media would not work when starting a new project
- Addressed an issue where assigning shortcuts to switch to A or C mode sort would not work
- Addressed an issue where deleting a remote version would sometimes switch other clips using the same remote version to local
- Addressed an issue where using enhanced optical flow modes would sometimes cause artifacts during playback
- Addressed an issue where playing back some DPX 10-bit images would show artifacts in the Color page
- Addressed an issue where performing select all after clicking on a clip thumbnail in the Color page would not select all the clips
- Addressed an issue where creating a new Fusion composition in the media pool would cause a crash when Resolve is set to certain languages
- Addressed an issue where transform tools would show an offset when previewing clip proxies in the Fusion page
- Addressed an issue where setting the soft edge of the mask tool to fast gaussian would produce incorrect results
- Addressed an issue where changing the viewer gain or gamma values would not work when drawing a polygon shape in the Fusion page
- Addressed an issue with audio artifacts when previewing sections of audio clips with FairlightFX or audio plugins applied
- Addressed an issue with audio discontinuity when the bypass state is toggled for FairlightFX with latency
- Addressed an issue where inserting an audio clip past another clip with crossfades would sometimes add a crossfade to the new clip
- Addressed an issue where opening the Aux dialog and deleting Aux buses would cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where track formats for nested timeline buses would sometimes not be loaded correctly on the Fairlight page
- Addressed an issue where the fade to playhead actions would not work correctly in the Fairlight page on macOS and Linux
- Addressed an issue where dragging the playhead to the start of the Fairlight timeline would not work correctly when audio scrubbing was enabled
- Addressed an issue where markers would not be shown in the Fairlight index in thumbnail mode
- Addressed an issue where the mark clip action would not work correctly in the Fairlight page
- Addressed an issue where rendering long multi-channel WAV files would sometimes produce incomplete clips
- Addressed an issue where installing the Fairlight Studio Utility would restart the system without prompting the user
- Addressed an issue when handling certain controls in Tangent Elements panels
- Addressed an issue where performing reconform from bins would sometimes cause a crash
General performance and stability improvements:
Minimum system requirements for Windows:
- Windows 10 Creators Update
- 16 GB of system memory is recommended and 32 GB is recommended minimum when using Fusion
- Blackmagic Design Desktop Video version 10.4.1 or later
- NVIDIA/AMD/Intel GPU Driver version – As required by your GPU
- RED Rocket-X Driver 2.1.34.0 and Firmware 1.4.22.18 or later
- RED Rocket Driver 2.1.23.0 and Firmware 1.1.18.0 or later
- Blackmagic Design Desktop Video version 10.4.1 or later
- NVIDIA/AMD Driver version – As required by your GPU
- RED Rocket-X Driver 2.1.34.0 and Firmware 1.4.22.18 or later
- RED Rocket Driver 2.1.23.0 and Firmware 1.1.18.0 or later
DaVinci Resolve 15.2
Key new features:
- Improved Edit timeline performance and responsiveness
- Support for improved visual animations when editing the timeline on the Edit page
- Support for a visual keyboard customization utility to find, add and modify shortcuts
- Support for per-module customizable shortcuts, including module specific actions and context menus
- Support for showing the currently focused module in the user interface
- Support for displaying duplicate frame ranges for clips on the timeline on the Edit page
- Support for cleaning up and flattening video tracks on the Edit timeline
- Support for adding, editing and exporting custom keyword sets from the keyword dictionary in the Workspace menu
- Support for option to export gallery stills using the still label name
- Support for ResolveFX Beauty in DaVinci Resolve Studio
- Support for ResolveFX Blanking Fill for portrait videos
- Support for VCA groups
- Support for FairlightFX Multiband Compressor
- Support for FairlightFX Stereo Fixer
- Support for decoding Panasonic 8K SHV clips in DaVinci Resolve Studio
Edit:
- Improved Edit timeline performance and responsiveness
- Support for improved visual animations when editing the timeline on the Edit page
- Support for displaying duplicate frame ranges for clips on the timeline on the Edit page
- Support for viewing inspector properties for the highest visible clip under the playhead in the Edit timeline when there is no active selection
- Support for viewer overlay controls for the highest visible clip under the playhead in the Edit timeline when there is no active selection
- Support for marking a clip within a compound clip or a timeline in the source viewer
- Support for cleaning up and flattening video tracks on the Edit timeline
- Support for resizing audio transitions to sub-frame boundaries
- Support for setting ease-in and ease-out on keyframes from the keyframe context menu in the Edit and Fairlight page inspectors
- Support for setting ease-in and ease-out on keyframes from the keyframe context menu in the Edit timeline
- Support for temporarily toggling snapping while scrubbing the playhead by invoking the snapping shortcut in the Edit timeline
- Support for defining characters per second thresholds to highlight non-conforming subtitle captions in the inspector
- Support for automatically enabling dynamic zoom when on-screen controls are modified on the Edit page
- Support for timeline indicators for clips with updated grades or compositions in collaborative projects
- Support for toggling the visibility of retime controls and retime curves by invoking the context menu or the shortcut in the Edit timeline
- Support for fast timecode entry in clip attributes, marker dialog, new timeline, render settings and other timecode widgets
- Support for quickly accessing recent undo/redo actions from the Edit menu
- Improved results when performing transitions on clips being composited with other layers
- Improved behavior when using the Push video transition on a title clip
Fusion:
- Improved scripting API support with ability to import and export Fusion compositions
- Support for GPU acceleration for the Trails tool in the Fusion page
Color:
- Support for ResolveFX Beauty in DaVinci Resolve Studio
- Support for ResolveFX Blanking Fill for portrait videos
- Support for ResolveFX ACES Transform
- Support for ResolveFX Gamut Limiter
- Support for bypassing a mixer node input by disabling the node connected to that input
- Support for option to export gallery stills using the still label name
- Support for Camera RAW controls for Canon and Panasonic clips from the DaVinci Resolve Advanced and Mini panels
- Support for clipping output gamut to a different display gamut
- Support for an ST.2084 3000 nits gamma option in Resolve Color Management
- Support for improved color matching using color charts
- Support for OpenFX extension for a plugin to describe itself as not spatially aware
- Check Developer Documentation in the Help menu for more details
- Support for including non-spatially aware OpenFX plugins when generating LUTs on the Color page
- Support for including the ResolveFX Color Transform plugin when generating LUTs on the Color page
- Support for importing Dolby Vision metadata for clips in the Color page Dolby Vision option menu
- Support for previewing tone mapping using embedded, imported or custom metadata for Dolby Vision IMF clips
- Support for for up to 64 controls when creating DCTLs
- Updated OpenFX developer documentation with OpenFX 1.4 samples
- Updated OpenFX developer documentation with temporal frame access samples
- Updated OpenFX developer documentation with transition sample
- Improved support for handling aspect ratios for various ResolveFX plugins
- Improved support for handling UI overlays for projects with output scaling applied
- Improved behavior when closing Power Curve Windows drawn on the Color page
Fairlight:
- Support for VCA groups
- Support for FairlightFX Multiband Compressor
- Support for FairlightFX Stereo Fixer
- Support for customizable test tones and noise generation from the Fairlight menu
- Support for selecting and modifying audio transitions
- Support for navigating the Fairlight timeline using timecode entry
- Support for setting audio monitoring output delay in system preferences
- Support for indicating clips with changed inspector properties on the Fairlight timeline
- Support for applying a FairlightFX plugin to multiple selected audio clips
- Support for additional Fairlight Audio Accelerator IO settings on Windows
- Support for Fairlight Audio Interface RS-422 9-Pin serial control on Windows
- Support for Talkback using the Fairlight Audio Accelerator on Windows
- Support for Fairlight MADI expander for the Fairlight Audio Accelerator on Windows
- Support for additional Fairlight edit operations including cut or copy the head or tail of the current clip from the Edit menu
- Improved playback performance when performing audio automation
- Improved handling of custom multi-channel format mappings for Audio FX
Media and Deliver:
- Support for decoding Panasonic 8K SHV clips in DaVinci Resolve Studio
- Support for hardware accelerated encoding of H.264 and H.265 using specific NVIDIA GPUs on DaVinci Resolve Studio; Windows and Linux only
- Support for hardware accelerated encoding of H.264 and H.265 using Intel Quick Sync on supported hardware on DaVinci Resolve Studio; Windows only
- Support for decoding Canon RMF clips using the Canon SDK
- Support for encoding Dolby Vision version 4 metadata in IMF renders
- Support for creating a subclip from a Media Pool clip marker
- Support for clip usage indicators in the Media Pool clip thumbnail for the active timeline
- Support for a clip usage listing in the Media Pool clip context menu for the active timeline
- Support for showing usage indicators for clips inside a compound clip on the active timeline
- Support for adding flags to clips when focused on the source viewer
- Support for duplicating media pool clips and current timelines from the Edit menu
- Support for a toggle control for switching between single and dual pane mode in Media Pool on the Edit page
- Support for storing the alpha channel in optimized media for clips with an embedded alpha channel
- Support for an option to render alpha channel either as straight or premultiplied when rendering individual clips
- Support for Sony XAVC Long GOP encoding on DaVinci Resolve Studio
- Support for Episode and Chapter in content metadata options for IMF exports
Cintel:
- Improved sub-pixel stabilization
- Support for storing Cintel settings with each DaVinci Resolve project
- Support for single frame captures
- Addressed an issue with debayering artefacts that would sometimes affect pixel highlights
- Addressed an issue with incorrect audio sync offsets when using Capture Now
General:
- Support for a visual keyboard shortcut mapping utility to find, add and modify shortcuts
- Support for per-module customizable shortcuts, including module specific actions and context menus
- Support for showing the currently focused module in the user interface
- Support for adding, editing and exporting custom keyword sets from the keyword dictionary in the Workspace menu
- Support for live save and backups for unsaved projects
- Support for remembering the last used locations in the file browser for various import and export operations
- Support for collaborating on projects in a PostgreSQL database with machines across multiple subnets
- Support for toggling Mute and Dim in all pages from the Fairlight application menu
- Support for configuring the gallery path during project import by Alt/Option-clicking Import Project
- Improved organization of System Preferences with a new section for decode options
- Support for easyDCP on Linux
Issues Addressed:
- Addressed an issue where reading file and folder paths of more than 200 characters on Windows systems would not work correctly
- Addressed an issue where project thumbnails would sometimes not be correctly saved
- Addressed an issue where deleting gallery stills would be slow when Live Save was enabled
- Addressed an issue where dragging media into a new project to create a timeline would not prompt for setting the project frame rate
- Addressed an issue where importing older DaVinci Resolve projects would sometimes ignore static keyframes from OpenFX plugins
- Addressed an issue where opening an older DaVinci Resolve project with a lens flare plugin would cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where older projects would sometimes show incorrect node cache previews
- Addressed an issue where importing a Final Cut Pro XML would not preserve audio transitions
- Addressed an issue where copying a project in collaboration mode would sometimes not work correctly
- Addressed an issue where clips in locked bins could be replaced in a collaboration project
- Addressed an issue where in and out points could be modified for clips in locked bins in a collaboration project
- Addressed an issue where dragging a folder to the media pool would not add any subtitle elements inside the folders
- Addressed an issue where adding a flag to a media pool clip and undoing would not refresh correctly
- Addressed an issue when adding clip and marker keywords on Linux
- Addressed an issue where keyword suggestions would not work correctly in the marker dialog
- Addressed an issue where the subtitle characters per second count in inspector would not be calculated correctly
- Addressed an issue where track destination hotkeys would not allow setting the destination to the last track
- Addressed an issue where disabling freeze frame on an edited clip would restore the clip to a wrong media offset
- Addressed an issue where selecting clips forward or backward would not work correctly when audio layers are present
- Addressed an issue where keyframe controls would be shown for ResolveFX and OpenFX controls that did not support keyframes
- Addressed an issue where holding down the Alt/Option key during playback or trimming would affect performance
- Addressed an issue where adding markers to adjacent timeline frames would behave incorrectly on the Edit timeline
- Addressed an issue where adding or removing audio track layers would sometimes not correctly update the track heights
- Addressed an issue where enabling selection follows playhead and dragging a sound library clip to the timeline would cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where Text+ titles would not show all typeface options for some fonts
- Addressed an issue where duration markers created from in/out durations would not align correctly
- Addressed an issue where decomposing compound clips would not work correctly when the Edit timeline would have in and out marks
- Addressed an issue where transitions between Fusion clips with an alpha channel would not work correctly
- Addressed an issue where setting fade in or fade out handles for a clip with an alpha channel would not work correctly
- Addressed an issue where adding MediaIn nodes to a Fusion composition and deleting the underlying media pool clip would not invalidate the MediaIn node correctly
- Addressed an issue where previewing Fusion compositions with BSpline nodes would sometimes cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where some Fusion settings changes would not be reflected correctly on Fusion generators
- Addressed an issue where some Fusion UI settings changes would not be persisted correctly across application restarts
- Addressed an issue where playing back PSD files would sometimes cause the application to hang
- Addressed an issue where adding a mask to a Fusion composition with a background node would show incorrect background colors
- Addressed an issue where canceling a Saver node render would repeatedly display a confirmation dialog
- Addressed an issue with monitoring dual HDR/SDR outputs where both outputs would sometimes show the HDR image
- Addressed an issue where trying to grade a locked node would incorrectly reset node cache
- Addressed an issue where clip filter controls would sometimes be shown on the clip thumbnails area in the Color page in dual screen mode
- Addressed an issue where resetting primary controls in Log mode would not correctly refresh some controls
- Addressed an issue where switching between nodes in the Color page would not correctly refresh the node sizing controls
- Addressed an issue where applying ResolveFX Color Stabilizer would sometimes result in darkened image frames
- Addressed an issue where a warp point could not be created when applying ResolveFX Warper on a Fusion composition
- Addressed an issue where the Camera RAW ISO control for CinemaDNG clips would not reflect the correct value on the DaVinci Resolve Mini panel
- Addressed an issue where the Camera RAW temperature and tint controls could not be changed from the DaVinci Resolve Mini panel
- Addressed an issue where older GoPro CineForm clips would sometimes be decoded incorrectly
- Addressed an issue where ResolveFX and OpenFX plugins used on the timeline node graph would sometimes not be applied
- Addressed an issue where the Color page thumbnail indicator for clip color would sometimes be inconsistent with the clip color as shown in the Edit timeline
- Addressed an issue where grades could be reset on a locked node in the Color page
- Addressed an issue where default trims were incorrectly being applied instead of interpolated trims when using Dolby Vision external CMUs
- Addressed an issue where copying grades with preserved nodes would incorrectly reset ResolveFX or OpenFX on the preserved nodes
- Addressed an issue where copying grades with preserved nodes would invalidate the cache for those nodes
- Addressed an issue where stills captured in proxy mode with center crop would be captured with blanking
- Addressed an issue where moving a clip with and echo or reverb applied would sometimes result in glitches during playback through its original position
- Addressed an issue where opening a project with FairlightFX applied to clips would sometimes preview the effect only on the left channel
- Addressed an issue where the control room monitor gain would not correctly reflect the output
- Addressed an issue where it was possible to add effects or modify mixer properties for locked audio tracks
- Addressed an issue where an audio track listening for sidechain changes would behave incorrectly if subsequently included in a linked group
- Addressed an issue where the effects library would be filtered by transitions and appear blank on the Fairlight page
- Addressed an issue where recording to multi-channel tracks would produce an audio clip with an incorrect number of channels
- Addressed an issue where rendering a marked timeline section using the Pro Tools preset would sometimes result in files without audio
- Addressed an issue where hiding tracks from the Fairlight page track index would sometimes hide the incorrect track
- Addressed an issue with drawing automation curves when the mouse cursor would go outside the bounds of the clip
- Addressed an issue where clips with unicode character names would not display correctly on the Fairlight timeline
- Addressed an issue where changing the video track color in the Fairlight timeline would not change the color of generators and titles on the track
- Addressed an issue with selecting clips after switching pages in the sound library
- Addressed an issue where rendering compound clips in audio only mode as individual clips would not work correctly
- Addressed an issue where setting an in-out range in the Deliver page and switching pages would not correctly honor the range for subsequent render jobs
- Addressed an issue where linked audio track formats would be shown incorrectly in the render settings
- Addressed an issue where rendered MXF XAVC clips would not have color space and gamma tagged correctly
- Addressed an issue where embedded CEA-608 subtitles in H.264 clips would be rendered with incorrect durations
- Addressed an issue where rendering embedded CEA-608 subtitles would incorrectly show errors for some multiline captions
- Addressed an issue where switching IMF profile levels on the Deliver page would not always update the bitrate to match
- General performance and stability improvements
DaVinci Resolve 15.1.2
New:
- Addressed an issue where starting DaVinci Resolve would cause a crash on some CUDA enabled Windows laptops with integrated graphics
- Addressed an issue where the viewer would flash between video and data levels during playback on some systems running on CUDA
- Addressed an issue where the Delete Through Edit context menu option would incorrectly be shown for all edit points on the Edit page
- Addressed an issue where reconforming clips with remote grades would sometimes cause a crash in collaborative projects
- Addressed an issue where dragging an audio clip into audio track layers would sometimes cause a crash in the Edit page
- Addressed an issue where dragging an audio clip with no mapped channels into the timeline would cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where track mute controls would sometimes show an incorrect automation state on the Edit page
- Addressed an issue where copying clips in the Fairlight page would sometimes cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where incorrect audio formats would be shown for muted audio tracks in the Deliver page
- Addressed an issue where Fusion comps with the paint tool applied would sometimes result in the first frame being black
- Addressed an issue where RGBA images would not be processed premultiplied when using some OpenFX plugins
- Addressed an issue where applying stabilization on video clips with odd resolutions would cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where source render cache would not be preserved when applying grades from stills or other clips
- Addressed an issue where adding a ResolveFX node to a clip during playback in the Color page would display a critical exception
- Addressed an issue with the DCDM (P3D65 Limited) IDT in ACES 1.1 projects
- Addressed an issue where trimming some MP4 clips using media management would not succeed
- Addressed an issue when rendering to QuickTime ProRes 4444 where the output would sometimes have chroma overflow artefacts
- Addressed an issue where the ISO selection would sometimes incorrectly be hidden when using RAW clips
- Addressed an issue where playing back some smartphone clips captured in portrait mode would cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where rendering Sony clips with Japanese file names using source filename would not work correctly on Windows
- Addressed an issue where the Photon validation options for IMF packages would not be displayed when Java Development Kit version 11 was installed
- Addressed an issue with stability in remote grading sessions when the client machine had live save enabled
- Addressed an issue with running DaVinci Resolve on case-sensitive volumes on Mac
- General performance and stability improvements
- Pre-installation Notes
- Support for decoding and encoding of easyDCP formats is not currently available on Linux
DaVinci Resolve 15.1.1
- Support for joining through edits in the Edit timeline from the context menu
- Improved playback performance when Selection Follows Playhead is enabled in the Edit page
- Support for scripting API to set output file name for rendering
- Addressed an issue where decoding some AVI files with lossless JPG content would cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where pre-clip and post-clip group grades would sometimes not be saved
- Addressed an issue where output sizing would not be applied to the HDR output when in dual SDI mode in Dolby Vision or HDR10+ projects
- Addressed an issue where creating stereoscopic 3D clips from stereo CineForm files would not work correctly
- Addressed an issue where a stereoscopic 3D clip created from clips with partially overlapping timecodes would show offline media frames
- Addressed an issue where white balance settings for Blackmagic RAW clips would not be saved correctly
- Addressed an issue where OpenFX keyframes in the timeline node graph in older Resolve projects would not be recalled correctly in the Color page
- Addressed an issue where duplicating a timeline with a shared node and modifying the shared node would cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where applying stabilizer could cause a crash on some Nvidia graphics platforms in OpenCL GPU processing mode
- Addressed an issue where color keyframes in stereoscopic 3D clips would sometimes not be loaded correctly
- Addressed an issue where appending a node in ripple mode would place the node in an incorrect position
- Addressed an issue where using OpenFX or ResolveFX plugins in a remote grading session could cause the client viewer to flicker while grading
- Addressed an issue where applying P3 D65 ST2084 ODTs in ACES 1.1 projects would show incorrect results
- Addressed an issue where applying certain IDTs and ODTs in ACES 1.1 projects would show black frames when the GPU processing mode was set to CUDA
- Addressed an issue where upgrading disk databases from Resolve 12.5 would result in loss of Power Grades in some scenarios
- Addressed an issue where image resolutions for certain ARRI QuickTime clips would not be recognized correctly
- Addressed an issue where media imported from an XML would be imported twice if it was listed inside a bin in the XML
- Addressed an issue where subtitles with inconsistent line-endings would not be imported correctly
- Addressed an issue where exporting a subtitle file on some Windows systems would cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where selecting subtitles from the Edit inspector would cause a crash in some projects
- Addressed an issue where Alt/Opt+clicking on an Edit timeline track would sometimes reset its auto-select state
- Addressed an issue where ripple-overwriting a clip with transitions would behave incorrectly
- Addressed an issue where dragging to select clips in the Edit timeline would incorrectly scroll through audio tracks
- Addressed an issue where audio playback for linked clips with smoothened speed change would not work correctly
- Addressed an issue where toggling Solo Safe on the Fairlight Mixer would sometimes behave inconsistently
- Addressed an issue where the automation indicators on the Fairlight mixer would sometimes be displayed incorrectly when loading a project
- Addressed an issue where linked track groups would display incorrect clip counts on the Fairlight page
- Addressed an issue where rendering timelines from the deliver page would sometimes fail with a timeout error
- Addressed an issue where the first frame of some Fusion comps could sometimes display a black frame
- Addressed an issue where canceling a saver node render would repeatedly display confirmation messages to the user
- Improved chroma subsampling for 4:2:2 renders
- General performance and stability improvements
DaVinci Resolve 15.1
Key new features:
- Support for decoding Blackmagic RAW clips from Blackmagic Design cameras
- Support for audio ducking using sidechain compression in track dynamics in the Fairlight page
- Support for round tripping audio clips to third party audio processing applications from the Fairlight timeline
- Support for an IMF preset to generate Netflix IMF deliverables
- Support for creating and delivering supplemental IMF packages
- Support for Photon validation of IMF packages
Fairlight:
- Support for audio ducking using sidechain compression in track dynamics
- Support for round tripping audio clips to third party audio processing applications from the Fairlight timeline
- Support for caching clips with FairlightFX and AudioFX
- Support for bouncing clips with FairlightFX and AudioFX to a new layer
- Support for sub-bus and aux-bus routing in nested timelines
- Support for solo-safe for audio tracks by Cmd/Ctrl+Option/Alt clicking the Solo button in the Fairlight mixer
- Support for pasting attributes to audio tracks
- Support for removing attributes from audio tracks
- Support for Fairlight FX Soft Clipper
- Support for clip level panning in the Edit and Fairlight page inspector
Fusion:
- Support for creating and opening new Fusion compositions from the Media Pool
- Support for Fusion composition generators in the Edit page effects library for creating comps without source media
- Support for Loader nodes in the Fusion node graph
- Support for automatically scaling the frame range sliders to the edit range
Edit:
- Support for showing source timecode overlays for audio and video tracks in the timeline viewer
- Support for displaying clip marker annotations and overlays for the selected clip marker under the playhead
- Support for holding shift while modifying title, transform and dynamic zoom viewer overlays to restrict motion to the vertical or horizontal direction
- Support for an indicator for clips with color grading and Fusion comp updates available in collaborative projects
- Support for actions to update either a single clip or all clips with color grading or Fusion comp updates in collaborative projects
- Support for duplicating multiple selected timelines in the media pool
- Support for displaying the multicam angle name in the timeline, source viewer and the color page clip information
- Support for keywords in clip and timeline markers
- Support for a marker keywords column on the edit index
- Support for exporting subtitle files in project archives
- Support for inserting media pool clips in order of filename when creating a timeline using clips
- Support for importing subclips when importing media from Final Cut Pro 7 XMLs
- Improved freeze-frame behavior to freeze the clip forward from the playhead instead of the whole clip
Color:
- Support for ResolveFX and OpenFX static keyframes from the keyframe context menu
- Support for ACES 1.1
- Support for accessing and selecting from multiple inputs for OpenFX nodes
- Support for modifying temperature and tint values in the Camera Raw widget without needing to manually set white balance to custom
- Improved behavior for the ResolveFX Warper plugin
Media and Deliver:
- Support for decoding Blackmagic RAW clips from Blackmagic Design cameras
- Support for an IMF preset to generate Netflix IMF deliverables
- Support for creating and delivering supplemental IMF packages
- Support for Photon validation of IMF packages
- Support for stereoscopic 3D multi-view EXR files
- Support for encoding per frame timecode metadata in Grass Valley HQ and HQX clips
- Improved layer metadata support when importing PSD images in Fusion
General:
- Improved playback performance on large timelines in a zoomed out state
- Improved performance and interactivity in the Fusion page
- Improved performance of some title templates available in the Effects Library
- Improved thumbnail loading speed when switching bins in the media pool
- Improved scripting support with the ability to import and export Fusion comps
- Support for automatic generation of MD5 media hash lists from Clone Tool operations
- Addressed an issue where searching by marker name or marker notes would not work in thumbnail view
- Addressed an issue where switching multicam angles would not refresh the thumbnails
- Addressed an issue where some edit operations would lead to video transitions being placed outside frame boundaries
- Addressed an issue where turning off stroke for a subtitle would not work correctly
- Addressed an issue where the minimum height for audio tracks in the Edit timeline would not be set correctly
- Addressed an issue where subtitle files with overlapping captions would not be imported correctly
- Addressed an issue where compositing compound clips on top of clips with transitions would not work correctly
- Addressed an issue where middle-clicking to pan the Edit timeline would sometimes deselect clips
- Addressed an issue where Text+ clip thumbnails would sometimes be shown as media offline
- Addressed an issue where adding a Text+ tool to a power bin would sometimes cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where selecting a Fusion comp in a Power Bin would cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where opening or saving a Fusion macro in the macro editor would sometimes cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where channel mapping changes for EXR clips on the Fusion page would not be persisted across application restarts
- Addressed an issue where removing curve in the MediaIn tool in sRGB gamma space would sometimes cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where importing SVG files would incorrectly ignore a user-specified input resolution
- Addressed an issue where the channel chooser would show incorrect labels when multi-channel EXR files were loaded in the Fusion viewer
- Addressed an issue where adding particles would cause the application to hang
- Addressed an issue where enabling motion blur for mask tools in Fusion page would not work correctly
- Addressed an issue where repositioning matte masks of different resolutions in the Fusion viewer would sometimes show incorrect results
- Addressed an issue where some FairlightFX controls with automation would not correctly reflect their automation status
- Addressed an issue where pasting a long clip on the Fairlight timeline would sometimes change the timeline zoom
- Addressed an issue where the Bus format dialog would display the wrong Main bus formats when switching between timelines
- Addressed an issue where adding audio plugins to a linked audio track would behave incorrectly
- Addressed an issue where selecting linked audio tracks for rendering would show the incorrect format
- Addressed an issue where recording audio to linked tracks would record only to the first track in the group
- Addressed an issue where unlinking a linked track group would not retain boom settings
- Addressed an issue where resizing some audio transitions would not work properly
- Addressed an issue where ADR recordings would not be visible when opening older projects
- Addressed an issue where playing back audio files with specific sample rates would result in some artefacts
- Addressed an issue where dragging the scrollbar in the Fairlight timeline in locked playhead mode would cause playback to stop
- Addressed an issue where the mute setting for aux bus sends would not be honored when using the pre-fader option
- Addressed an issue where an audio track would not be automatically disarmed when un-patched
- Addressed an issue where switching to the Fairlight page would sometimes cause an audible pop
- Addressed an issue where adjusting sliders in the CameraRAW palette would not refresh the viewer smoothly
- Addressed an issue where previewing composite modes on a layer mixer node would sometimes cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where viewing clips with handles with backups and live save enabled would cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where the unmix mode and looped playback states would not be persisted across application restarts
- Addressed an issue where toggling Clip, Timeline and Unmix from the DaVinci Resolve Advanced panel would cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where the DaVinci Resolve Advanced panel would not work with multiple logins on CentOS 7.3 systems
- Addressed an issue where rippling grades to a group would not work if unmix mode was enabled
- Addressed an issue where performing a flip in Clip Attributes in stereoscopic 3D clips would cause power windows to behave incorrectly
- Addressed an issue where remote grading on clips that have OFX plugins applied would sometimes cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where duplicating a timeline with a shared node would not correctly copy the shared node
- Addressed an issue where Quicktime files rendered with Dolby Vision tone mapping would have incorrect colorspace and gamma tags
- Addressed an issue where Resolve was unable to decode some AAC audio clips
- Addressed an issue where rendered 5.1 and 7.1 Linear PCM audio would not have the correct channel mapping metadata
- Addressed an issue where importing some projects from older versions of DaVinci Resolve would cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where projects inside a folder in Project Manager could not be loaded using scripting API
- General performance and stability improvements
DaVinci Resolve 15.0.1
- Change log not available for this version
DaVinci Resolve 15.0
- Change log not available for this version
DaVinci Resolve 14.3.1
- Change log not available for this version
DaVinci Resolve 14.3.0
Important Information regarding Database Management:
- DaVinci Resolve 14.3 requires a database upgrade from DaVinci Resolve 14.2.1 and previous versions. We strongly recommend that you backup your existing database (both DiskDB and PostgreSQL) before performing an upgrade
New:
- Added support for the Blackmagic Design URSA Broadcast camera
- Added support for RAW footage from the Sony Venice/CineAltaV camera
- Improved the quality of thumbnails in the Media Pool and Edit page timeline on retina monitors
- Added support for reading Panasonic Varicam metadata when importing footage
- Added support for exporting Sony color space and gamma metadata when encoding to MXF
- Added support for RED SDK v7.0.6
- Addressed an issue where the audio section in the Deliver page would default to timeline track instead of the Main bus
- Addressed an issue where editing a transition could sometimes cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where syncing video to audio with a different sample rate results in incorrect audio sync and pitch audio
- Addressed an issue where changes to the Mixer UI layout would not get saved in a dual screen setup
- Addressed an issue where pressing arrow keys to move volume keyframes would not work after opening the keyframe curve editor
- Addressed an issue with the option to pick which node to select when switching clips
- Addressed an issue where a project would fail to save after deleting a group
- Addressed an issue where a project would fail to save after specific undo/redo operations
- Addressed an issue with UI artifacts in the DaVinci Resolve Studio activation window
- Addressed an issue where projects with LUTs would not get exported correctly on Windows
- Addressed an issue where the current project could not be copied between databases
- Addressed an issue where relinking to TIFF files with a higher bit depth would result in a crash
- General performance and stability improvement
DaVinci Resolve 14.2.1
- Change log not available for this version
DaVinci Resolve 14.2.0
- Added support for the DeckLink 8K Pro monitoring modes
- Added support for importing audio-only AAF timelines
- Added support for rendering audio handles in ProTools round trip mode
- Added support for audio playback when performing dynamic trimming
- Added support for import and export of Final Cut Pro 10.4 XML
- Added support for automatically naming Gallery Stills using user-defined tags
- Added support for 16 and 18 fps timeline frame rates
- Added support for 95.905 fps timeline frame rate
- Added support for more fine-grained preferences for Performance Mode
- Improved support for keyframes in the Fairlight page
- Added support for listing multiple DeckLink SDI devices with unique names
- Added visual indicators for distinguishing between timeline clips without media in the Media Pool and without media on disk
- Added the ability to change the playhead position without stopping playback on the Fairlight page
- Added support for Enable 2D Timeline Scroll on the Fairlight page
- Added support for context menus for markers in the Fairlight page
- Added support for automatic creation of a timeline when dragging in an audio clip in the Fairlight page
- Addressed issues with acquiring and releasing the lock for a bin in a collaboration project
- Addressed an issue where network connectivity issues could cause unexpected results in a collaboration project
- Addressed an issue where a blank node graph would sometimes be displayed when switching between clips in collaboration mode
- Addressed an issue where two users could sometimes load a non-collaboration project in write mode without a warning
- Addressed an issue where 'Update Timecode from Audio using LTC' would not work on clips starting with blank audio
- Addressed an issue where retiming an audio clip would sometimes result in audio glitches
- Addressed an issue where unlinking linked audio groups with the Pan dialog open would cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where starting or stopping playback would sometimes cause a momentary glitch in the audio on the Fairlight page
- Addressed multiple issues with fader behavior for direct track outputs in the Fairlight track mixer
- Addressed an issue where the Fairlight timeline would sometimes show an incorrect number of audio tracks
- Addressed an issue where the Fairlight control room widget would sometimes become invisible when resetting a dual-screen UI layout
- Addressed an issue where JKL playback would not honor the looped playback state on the Fairlight page
- Addressed an issue where moving an audio clip would not refresh the keyframe navigation buttons on the Fairlight inspector
- Addressed an issue where some Fairlight dial widgets would not reset their values correctly on double-click
- Addressed an issue where audio EQ band adjustments might be incorrectly saved
- Addressed an issue where stopping playback would continue audio output for a few frames on the Edit page
- Addressed an issue where LTC timecode output over SDI would not work when playing back on the Edit page
- Addressed an issue where the Mute status would not be reflected correctly in the Edit page on a track with automation
- Addressed an issue with titles where using certain fonts would result in cropped glyphs
- Addressed an issue where bypassing color grades would bypass OpenFX applied on the Edit page
- Addressed an issue where deleting a clip with an OpenFX transition would sometimes crash
- Addressed a crash when switching multicam angles if the viewer was in source mode
- Addressed an issue where reconforming multicam clips from a bin would not retain the original angle information
- Addressed an issue where performing a blade operation on asymmetric linked edits would result in incorrect linking
- Addressed an issue where previewing compound clips and timelines in the source viewer would activate the timeline audio meters
- Addressed an issue where previewing video-only clips in the source viewer would sometimes be slow on the Edit page
- Addressed an issue where importing older projects using a Sony IDT in an ACES workflow would sometimes cause a crash
- Addressed an issue with audio playback when applying clip filters on the Color page
- Addressed an issue where Color Tracing Power Windows from proxy files would result in incorrect window positions
- Addressed an issue where copying grades between clips would unnecessarily invalidate the clip source cache
- Addressed an issue where bypassing color grades on speed changed clips would disable the optical flow or frame blending
- Addressed an issue with incorrect results when stabilizing multiple edits from the same source
- Addressed an issue where switching databases would sometimes incorrectly hide the second screen in a dual screen monitor layout
- Addressed an issue where GoPro CineForm clips would decode with a watermark applied on Linux
- Addressed an issue with decoding some Sony XAVC-I clips
- Addressed an issue with incorrect cropping for certain QuickTime ARRI clips
- Addressed an issue with color shifts when decoding certain Panasonic AVC-Intra clips
- Addressed an issue where the stereo audio format of some MXF clips was not recognized correctly
- Addressed an issue with reading drop-frame timecodes for DPX clips
- Addressed an issue when decoding some QuickTime clips with large timecode values
- Addressed an issue with color shifts when rendering stereoscopic 3D clips in side-by-side mode using H.264
- General performance and stability improvements
DaVinci Resolve 14.1.1
- Addressed an issue with detecting Blackmagic Desktop Video hardware with older driver versions
- Addressed an issue when setting monitoring to PsF formats when using Desktop Video drivers newer than v10.9.3
- Addressed an issue with the detection of license dongles on MacBook Pro with Touch Bar on High Sierra
- Addressed a crash when changing audio plugins and reloading the project without saving
- Addressed a crash when opening a project with title presets in the Media Pool
- Addressed a crash during playback when Enable Video Field Processing was turned on
- Addressed a crash when connecting to an incompatible database and switching projects
- Addressed a crash when toggling Show Current Clip With Handles and loading a memory if Live Save was on
- Addressed a crash when deleting favourite transition presets
- Addressed a crash when canceling a project save and navigating to another Resolve database
- Addressed an issue where disabling a compound node would not immediately refresh the viewer
- Addressed an issue where splitting certain linked audio-video clips would not link the split components correctly
- Addressed an issue where ResolveFX Face Refinement would stop working when a clip was moved into a compound clip
- Addressed an issue where video scopes on the Edit page would sometimes show an incorrect display
- Addressed an issue where quitting Resolve would sometimes cause an incorrect shutdown on Linux
- Addressed an issue where horizontal scrolling in the timeline comparison dialog would sometimes not work as expected
- Addressed an issue in Project Server where clicking Enable Sharing may not work on some machines
- Addressed an issue where switching between large databases would take a long time to respond
- Addressed an issue where Resolve would show Media Offline frames when using RED Rocket-X to decode certain RED clips
- Addressed an issue where decoding some RED clips with CUDA in Resolve Color Management would show a black frame
- Addressed an issue where Resolve would sometimes show the Welcome dialog on successive runs
- Addressed an issue where copying audio clip keyframes would not apply it properly on the target clip
- Addressed an issue where rendering to DNxHD 36 would cause a slight shift in the red and blue channels
- Addressed a potential crash when opening floating Media Pool windows and switching pages
- Addressed an issue where the 3D qualifier would not be correctly applied for Group Pre-Clip versions
- Addressed an issue where changing master bus configuration with audio FX present would result in loss of audio output for the bus
- Addressed an issue where the display of track colors would go out of sync when deleting a track and undoing it
- Addressed an issue where dragging a clip from the Media Pool to the Fairlight timeline would sometimes show an additional track
- General performance and stability improvements
DaVinci Resolve 14.1
- Added support for a new Project Server application to manage a local PostgreSQL server on macOS and Windows
- Added support for presets for User Preferences
- Added ability to simultaneously generate cache files for multiple cache points on a clip
- Added ability to enable/disable caching of transitions in User Mode in Project Settings
- Added ability to enable/disable caching of composites in User Mode in Project Settings
- Added ability to retain the cache when moving clips with speed changes applied
- Added support for excluding individual tracks from sequence cache in User mode
- Added support for applying individual color attributes when dragging nodes from the Display Node Graph window
- Added support for a zoom slider in the Display Node Graph window
- Added support for accessing both the clip and the timeline node graph for a Still in the Display Node Graph window
- Addressed an issue where right clicking on a wiped still and selecting apply grade would not work
- Added an option in the panel settings to switch between classic DaVinci and vectorscope trackball alignment
- Added support for displaying video scopes on the Edit page
- Improved title text rendering quality
- Improved playback and rendering performance on the Radeon Pro WX 9100 GPU
- Added support for RED IPP2 color processing
- Added support for decompression and debayer options for Red Rocket cards
- Added initial Linked Group support for audio tracks
- Added the ability to drag and drop .drp project files into the Project Manager
- Added support for a project setting to switch track metering between source and post-fader
- Added the ability to update the track color of multiple selected tracks on the Fairlight page
- Surround sound audio channels are now included in the downmix to stereo buses and monitors
- Added support for a Project Setting to automatically apply convergence to windows and effects in 3D stereoscopic projects
- Added support for groups in the Color page on collaborative projects
- Added support for generating and rediscovering optimized media in collaborative projects
- Added support for viewing audio codec information in the Metadata widget
- Added support for GoPro CineForm as a caching and optimized media format
- Added support for higher resolution DNxHR formats for MXF-based Fusion Connect workflows
- ResolveFX Warper is now GPU accelerated
- Bus section in the Fairlight page meters is now scrollable
- Added support for decoding enhanced AC-3 audio on macOS and Windows
- Improved performance of viewer in Fairlight page
- Improved behavior and interactivity of timeline and track index in the Fairlight page
- Added support for 2-D scrolling on the Fairlight page
- Added support for source audio clips at any sample rate
- Added support for Dolby Vision trim on compounds clips and Fusion Connect clips
- Added ability to perform audio only insert to a tape deck
- Added ability to capture video and audio or video only from a tape deck
- Addressed an issue where the audio and video would sometimes be out of sync when capturing from a tape deck
- Addressed an issue where an incorrect frame would sometimes be inserted when performing an assemble edit on a tape deck
- Addressed an issue where recording microphone input on some tracks would not persist the recorded clip
- Addressed an issue where the length of a duration marker could not be modified on the Fairlight page
- Addressed an issue where deleting a bus that is being monitored would result in incorrect control room behavior
- Addressed an issue where Audio FX in a project would not be persisted if the the Audio FX was not installed
- Addressed an issue where moving or pasting clips in the Fairlight page would sometimes remove the associated transitions
- Addressed an issue where assigning an offline reference clip to a timeline would result in loss of audio
- Addressed an issue where switching timelines would sometimes result in loss of audio
- Addressed an issue where dynamics would not apply evenly across stereo and 5.1 tracks
- Addressed an issue where unintended audio fades would sometimes be applied
- Addressed an issue where there wa
Key new features
- Addition of all-new Cut page
- Support for the DaVinci Resolve Editor Keyboard
- Multiple performance improvements with significantly faster Fusion processing
- Collaboration workflow improvements - DaVinci Resolve Studio
- Speed Warp motion estimation powered by the DaVinci Neural Engine in DaVinci Resolve Studio
- Timeline level resolution, frame rate, scaling and monitoring settings within the same project
- Upload directly to YouTube and Vimeo
- Quick Export for quickly performing renders from various pages
- Adjustment Clips to apply filters, effects and grades on top of a range of timeline clips
- Frame.io integration supporting media imports, direct uploads, marker and comment syncing - DaVinci Resolve Studio
- Significantly improved GPU accelerated real-time scopes
- Initial immersive 3D audio support including Dolby Atmos, Auro-3D and SMPTE ST 2098 - DaVinci Resolve Studio
DaVinci Resolve 15.2.4
- Change log not available for this version
DaVinci Resolve 15.2.2
- Added an option to start remote rendering from the project manager context menu
- Addressed an issue where switching to the Fusion page in dual screen mode would sometimes cause artefacts in the user interface
- Addressed an issue with Intel GPUs on Windows where the viewer would show black frames on playback and cause crashes
- Addressed an issue where some MacOS laptops with Intel GPUs would cause a crash on start up
- Addressed an issue where clicking through media pool thumbnails for certain codecs would sometimes show an offline frame
- Addressed an issue where creating multicam clips from clips with time of day timecode would sometimes cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where position controls in the Inspector would sometimes show incorrect limits
- Addressed an issue where render cache for clips with alpha or cropping would show incorrect results
- Addressed an issue where applying an output sizing preset would sometimes show incorrect power window positions on the viewer
- Addressed an issue where some OpenFX and ResolveFX plugins would not work correctly for clips with custom output scaling
- Addressed an issue where selecting a marker from the marker list in the Color page viewer would sometimes cause a crash on Windows
- Addressed an issue where playing back a timeline with a large number of markers in the Color page would impact playback performance
- Addressed an issue where the context menu for Color page thumbnails would not show the selected clip group
- Addressed an issue where splitting an audio clip with cached audio effects would result in incorrect audio during playback
- Addressed an issue where deleting a bus would not delete plugins associated with that bus
- Improved behavior for FairlightFX Distortion
- Addressed an issue where clips with FairlightFX Echo applied would not playback correctly after an application restart
- Addressed an issue where playback for clips with FairlightFX Reverb would sometimes produce artifacts when replaying the clip
- Addressed an issue where writing multiple automation parameters simultaneously would sometimes cause gaps in the automation in the Fairlight timeline
- Addressed an issue where transitions would sometimes be drawn incorrectly in the Fairlight timeline
- Addressed an issue where loading audio clips with unsupported sample rates would cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where video tracks could not be hidden on the Fairlight page
- Addressed an issue where moving audio tracks up or down in the Fairlight timeline would not preserve its hidden state
- Addressed an issue where video track names edited from the Fairlight page would not be persisted correctly across application restarts
- Addressed an issue where custom shortcuts would not be correctly reflected in the Fairlight timeline context menu
- Addressed an issue where loading a project with video and audio scrollers enabled would sometimes cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where loading specific Fusion compositions would cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where rotoscoping using the BSpline tool in the Fusion page would sometimes cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where editing offsets of Media In nodes in a Fusion clip would sometimes cause previews in the Fusion page to flicker between cached and uncached images
- Addressed an issue where importing some FLAC audio clips would cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where importing some PNG files would cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where some Panasonic VariCam clips with multiple audio channels would be decoded with audio artefacts
- Addressed an issue where certain QuickTime clips would sometimes show a repeated frame
- General performance and stability improvements
DaVinci Resolve 15.2.1
- Addressed an issue where rendering to the MXF OP1A format would cause a crash or generate a corrupt file
- Addressed an issue where opening projects using the context menu would sometimes cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where the dynamic project switching option would reflect an incorrect state across application restarts
- Addressed an issue where switching databases when working on a collaboration project would sometimes cause an application hang
- Addressed an issue with creating a new multicam or compound clip in a project with drop frame enabled
- Addressed an issue where adding a folder containing subtitle files to the media pool would cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where deleting a clip with retime controls enabled would cause a crash in the Edit page
- Addressed an issue where the duplicate clip action would not work when Fusion compositions were selected
- Addressed an issue where audio in rendered QuickTime clips would be incorrectly tagged as dual mono instead of stereo on Windows and Linux
- Addressed an issue with color space and gamma tagging when rendering to XAVC
- Addressed an issue where the highlights in certain Canon raw clips would have a purple tint
- Addressed an issue where switching monitor scaling mode would have no effect on Media and Edit pages
- Addressed an issue with keyboard shortcuts to switch the viewer between source and timeline when in single viewer mode
- Addressed an issue where performing a match frame on the timeline viewer would not switch focus to the source viewer
- Addressed an issue where keyboard shortcuts for Go to In or Out actions would not work when the Edit timeline was in focus
- Addressed an issue where keyboard shortcuts for Import Media would not work when starting a new project
- Addressed an issue where assigning shortcuts to switch to A or C mode sort would not work
- Addressed an issue where deleting a remote version would sometimes switch other clips using the same remote version to local
- Addressed an issue where using enhanced optical flow modes would sometimes cause artifacts during playback
- Addressed an issue where playing back some DPX 10-bit images would show artifacts in the Color page
- Addressed an issue where performing select all after clicking on a clip thumbnail in the Color page would not select all the clips
- Addressed an issue where creating a new Fusion composition in the media pool would cause a crash when Resolve is set to certain languages
- Addressed an issue where transform tools would show an offset when previewing clip proxies in the Fusion page
- Addressed an issue where setting the soft edge of the mask tool to fast gaussian would produce incorrect results
- Addressed an issue where changing the viewer gain or gamma values would not work when drawing a polygon shape in the Fusion page
- Addressed an issue with audio artifacts when previewing sections of audio clips with FairlightFX or audio plugins applied
- Addressed an issue with audio discontinuity when the bypass state is toggled for FairlightFX with latency
- Addressed an issue where inserting an audio clip past another clip with crossfades would sometimes add a crossfade to the new clip
- Addressed an issue where opening the Aux dialog and deleting Aux buses would cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where track formats for nested timeline buses would sometimes not be loaded correctly on the Fairlight page
- Addressed an issue where the fade to playhead actions would not work correctly in the Fairlight page on macOS and Linux
- Addressed an issue where dragging the playhead to the start of the Fairlight timeline would not work correctly when audio scrubbing was enabled
- Addressed an issue where markers would not be shown in the Fairlight index in thumbnail mode
- Addressed an issue where the mark clip action would not work correctly in the Fairlight page
- Addressed an issue where rendering long multi-channel WAV files would sometimes produce incomplete clips
- Addressed an issue where installing the Fairlight Studio Utility would restart the system without prompting the user
- Addressed an issue when handling certain controls in Tangent Elements panels
- Addressed an issue where performing reconform from bins would sometimes cause a crash
General performance and stability improvements:
Minimum system requirements for Windows:
- Windows 10 Creators Update
- 16 GB of system memory is recommended and 32 GB is recommended minimum when using Fusion
- Blackmagic Design Desktop Video version 10.4.1 or later
- NVIDIA/AMD/Intel GPU Driver version – As required by your GPU
- RED Rocket-X Driver 2.1.34.0 and Firmware 1.4.22.18 or later
- RED Rocket Driver 2.1.23.0 and Firmware 1.1.18.0 or later
- Blackmagic Design Desktop Video version 10.4.1 or later
- NVIDIA/AMD Driver version – As required by your GPU
- RED Rocket-X Driver 2.1.34.0 and Firmware 1.4.22.18 or later
- RED Rocket Driver 2.1.23.0 and Firmware 1.1.18.0 or later
DaVinci Resolve 15.2
Key new features:
- Improved Edit timeline performance and responsiveness
- Support for improved visual animations when editing the timeline on the Edit page
- Support for a visual keyboard customization utility to find, add and modify shortcuts
- Support for per-module customizable shortcuts, including module specific actions and context menus
- Support for showing the currently focused module in the user interface
- Support for displaying duplicate frame ranges for clips on the timeline on the Edit page
- Support for cleaning up and flattening video tracks on the Edit timeline
- Support for adding, editing and exporting custom keyword sets from the keyword dictionary in the Workspace menu
- Support for option to export gallery stills using the still label name
- Support for ResolveFX Beauty in DaVinci Resolve Studio
- Support for ResolveFX Blanking Fill for portrait videos
- Support for VCA groups
- Support for FairlightFX Multiband Compressor
- Support for FairlightFX Stereo Fixer
- Support for decoding Panasonic 8K SHV clips in DaVinci Resolve Studio
Edit:
- Improved Edit timeline performance and responsiveness
- Support for improved visual animations when editing the timeline on the Edit page
- Support for displaying duplicate frame ranges for clips on the timeline on the Edit page
- Support for viewing inspector properties for the highest visible clip under the playhead in the Edit timeline when there is no active selection
- Support for viewer overlay controls for the highest visible clip under the playhead in the Edit timeline when there is no active selection
- Support for marking a clip within a compound clip or a timeline in the source viewer
- Support for cleaning up and flattening video tracks on the Edit timeline
- Support for resizing audio transitions to sub-frame boundaries
- Support for setting ease-in and ease-out on keyframes from the keyframe context menu in the Edit and Fairlight page inspectors
- Support for setting ease-in and ease-out on keyframes from the keyframe context menu in the Edit timeline
- Support for temporarily toggling snapping while scrubbing the playhead by invoking the snapping shortcut in the Edit timeline
- Support for defining characters per second thresholds to highlight non-conforming subtitle captions in the inspector
- Support for automatically enabling dynamic zoom when on-screen controls are modified on the Edit page
- Support for timeline indicators for clips with updated grades or compositions in collaborative projects
- Support for toggling the visibility of retime controls and retime curves by invoking the context menu or the shortcut in the Edit timeline
- Support for fast timecode entry in clip attributes, marker dialog, new timeline, render settings and other timecode widgets
- Support for quickly accessing recent undo/redo actions from the Edit menu
- Improved results when performing transitions on clips being composited with other layers
- Improved behavior when using the Push video transition on a title clip
Fusion:
- Improved scripting API support with ability to import and export Fusion compositions
- Support for GPU acceleration for the Trails tool in the Fusion page
Color:
- Support for ResolveFX Beauty in DaVinci Resolve Studio
- Support for ResolveFX Blanking Fill for portrait videos
- Support for ResolveFX ACES Transform
- Support for ResolveFX Gamut Limiter
- Support for bypassing a mixer node input by disabling the node connected to that input
- Support for option to export gallery stills using the still label name
- Support for Camera RAW controls for Canon and Panasonic clips from the DaVinci Resolve Advanced and Mini panels
- Support for clipping output gamut to a different display gamut
- Support for an ST.2084 3000 nits gamma option in Resolve Color Management
- Support for improved color matching using color charts
- Support for OpenFX extension for a plugin to describe itself as not spatially aware
- Check Developer Documentation in the Help menu for more details
- Support for including non-spatially aware OpenFX plugins when generating LUTs on the Color page
- Support for including the ResolveFX Color Transform plugin when generating LUTs on the Color page
- Support for importing Dolby Vision metadata for clips in the Color page Dolby Vision option menu
- Support for previewing tone mapping using embedded, imported or custom metadata for Dolby Vision IMF clips
- Support for for up to 64 controls when creating DCTLs
- Updated OpenFX developer documentation with OpenFX 1.4 samples
- Updated OpenFX developer documentation with temporal frame access samples
- Updated OpenFX developer documentation with transition sample
- Improved support for handling aspect ratios for various ResolveFX plugins
- Improved support for handling UI overlays for projects with output scaling applied
- Improved behavior when closing Power Curve Windows drawn on the Color page
Fairlight:
- Support for VCA groups
- Support for FairlightFX Multiband Compressor
- Support for FairlightFX Stereo Fixer
- Support for customizable test tones and noise generation from the Fairlight menu
- Support for selecting and modifying audio transitions
- Support for navigating the Fairlight timeline using timecode entry
- Support for setting audio monitoring output delay in system preferences
- Support for indicating clips with changed inspector properties on the Fairlight timeline
- Support for applying a FairlightFX plugin to multiple selected audio clips
- Support for additional Fairlight Audio Accelerator IO settings on Windows
- Support for Fairlight Audio Interface RS-422 9-Pin serial control on Windows
- Support for Talkback using the Fairlight Audio Accelerator on Windows
- Support for Fairlight MADI expander for the Fairlight Audio Accelerator on Windows
- Support for additional Fairlight edit operations including cut or copy the head or tail of the current clip from the Edit menu
- Improved playback performance when performing audio automation
- Improved handling of custom multi-channel format mappings for Audio FX
Media and Deliver:
- Support for decoding Panasonic 8K SHV clips in DaVinci Resolve Studio
- Support for hardware accelerated encoding of H.264 and H.265 using specific NVIDIA GPUs on DaVinci Resolve Studio; Windows and Linux only
- Support for hardware accelerated encoding of H.264 and H.265 using Intel Quick Sync on supported hardware on DaVinci Resolve Studio; Windows only
- Support for decoding Canon RMF clips using the Canon SDK
- Support for encoding Dolby Vision version 4 metadata in IMF renders
- Support for creating a subclip from a Media Pool clip marker
- Support for clip usage indicators in the Media Pool clip thumbnail for the active timeline
- Support for a clip usage listing in the Media Pool clip context menu for the active timeline
- Support for showing usage indicators for clips inside a compound clip on the active timeline
- Support for adding flags to clips when focused on the source viewer
- Support for duplicating media pool clips and current timelines from the Edit menu
- Support for a toggle control for switching between single and dual pane mode in Media Pool on the Edit page
- Support for storing the alpha channel in optimized media for clips with an embedded alpha channel
- Support for an option to render alpha channel either as straight or premultiplied when rendering individual clips
- Support for Sony XAVC Long GOP encoding on DaVinci Resolve Studio
- Support for Episode and Chapter in content metadata options for IMF exports
Cintel:
- Improved sub-pixel stabilization
- Support for storing Cintel settings with each DaVinci Resolve project
- Support for single frame captures
- Addressed an issue with debayering artefacts that would sometimes affect pixel highlights
- Addressed an issue with incorrect audio sync offsets when using Capture Now
General:
- Support for a visual keyboard shortcut mapping utility to find, add and modify shortcuts
- Support for per-module customizable shortcuts, including module specific actions and context menus
- Support for showing the currently focused module in the user interface
- Support for adding, editing and exporting custom keyword sets from the keyword dictionary in the Workspace menu
- Support for live save and backups for unsaved projects
- Support for remembering the last used locations in the file browser for various import and export operations
- Support for collaborating on projects in a PostgreSQL database with machines across multiple subnets
- Support for toggling Mute and Dim in all pages from the Fairlight application menu
- Support for configuring the gallery path during project import by Alt/Option-clicking Import Project
- Improved organization of System Preferences with a new section for decode options
- Support for easyDCP on Linux
Issues Addressed:
- Addressed an issue where reading file and folder paths of more than 200 characters on Windows systems would not work correctly
- Addressed an issue where project thumbnails would sometimes not be correctly saved
- Addressed an issue where deleting gallery stills would be slow when Live Save was enabled
- Addressed an issue where dragging media into a new project to create a timeline would not prompt for setting the project frame rate
- Addressed an issue where importing older DaVinci Resolve projects would sometimes ignore static keyframes from OpenFX plugins
- Addressed an issue where opening an older DaVinci Resolve project with a lens flare plugin would cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where older projects would sometimes show incorrect node cache previews
- Addressed an issue where importing a Final Cut Pro XML would not preserve audio transitions
- Addressed an issue where copying a project in collaboration mode would sometimes not work correctly
- Addressed an issue where clips in locked bins could be replaced in a collaboration project
- Addressed an issue where in and out points could be modified for clips in locked bins in a collaboration project
- Addressed an issue where dragging a folder to the media pool would not add any subtitle elements inside the folders
- Addressed an issue where adding a flag to a media pool clip and undoing would not refresh correctly
- Addressed an issue when adding clip and marker keywords on Linux
- Addressed an issue where keyword suggestions would not work correctly in the marker dialog
- Addressed an issue where the subtitle characters per second count in inspector would not be calculated correctly
- Addressed an issue where track destination hotkeys would not allow setting the destination to the last track
- Addressed an issue where disabling freeze frame on an edited clip would restore the clip to a wrong media offset
- Addressed an issue where selecting clips forward or backward would not work correctly when audio layers are present
- Addressed an issue where keyframe controls would be shown for ResolveFX and OpenFX controls that did not support keyframes
- Addressed an issue where holding down the Alt/Option key during playback or trimming would affect performance
- Addressed an issue where adding markers to adjacent timeline frames would behave incorrectly on the Edit timeline
- Addressed an issue where adding or removing audio track layers would sometimes not correctly update the track heights
- Addressed an issue where enabling selection follows playhead and dragging a sound library clip to the timeline would cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where Text+ titles would not show all typeface options for some fonts
- Addressed an issue where duration markers created from in/out durations would not align correctly
- Addressed an issue where decomposing compound clips would not work correctly when the Edit timeline would have in and out marks
- Addressed an issue where transitions between Fusion clips with an alpha channel would not work correctly
- Addressed an issue where setting fade in or fade out handles for a clip with an alpha channel would not work correctly
- Addressed an issue where adding MediaIn nodes to a Fusion composition and deleting the underlying media pool clip would not invalidate the MediaIn node correctly
- Addressed an issue where previewing Fusion compositions with BSpline nodes would sometimes cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where some Fusion settings changes would not be reflected correctly on Fusion generators
- Addressed an issue where some Fusion UI settings changes would not be persisted correctly across application restarts
- Addressed an issue where playing back PSD files would sometimes cause the application to hang
- Addressed an issue where adding a mask to a Fusion composition with a background node would show incorrect background colors
- Addressed an issue where canceling a Saver node render would repeatedly display a confirmation dialog
- Addressed an issue with monitoring dual HDR/SDR outputs where both outputs would sometimes show the HDR image
- Addressed an issue where trying to grade a locked node would incorrectly reset node cache
- Addressed an issue where clip filter controls would sometimes be shown on the clip thumbnails area in the Color page in dual screen mode
- Addressed an issue where resetting primary controls in Log mode would not correctly refresh some controls
- Addressed an issue where switching between nodes in the Color page would not correctly refresh the node sizing controls
- Addressed an issue where applying ResolveFX Color Stabilizer would sometimes result in darkened image frames
- Addressed an issue where a warp point could not be created when applying ResolveFX Warper on a Fusion composition
- Addressed an issue where the Camera RAW ISO control for CinemaDNG clips would not reflect the correct value on the DaVinci Resolve Mini panel
- Addressed an issue where the Camera RAW temperature and tint controls could not be changed from the DaVinci Resolve Mini panel
- Addressed an issue where older GoPro CineForm clips would sometimes be decoded incorrectly
- Addressed an issue where ResolveFX and OpenFX plugins used on the timeline node graph would sometimes not be applied
- Addressed an issue where the Color page thumbnail indicator for clip color would sometimes be inconsistent with the clip color as shown in the Edit timeline
- Addressed an issue where grades could be reset on a locked node in the Color page
- Addressed an issue where default trims were incorrectly being applied instead of interpolated trims when using Dolby Vision external CMUs
- Addressed an issue where copying grades with preserved nodes would incorrectly reset ResolveFX or OpenFX on the preserved nodes
- Addressed an issue where copying grades with preserved nodes would invalidate the cache for those nodes
- Addressed an issue where stills captured in proxy mode with center crop would be captured with blanking
- Addressed an issue where moving a clip with and echo or reverb applied would sometimes result in glitches during playback through its original position
- Addressed an issue where opening a project with FairlightFX applied to clips would sometimes preview the effect only on the left channel
- Addressed an issue where the control room monitor gain would not correctly reflect the output
- Addressed an issue where it was possible to add effects or modify mixer properties for locked audio tracks
- Addressed an issue where an audio track listening for sidechain changes would behave incorrectly if subsequently included in a linked group
- Addressed an issue where the effects library would be filtered by transitions and appear blank on the Fairlight page
- Addressed an issue where recording to multi-channel tracks would produce an audio clip with an incorrect number of channels
- Addressed an issue where rendering a marked timeline section using the Pro Tools preset would sometimes result in files without audio
- Addressed an issue where hiding tracks from the Fairlight page track index would sometimes hide the incorrect track
- Addressed an issue with drawing automation curves when the mouse cursor would go outside the bounds of the clip
- Addressed an issue where clips with unicode character names would not display correctly on the Fairlight timeline
- Addressed an issue where changing the video track color in the Fairlight timeline would not change the color of generators and titles on the track
- Addressed an issue with selecting clips after switching pages in the sound library
- Addressed an issue where rendering compound clips in audio only mode as individual clips would not work correctly
- Addressed an issue where setting an in-out range in the Deliver page and switching pages would not correctly honor the range for subsequent render jobs
- Addressed an issue where linked audio track formats would be shown incorrectly in the render settings
- Addressed an issue where rendered MXF XAVC clips would not have color space and gamma tagged correctly
- Addressed an issue where embedded CEA-608 subtitles in H.264 clips would be rendered with incorrect durations
- Addressed an issue where rendering embedded CEA-608 subtitles would incorrectly show errors for some multiline captions
- Addressed an issue where switching IMF profile levels on the Deliver page would not always update the bitrate to match
- General performance and stability improvements
DaVinci Resolve 15.1.2
New:
- Addressed an issue where starting DaVinci Resolve would cause a crash on some CUDA enabled Windows laptops with integrated graphics
- Addressed an issue where the viewer would flash between video and data levels during playback on some systems running on CUDA
- Addressed an issue where the Delete Through Edit context menu option would incorrectly be shown for all edit points on the Edit page
- Addressed an issue where reconforming clips with remote grades would sometimes cause a crash in collaborative projects
- Addressed an issue where dragging an audio clip into audio track layers would sometimes cause a crash in the Edit page
- Addressed an issue where dragging an audio clip with no mapped channels into the timeline would cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where track mute controls would sometimes show an incorrect automation state on the Edit page
- Addressed an issue where copying clips in the Fairlight page would sometimes cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where incorrect audio formats would be shown for muted audio tracks in the Deliver page
- Addressed an issue where Fusion comps with the paint tool applied would sometimes result in the first frame being black
- Addressed an issue where RGBA images would not be processed premultiplied when using some OpenFX plugins
- Addressed an issue where applying stabilization on video clips with odd resolutions would cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where source render cache would not be preserved when applying grades from stills or other clips
- Addressed an issue where adding a ResolveFX node to a clip during playback in the Color page would display a critical exception
- Addressed an issue with the DCDM (P3D65 Limited) IDT in ACES 1.1 projects
- Addressed an issue where trimming some MP4 clips using media management would not succeed
- Addressed an issue when rendering to QuickTime ProRes 4444 where the output would sometimes have chroma overflow artefacts
- Addressed an issue where the ISO selection would sometimes incorrectly be hidden when using RAW clips
- Addressed an issue where playing back some smartphone clips captured in portrait mode would cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where rendering Sony clips with Japanese file names using source filename would not work correctly on Windows
- Addressed an issue where the Photon validation options for IMF packages would not be displayed when Java Development Kit version 11 was installed
- Addressed an issue with stability in remote grading sessions when the client machine had live save enabled
- Addressed an issue with running DaVinci Resolve on case-sensitive volumes on Mac
- General performance and stability improvements
- Pre-installation Notes
- Support for decoding and encoding of easyDCP formats is not currently available on Linux
DaVinci Resolve 15.1.1
- Support for joining through edits in the Edit timeline from the context menu
- Improved playback performance when Selection Follows Playhead is enabled in the Edit page
- Support for scripting API to set output file name for rendering
- Addressed an issue where decoding some AVI files with lossless JPG content would cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where pre-clip and post-clip group grades would sometimes not be saved
- Addressed an issue where output sizing would not be applied to the HDR output when in dual SDI mode in Dolby Vision or HDR10+ projects
- Addressed an issue where creating stereoscopic 3D clips from stereo CineForm files would not work correctly
- Addressed an issue where a stereoscopic 3D clip created from clips with partially overlapping timecodes would show offline media frames
- Addressed an issue where white balance settings for Blackmagic RAW clips would not be saved correctly
- Addressed an issue where OpenFX keyframes in the timeline node graph in older Resolve projects would not be recalled correctly in the Color page
- Addressed an issue where duplicating a timeline with a shared node and modifying the shared node would cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where applying stabilizer could cause a crash on some Nvidia graphics platforms in OpenCL GPU processing mode
- Addressed an issue where color keyframes in stereoscopic 3D clips would sometimes not be loaded correctly
- Addressed an issue where appending a node in ripple mode would place the node in an incorrect position
- Addressed an issue where using OpenFX or ResolveFX plugins in a remote grading session could cause the client viewer to flicker while grading
- Addressed an issue where applying P3 D65 ST2084 ODTs in ACES 1.1 projects would show incorrect results
- Addressed an issue where applying certain IDTs and ODTs in ACES 1.1 projects would show black frames when the GPU processing mode was set to CUDA
- Addressed an issue where upgrading disk databases from Resolve 12.5 would result in loss of Power Grades in some scenarios
- Addressed an issue where image resolutions for certain ARRI QuickTime clips would not be recognized correctly
- Addressed an issue where media imported from an XML would be imported twice if it was listed inside a bin in the XML
- Addressed an issue where subtitles with inconsistent line-endings would not be imported correctly
- Addressed an issue where exporting a subtitle file on some Windows systems would cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where selecting subtitles from the Edit inspector would cause a crash in some projects
- Addressed an issue where Alt/Opt+clicking on an Edit timeline track would sometimes reset its auto-select state
- Addressed an issue where ripple-overwriting a clip with transitions would behave incorrectly
- Addressed an issue where dragging to select clips in the Edit timeline would incorrectly scroll through audio tracks
- Addressed an issue where audio playback for linked clips with smoothened speed change would not work correctly
- Addressed an issue where toggling Solo Safe on the Fairlight Mixer would sometimes behave inconsistently
- Addressed an issue where the automation indicators on the Fairlight mixer would sometimes be displayed incorrectly when loading a project
- Addressed an issue where linked track groups would display incorrect clip counts on the Fairlight page
- Addressed an issue where rendering timelines from the deliver page would sometimes fail with a timeout error
- Addressed an issue where the first frame of some Fusion comps could sometimes display a black frame
- Addressed an issue where canceling a saver node render would repeatedly display confirmation messages to the user
- Improved chroma subsampling for 4:2:2 renders
- General performance and stability improvements
DaVinci Resolve 15.1
Key new features:
- Support for decoding Blackmagic RAW clips from Blackmagic Design cameras
- Support for audio ducking using sidechain compression in track dynamics in the Fairlight page
- Support for round tripping audio clips to third party audio processing applications from the Fairlight timeline
- Support for an IMF preset to generate Netflix IMF deliverables
- Support for creating and delivering supplemental IMF packages
- Support for Photon validation of IMF packages
Fairlight:
- Support for audio ducking using sidechain compression in track dynamics
- Support for round tripping audio clips to third party audio processing applications from the Fairlight timeline
- Support for caching clips with FairlightFX and AudioFX
- Support for bouncing clips with FairlightFX and AudioFX to a new layer
- Support for sub-bus and aux-bus routing in nested timelines
- Support for solo-safe for audio tracks by Cmd/Ctrl+Option/Alt clicking the Solo button in the Fairlight mixer
- Support for pasting attributes to audio tracks
- Support for removing attributes from audio tracks
- Support for Fairlight FX Soft Clipper
- Support for clip level panning in the Edit and Fairlight page inspector
Fusion:
- Support for creating and opening new Fusion compositions from the Media Pool
- Support for Fusion composition generators in the Edit page effects library for creating comps without source media
- Support for Loader nodes in the Fusion node graph
- Support for automatically scaling the frame range sliders to the edit range
Edit:
- Support for showing source timecode overlays for audio and video tracks in the timeline viewer
- Support for displaying clip marker annotations and overlays for the selected clip marker under the playhead
- Support for holding shift while modifying title, transform and dynamic zoom viewer overlays to restrict motion to the vertical or horizontal direction
- Support for an indicator for clips with color grading and Fusion comp updates available in collaborative projects
- Support for actions to update either a single clip or all clips with color grading or Fusion comp updates in collaborative projects
- Support for duplicating multiple selected timelines in the media pool
- Support for displaying the multicam angle name in the timeline, source viewer and the color page clip information
- Support for keywords in clip and timeline markers
- Support for a marker keywords column on the edit index
- Support for exporting subtitle files in project archives
- Support for inserting media pool clips in order of filename when creating a timeline using clips
- Support for importing subclips when importing media from Final Cut Pro 7 XMLs
- Improved freeze-frame behavior to freeze the clip forward from the playhead instead of the whole clip
Color:
- Support for ResolveFX and OpenFX static keyframes from the keyframe context menu
- Support for ACES 1.1
- Support for accessing and selecting from multiple inputs for OpenFX nodes
- Support for modifying temperature and tint values in the Camera Raw widget without needing to manually set white balance to custom
- Improved behavior for the ResolveFX Warper plugin
Media and Deliver:
- Support for decoding Blackmagic RAW clips from Blackmagic Design cameras
- Support for an IMF preset to generate Netflix IMF deliverables
- Support for creating and delivering supplemental IMF packages
- Support for Photon validation of IMF packages
- Support for stereoscopic 3D multi-view EXR files
- Support for encoding per frame timecode metadata in Grass Valley HQ and HQX clips
- Improved layer metadata support when importing PSD images in Fusion
General:
- Improved playback performance on large timelines in a zoomed out state
- Improved performance and interactivity in the Fusion page
- Improved performance of some title templates available in the Effects Library
- Improved thumbnail loading speed when switching bins in the media pool
- Improved scripting support with the ability to import and export Fusion comps
- Support for automatic generation of MD5 media hash lists from Clone Tool operations
- Addressed an issue where searching by marker name or marker notes would not work in thumbnail view
- Addressed an issue where switching multicam angles would not refresh the thumbnails
- Addressed an issue where some edit operations would lead to video transitions being placed outside frame boundaries
- Addressed an issue where turning off stroke for a subtitle would not work correctly
- Addressed an issue where the minimum height for audio tracks in the Edit timeline would not be set correctly
- Addressed an issue where subtitle files with overlapping captions would not be imported correctly
- Addressed an issue where compositing compound clips on top of clips with transitions would not work correctly
- Addressed an issue where middle-clicking to pan the Edit timeline would sometimes deselect clips
- Addressed an issue where Text+ clip thumbnails would sometimes be shown as media offline
- Addressed an issue where adding a Text+ tool to a power bin would sometimes cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where selecting a Fusion comp in a Power Bin would cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where opening or saving a Fusion macro in the macro editor would sometimes cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where channel mapping changes for EXR clips on the Fusion page would not be persisted across application restarts
- Addressed an issue where removing curve in the MediaIn tool in sRGB gamma space would sometimes cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where importing SVG files would incorrectly ignore a user-specified input resolution
- Addressed an issue where the channel chooser would show incorrect labels when multi-channel EXR files were loaded in the Fusion viewer
- Addressed an issue where adding particles would cause the application to hang
- Addressed an issue where enabling motion blur for mask tools in Fusion page would not work correctly
- Addressed an issue where repositioning matte masks of different resolutions in the Fusion viewer would sometimes show incorrect results
- Addressed an issue where some FairlightFX controls with automation would not correctly reflect their automation status
- Addressed an issue where pasting a long clip on the Fairlight timeline would sometimes change the timeline zoom
- Addressed an issue where the Bus format dialog would display the wrong Main bus formats when switching between timelines
- Addressed an issue where adding audio plugins to a linked audio track would behave incorrectly
- Addressed an issue where selecting linked audio tracks for rendering would show the incorrect format
- Addressed an issue where recording audio to linked tracks would record only to the first track in the group
- Addressed an issue where unlinking a linked track group would not retain boom settings
- Addressed an issue where resizing some audio transitions would not work properly
- Addressed an issue where ADR recordings would not be visible when opening older projects
- Addressed an issue where playing back audio files with specific sample rates would result in some artefacts
- Addressed an issue where dragging the scrollbar in the Fairlight timeline in locked playhead mode would cause playback to stop
- Addressed an issue where the mute setting for aux bus sends would not be honored when using the pre-fader option
- Addressed an issue where an audio track would not be automatically disarmed when un-patched
- Addressed an issue where switching to the Fairlight page would sometimes cause an audible pop
- Addressed an issue where adjusting sliders in the CameraRAW palette would not refresh the viewer smoothly
- Addressed an issue where previewing composite modes on a layer mixer node would sometimes cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where viewing clips with handles with backups and live save enabled would cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where the unmix mode and looped playback states would not be persisted across application restarts
- Addressed an issue where toggling Clip, Timeline and Unmix from the DaVinci Resolve Advanced panel would cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where the DaVinci Resolve Advanced panel would not work with multiple logins on CentOS 7.3 systems
- Addressed an issue where rippling grades to a group would not work if unmix mode was enabled
- Addressed an issue where performing a flip in Clip Attributes in stereoscopic 3D clips would cause power windows to behave incorrectly
- Addressed an issue where remote grading on clips that have OFX plugins applied would sometimes cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where duplicating a timeline with a shared node would not correctly copy the shared node
- Addressed an issue where Quicktime files rendered with Dolby Vision tone mapping would have incorrect colorspace and gamma tags
- Addressed an issue where Resolve was unable to decode some AAC audio clips
- Addressed an issue where rendered 5.1 and 7.1 Linear PCM audio would not have the correct channel mapping metadata
- Addressed an issue where importing some projects from older versions of DaVinci Resolve would cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where projects inside a folder in Project Manager could not be loaded using scripting API
- General performance and stability improvements
DaVinci Resolve 15.0.1
- Change log not available for this version
DaVinci Resolve 15.0
- Change log not available for this version
DaVinci Resolve 14.3.1
- Change log not available for this version
DaVinci Resolve 14.3.0
Important Information regarding Database Management:
- DaVinci Resolve 14.3 requires a database upgrade from DaVinci Resolve 14.2.1 and previous versions. We strongly recommend that you backup your existing database (both DiskDB and PostgreSQL) before performing an upgrade
New:
- Added support for the Blackmagic Design URSA Broadcast camera
- Added support for RAW footage from the Sony Venice/CineAltaV camera
- Improved the quality of thumbnails in the Media Pool and Edit page timeline on retina monitors
- Added support for reading Panasonic Varicam metadata when importing footage
- Added support for exporting Sony color space and gamma metadata when encoding to MXF
- Added support for RED SDK v7.0.6
- Addressed an issue where the audio section in the Deliver page would default to timeline track instead of the Main bus
- Addressed an issue where editing a transition could sometimes cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where syncing video to audio with a different sample rate results in incorrect audio sync and pitch audio
- Addressed an issue where changes to the Mixer UI layout would not get saved in a dual screen setup
- Addressed an issue where pressing arrow keys to move volume keyframes would not work after opening the keyframe curve editor
- Addressed an issue with the option to pick which node to select when switching clips
- Addressed an issue where a project would fail to save after deleting a group
- Addressed an issue where a project would fail to save after specific undo/redo operations
- Addressed an issue with UI artifacts in the DaVinci Resolve Studio activation window
- Addressed an issue where projects with LUTs would not get exported correctly on Windows
- Addressed an issue where the current project could not be copied between databases
- Addressed an issue where relinking to TIFF files with a higher bit depth would result in a crash
- General performance and stability improvement
DaVinci Resolve 14.2.1
- Change log not available for this version
DaVinci Resolve 14.2.0
- Added support for the DeckLink 8K Pro monitoring modes
- Added support for importing audio-only AAF timelines
- Added support for rendering audio handles in ProTools round trip mode
- Added support for audio playback when performing dynamic trimming
- Added support for import and export of Final Cut Pro 10.4 XML
- Added support for automatically naming Gallery Stills using user-defined tags
- Added support for 16 and 18 fps timeline frame rates
- Added support for 95.905 fps timeline frame rate
- Added support for more fine-grained preferences for Performance Mode
- Improved support for keyframes in the Fairlight page
- Added support for listing multiple DeckLink SDI devices with unique names
- Added visual indicators for distinguishing between timeline clips without media in the Media Pool and without media on disk
- Added the ability to change the playhead position without stopping playback on the Fairlight page
- Added support for Enable 2D Timeline Scroll on the Fairlight page
- Added support for context menus for markers in the Fairlight page
- Added support for automatic creation of a timeline when dragging in an audio clip in the Fairlight page
- Addressed issues with acquiring and releasing the lock for a bin in a collaboration project
- Addressed an issue where network connectivity issues could cause unexpected results in a collaboration project
- Addressed an issue where a blank node graph would sometimes be displayed when switching between clips in collaboration mode
- Addressed an issue where two users could sometimes load a non-collaboration project in write mode without a warning
- Addressed an issue where 'Update Timecode from Audio using LTC' would not work on clips starting with blank audio
- Addressed an issue where retiming an audio clip would sometimes result in audio glitches
- Addressed an issue where unlinking linked audio groups with the Pan dialog open would cause a crash
- Addressed an issue where starting or stopping playback would sometimes cause a momentary glitch in the audio on the Fairlight page
- Addressed multiple issues with fader behavior for direct track outputs in the Fairlight track mixer
- Addressed an issue where the Fairlight timeline would sometimes show an incorrect number of audio tracks
- Addressed an issue where the Fairlight control room widget would sometimes become invisible when resetting a dual-screen UI layout
- Addressed an issue where JKL playback would not honor the looped playback state on the Fairlight page
- Addressed an issue where moving an audio clip would not refresh the keyframe navigation buttons on the Fairlight inspector
- Addressed an issue where some Fairlight dial widgets would not reset their values correctly on double-click
- Addressed an issue where audio EQ band adjustments might be incorrectly saved
- Addressed an issue where stopping playback would continue audio output for a few frames on the Edit page
- Addressed an issue where LTC timecode output over SDI would not work when playing back on the Edit page
- Addressed an issue where the Mute status would not be reflected correctly in the Edit page on a track with automation
- Addressed an issue with titles where using certain fonts would result in cropped glyphs
- Addressed an issue where bypassing color grades would bypass OpenFX applied on the Edit page
- Addressed an issue where deleting a clip with an OpenFX transition would sometimes crash
- Addressed a crash when switching multicam angles if the viewer was in source mode
- Addressed an issue where reconforming multicam clips from a bin would not retain the original angle information
- Addressed an issue where performing a blade operation on asymmetric linked edits would result in incorrect linking
- Addressed an issue where previewing compound clips and timelines in the source viewer would activate the timeline audio meters
- Addressed an issue where previewing video-only clips in the source viewer would sometimes be slow on the Edit page
- Addressed an issue where importing older projects using a Sony IDT in an ACES workflow would sometimes cause a crash
- Addressed an issue with audio playback when applying clip filters on the Color page
- Addressed an issue where Color Tracing Power Windows from proxy files would result in incorrect window positions
- Addressed an issue where copying grades between clips would unnecessarily invalidate the clip source cache
- Addressed an issue where bypassing color grades on speed changed clips would disable the optical flow or frame blending
- Addressed an issue with incorrect results when stabilizing multiple edits from the same source
- Addressed an issue where switching databases would sometimes incorrectly hide the second screen in a dual screen monitor layout
- Addressed an issue where GoPro CineForm clips would decode with a watermark applied on Linux
- Addressed an issue with decoding some Sony XAVC-I clips
- Addressed an issue with incorrect cropping for certain QuickTime ARRI clips
- Addressed an issue with color shifts when decoding certain Panasonic AVC-Intra clips
- Addressed an issue where the stereo audio format of some MXF clips was not recognized correctly
- Addressed an issue with reading drop-frame timecodes for DPX clips
- Addressed an issue when decoding some QuickTime clips with large timecode values
- Addressed an issue with color shifts when rendering stereoscopic 3D clips in side-by-side mode using H.264
- General performance and stability improvements
DaVinci Resolve 14.1.1
- Addressed an issue with detecting Blackmagic Desktop Video hardware with older driver versions
- Addressed an issue when setting monitoring to PsF formats when using Desktop Video drivers newer than v10.9.3
- Addressed an issue with the detection of license dongles on MacBook Pro with Touch Bar on High Sierra
- Addressed a crash when changing audio plugins and reloading the project without saving
- Addressed a crash when opening a project with title presets in the Media Pool
- Addressed a crash during playback when Enable Video Field Processing was turned on
- Addressed a crash when connecting to an incompatible database and switching projects
- Addressed a crash when toggling Show Current Clip With Handles and loading a memory if Live Save was on
- Addressed a crash when deleting favourite transition presets
- Addressed a crash when canceling a project save and navigating to another Resolve database
- Addressed an issue where disabling a compound node would not immediately refresh the viewer
- Addressed an issue where splitting certain linked audio-video clips would not link the split components correctly
- Addressed an issue where ResolveFX Face Refinement would stop working when a clip was moved into a compound clip
- Addressed an issue where video scopes on the Edit page would sometimes show an incorrect display
- Addressed an issue where quitting Resolve would sometimes cause an incorrect shutdown on Linux
- Addressed an issue where horizontal scrolling in the timeline comparison dialog would sometimes not work as expected
- Addressed an issue in Project Server where clicking Enable Sharing may not work on some machines
- Addressed an issue where switching between large databases would take a long time to respond
- Addressed an issue where Resolve would show Media Offline frames when using RED Rocket-X to decode certain RED clips
- Addressed an issue where decoding some RED clips with CUDA in Resolve Color Management would show a black frame
- Addressed an issue where Resolve would sometimes show the Welcome dialog on successive runs
- Addressed an issue where copying audio clip keyframes would not apply it properly on the target clip
- Addressed an issue where rendering to DNxHD 36 would cause a slight shift in the red and blue channels
- Addressed a potential crash when opening floating Media Pool windows and switching pages
- Addressed an issue where the 3D qualifier would not be correctly applied for Group Pre-Clip versions
- Addressed an issue where changing master bus configuration with audio FX present would result in loss of audio output for the bus
- Addressed an issue where the display of track colors would go out of sync when deleting a track and undoing it
- Addressed an issue where dragging a clip from the Media Pool to the Fairlight timeline would sometimes show an additional track
- General performance and stability improvements
DaVinci Resolve 14.1
- Added support for a new Project Server application to manage a local PostgreSQL server on macOS and Windows
- Added support for presets for User Preferences
- Added ability to simultaneously generate cache files for multiple cache points on a clip
- Added ability to enable/disable caching of transitions in User Mode in Project Settings
- Added ability to enable/disable caching of composites in User Mode in Project Settings
- Added ability to retain the cache when moving clips with speed changes applied
- Added support for excluding individual tracks from sequence cache in User mode
- Added support for applying individual color attributes when dragging nodes from the Display Node Graph window
- Added support for a zoom slider in the Display Node Graph window
- Added support for accessing both the clip and the timeline node graph for a Still in the Display Node Graph window
- Addressed an issue where right clicking on a wiped still and selecting apply grade would not work
- Added an option in the panel settings to switch between classic DaVinci and vectorscope trackball alignment
- Added support for displaying video scopes on the Edit page
- Improved title text rendering quality
- Improved playback and rendering performance on the Radeon Pro WX 9100 GPU
- Added support for RED IPP2 color processing
- Added support for decompression and debayer options for Red Rocket cards
- Added initial Linked Group support for audio tracks
- Added the ability to drag and drop .drp project files into the Project Manager
- Added support for a project setting to switch track metering between source and post-fader
- Added the ability to update the track color of multiple selected tracks on the Fairlight page
- Surround sound audio channels are now included in the downmix to stereo buses and monitors
- Added support for a Project Setting to automatically apply convergence to windows and effects in 3D stereoscopic projects
- Added support for groups in the Color page on collaborative projects
- Added support for generating and rediscovering optimized media in collaborative projects
- Added support for viewing audio codec information in the Metadata widget
- Added support for GoPro CineForm as a caching and optimized media format
- Added support for higher resolution DNxHR formats for MXF-based Fusion Connect workflows
- ResolveFX Warper is now GPU accelerated
- Bus section in the Fairlight page meters is now scrollable
- Added support for decoding enhanced AC-3 audio on macOS and Windows
- Improved performance of viewer in Fairlight page
- Improved behavior and interactivity of timeline and track index in the Fairlight page
- Added support for 2-D scrolling on the Fairlight page
- Added support for source audio clips at any sample rate
- Added support for Dolby Vision trim on compounds clips and Fusion Connect clips
- Added ability to perform audio only insert to a tape deck
- Added ability to capture video and audio or video only from a tape deck
- Addressed an issue where the audio and video would sometimes be out of sync when capturing from a tape deck
- Addressed an issue where an incorrect frame would sometimes be inserted when performing an assemble edit on a tape deck
- Addressed an issue where recording microphone input on some tracks would not persist the recorded clip
- Addressed an issue where the length of a duration marker could not be modified on the Fairlight page
- Addressed an issue where deleting a bus that is being monitored would result in incorrect control room behavior
- Addressed an issue where Audio FX in a project would not be persisted if the the Audio FX was not installed
- Addressed an issue where moving or pasting clips in the Fairlight page would sometimes remove the associated transitions
- Addressed an issue where assigning an offline reference clip to a timeline would result in loss of audio
- Addressed an issue where switching timelines would sometimes result in loss of audio
- Addressed an issue where dynamics would not apply evenly across stereo and 5.1 tracks
- Addressed an issue where unintended audio fades would sometimes be applied
- Addressed an issue where there wa
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