DaVinci Resolve 19 – What's New (2024)

What's New

DaVinci Resolve 19 introduces powerful new DaVinci Neural Engine AI tools and over 100 feature upgrades! Editors can work directly with transcribed audio to find speakers and edit timeline clips. Colorists can produce rich film like tones with the ColorSlice six vector palette and produce cinematic images using the new film look creator effect which emulates photometric film processes. InFairlight, the IntelliTrack AI can be used to track motion and automatically pan audio. VFXartists in Fusion have an expanded set of USD tools plus anew multipoly rotoscoping tool. Thecut page has new broadcast replay tools for live multi camera broadcast editing, playout and replay with speedcontrol.

Cloud Collaboration

Blackmagic Cloud

DaVinci Resolve 19 supports Blackmagic Cloud, so you can host your project libraries on the DaVinci Resolve Project Server in the cloud. Share projects and work collaboratively with editors, colorists, VFX artists and audio engineers on the same project at the same time, anywhere in theworld!

Blackmagic Cloud for Organizations

The Organizations app lets larger companies define asingle organization or company within Blackmagic Cloud. Nowyou can create groups or teams and quickly share projects to an entire group rather than one by one. Youcan also manage storage access, share Presentations, and create asingle signon!

DaVinci Resolve Studio Licenses

The Organizations app also lets you buy or rent DaVinci Resolve Studio licenses. This makes it easier for companies to assign and manage the allocation of licenses within large groups. Licenses can be costed against specific projects and then removed when it’scomplete.

Blackmagic ProxyGenerator

The new Blackmagic Proxy Generator App automatically creates and manages proxies from camera originals. Create awatch folder and new media is automatically converted into H.264, H.265 or ProRes proxies to accelerate editing workflows. You can extract proxies into aseparate folder for offlinework!

Simplified Proxy Workflow

Switch between camera original footage and proxies in asingle click. With Blackmagic Proxy Generated proxies, DaVinci Resolve knows where in the file tree to find them, instantly linking to the camera originals in the media pool. Edit with proxies, then relink to camera originals tograde!

Blackmagic Cloud Camera Sync

Multiple Blackmagic cameras can now upload proxy files, followed by the camera originals, to Blackmagic Cloud. With automatic sync to DaVinci Resolve projects, you can start editing and grading quickly using proxies, speeding up your workflow. It’s a fast, seamless and automatic way tocollaborate.

Intelligent MediaManagement

DaVinci Resolve 19 adds intelligent media location management, so that when you are collaborating you can quickly link media to your unique file paths. Now you don’t need to manually relink or search for assets when you work remotely. So you have more time for creativity and less time on fileadmin!

Presentations Review

Export your timeline to the Blackmagic Cloud using the new Presentations feature. With Presentations, multiple people can review your timeline, leave comments and even share alivechat. Comments will appear as markers on your DaVinci Resolve timeline, allowing you to act on feedbackquickly.

Timeline Locking withinBins

Collaboration with other editors at the same time is now even easier with the new timeline locking operation. This automatic operation prevents two users selecting the same timeline by locking it to the first user without the need to lock the whole timeline bin. Multiple editors can now work on different timelines in the same bin at thesame.

Cut and Edit

Multi Source

Multi Source lets you see all your live cameras, or even just clips in abin with acommon timecode, in amultiview screen to look for any point of interest. Youcan scrub, play and select shots to add to the timeline or simply play to air. Youcan even switch live from any of the availableangles.

Point of Interest

When watching live cameras or amultiview of clips and asignifiant event occurs, capture the moment with aPOI marker. ThePOI is placed on all the clips at that same time so you can quickly find the event on every camera angle, play them to air and even automatically build ahighlightstimeline.

Replay Palette

The pace of live TV is frantic so the replay controls are clear and quick to navigate. SetaPOI with asingle key, select acamera and cue the event. Then select run to play to air automatically via ATEM. Youcan switch cameras or once it’s done, simply dump the playout to prepare the nextreplay.

Auto Stinger

Stingers are moving graphics and sound transition to let the viewer know you have switched from live to areplay, then back, or even just switched to anew scene. Select auto stingers from the media pool and play in real time at the head and tail of areplay, even when the replay is in slowmotion.

Text Based Timeline Editing

Improvements to the transcription workflow make it possible to edit clips based on their transcribed text directly on the timeline! Theanalyzer is now able to detect multiple voices, allowing you to assign names to different speakers and refine text based search and text replacementoperations.

AI Speech to Text Transcription

The transcribe feature automatically transcribes video and audio clips! Simply select the clips in the media pool and use the menus to select audio transcription and then transcribe. You can mark in and out points to edit or delete text, generate sub clips, add markers and even removesilence.

Improved Cut PageEditing

The addition of three new menus to the Cut page timeline allows for quicker and more flexible editing. Use the timeline options, timeline actions and edit actions to toggle ripple editing, trim edit points to the playhead, trim to and resync audio, and change the appearance of the timeline andmore!

Automatically CreateSubtitles

The auto subtitle feature on the Cut and Edit pages transcribes timeline speech to text automatically into a subtitle track on the timeline. To activate, simply click ‘create subtitles from audio’ in the timeline menu. Once analyzed, click the individual captions to modify them in theinspector.

Scene CutDetection

Scene cut detection is now possible directly on the Cut timeline. Simply navigate to the timeline menu and click ‘detect scene cuts’. Selected clips will be analyzed for content and cut points automatically placed on every new edit in the rendered clip. Customers can modify or remove trim points asneeded.

A/V Split Audio and VideoEdits

On the Cut page, drag the lower part of aclip to separately adjust the audio track, allowing the dialogue to be heard before or continue after the video clip is seen. Editors can creatively focus visual attention on the scene using audio to add interest, drama and even tension to dialoguescenes.

Open TimelineIO

Support for the OpenTimelineIO (OTIO) format makes importing and exporting timelines from other NLE applications faster and easier. OTIO supports metadata for clips, timing, tracks, transitions and markers, as well as information about the order and length of cuts and references to externalmedia.

AI Based VoiceIsolation

The AI based voice isolation track FX let’s you remove loud, undesirable sounds from voice recordings. Isolating dialog from background sounds in arecording, you can eliminate everything else from moderate noise to aircraft and explosions leaving only the voice. Voice isolation is perfect for interviews and dialogue recordings from noisylocations.

Built-in Dialogue Leveler

The dialogue leveler track FX in the inspector processes and smoothes dialogue recordings without the need for tedious level adjustments on clip gain or automation curves. Controls include real time scrolling waveform display, focus presets and three process options which allow you to easily achieve natural soundingresults.

Color

UltraNR Noise Reduction

UltraNR is anew DaVinci Neural Engine driven denoise mode in the Color page’s spatial noise reduction palette. Useit to dramatically reduce digital noise from aframe while maintaining image clarity. Combine with temporal noise reduction for even more effective denoising in images withmotion!

Film Look Creator

The new Film Look Creator lets you add cinematic looks that replicate film properties like halation, bloom, grain, flicker, gate weave and vignetting. Adjust exposure in stops and use subtractive saturation, richness and split tone controls to achieve looks usually found on the bigscreen!

ColorSlice Six Vector Grading

The ColorSlice palette uses subtractive color processes to adjust image color density, saturation and hue, allowing you to produce rich filmic colors and looks. Parameters in each customizable vector slice let you enhance and deepen color without spill, in away that looks naturallypleasing.

Marker Overlays andAnnotations

The Color page viewer now supports marker overlays and annotations for timeline and clip markers. Open the marker interface to leave written notes with your visual feedback. Select a marker color and thickness, and draw directly in the viewer or use the arrow tool to point to areas ofinterest.

Composite Mode withinNodes

Corrector nodes in the color page node editor now features composite mode. These composite modes will allow you to affect how node values blend into the pipeline without the need of alayer mixer. This means that your node graph looks cleaner and it’s faster and easier to follow the signalflow.

Automatic Depth Map

The new depth map effect lets you instantly generate a3Ddepth matte of ascene to quickly grade the foreground separately from the background, and vice versa. You can bring attention to action in the foreground, help interview subjects stand out, or add atmosphere in the background ofascene!

Fusion

Advanced Volumetric Rendering

uVolume lets you directly import volumetric VDB files into Fusion eliminating time consuming conversions. Italso adds creative control of imported effects such as smoke, fire, clouds and explosions. Youget complete control over density, temperature and color parameters of the VDB file inDaVinci!

MultiPoly Tool

The new MultiPoly tool displays all of your masks in asingle list eliminating switching between nodes for faster, more accurate rotoscoping! Perfect for complex projects, you can view, select, add to and modify specific shapes, toggle their visibility and adjust parameters all from onelocation.

Universal Scene Description

Fusion now supports Universal Scene Description files for easier collaboration between VFX artists. USD data such as geometry, lighting, cameras, materials and animation can be imported. Fusion’s new USD tools let you manipulate, re-light and render files using Hydra-based renderers such asStorm.

Fusion Multi-LayerTool

The new multi-merge tool lets you merge numerous media sources into asingle multi layer stack, so it’s easier to create composites by merging clips, stills or graphics using layers. Each layer has its own controls, so you can still change individual properties like position, size and applymodes.

Fairlight

AI Audio Panning to Video

The new IntelliTrack AI point tracker lets you automatically generate precision audio panning by tracking people or objects as they move across 2D and 3D spaces! With AI audio panning to video, you can quickly pan multiple actors in ascene, controlling their voice positions in the mixenvironment!

AI Fairlight FX

The AI based dialogue separator FX lets you rebalance dialogue against background sound and the reverberant sound of the room. Youget controls for voice, background and ambience so you can reduce, remix or remove competing sounds. It’s perfect for field recordings and interviews in busylocations.

Fairlight Ducker Track FX

The ducker track FX lets one track auto adjust the level of another track without the need for setting up complex side chain compression or automation curves. Youcan automatically set music or background noise to lower when dialog is present, then fine tune the audio mix with advancedcontrols.

Ambisonic Surround Sound

Record, mix, monitor and deliver full sphere Ambisonic surround soundtracks! Fully integrated native operation with 1st to 5th order busses and tracks, native effects processing, 2D and 3D spherical panning, binaural and channel based monitoring, dynamic in-viewer metering and head trackingsupport.

Fairlight Track Groups

Combine related audio tracks or mixer channels into groups, enabling shared mix automation or editing operations. When creating groups, you can determine the parameters they will share. Groups can be nested, or temporarily suspended to quickly switch focus to smaller groups or individualtracks.

AI Audio Classification

The DaVinci Neural Engine can classify audio clips based on their content, making editing choices faster when reviewing unfamiliar materials. After analysis, audio clips appear in collections bins for dialogue, music and effects with detailed sub categories such as explosions, water orinsects.

Automatic Binaural Rendering

The Dolby Atmos deliverable toolset has been expanded to support rendering of abinaural output from acomplex Dolby Atmos mix. Now aDolby 7.1.4 mix can be rendered to playback in apair of headphones while maintaining the immersive sound experience from just two audiochannels.

Innovative Space View 3D Display

DaVinci Resolve supports the latest industry standard audio formats natively, including immersive audio formats like Dolby Atmos, Auro 3D, MPEG-H, NHK 22.2, and SMPTE. The space view scope displays areal time view of every object and its relationship to the room and other objects in3Dspace.

Next Generation
Engineering

DaVinci Resolve 19 features some of the most cutting edge technology in the industry today. TheDaVinci Neural Engine is an advanced machine learning system powering many of the software’s most powerful tools, and it is fully supported in Apple Mseries. Inclusion of the latest version of Dolby Vision means that users can view HDR on supported monitors, including on laptops. Thefuture proof DaVinci Wide Gamut and Intermediate log grading environment allow you to work on media from any source. Youcan deliver to every projection, monitoring and archiving standard in use today. Plus DaVinci Resolve is the only software that you can use to edit and grade 8K footage in realtime!

Laptop HDR Monitoring

Increased Dolby Vision support now includes the latest version of Dolby Vision, which offers HDR viewing on Apple displays that feature high dynamic range options. This includes XDR displays and even the latest laptops, which means you can review, grade and deliver HDR footage fromanywhere!

Atmospheric Simulation

Quickly generate randomized noise data to replicate different types of atmosphere and particle like effects. Use the presets to generate smoke and mist effects. Advanced parameters let you create a distinct appearance or movement in the noise. You can even warp images using the displacementmap!

Edge Detection

Improved edge strength and filter controls in the edge detect effect produce more natural results than ever. The gamma control allows for cleaner edges and asmoother rolloff. The half edge setting displays either the light or dark side of the edge, allowing for unique sharpening and haloeffects.

DaVinci Wide Gamut Color Space

DaVinci wide gamut and intermediate are timeline color space and gamma standards that provide auniversal internal working color space. It’s larger than what cameras can capture, even larger than BT.2020, ARRI wide gamut and ACES AP1. You’ll never lose image quality, no matter where it comesfrom!

8K Real Time Color Correction

Only DaVinci Resolve supports 8K digital negative debayering editing and grading in realtime! Working directly on RAW footage when compositing and grading ensures the most accurate results, to avoid limited resolutions, compression artifacts and banding that might impact your creativedecisions!

Technology
and Creativity

DaVinci Resolve provides some of the most intelligent AI and advanced feature algorithms available in post production! These tools produce quick, accurate results that will elevate the visual quality of your project while saving you hours oftime. The magic mask needs only asingle stroke to locate and track people, features, and objects. Smart reframe repurposes footage to dramatically different aspect ratios by recognizing the action in ascene and panning within it. Tools like object removal and the patch replacer allow you to remove unwanted equipment from ascene with the click of afew buttons. Plus the tracker has been the industry leader for over20years.

AI Tools

IntelliTrack AI Tracking

The new IntelliTrack AI is powered by the DaVinci Neural Engine, optimizing tracking and stabilization in the color and Fusion pages. Itcan also be used in Fairlight to track on screen subjects and automatically generate audio panning within ascene, saving time and producing more immersiveaudio!

Music Remixer FX

The music remixer track FX lets you adjust music to fit with the style of your show. Controls include mute and level adjustments for voice, drums, base, guitar and more! Youcan turn avocal piece into an instrumental, automate changes and refocus the music mix to the instruments you want tohear.

Person Mask

The magic mask palette uses the DaVinci Neural Engine to detect people, tracking their movement in ashot. This person mask produces clean traveling mattes for secondary grades oreffects. You can make characters stand out in an under litshot, or invert the person mask and stylize thebackground.

SuperScale

This unique upscaling algorithm creates new pixels when increasing the resolution of animage. The newly generated data has more detail in upscaled images than standard resizing controls. Ideal for scaling archival footage into modern resolutions, or upscaling HD footage to match a4K or8Kproject.

Smart Reframe for Social Media

Now you can use 16:9 HD or UltraHD and quickly create square or vertical versions for posting to Instagram and other apps! The DaVinci Neural Engine automatically identifies action and repositions the image inside anew frame so you don’t have to do it manually. You can even fine tune theresults!

Stylize with Open FX Library

The Open FX library features over adozen stylize effects that can artistically modify the content of the image. Ranging from the creative, like pencil sketch, halation and abstraction, to the practical like blanking fill, these effects analyze the content of ashot to produce strikingimagery.

Face Refinement

The sophisticated face refinement filter uses facial feature recognition to automatically detect and track faces! Use its many parameters for general beauty work, like skin smoothing, for correcting unflattering color casts, and for retouching individual features like eyes, lips andcheeks.

Dead Pixel Fixer

Dead pixels in acamera sensor will often appear as static white dots and could affect hundreds of shots before they are noticed! Click on the white dots in the viewer, and the dead pixel fixer will use the surrounding pixel data to cover them up, rescuing your footage and preventingreshoots!

Object Removal

The perfect tool for covering up moving objects in an otherwise static shot, object removal analyzes ascene and uses the background information to paint out unwanted data. Create aPower Window on anew node, track the unwanted object, and link to the effect node. Watch it vanish before youreyes!

Patch Replacer

Sample an area of your scene to quickly cover up unwanted elements, like boom mics or even blemishes on aface. The patch replacer has afantastic auto grading feature that will seamlessly blend the covered area with the surrounding color data, even when there is movement or changes in thelight.

Tools for Content Creators

Vertical Resolution for Social Media

For content creators on TikTok, Instagram, X, YouTube shorts, Snapchat and more, there is now aselection of square and vertical video resolutions available in the project and timeline settings. Combine with Smart Reframe to quickly setup your timeline for vertical or square resolutionvideos.

Upload Directly to Social Media

Link your social media accounts to DaVinci Resolve in order to upload videos directly to YouTube, Vimeo and Twitter as you export. Compression settings have been developed based on each site’s best recommendations, meaning your videos will be optimized for visual quality and playbackspeed.

Import ATEM Mini Projects

Live production projects from ATEM Mini ISO models can be opened as atimeline. The sync bin with multiview lets you fine tune edits from the original live production or even replace shots. You can use the ISO recordings from ATEM or relink to Blackmagic RAW camera files for finishing inUltraHD!

Advanced Noise Reduction

Two powerful tools restore noisy digital footage, even if captured in lowlight. The GPU accelerated temporal noise reduction algorithm removes noise while intelligently retaining areas of highdetail. While the spatial noise tool analyzes the remaining noise pattern to lift it from theimage.

Optical Flow Speed Change

The advanced retiming algorithm analyzes ascene’s content, building new frames so you can slow down and extend the action in asequence without repairing or blending frames into each other. Every frame created with optical flow is sharp, and intelligently constructed from existing visualdata.

Mix 2,000 Tracks inRealtime!

Fairlight Audio Core is alow latency, next generation audio engine that intelligently manages workloads by using all CPUcores. That means sound elements can be split into as many tracks as needed. You get up to 2,000 tracks, each with real time EQ, dynamics and 6 plug-ins, all on asinglesystem!

Color Warper for Refined Grading

The mesh based warping tool lets you adjust two color parameters at once. You can adjust both hue and saturation or chroma and luma. Adjustments are made by dragging control points, with smooth falloff for clean, natural looking adjustments. It’s anew way to transform color inyourimages!

Track and Follow Objects

The tracker palette lets you effortlessly follow objects and people to apply secondary grading or effects. When awindow is placed on asubject, the tracker can follow its contents in 3Dspace, resulting in aquick and accurate mask. You can easily emphasize vital elements ofascene!

Hardware and Software Integration

Streamline your workflow with editing keyboards, grading panels and audio consoles designed to work with DaVinci Resolve software. Faster than just software, dedicated features are placed directly at your fingertips. Adjust multiple parameters simultaneously on the same panels used inHollywood!