Blackmagic Design has just released DaVinci Resolve version 16.2 with a number of new features and fixes.
This release includes major updates to the Fairlight audio module that aim to make audio post-production faster than ever.
You can download the new update from the Blackmagic Design Support Page.
Fairlight timeline editing toolset improvements.
- New mouse and keyboard based editing toolset.
- User adjustable per track scalable waveform display.
- Keyboard shortcut editing actions now include fade, cut, select and move.
- Support for alt/option dragging clips to create a clip copy.
- Support for pasting clips across timelines.
- Support for bouncing individual audio clips to files.
- Support for dragging audio clips to separate tracks using modifiers.
- Support for dragging audio clips to specific positions using modifiers.
- Support for converting multichannel tracks into linked groups.
- Support for a user preference to align audio edits to frame boundaries.
- Support for an action to trim all audio edits to frame boundaries.
Fairlight sound library.
- Release of the Fairlight sound library installer for foley effects.
- Support for searching and displaying sound library description metadata.
Effects and plugin management improvements.
- Automatic sorting of AU and VST audio effects into types and categories.
- Favorite audio plugins are now displayed at the top of the mixer plugin list.
Additional immersive audio support.
- Support for MPEG-H bussing and monitoring in DaVinci Resolve Studio.
- Improved pan and balance including the ability to constrain panning.
Track Index improvements.
- Support for the edit index in the Fairlight page.
- Drag selection of tracks, mute, solo and record controls in the track index.
- Drag and drop reordering of audio tracks in the track index.
AAF import/export improvements.
- Support for importing AAF sequences as new tracks in an existing timeline.
- Support for importing AAF sequences with an offset to an existing timeline.
- Support for importing multichannel tracks from an AAF as linked groups.
- Support for broadcast wave files when exporting an embedded AAF.
- Support for exporting audio cross fades and fade handles in AAF files.
Audio mixing improvements.
- Support for additional notch filters in clip EQ.
- Support for new FairlightFX Meters.
- Support for new FairlightFX LFE Filter.
Fairlight Audio Editor improvements.
- Support for dedicated controls for panning up and down.
- Support for editing clip EQ.
- Support for copying and pasting clip EQ.
- Support for creating and applying presets for clip EQ.
- Support for adding, managing and custom mapping of plugin parameters.
- Support for changing relative clip levels.
- Support for resetting clip levels to unity.
- Support for editing fade shapes and deleting fades.
- Support for saving and recalling user defined track view presets.
- Support for enabling layered audio editing from the desktop audio editor.
- Support for choosing automation curves from the editor panel or console.
- Improved behavior when moving track selection with no tracks selected.
- Support for improved timecode entry and high frame rate timecode.
- Support for entering relative timecode values.
- Support for inserting 00 in timecode entry by using the colon key.
- Support for master spill on console faders.
- Support for finer adjustment of controls using the mouse or audio editor.
- Support for media left and media right selection keys.
- Support for a text-only labels mode.
- Support for a traditional Fairlight keyboard layout.
Improved support for legacy Fairlight project import.
- Improved import of EQ, automation and fade from legacy Fairlight projects.
- Improved speed when importing large legacy Fairlight projects.
Editing improvements.
- Improved performance when switching to large timelines with many tracks.
- Support for creating a compound clip from an in-out range in the timeline.
- Support for previewing timeline audio during live overwrites of video edits.
- Support for editing individual angles to the timeline from a multi-cam viewer.
- Support for updating clip duration display while editing in the cut page.
- Support for a change transition duration dialog.
- Support for viewing duration in frames or timecode format in the viewers.
- Support for Fusion transition templates in the edit page.
- Support for Fusion generator templates in the edit page.
- Support for timeline view options per system in collaborative projects.
Media Pool improvements.
- Improved audio track metadata support with support for up to 24 tracks.
- Support for duplicated clips and timelines being placed in the source bin.
- Support for sorting media pool clips by date added.
- Support for showing synced audio filenames in the media pool list view.
- Support for revealing the media pool location of a clip from a smart bin.
- Support for a media pool context menu to duplicate clips and timelines.
- Support for only additional files when repeating media management copies.
Color grading improvements.
- Multiple stability and usability improvements for collaborative projects.
- Support for smart filters based on keywords and people metadata tags.
- Support for modifying primary grade values using numerical values.
- Support for retaining out of range data when monitoring at video levels.
- Support for Fusion MediaOut name tooltips on the node graph inputs.
- Support for feet and frames data burn-in options.
- Support for disabling output sizing and blanking for individual clip renders.
Scopes improvements.
- Support option for showing scopes at video level and data level.
- Support for HLG gamma when using HDR scopes.
- Support for highlighting the color viewer qualifier position in the scopes.
Codec improvements.
- Support for Blackmagic RAW SDK 1.7.
- Support for rendering audio only timelines.
- Support for decoding 32 bit floating point audio.
- Improved support for color space and gamma when decoding H.265 clips.
- Support for displaying EXR codec name based on compression method.
- Support for overriding the color space and gamma tags in render settings.
- Support for RED SDK 7.2.1 and decoding clips from the Komodo camera.
- Support for two new parameters in the RED camera raw settings.
- Support for REDWideGamut Log3G10 IDT for ACES projects.
- Support for the Canon EOS-1D X Mark III camera.
- Support for decoding u-Law Audio in QuickTime clips.
- Support for alpha channel clips with the bypass re-encode option.
Scripting, API and general improvements.
- Support for running the primary screen as a window in dual screen mode.
- Improved scripting API with the ability to close an open project.
- Improved scripting API to set frame rate for media pool clips.
- Support for new scripting functions to return ordered lists.
- Support for video monitoring advance and delay on the Fairlight page.
- Support for GPI/GPO control on the Fairlight Audio Interface.
- Multiple performance and stability improvements.
