Blackmagic Design has released DaVinci Resolve 17.0 Beta 2. Beta 2 is available for both DaVinci Resolve and DaVinci Studio.
Here is what is new:
What’s new in DaVinci Resolve 17.0
Color
- DaVinci Resolve Advanced Panel keycaps kit and new optimized menus.
- RCM2 with improved color tagging and smooth tone and gamut mapping.
- HDR perceptually accurate primary grading tools with tonal range control.
- Color warper to qualify and change hue vs saturation and luma vs chroma.
- Magic mask using the DaVinci neural engine generates tracking masks.
- Redesigned primary interface to show all controls concurrently.
- Grading tools are colorspace aware in color managed timelines.
- Support for user selectable colorspace and gamma for HDR grading tools.
- Support for timeline clips to bypass color management.
- Support for sat vs lum mode in the curve tool.
- Support for generating a 17-point cube 3D LUT.
- Support for LUTs designed for video range.
- Support for saving smart filters to be shown in all projects.
- Support for smart filters for marker keywords added to timeline clips.
- Support for diagonal, venetian blinds and checkerboard reference wipes.
- Support to set input colorspace, gamma and IDT on preconform timelines.
- Support for a pop-out floating window for the curves panel.
- Support for fast review from the playback menu on the color page.
- Support for a 3×3 grid view and multiple GPU scopes of the same type.
- Support for a floating video scopes window in dual screen layouts.
- Improved scaling and style options for waveforms and vectorscopes.
- Support for loading IDTs and ODTs as a DCTL file or ACES RRT.
- Support for defining LUTs inside a DCTL file.
- Support for multiple simultaneous client connections in remote grading.
- Support for advanced and mini panels networking for remote grading.
- Support for a split screen playhead viewing mode.
- Support for improved split screen layouts.
- Support for converting in-out ranges to duration markers.
- Improved behavior when drawing bezier power windows using a mouse.
- Option to use a Rec.2020 matrix for 4:2:2 video monitoring.
Resolve FX
- Resolve FX Smear frame blending for motion blur and other effects.
- Resolve FX Motion Trails temporal motion blur, object trails, disco effects.
- Resolve FX Transform clip moving, stretching and rotation with motion blur.
- Resolve FX False Color overlays replicating camera HUDs and other looks.
- Resolve FX Texture Pop for fine image detail and contrast control.
- Resolve FX Detail Recovery for detail and grain recovery.
- Resolve FX Noise Reduction native noise reduction tools as Resolve FX.
- Resolve FX Video Collage to quickly position a stack of clips into a grid.
- Resolve FX Luma, HSL and 3D native keying tools as Resolve FX.
- Improved Resolve FX Film Grain with new optimized mode.
- Improved Resolve FX Dead Pixel Fixer with freehand fill, softness etc.
- Improved Resolve FX Dust Buster with shape drawing, clone fixes etc.
- Improved Resolve FX Object Removal for scene mode, adaptive blending.
- Improved Resolve FX Blur defaults for directional, radial and zoom blurs.
- Improved Resolve FX Tilt Shift with alpha channel support for depth masks.
Audio
- Support for the Fairlight Mini Console.
- Fairlight Audio Core to natively CPU process up to 2000 audio tracks.
- FlexBus routing system to permit bus to bus routing and mixing.
- ADM import, playback and export of Dolby Atmos IMF IAB masters.
- Fairlight FX Surround Analyzer meters.
- Full implementation of the 9.1.6 and 22.2 surround sound bus formats.
- Native support for 44.1 KHz sample rate audio clips and instruments.
- Analyzing and navigating to audio transients in a track.
- Offline clip-based audio loudness analyzer.
- Selection of absolute or relative scales and loudness meter dialog gating.
- Pro Tools keyboard customization preset.
- Full range of video controls in the new unified and tabbed inspector.
- Updated editing, range and selection behavior in edit selection mode.
- Support for importing AES31 audio timelines.
- Support for pre-viewing video when sliding clips, markers and ranges.
- Support for reversing audio clips.
- Support for flattening audio track layers.
- Support to have automation following clip edit changes.
- Support for saving, recalling, creating timelines via configuration presets.
- Support for editing linked clips.
- Support for marquee selection of multiple mixer tracks.
- Support for changing the track type of multiple selected tracks.
- Support to directly edit in the mixer track and VCA group names.
- Support for deleting multiple empty tracks from the track header.
- Support for deleting marked extents on selected tracks.
- Support for per-timeline views, selections, range and playhead location.
- Support for changing clip gain using shortcuts.
- Improved clip gain with change tooltips and fine control using shift.
- Support for bouncing linked groups to a multi channel file.
- Support for track record, mute, solo, arm control in the application menu.
- Support for viewer to be off, floating, docked or full screen.
- Support for toggling interface between normal and cinema viewer mode.
- Support for monitoring volume dB level tooltip.
- Support for selecting multiple monitor sources from Fairlight audio editors.
- Support for pre & post roll control from the Fairlight audio editors.
- Support for selection of Fairlight Audio Interface phantom power, gain etc.
- Improved waveform display when zooming into a clip waveform.
- Improved metering displays for timelines with lots of audio tracks.
- Improved keyboard mappings for edit selection mode.
- Improved MPEG-H workflow and export support.
Cut
- Support for the DaVinci Resolve Speed Editor.
- Full featured unified inspector with tabs and keyframe control.
- File tab in the inspector with camera raw settings and clip metadata.
- Media pool clip properties can now be viewed and edited in the inspector.
- Media pool slate and sort view with grouping based on clip metadata.
- Audio trim on the viewer and timeline.
- Live scrubbing previews for effects library transitions, titles and effects.
- Support for a new relink icon and dialog in the cut page.
- Support quickly switching source tape bins from the media pool.
- Support for showing the media pool in a flattened view.
- Playhead indicators for distance to adjacent edits when using sync bins.
- Support for a change duration dialog with presets in the cut page.
- Support for entering the clip duration in the viewer duration field.
- Support for navigating edit points and markers in the cut page.
- Support for a thumbnail view in the effects library.
- Support for a full screen preview icon on the viewer.
- Support for selecting safe area guides and aspect ratios on the cut page.
- Support for a cinema viewer with sync bin multi-views.
- Support for switching timelines in the viewer.
- Support for importing frame sequences as individual still images.
- Improved markers entry using the DaVinci Resolve Editor keyboard.
Edit
- Full featured unified inspector with tabs and keyframe control.
- File tab in the inspector with camera raw settings and clip metadata.
- Media pool clip properties can now be viewed and edited in the inspector.
- Significantly improved DaVinci neural engine deinterlacing quality option.
- Significantly improved processing of interlaced timelines and deliveries.
- Real time removal of 3:2 pull down.
- Scene cut detection directly on the timeline using DaVinci neural engine.
- Automatically framing shots based on content using DaVinci neural engine.
- Quick and clean chroma keying with Resolve FX Luma, HSL and 3D Keyer.
- Resolve FX Video Collage for multiple source picture in picture grid.
- Burn away transition with options to control burning, melting and shriveling.
- Sync of multiple audio clips to a single video clip.
- Aligning edits on the timeline using waveform or timecode matching.
- Importing BorisFX Continuum plugins, transitions etc. from AAFs.
- Live scrubbing previews for effects library transitions, titles and effects.
- Media pool slate and sort view with grouping based on clip metadata.
- Deleting gaps based on clip selection, ranges or the whole timeline.
- Support for rendering sections of the timeline in place with effects baked in.
- Support for motion blur controls for motion based video transitions.
- Support for dragging effects directly into the inspector.
- Support for conversion of basic transitions into Fusion transitions.
- Support for timeline compositing using Resolve FX & OpenFX alpha.
- Support to retain image position in the crop section of the inspector.
- Support to navigate the timeline with arrow keys without affecting selection.
- Support to change clip selection using arrow keys and command modifier.
- Support for a thumbnail view in the effects library.
- Support for sorting timelines alphabetically, creation date or recent use.
- Support for disabling timelines within the media pool.
- Improved timecode entry with multiple modes and dedicated action.
- Support for copy paste of timecode or frame in viewers based on mode.
- Support for compositing using track mattes or external alpha.
- Support for Fusion effect templates in the edit page.
- Support for viewer overlays for Fusion templates and titles.
- Support to save and show smart bins in all projects.
- Support for creating multiple multicam clips by splitting at gaps.
- Support for compound clip or timeline conversion into multicam clips.
- Support to optionally zoom timeline at the cursor or the playhead.
- Support for a fast play review from the playback menu.
- Support for hovering on title font names to preview on viewer.
- Support for monitoring HDR and SDR outputs for Dolby Vision projects.
- Support for monitoring stereoscopic 3D timelines.
- Support for creating DCTL based transitions.
- Support for importing EDL, XML etc. without media to empty media pool.
- Support for floating video scopes in media view in a dual monitor mode.
- Support for closing take selector or retime using escape.
- Support for creating a new timeline using an IMF composition playlist.
- Improved behavior when switching between clip and edit point selections.
- Improved waveform syncing when creating multicams or aligning clips.
- Improved track compositing when the media doesn’t cover the full canvas.
- Support for independent track height and view mode options.
Fusion
- Audio playback along with waveform display in the keyframes panel.
- Viewing and editing clip and timeline markers in the keyframes panel.
- Resolve FX Dead Pixel Fixer, DCTL and Patch Replacer.
- Anim curves modifier for convenient easing and shaping of animations.
- Support for user customization of the Fusion toolbar above the node editor.
- Support for auto creating a composition when adding tools or media.
- Support for additional dual screen layouts.
- Support for full featured unified inspector with tabs and keyframe control.
- Initial support for a GPU accelerated 2D shapes toolkit for motion graphics.
- Improved optical flow behavior.
Workflow Integrations
- Open toolkit to create DaVinci Resolve Studio workflow integration plugins.
Codecs
- Directly uploading to Twitter from within DaVinci Resolve.
- Per frame metadata from Blackmagic RAW clips.
- Per frame metadata from ARRI, RED, Canon and Sony cameras.
- Decoding and rendering per-frame EXR metadata.
- Updated metadata support for Sony MXF clips.
- Open plugin SDK toolkit for encoder developers.
- Growing file support in the media pool.
- Decoding QuickTime PNG clips.
- Decoding uncompressed RGB 8-bit and YUV 10-bit AVI clips.
- Decoding spanned Panasonic 8K SHV clips.
- Decoding and encoding GoPro CineForm clips with non multiple of 16 res.
- Decoding and encoding mp3 audio in Linux.
- Decoding and encoding high-throughput JPEG 2000 (HTJ2K).
- Bypass re-encodes for supported JPEG 2000 profiles on renders.
- Encoding IMF MCA audio metadata.
- Encoding IMF and DCP as reels based on duration or edits.
- Exporting non-HDR DCP metadata option.
- Exporting HDR tags in DCP workflows.
- Support for reading RAW clips and audio clips from Frame.io.
- Support for additional NVIDIA encoder parameters for H.264 and H.265.
- Support for rendering 10-bit HDR IMF clips.
- Support for a 16 bit SDR IMF preset.
- Support for Photon 4.8.0 for IMF validation.
General
- Proxy media workflow supporting internal and externally generated media.
- Optimized media is now automatically available across projects.
- Generation of optimized media can now be limited to edit extents.
- In and out ranges are now synchronized between pages.
- Significantly improved performance with large collaboration projects.
- Stability improvements with new GPU detection and initialization.
- Better interactivity and playback performance on multi-GPU systems.
- Consistent pan, zoom and scroll behavior with mouse and trackpads.
- Support for importing and exporting individual timelines using .drt files.
- Support for importing and exporting individual bins using .drb files.
- Support for exporting .drt files for media managed timelines.
- Support for auto linking .drt files to source camera clips.
- Support for auto linking .drt files generated using media management.
- Improved error handling for media management jobs.
- Support for a warning about media offline when creating render jobs.
- Support for smart bins and smart filters to check if media is offline.
- Support to scan all connected databases for remote rendering jobs.
- Support for new resize filter options in project settings and edit inspector.
- Support for render caching adjustment clips.
- Support to adjust numeric field entries using arrow keys based on cursor.
- Support to ignore unsupported OpenFX plugin packages in preferences.
- Support for independently configuring capture and playback devices.
- Support for displaying source frame number in data burn-in.
- Support for adjusting text opacity for data burn-in.
- Support for configuring multiple custom LUT paths.
- Support for Thai & Vietnamese UI localizations.
- Support for a render codec tag for render path and file name.
- Support for ITU-R BT.2111-1 HDR test bar patterns.
- Support for showing fast forward & rewind speed.
- Support for NVLink high speed interconnect with supported NVIDIA GPUs.
- Support for xGMI high speed interconnect with supported AMD GPUs.
- Support for an integrated title bar in the application window on Mac OS.
- Support for previous and next navigation across Frame.io markers.
- Support for triggering a script at the start or end of a render.
- Multiple scripting API improvements.
- Multiple performance and stability improvements.
