Blackmagic Design has released DaVinci Resolve 18.5 Beta 5. 18.5 Beta adds further improvements including support for Blackmagic RAW 3.3, DaVinci Wide Gamut in Fusion, better Text+ element merging, plus improved audio encoder bit rate encoding.
There is improved Text+ element merging when using gradient fill, plus finer control of wide gamut settings. This update also enables audio encoder bit rate settings to be applied per track, as well as audio playback improvements when using Fairlight Audio Accelerator. In addition, DaVinci Resolve Studio 18.5 Beta 5 improves video output performance on clean feeds in Mac OS.
What’s new in DaVinci Resolve 18.5?
Key Features
- Multiple cut page improvements.
- Support for Blackmagic Cloud Presentations.
- DaVinci Neural Engine based subtitles from audio in Studio.
- DaVinci Neural Engine powered text based editing in Studio.
- Support for Universal Scene Description based workflows in Fusion.
- New Fusion multi merge tool for compositing multiple layers.
- Multiple remote monitoring improvements.
- Support for fast per-timeline backups.
- Per-timeline Resolve Color Management.
- Support for edit and mix groups in Fairlight.
- Support for AI-based audio classification in Studio.
Cut
- Multiple timeline display improvements.
- Support for subtitles in the cut timeline.
- Enlarge a track by clicking on icon in the track header.
- Options to display clip names and indicators.
- Improved smart indicator and edit point display.
- Out of sync indicators for edited sync clips.
- Multiple timeline action improvements.
- Automatically detect and create captions from timeline audio.
- Perform DaVinci Neural Engine scene cuts in the cut timeline.
- Add audio, video and subtitle tracks.
- Split and join adjacent clips.
- Ripple option to toggle ripple edits on main track.
- Add markers and set default marker color.
- New edit actions.
- Ability to create split edits by rolling or trimming audio.
- Alt or Option trim to bypass ripple and add a gap on the main track.
- Trim and extend edit clip start or end to playhead.
- Resync misaligned synced clips.
- Reorganized toolbar for quick access to view options and edit actions.
- Right click on smooth cut to access favorite transitions on the toolbar.
- Cut page track numbering unified with other pages.
- Export current frame as still from media, cut and edit viewers.
- New motion graphic effects templates and transitions in cut and edit.
Media
- Support for AI-based audio classification in Studio.*
- Support for fast per-timeline backups.*
- Support for additional automatic smart bins.
- Import and export timelines using the OpenTimelineIO format.
- New 2x Enhanced Super Scale algorithm.*
- Ability to set Super Scale settings for media from the inspector.*
- Metadata panel support for marker subclips.*
- Ability to clear in-out ranges for multiple clips.
- Ability to change the starting timecode for multiple timeline selections.
- Ability to reorder favorites in media storage.
- Ability to clear recent media history in the source viewer.
- Support for custom pixel aspect ratios in clip attributes.
- Improved proxy linking for clips without timecode.
Edit
- DaVinci Neural Engine based subtitles from audio in Studio.
- DaVinci Neural Engine powered text based editing in Studio.
- Ability to add and delete keyframes using keyboard shortcuts.
- Ability to modify keyframes during playback on the edit timeline.
- Export current frame as still from media, cut and edit viewers.
- Ability to drag video tracks to reorder in the track index.
- Ability to stabilize multiple selected clips from the timeline.
- Retime curve now invokes the speed curve by default.
- Option to copy grades from flattened multicams to multicam angles.
- Ability to manage render caches across projects.
- Ability to manually relink missing VFX Connect clips.
- Ability to select all clips under playhead in cut, edit and Fairlight.
- Ability to set key shortcuts for timeline view options and volume controls.
- Smoother video updates when the system cannot play in realtime.
- Improved text wrapping for caption previews in the subtitle inspector.
- The timecode display window now shows timecode entry previews.
- The Export Edit Index action is now part of edit index options.
Fusion
- Support for importing Universal Scene Descriptor (USD) files.
- Introduction of the USD toolset for managing USD assets.
- Support for USD Hydra based renderers including Storm.
- New multi merge tool for compositing multiple layers.
- Support for a native AI-based depth map tool in Studio.
- GPU accelerated Clean Plate.
- GPU accelerated Anaglyph.
- Up to 3x faster renders when using Fusion splitter tool.
- Find in media pool for clips and MediaIns in Fusion page.
- Support for OpenEXR DWA compression in Fusion savers.
- Support for BMD Film Gen 5 in Fusion’s CineonLog tool.
- Support for previewing individual shape tools.
- Project setting option to disable tone mapping for Fusion conversions.
- Media pool relink, replace and reveal for USD, FBX and Alembic assets.
- Project archives now include USD, FBX and Alembic assets.
- Media pool indicator for offline USD, FBX and Alembic assets.
Color
- Per-timeline Resolve Color Management.
- Support for matte finesse post-filter controls in Magic Mask.
- Ability to undo Camera RAW changes for each clip.
- Ability to set composite mode in the corrector node.
- Support for marker overlays and annotations in the viewer.
- Support for showing missing LUTs as a viewer overlay.
- Ability to manage missing LUTs from the LUT manager.
- Ability to sort stills, LUTs and PowerGrade albums in the gallery.
- Generated LUTs now include spatial Resolve FX DCTL effects.
- Automatic background refresh of gallery stills for multi user projects.
- Improved highlight mode behavior during HDR grading.
- Ability to copy and paste Vivid HDR trim metadata between clips.
- Improved performance when grading HDR footage.
- Up to 2x faster spatial noise reduction in Apple silicon.
- Improved tracking and cache management for Magic Mask.
- Support for Dolby Vision controls in DaVinci Resolve Mini panels.
- Support for color warper controls in DaVinci Resolve Mini panels.
- Ability to reset all qualifiers with the advanced panel.
- Advanced panels in tracker mode now show active power window controls.
- External matte node labels now default to the matte file name.
- Node label is now retained when converting to a shared node.
- Support for Leica L Log color management.
- Color space and gamma options are now organized by vendor.
