Blackmagic Design Releases Public Beta for DaVinci Resolve 19

Blackmagic Design today announced DaVinci Resolve 19 a major new update which adds new AI tools, over 100 feature upgrades such as IntelliTrack AI, Ultra NR noise reduction, ColorSlice six vector grading, film look creator FX, multi source editing, new multipoly rotoscoping tools, new Fairlight AI audio panning to video, ducker track FX and ambisonic surround sound plus new features in Blackmagic Cloud for large customers. DaVinci Resolve 19 public beta is available for download now from the Blackmagic Design web site.

The DaVinci Resolve 19 will be demonstrated on the Blackmagic Design NAB 2024 booth #SL5005.

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. In Fairlight, the IntelliTrack AI can be used to track motion and automatically pan audio. VFX artists in Fusion have an expanded set of USD tools plus a new multipoly rotoscoping tool. The cut page has new broadcast replay tools for live multi camera broadcast editing, playout and replay with speed control.

The new Organizations app in Blackmagic Cloud enables larger companies define a single organization or company. Now customers can create groups or teams and quickly share projects to an entire group rather than one by one. Customers can also manage storage access, share Presentations, and create a single sign on. It also lets customers 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’s complete.

For editors, improvements to the transcription workflow make it possible to edit clips based on the transcribed text directly on the timeline. The analyzer is now able to detect multiple voices, allowing customers to assign names to different speakers and refine text based search and text replacement operations.

The cut page now supports realtime selection of live camera recordings for instant replay to air with slow motion and stingers. The new multi source viewer lets customers see all their live cameras, or even just clips with a common timecode, in a single multiview screen. Customers can scrub, play and select shots to add to the timeline or simply play to air. They can even switch live from any of the available angles. When watching live cameras or clips in the multiview, when a signifiant event occurs, customers can instantly capture the moment with a point of interest or POI marker. The POI is placed on all the clips at that same time so it’s easy to quickly find the event on every camera angle, play them to air and even automatically build a highlights timeline.

The pace of live TV is frantic so the new replay palette controls in the cut page are clear and quick to navigate. Customers can set a POI with a single key, select a camera and cue the event. Then select run to play to air automatically via ATEM. They can switch cameras or once it’s done, simply dump the playout to prepare the next replay. There are also new stinger transitions which are moving graphic and sound transitions to let the viewer know the program has switched from live to a replay, then back, or even just switched to a new scene. It’s the fastest way to see all your cameras live and edit to the timeline while the cameras are still recording!

UltraNR is a new DaVinci Neural Engine driven denoise mode in the Color page’s spatial noise reduction palette. Colorists can use it to dramatically reduce digital noise from a frame while maintaining image clarity. Combine with temporal noise reduction for even more effective denoising in images with motion. While the new Film Look Creator lets customers add cinematic looks that replicate film properties like halation, bloom, grain, flicker, gate weave and vignetting. Colorists can adjust exposure in stops and use subtractive saturation, richness and split tone controls to achieve looks usually found on the big screen.

The new ColorSlice six vector grading palette uses subtractive color processes to adjust image color density, saturation and hue, allowing customers to produce rich filmic colors and looks. Parameters in each customizable vector slice let colorists enhance and deepen color without spill, in a way that looks naturally pleasing.

On the Fusion page, uVolume let’s VFX artists directly import volumetric VDB files into Fusion eliminating time consuming conversions. It also adds creative control of imported effects such as smoke, fire, clouds and explosions. Customers get complete control over density, temperature and color parameters of the VDB file in DaVinci. The new MultiPoly tool displays all of the VFX artists masks in a single list eliminating switching between nodes for faster, more accurate rotoscoping. Perfect for complex projects, customers can view, select, add to and modify specific shapes, toggle their visibility and adjust parameters all from one location.

The new IntelliTrack AI is powered by the DaVinci Neural Engine, and can also be used in Fairlight to automatically generate precision audio panning by tracking people or objects as they move across 2D and 3D spaces. With AI audio panning to video, customers can quickly pan multiple actors in a scene, controlling their voice positions in the mix environment. The AI based dialogue separator FX lets customers rebalance dialogue against background sound and the reverberant sound of the room. Customers get controls for voice, background and ambience so customers can reduce, remix or remove competing sounds. It’s perfect for field recordings and interviews in busy locations.

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. Customers can automatically set music or background noise to lower when dialog is present, then fine tune the audio mix with advanced controls.The music remixer track FX lets customers adjust music to fit with the style of their show. Controls include mute and level adjustments for voice, drums, base, guitar and more. Customers can turn a vocal piece into an instrumental, automate changes and refocus the music mix to the instruments customers want to hear.

DaVinci Resolve Studio 19 Beta 1 Release Notes

Items marked with * are in progress.

Cut

New multi source option to view time-synced footage.
Support for displaying clip markers and keyframes.
Support for a large enhanced viewer in the cut page.
Live overwrite now starts with a single frame duration by default.
Interactive Resolve FX and Fusion effect overlays in the viewer.
Improved grouping of Fusion effects.

Replay Workflows

Support for the cut page as a media player and playout system.
Support for the DaVinci Resolve Replay Editor.
View ATEM multiview feeds live inside DaVinci Resolve.
Add points of interest and create replays from multiview and timeline.
Cue and run replays with live slow motion.
Pick from slow motion, ramp down and other retime presets.
Apply auto stingers to start and end of playback.
Automatically add replays to build highlights timelines.

DaVinci Neural Engine

IntelliTrack AI point tracker for tracking and stabilization.
AI powered UltraNR noise reduction for spatial denoising.
New voice isolation mode with faster response and buffering.
IntelliTrack powered audio panning to video in Fairlight.
New faster option for Speed Warp.
Music Remixer FX to remix voice, drums, bass, guitar and other sources.
Dialogue Separator FX to separate dialogue, background or ambience.
Option to detect speakers for text based editing workflows.

Edit

Ability to edit timeline content based on source clip transcription.
Option to display timecode column in the transcription window.
Option to search and replace partial words in the transcription window.
Select a sentence using mark clip in the transcription window.
Place on top button in the transcription window.
Ability to import and export transcriptions using SRT files.
Ability to detect speakers during transcription.
Preview, skim and scrub source audio channels in the inspector file tab.
Set common source audio configurations in the inspector.
Support for the precision trim editor in the timeline viewer.
Ability to select audio channels when aligning clips using waveform.
Support for fixed playhead mode in the timeline.
Support for bezier controls for Open FX keyframes.
Missing Text+ fonts are indicated as a viewer overlay.
Ability to edit Text+ titles in the viewer.
Ability to use the keyboard numeric keypad for direct timecode entry.
Effect library favorites are now categorized.
Option to search across all effect library folders.
Collapse effect library categories with alt or option double click.
Improved snapping and cursor sensitivity on the timeline.
Up to 50% faster iris, shape, wipe and simple dissolves on Apple Silicon.

Media

Support for updating clip usage for all timelines.
Ability to select channels when syncing audio using waveform.
Ability to reveal media pool bin from multi bin or search displays.
Media management now retains alpha for supported formats.
Marker clips are now editable in the media pool list view.
Generated proxies now retain reel number metadata.
Up to 3.5x faster Super Scale on supported AMD systems.

Color

New ColorSlice six vector grading palette.
Node Stack allows management of complex grading workflows.
Support for ACES AMF 2.0.
Option to normalize channels in the RGB mixer.
SDI output now shows advanced 3D keyer strokes and marker annotations.
Support for double clicking to open a compound node.
Preview matte node layers by alt or option hovering over layer entry.
Node context menu actions can now be assigned shortcut keys.
Support for cleaning up node graph for multiple selected clips.
Support for creating smart filters for HDR graded clips.
Improved stereoscopic 3D control layouts on advanced and mini panels.
Improved viewer zoom increments when using shortcut keys.
Option to link Dolby Vision target display selection for trims and preview.
Improved HDR Vivid support.
Support for FujiFilm Log and Log2 for color managed workflows.

Fusion

Fusion viewers are now color managed.
Multi Poly tool for easier rotoscoping of complex objects.
Support for Open Color IO 2.3.
Support for referenced Fusion compositions in the media pool.
USD enhancements for Material X and advanced volumetric shading.
Stereoscopic 3D clip support in Fusion compositions.*
Multiple shape toolset enhancements.
Improved Text+ inspector and on-screen controls.
Support for deleting and resetting layers in MultiMerge.
Option for sBooleans to retain the upstream style.
Option to specify duplication path in duplicate tools.
Set control to default now clears animations, modifiers and expressions.
Ability to match planar tracker sizes to dissimilar logo and image overlays.
Faster rendering of streaming 3D textures in compositions.
Up to 3x faster Magic Mask performance in Fusion.
New left flow and mid flow UI presets with vertical viewer layouts.

Resolve FX

New Film Look Creator.
Better Face Refinement box and profile handling and smooth skin options.
New Defocus Background isolates foreground with blur.
Improved blur quality for Radial Blur and Zoom blur.
Smoother sub pixel animation and finer control for Box and Directional blur.
Up to 3x faster Beauty, Edge Detect and Watercolor on Mac.
Up to 2x faster Beauty, Edge Detect and Watercolor on Nvidia systems.

Fairlight

Fully integrated native Ambisonics workflow.
IntelliTrack powered audio panning to video.
Ability to sidechain VST3 and AU audio effects.
Music Remixer FX to remix voice, drums, bass, guitar and other sources.
Dialogue Separator FX to separate dialogue, background and ambience.
Ducker track FX for auto level management of beds against dialogue.
Voice Isolation supports true stereo and improved buffering.
Dialogue Leveler has improved with faster cue up time.
Improved frequency analyzer displays for spectrum and waterfall options.
Multiple improvements for native FX processing.
Multiple automation improvements.
Support for panning in groups.
Support for clip head and tail snapping in focus mode.
Support for zoom to fit for timeline view.
Support for LTC and MTC chase.*
Support for an exclusive solo mode.
Support for fades with Dolby Atmos compositions.
Arming a track now patches default audio inputs.
Ability to loop playback over range from Fairlight panels.
Support for dynamic delay compensation with AU plugins.
Support for Sony 360RA Walkmix audio formats and plugin.
Improved ADM and Vivid audio with MPEG-H SDK 2.75.
Support for third party auto conform workflows.

Codecs

Up to 3x faster H.264 and H.265 decodes on non Studio in Windows.
Up to 2x faster H.264 and H.265 native encodes in Windows.
Support for encoding IMF packages with JPEG HT content.
Up to 2x faster decodes for ZIP1 compressed OpenEXR sequences.
Support for alpha-based HEIC formats.
Support for encoding FLAC audio.
Support for 44.1 KHz and other audio sample rates in Linux.
Render support for odd numbered resolutions in mov and avi formats.
Initial support for iPhone Cinematic video on Mac OS Sonoma.
DaVinci IO Encode Plugin SDK support for audio only formats.
Support for Sony XAVC H raw controls.
Support for embedded LUTs in Sony MXF and MP4 clips.
GPU accelerated decodes for ARRI Codex HDE on CUDA.

Scripting API

Support for managing clip color groups.
Ability to query timeline, clip and group node graphs.
Support for enumerating tools used in a given node.
Support for setting and getting color keyframe mode.
Ability to export clip LUTs.
Ability to export timeline ALE and CDL.
Ability to import OpenTimelineIO timelines with custom import options.

General

Organization profile support for Blackmagic Cloud.
Support for Blackmagic Cloud monthly Studio licenses.
Improved Blackmagic Cloud media sync dialog.
Open FX Resolve Renderer plugin for external VFX applications.
Support for German and Italian user interface localizations.
Support for duplicating local project libraries.
Support for restoring timeline backups from deleted timelines.
Loading large timelines now shows a progress bar.
Support for disabling specific video tracks for a render job.
Option to optimize audio loudness and peaks in render settings.
Support for HDR displays on Windows.*
Support for HDR scans using the new Cintel scanner 8mm gate.
Support for black and white scans from the Cintel scanner.
Clip flags and colors support in data burn-ins.
New workflow integration example for common MAM APIs.
DaVinci Remote Monitoring using IP address connections.
Option to specify a custom TURN server for remote monitoring.
General performance and stability improvements.

Pre-Installation Notes

For DaVinci Resolve 19.0, we have taken efforts to keep the project libraries compatible with DaVinci Resolve 18.6.6. While this allows you to access the project library with 18.6.6, individual projects created or opened in 19.0 will no longer be accessible in 18.6.6.

We recommend a full project library backup as well as individual project backups before opening projects in 19.0.

Minimum system requirements for Mac OS

Mac OS 13 Ventura.
8 GB of system memory. 16 GB when using Fusion.
Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
GPU which supports Metal.

Minimum system requirements for Windows

Windows 10 Creators Update.
16 GB of system memory. 32 GB when using Fusion.
Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
Integrated GPU or discrete GPU with at least 2 GB of VRAM.
GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 12.
NVIDIA/AMD/Intel Driver version – as required by your GPU.

Minimum system requirements for Linux

Rocky Linux 8.6 or CentOS 7.3.
32 GB of system memory.
Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
Discrete GPU with at least 2 GB of VRAM.
GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 12.
NVIDIA/AMD Driver version – as required by your GPU.

Installing DaVinci Resolve Software on Mac

Double-click the DaVinci Resolve Installer icon and follow the onscreen instructions. To remove DaVinci Resolve from your system, double-click the Uninstall Resolve icon.

Installing DaVinci Resolve Software on Windows

Double-click the DaVinci Resolve Installer icon and follow the onscreen instructions. To remove DaVinci Resolve from your system, go to the Programs and Features control panel, select DaVinci Resolve, click on Uninstall and follow the onscreen prompts.

Installing DaVinci Resolve Software on Linux

Double-click the DaVinci Resolve Installer and follow the onscreen instructions. To remove DaVinci Resolve from your system, select the uninstall option after running the installer.

Additional Information

You will also need to download and install the latest Blackmagic Design Desktop Video software for monitoring with your Blackmagic Design video hardware. Desktop Video is available from www.blackmagicdesign.com/support.

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