DaVinci Resolve 20
DaVinci Resolve 20 introduces more than 100 new features including powerful AI tools designed to assist you with all stages of your workflow. Use AI IntelliScript to create timelines based on a text script, AI Animated Subtitles to animate words as they are spoken, and AI Multicam SmartSwitch to assemble a timeline with camera angles based on speaker detection. The cut and edit pages introduce a dedicated keyframe editor and voiceover palettes, and AI Audio Assistant analyzes your audio and intelligently creates a professional audio mix. In Fusion, explore advanced multi layer compositing workflows. The Color Warper now includes Chroma Warp, plus Magic Mask and Depth Map have huge updates.
AI Tools
AI Dialogue Matcher
Dialogue Matcher is a powerful tool that automatically matches the tone, level, and room environment of dialogue. You can match audio from two totally different clips for audio consistency. Match dialogue recorded in different environments, on different devices, or on shoots spanning several days.
AI Music Editor
Automatically adjust a music track’s length to fit your video! The audio clip is analyzed and a music edit is extended or shortened to match. You get four versions to chose from, visual edit indicators, and the ability to decompose sections. It’s a fast, flexible way to tailor music to your visuals.
AI Animated Subtitles
Keep your viewers attention in your videos with subtitles that are animated as words are spoken! Use the transcription tool to generate a subtitle track on your timeline and then drag the animated Fusion title templates onto the track header to change the appearance and animation style of the text.
AI Multicam SmartSwitch
In the edit page, Multicam SmartSwitch automatically switches multi-cam angles based on the active speaker in a scene. After creating a multi-cam clip, click SmartSwitch in the multi-cam viewer. SmartSwitch analyses and automatically selects clip angles based on audio, and lip movement in the video!
New AI SuperScale
DaVinci Resolve’s SuperScale now features 3x and 4x enhanced upscaling, ensuring the highest visual quality of all media in a project, regardless of source resolution. Perfect for working with archival material or stock footage that needs to be matched to the deliverable resolution.
AI Magic Mask 2
Magic Mask has been updated for even more accurate tracking within a single mode. Use points to select people, objects and regions, and paint tools to refine the selection faster than ever. Magic Mask intuitively tracks the motion of a selected area, even around obstructions and in low quality clips.
AI ResolveFX Depth Map 2
The Depth Map effect has been updated for faster scene analysis and more practical mattes. Quickly isolate foreground characters to make them pop against their environment or apply lens blur to the background of a shot. You can refine the resulting matte and isolate specific depths for grading.
AI IntelliCutAudio Processing
IntelliCut provides powerful clip-based audio processing, automating time consuming tasks in seconds. Remove silence removes low level or silent areas for a cleaner audio track. You can split dialogue into a separate track per speaker for individual mixing and create an ADR list to replace dialogue.
AI Detect Music Beats
When editing to the beat, you can use the AI Detect Music Beats function to analyse audio clips containing beat-driven music and automatically place markers to indicate beats. You can use these as visual indicators for cut points, or drag to snap clips to the beat’s markers at the nearest frame.
IntelliTrack AI Tracking
IntelliTrack is powered by the DaVinci AI Neural Engine, optimising tracking and stabilisation in the colour and Fusion pages. It can also be used in Fairlight to track on screen subjects and auto generate audio panning within a scene, saving time and producing more immersive audio!
Cut and Edit
New Layout for Vertical Timelines
When a vertical timeline or project is loaded, the cut, edit and color page layouts now automatically rearranged to optimise working with a vertical viewer. Tools and palettes are moved to ensure that you have maximum use of the screen without wasted space and without the need to constantly zoom.
VoiceOver Palette
The voiceover palette on the cut page records a voice over track during timeline playback. You get cue, record, and stop controls, plus quick access to voice isolation and dialogue leveling tools. A dedicated track is added automatically. You can load and work with a prompter script and a countdown.
RefinedKeyframe Editing
A dedicated keyframe editor in the cut and edit pages allows for finer parameter animation. Use the keyframe curves and parameter modes to edit keyframes and customize animation shape with ease controls. You can also use the keyframe tray below the timeline to review and navigate timeline keyframes.
Improved Text+ Graphic Layout
The Text+ tool has been updated to include the layout’s point, text box, circle or path styles giving you more refined control over the layout of your text graphics. When working with PSD files on a timeline, you can choose to split the PSD layers in place in order to work with each individual layer
Color
ChromaColor Warp
Chroma warp lets you intuitively adjust color and saturation with a single motion in the viewer. The stroke control moves colors in one direction, while the point to point mode isolates regions for more precise hue correction. You can add pin points to isolate regions you do not want to affect.
UltraNR Noise Reduction
UltraNR is a new DaVinci AI Neural Engine driven denoise mode in the Color page’s spatial noise reduction palette. 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!
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 big screen!
ColorSlice SixVector Grading
The ColorSlice palette uses subtractive colour processes to adjust image colour density, saturation and hue, allowing you to produce rich filmic colours and looks. Parameters in each customisable vector slice let you enhance and deepen colour without spill, in a way that looks naturally pleasing.
Marker Overlays and Annotations
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 colour and thickness, and draw directly in the viewer or use the arrow tool to point to areas of interest.
Fusion
Deep Image Compositing
Fusion now offers deep image compositing tools, so you can access the depth data found in deep image EXR files. A range of new nodes allows you to merge, transform, resize, crop, recolor, and generate holdouts. Render from Fusion’s 3D environment and export deep EXR’s with the Fusion saver node.
Multi Layer Pipeline
In version 20, Fusion supports multi-layer images across all nodes. Fusion can read multi-layer EXRs or photoshop files, preview the layers in the viewer, and access and manipulate any layer in any node. Now artists have seamless layer interaction without needing independent renders of a source file.
Vector Warping Toolset
Vector warp, vector transform, and vector denoise are new optical flow vector tools integrated within Fusion. These tools enable intricate temporal effects by leveraging motion vectors. Utilizing a clip's natural movement for warping and denoising presents a powerful time saving solution for artists.
Support for 180 VR
Fusion’s PanoMap, spherical stabilizer, LatLong patcher, 3D VR camera and the 3D viewers have been updated to support 180-degree angle of view to allow production of immersive content. You can also render 3D scenes to VR180 using a spherical camera and Renderer3D for a simplified production process.
Fairlight
6 Band Clip EQ
Clip EQ now features 6 bands on the cut, edit and Fairlight pages. This allows for more tonal control at the clip level, and matches the track EQ in the mixer. So now you can easily copy and paste settings between the clip, track and EQ plug-in for more consistent, flexible and precise control.
EQ and Level Matcher
Two new clip processing options let you adjust a target clip’s audio to match a reference clip’s level or tonal spectrum. EQ match is dynamic and is automatically automated across your clip to maintain a tonal match. Level Matcher lets you seamlessly intercut clip sections without manual changes.
Chain FX
If you have a favorite group of plugins that you need to apply together, you can now build a Chain FX to include them, each with customized settings and saved as presets. You can have up to six effects within a chain and also combine Chain FX plugins for longer chains in the channel effects slots.
Automation Improvements
Fairlight now features per-channel automation mode selection allowing for more flexibility and creative control when mixing your projects. In a single pass you can now dynamically adjust multiple individual tracks and have some channel automation settings in Snap, some in Latch, and others in Trim.
