Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve 18.5

What’s new in DaVinci Resolve 18.5 ?

• 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 to composite and manage 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.
• Grades from flattened multicams are copied 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.

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.
• 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.

Resolve FX

• AI-based Resolve FX Relight to add virtual lighting in Studio.*
• Invert Effect option in Resolve FX Glow for a dark glow effect.
• Option to export Resolve FX Flicker Addition analysis as an alpha channel.
• Ability to swap in and out colorspaces in Resolve FX Color Transform.
• Improved handling of blanking in Resolve FX Depth map analysis.
• Improved patch replacer results at patch edges.
• Bright region recovery control for Resolve FX Glow and Light Rays.
• Automatic input and output management for Resolve FX grading nodes.*
• Dragging a Resolve FX now applies it as a color grading node.
• Alt or option drag a Resolve FX to create an FX node.
• Support for smart initialization of OFX alpha mixing state.
• Alt or option resize selection to preserve ratio in warper and surface tracker.
• Up to 2x faster Beauty, Water Color and Stylize on Nvidia systems.
• Up to 1.5x faster Lens Blur and Aperture Diffraction on Nvidia systems.

Fairlight

• Support for edit and mix groups in Fairlight.*
• Improved elastic wave pitch handling with voice-specific option.*
• Support for nesting VCAs.*
• Enhanced Dolby Atmos support in Studio.*
• Support for voice isolation in Studio for Linux.
• Support for dialog leveler for Linux.
• Improved metering previews for muted or soloed tracks and monitors.
• Ability to set key shortcuts to scroll to selected track in the mixer.
• Track solos are now retained across project sessions.
• Ability to pan busses.
• Ability to select all clips under playhead in cut, edit and Fairlight.
• Ability to designate track and bus monitor sources from the tracks index.
• Multiple voice isolation improvements in Studio.
• Fairlight FX Monitor Control allowing third party Rewire integration.
• Ability to stream and spot from applications like Soundminer.
• Shift modifier action for 0.1 dB resolution automation level trimming.

General

• Support for Blackmagic Cloud Presentations.
• Sign in and upload videos directly to TikTok from DaVinci Resolve.*
• Remote Monitoring Improvements in Studio*
  • Support for remote monitoring from Mac OS.
  • Improved Mac OS client with support for more formats.
  • New iOS client to monitor on iPad and iPhone.
  • Support for connecting clients using Blackmagic ID.
  • Support for streaming to multiple clients.
  • Support for viewing streams on computer displays.
  • Support for monitoring HDR streams.
• Ability to upload new versions to Dropbox Replay in Studio.
• Rocky Linux 8.6 based installation environment for DaVinci Resolve.*
• Press play multiple times for faster playback from the Advanced panel.
• DRT exports now include groups and shared nodes.
• DRA project archives now include VFX Connect media.
• Optimized Blackmagic Cloud project library connections.*
• New vertical resolution timelines and projects default to full frame with crop.
• Speed warp option for default motion estimation mode in project settings.
• Stabilization, scene cut and other progress dialogs show analysis speed.
• Quick export icon on edit and color pages.
• General performance and stability improvements.

Scripting & APIs

• Scripting API support to import and export DRT and DRB files.
• Scripting API support to load data burn presets.
• Scripting API support to get node label.
• Scripting API support to apply ARRI CDL and LUT to a clip.
• Scripting API support for querying and setting clip enabled state.
• Supported containers for selected codecs are now listed in the encode API.
• Ability to specify data and video range in the encode API.

Codec Support

• Support for Blackmagic RAW SDK 3.0.
• Support for rendering GIF, JPEG and PNG image sequences.
• Support for rendering animated GIF clips.
• Support for decoding AC3 audio in Linux.
• Ability to decode LogC3 ARRI clips as LogC4.
• Support for Sony XAVC raw controls.
• Ability to import MKV chapters as media markers.
• Ability to export timeline markers as MKV chapters.
• Hardware accelerated VP9 decodes in Resolve for supported Nvidia cards.
• Up to 50% faster encode speeds for Sony XAVC 420 8-bit clips.
• Support for decoding AV1 from MKV and WEBM clips.
• Support for encoding and decoding FFV1 formats.
• Encode support for ProRes, AV1, H.264, MP3, AAC in MKV containers.*
• Custom compression levels when rendering ZIP formatted EXRs.
• Hardware accelerated encode support for AV1 in AMD systems.
• Ability to use multiple hardware encoders in supported AMD systems.
• Up to 30% faster Apple ProRes hardware accelerated encode.
• Better disk usage estimates when rendering ProRes clips on Apple silicon.
• Quick export renders now include active subtitle and data burn in.

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