What’s New in DaVinci Resolve 21 (differences to v20 - all these points have been available in the latest Beta version)
The following features have been added or updated.
Photo Page
- New photo image editing now fully integrated within DaVinci Resolve.
- Image library with tagging, favorites, ratings and album collections.
- Albums let you build, manage and tweak photos at source resolution.
- Native RAW support for major camera formats.
- Direct image capture via Sony or Canon tethered cameras.
- Import media from Apple Photos on macOS.
- Import Lightroom Catalog files into the media pool.
- Use Resolve multi-user collaboration and Blackmagic Cloud syncing.
- Support for DaVinci color control toolset and grading panels.
- Use all of Resolve’s native AI toolset including AI IntelliSearch.
- Looks, LUTs, ResolveFX and OpenFX for your images.
- GPU accelerated batch exports and conversions.
AI Tools
- AI IntelliSearch lets you easily search for people or objects.
- AI Speech Generator transforms written text to spoken voice.
- AI CineFocus allows refocus with realistic bokeh and lens effects.
- AI Face Age Transformer lets you age or de-age a face.
- AI Face Reshaper for flexible reshape and resize of facial features.
- AI Blemish Removal to repair facial and skin blemishes.
- AI SlateFinder automatically detects slates and marks position.
- AI SlateID to read slate and populate clip metadata.
- AI UltraSharpen for high fidelity sharpening of moving images.
- AI Motion Deblur enables removal of common motion blur artifacts.
- Improved AI UltraNR quality for UHD and higher timelines.
Cut and Edit Page
- Keyframing provides powerful retime controls with 4-point bezier.
- Keyframe and add curves for multiple selected clips.
- Keyframing ease options, loop, ping pong, reverse and stretch.
- Keyframe Fusion effects, generators and text along with edit effects.
- Subframe support for keyframing and markers.
- Native support for OGraf HTML graphics.
- Native support for Lottie animations.
- Resolve FX Picture in Picture effect.
- Font browser window for text and subtitle elements.
- Preview fonts during font selection as a preference.
- Spell checking for all text elements.
- Emoji and color fonts for Text+ and MultiText.
- Multicam angle previews in clean feed and video outputs.
- Multicams can include all audio tracks for each angle.
- Multicams can use full clip extents on creation and during sync.
- Replay control to limit view to the last 5 minutes of recorded media.
- Replay editor allows timeline selection from search dial.
- Replay now allows independent start and end stingers.
- Replay title palette allows up to 6 favorite titles.
- Mono audio now plays on left and right channels of stereo tracks.
- Improved waveforms, markers and fades for short edit tracks.
- Source timelines support auto track selectors.
- DRT timeline import supports link and conform options.
- Compare timelines with timeline backup snapshots.
- Subtitle inspector now supports search and replace.
- Edit page lets you show or hide tracks from the index.
- Support for editing EDL clip name in the edit index.
- Affinity.af file support with group and individual layer control.
- IntelliScript supports Final Draft or plain text screenplay imports.
- Faster audio transcription and improved subtitle word timing.
- Edit page timecode options for frames, subframes or audio samples.
- Duration timecode option to show duration for clip selection.
- Improved timeline view options with presets and clip name option.
- View remote color versions in the source viewer.
- Local color grade versions use remote grades on new clip creation.
- Up to 2x faster AI Speed Warp Metal option on macOS.
- Timeline menu action to select transitions in the cut and edit page.
- Paste and remove attributes for clip color, markers and flags.
- Paste and remove attributes to retain image position under crop.
- Switch audio channels for multi-clip selections via the context menu.
- Edit page source tape supports stereoscopic 3D clips.
- Edit page source tape includes multicam clips.
- Match frame finds source media for nested clips and multicams.
- Resolve FX Video Collage with separate tile fill and border controls.
- Subtitle support for fade in and out.
Media Pool and Metadata
- Support for tabbed layouts.
- Thumbnail, list and metadata views can be set for each bin.
- Star rating support for clips.
- Cut page supports smart bin views.
- Export media bin thumbnails as a PDF.
- Automatic smart bin and clip filter for offline clips.
- Custom metadata for smart bins, filters, data burn and naming tags.
- Customize your project poster frames.
- Show input colorspace and gamma in metadata view.
- Transcription column support in list view.
- Custom keyboard shortcuts to set thumbnail, list or metadata views.
- Ability to reset audio clip attributes to the original configuration.
Coluor Page
- MultiMaster trim pass to grade single timeline to many deliverables.
- Render Magic Mask in place as an external matte.
- Clip groups now support grade versions.
- Node graphs can now be viewed as a layer list.
- Node stacks now support up to 8 layers.
- Film Look Creator adds Aurora preset and contrast roll-off controls.
- Film Look Creator softness controls support for film gate.
- Shared node support for stereoscopic 3D clips.
- Customizable HDR and nit scopes ranges.
- Multiple HDR Vivid improvements, including mini panel controls.
- ACES AMF improvements, with transform name and custom folders.
- Reset Dolby Vision and HDR analysis from the option menu.
- Adobe RGB colorspace and gamma support.
- OpenFX 1.5 color management APIs for colorspace aware effects.
- Advanced panel controls for 2.39 and 2.4 safe area aspect ratios.
- Multi-user projects can bypass color management on the color page.
- Motion Blur option for Metal on macOS.
- Pasting tracking data between power windows retains original shape.
Immersive and VR Workflows
- Apple Immersive workflows now support foveated rendering.
- Initial VR180 and VR360 standard immersive workflow support.
- View VR180 and VR360 source clips as immersive or viewport.
- Mix and match VR180 and VR360 in immersive timelines.
- Standard immersive timelines support immersive transform controls.
- VR180 and VR360 deliver presets for Meta Quest and YouTube.
- LatLong patcher allows customizable field of view.
- Fusion adds Panomap immersive rotation and ILPD retargeting.
Fairlight Page
- Folder tracks allow a group of tracks to be folded down or expanded.
- Go to mouse pointer support using the C key.
Fusion Page
- Support for Krokodove motion graphics effects.
- Over 100 new motion graphics effects and tools.
- New Macro Editor with inspector view and publishing to edit effects.
- Fusion animation can be creatively driven by Fairlight audio.
- Native support for OGraf HTML graphics.
- Native support for Lottie animations.
- Text+ and MultiText support spell checking.
- Font improvements include emoji, color fonts and more.
- Improved MultiText for position, pivot, alignment and CSV import.
- Support for USD SDK 25.11 with Hydra 2.0 API for Storm renderer.
- USD support for 3D matte objects and textures.
- Support for USD Texture Projector and Catcher.
- Global in-out controls for USD Loader.
- 3D Renderer support for Cryptomatte.
- Native support for creating Relief Maps.
- Change inspector properties for multi-tool selections.
- Change common inspector values in all selected multi-tool layers.
- Multilayer support for stereoscopic 3D clips and deep images.
- Color correction for deep images in Fusion.
- User defined metadata variables in paths, expressions and scripts.
- Lens Distort offers checkerboard calibration and GPU acceleration.
- Vector channel support in multilayer workflows.
- Guides and rulers persistence, presets and improved snapping.
- MediaIn nodes show clip name.
- Open keyframes and spline as a new window.
- Up to 2x faster Relight tool.
- Up to 6x faster Depth Map tool.
- Support for remote monitoring of Fusion previews.
Codecs and I/O
- Enhanced MXF growing file support for broadcast workflows.
- MXF OP1A support for MPEG2 bitrate and other encode options.
- Canon CR3 RAW decode support.
- Panasonic Lumix RW2 RAW decode support.
- Fujifilm RAF RAW decode support.
- Apple ProRAW decode support.
- Support for compressed ARW from Sony A7V and newer cameras.
- Improved Nikon NEF RAW decode support.
- HDR decode support for HEIC, JPEG, PNG and TIFF images.
- HEIC encode support on macOS and Windows.
- HDR encode support for HEIC, JPEG, PNG and TIFF images.
- Support for Insta360 I-Log in color management.
- Improved EXIF metadata support for stills formats.
- HDR Vivid supplementary IMF ISXD package support.
- MainConcept H.265 and MV-HEVC 4:2:0 and 4:2:2 encode support.
- Support for Sony Burano V3 clips.
- Intel QuickSync H.264 10-bit 4:2:0 and 4:2:2 decode support.
- Intel QuickSync AVC Intra decode support.
- Intel QuickSync AV1 4:4:4 decode and encode support.
- MV-HEVC decode support on Nvidia systems.
- Encode support for multi-output audio only ambisonic formats.
- Per render job option to override RCM or ACES outputs.
General Improvements
- Background renders, quick exports and proxy generation.
- Background analysis for transcription and audio classification.
- Powerful, expanded and flexible data burn-in window.
- Preferences and project settings can now be searched.
- Multi-user projects support dynamic project switching.
- Support for importing and exporting Final Cut Pro 12 FCPXML.
- Scripting API support to perform IntelliSearch analysis.
- Scripting API support to perform Slate analysis.
- Scripting API support for Speech Generator.
- Scripting API support to remove motion blur for media clips.
- Scripting API support for media pool audio classification.
- Scripting API support for speaker detection in audio transcription.
- Scripting API to disable all background tasks for current session.
- Up to 3x faster file sync performance to Blackmagic Cloud.
- General performance and stability improvements.
