What’s New in DaVinci Resolve 20.0 (versus v19)
Key New Features
- Improved keyframing with dedicated curve view and timeline drawer.
- Voice over tool with record and monitor options.
- Import Blackmagic Cloud Shared folders to media pool.
- AI IntelliScript creates timelines with a user provided script.
- AI Magic Mask v2 with paint brush.
- AI Dialogue Matcher matches clip tone, level and reverberance.
- AI Audio Assistant automatically creates a finished mix.
- AI IntelliCut removes silences and checkerboards speakers.
- Deep image compositing toolset.
Cut Page
- Voice over palette with cue, voice tools and teleprompter.
- Ripple trimming of audio now available on secondary tracks.
- Replay multi views now show previously used camera angles.
- Tapping time buttons allows camera buttons to preroll replays.
- Auto resync media bins now supports stills and sequences.
- Live overwrite now supports edit keys and search dial.
- Mouse drag to live overwrite multi source and sync bin.
- Trim with safe edit avoids overwriting adjacent clips.
- Media pool metadata palette allows quick review of selected clips.
- Ability to copy, paste and remove attributes from timeline clips.
- Support for a dynamic trimming mode using JKL controls.
- Full featured audio mixer.
- Mini timeline now includes a context menu.
Edit Page
- Voice over tool with record and monitor options.
- AI Multicam SmartSwitch for automatic angle switching.
- AI VoiceConvert with built-in and user trainable models.
- Support for source tape.
- Ability to view and edit timelines in the source viewer.
- Multicam creation now supports a reference audio track.
- Opening compound clip from timeline matches playhead position.
- Access timeline settings from timeline tab context menu.
- User preference to wrap around 24h timecode.
Cut and Edit Page
- Improved keyframing with dedicated curve view and timeline drawer.
- Import Blackmagic Cloud Shared folders to media pool.
- AI IntelliScript creates timelines with a user provided script.
- AI Dialogue Matcher matches clip tone, level and reverberance.
- AI Music Editor automatically edits music to desired length.
- AI animated subtitles highlights or animates spoken words.
- AI SuperScale now includes 3x and 4x enhanced upscaling.
- AI Detect Music Beats displays and allows beat snapping.
- New optimized UI layouts option for vertical videos.
- Custom grid for sorting and organizing of media pool thumbnails.
- Text+ paragraph, line wrapping and bounding tools.
- MultiText tool with layers and easy transform, clip and wrap controls.
- Subtitle tracks now support Fusion templates for styling.
- Selectively sync media originals with proxy only cloud sync.
- Imported PSDs can now be split into individual layers.
- Support for Alert Red viewer background mode.
- Transcription engine now offers extended language support.
- Smooth Cut now supports AI Speed Warp.
- Export audio transcriptions with speaker and timecode.
- Export transcriptions with improved phrase and sentence breaks.
Fusion Page
- Deep image compositing toolset.
- Multi layer pipelining for OpenEXR, PSD and stereoscopic 3D.
- Vector warping toolset for image patching and cleanup.
- Support for 180 VR.
- 3D Scene Dome Light.
- Support for native Cryptomatte workflows.
- View color page grade in media out node.
- Faster GPU based pano map and spherical stabilizer tools.
- Ability to search tool based on effects category.
- User selectable starting frames for compositions.
Color Page
- AI Magic Mask v2 with paint brush.
- AI Resolve FX Depth Map v2.
- Chroma Color Warper grading.
- Resolve FX Warper features new spline warp controls.
- Open Color IO supported as Resolve FX.
- New optimized UI layouts option for vertical video.
- Display viewer overlays for remote monitoring.
- Stream and monitor H.265 4:2:2 on supported hardware.
- Support for Samsung Log.
- Support for ACES 2.0.
- Ability to generate HDR light level PDF reports.
- LUTs and colorspaces can now be modified in multi-user projects.
- Node layer controls in the advanced panel.
- Lift, gamma, gain Micro Panel sensitivity improvements.
Fairlight Page
- AI Audio Assistant automatically creates a finished mix.
- AI IntelliCut to remove silences.
- AI IntelliCut to checkerboard dialogue by speaker.
- AI IntelliCut to generate ADR Cues using transcription speaker info.
- Clip EQ now features 6 bands.
- EQ and Level Matcher processes match tone and clip levels.
- EQ and Gain now also available as Fairlight FX plugins.
- Fairlight Chain FX to create and restore frequently chained plugins.
- Drag header color to move tracks and busses in the timeline.
- Automation now supports per channel mode switching.
- Trim automation now remains active through a mix pass.
- Improved view presets store multiple parameters.
Codecs
- Apple ProRes encode support on Windows and Linux.
- Encode MV-HEVC without spatial video metadata.
- MV-HEVC encode support on Nvidia systems.
- Support for side by side stereo 3D media decode.
- Side by side display mode for stereo 3D clips in source viewer.
- Editable spatial video metadata properties in inspector.
- GPU accelerated H.265 4:2:2 encodes on supported Nvidia systems.
- GPU accelerated H.265 4:2:2 decodes on supported Nvidia systems.
- Support for growing TS, MTS and M2TS files as media streams.
- Support interlaced rendering for frame based formats.
- HT JPEG 2000 decode support for EXR.
- Quick Export dialog with custom user preset listings and list view.
- Ability to assign custom icons to user presets in deliver page.
- Support for Sony Burano 2.0.
- Support for RED SDK 8.6.
- Support for audio normalization for Dropbox presets.
- Improved PNG support with HDR and SDR signaling.
General Application
- User definable location for media created in Resolve.
- DCTL encryption option in LUT browser menu.
- DaVinci Remote Monitor supports Intel and AMD GPUs on Windows.
- Scripting API support to link full resolution media.
- Scripting API support to replace media preserving sub clip extents.
- Scripting API support for media pool clip to monitor growing file.
- Extras Download Manager for AI models and more.
- Updated remote monitor client with bitrate display.
- Remote monitor now installs with DaVinci Resolve on macOS.
- User preference for automatic cache management.
- Ability to enable dual screen windows in ultrawide displays.
- Support for OCIO 2.4.2 with ACES 2.0 support.
- Preference to import all clips with multi mono audio configuration.
- Bluetooth connection status popup dialog.
- Ability to filter which fonts are visible in Text+.
- Data burn options for synced audio.
- Support for Nvidia Blackwell GPUs with CUDA 12.8.
- General performance and stability improvements.
System Requirements
Minimum System Requirements for macOS
- macOS 14 Sonoma or later.
- 8 GB of system memory or 16 GB when using Fusion.
- For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
- Apple Silicon based computer or GPU which supports Metal.
Minimum System Requirements for Windows
- Windows 10 Creators Update.
- 16 GB of system memory or 32 GB when using Fusion.
- For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
- Integrated GPU or discrete GPU with at least 4 GB of VRAM.
- GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 12.8.
- AMD/Intel official drivers from your GPU manufacturer.
- NVIDIA Studio driver 570.65 or newer.
Minimum System Requirements for Windows for Arm
- Windows 11 for ARM.
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite series processor.
- 16 GB of system memory or 32 GB for 4K or when using Fusion.
Minimum System Requirements for Linux
- Rocky Linux 8.6.
- 32 GB of system memory.
- For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
- Discrete GPU with at least 4 GB of VRAM.
- GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 12.8.
- AMD official drivers from your GPU manufacturer.
- NVIDIA Studio driver 570.26 or newer.
