Release of DaVinci Resolve Studio 20 Public Beta

Video and Photo Editing
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Davinci Resolve 20 Beta 1 is out.

What’s new in DaVinci Resolve 20.0

The following features have been added or updated.
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.
Resolve FX AI Set Extender.*
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.
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Moved to a new thread. Tweaked the thread title.

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Some of the early YTs .. that I’ll try and watch over the weekend.

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Now we know. :+1:

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7.5GB download … :scream:

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Still running the optimizing neural engines 5 mins in and 24 out of 81 done!

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Installed. I’ll look at tomorrow. Too knackered to contemplate this evening.

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Looks, interesting. Keyframes are awesome now instead of using the clips extentions they have their own edit areas in the timeline. Brill.

Like the text wrap too, no more dissappearing text and messing about aligning paras, whoohooo!

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Had a bit of a look last evening.

Not quite yet. But some features are headed that way - on the audio side at least. Check out the “Audio Assistant” part of MrAlexTech’s vid @ 30:45.

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Already seen it and used it on my video out next month (I’m about 3 vids ahead of my weekly schedule).

Although, I am having an issue with the ‘Show Music Beats’. I cancelled it before it finished analysing it and when I went back to put it on again it wont work! :grimacing:

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Blimey!

Magic Mask in v.20 is amazing (.. if you ignore my 8+ year old laptop grinding to a near standstill! :joy: .. <1fps PMSL!).

Seen examples on normal video, but tracking a dog in a very steppy time-lapse wasn’t something I thought it would do.

Even more so because it’s a pretty crap video to start with … off a cheap Eufy camera in low light. :laughing:

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My 12th Gen i7 chip with NVIDIA Graphic Accelerator does a 15 sec mask on a complicated building in less than a minute in fast mode, but crashed in better mode!

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POSSIBLE future “upgrade fees”.

As I understand it, “Free” will continue to be free.

But, for studio, there may be nominal fees to “upgrade” to new major versions. ie, from v20.nn to v21.nn.

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As AI-powered tools continue to evolve, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Series and NVIDIA RTX PRO GPUs, based on the NVIDIA Blackwell architecture, are driving faster, smarter creative workflows.

Blackmagic Design’s public beta release of DaVinci Resolve Studio 20 software puts new capabilities and a suite of RTX-accelerated AI-powered features into the hands of video editors, helping automate tedious tasks and accelerate creative workflows. Backed by the latest version of the NVIDIA TensorRT software development kit, these features run faster and more efficiently on RTX GPUs. Additional updates include support for 4:2:2 color formats and AV1 ultra-high-quality encoding.

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Beta 2 is out!

What’s New in DaVinci Resolve 20 Public Beta 2

The following features have been added or updated.

• Addressed multiple issues for keyframes and curves editor.
• Addressed issue with displaying adjustment clip keyframes and curves.
• Addressed curve shape change when adding a new keyframe.
• Multiple usability improvements to source timeline viewer workflows.
• Improved justify behavior in Text+ and MultiText.
• Improved display of missing font names in Text+ and MultiText.
• New Circle mode viewer overlay for Text+ and MultiText.
• Addressed animated subtitles not updating after editing text.
• New Fusion multi layer tools for Layer Muxer, Layer Remover and Layer Regex.
• New key shortcuts to cycle multi layers with Page Up, Page Down and Home.
• Addressed incorrect solo track behavior when recording voiceovers with mute timeline audio.
• Addressed voiceover issue when recording to tracks with Track FX applied.
• Addressed Audio Assistant issue with applying crossfades on clips with insufficient handles.
• Addressed Audio Assistant issue with normalizing clips shorter than 2 seconds.
• Addressed AI music editor sometimes leaving gaps between edits.
• Addressed equalizer effect only applying on the first 2 channels of an audio track.
• Addressed render range issue when adding a timeline to render queue from the media pool.
• Addressed artifacts in smooth cut with speed warp on some vertical timelines.
• Addressed issue adjusting size of dead pixel fixer when on left side of frame.
• Addressed issue with temporal FX on stereoscopic 3D clips on the Color page.
• Addressed black frame in clean feed at some edit points.
• Addressed some dual screen layout issues with vertical timeline layouts in the edit page.
• Addressed an issue with minimizing undocked keyframe window.
• Addressed crash when using titles or generators with ACES 2.0 ODT in macOS.
• Addressed a crash media managing a clip with music editor changes.
• Addressed a crash when performing search in all bins in the media pool.
• Addressed issue with HDR tags in PNG exports.
• General performance and stability improvements.

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this was a bloody nightmare to down load when it finished, well soon deleted it.
three hours of wasted time plus it kept on asking to buy, then thing’s were going wrong
so no thank you.

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:man_shrugging:

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@crapflyer Is your version the free one or Studio? The reason I ask is update is for Studio only.

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yes mate the free one,