DaVinci Resolve – What’s New

What's New DaVinci Resolve 21 introduces the Photo page, bringing Hollywood's most advanced color tools to still photography! A new generation of AI tools let you search media by content, read slate data, perform de-aging, blemish removal and more. The Edit and Cut pages have improved keyframing and greater graphic format support. Color page workflows are optimized with MultiMaster trim passes, layer list node graphs and group versions. Fusion offers over 70 new graphics via the powerful Krokodove toolset. Fairlight’s folder function simplifies audio track management and navigation. Plus, increased support for immersive and VR workflows puts you at the forefront of the latest deliverable technologies.

AI Tools Search Content with AI IntelliSearch Instantly search for people and content with AI IntelliSearch! Analyze media and use the IntelliSearch tool to find specific objects or key words in dialog. You can even search for individual faces! Results appear as whole clips in the Media Pool for faster clip organization and editing. Advanced AI Speech Generator Generate speech from written text using one of Blackmagic’s voice models or a sample of your own. The DaVinci AI Neural Engine can create a unique voice from as little as a 10 second clip! Adjust speed, pitch and even inflection, to create multiple performances for voiceovers, narration and more. Before After Adjust Focus with AI CineFocus Define the focal point of a shot with AI CineFocus! Click to focus on a particular area of a scene and adjust aperture and focal range to change the depth of field. Advanced controls let you select the aperture shape and add optical effects like bokeh. You can even keyframe parameters to rack focus!

Before After AI Face Age Transformer Change an actor’s age with the AI Face Age Transformer tool. Analyze a face, enter the subject’s age and adjust the age offset slider to add or remove age-related features, such as wrinkles and facial fullness. Perfect for maintaining continuity in flashbacks and flash-forward scenes! Before After AI Face Reshaper The AI Face Reshaper lets you change facial features’ shape and position on a moving subject. After detecting and tracking a face in a clip, use the AI Face Reshaper parameters to adjust the eyes, nose, mouth, eyebrows and overall face shape. Manual controls let you fine-tune the resulting face. Before After AI Blemish Removal The AI Blemish Removal tool is perfect for reducing the appearance of superficial skin imperfections such as acne, discoloration, spots and pores while retaining texture of the natural skin. Use the strength slider to adjust the intensity of the tool to better suit the subject in the scene. Sync with AI Slate ID AI Slate ID automatically detects the slate clapperboard details! It intelligently extracts metadata from the slate in the frame, even in dark or out-of-focus clips, saving hours in metadata entry. Media is ready for editing, faster than ever before! Before After Extreme Quality AI UltraSharpen DaVinci’s most advanced sharpening tool to date lets you produce significantly clearer, high quality moving images. Use AI UltraSharpen with upscaled videos to make previously unusable footage sharp in higher resolutions. AI UltraSharpen can also be used to improve or fix slight focus errors.

Before After Before After AI Motion Deblur Remove common motion blur artifacts, such as streaks and softness, from video content. AI Motion Deblur analyzes the source media file and generates a new render with significantly reduced blurring for more dynamic images. This tool is perfect for more impactful slow motion and freeze frame effects.

Photo Hollywood Grading Tools for Still Photography DaVinci Resolve’s powerful post-production workflow now fully integrates photo image editing! The new Photo page lets you import and manage photographs, integrating with the color page for node based grading. Now colorists and photographers can use Hollywood color grading tools on still images! Support for DaVinci Color Tools Now you can easily use the legendary DaVinci color page tools for still images! Use primary color correction, curves, qualifiers, power windows and node editor to adjust color in artistic ways across your entire project. Plus, you can use a DaVinci color panel to adjust multiple parameters at once! Node Editor for Non‑Destructive Edits DaVinci Resolve's powerful node based workflow can now be used on still images. Add nodes in series or parallel to build complex grades, apply different corrections to different parts of an image simultaneously and use shared nodes to apply the same look across an entire album of photos at once! Cropping and Reframing The Photo page lets you reframe and crop images at their original source resolution and aspect ratio. Every adjustment preserves the full quality of your original file, so you can refine your composition at any time without ever affecting image quality. LightBox View LightBox view on the Photo page gives you an overview of your entire album with grades applied.

Select any image and grade it live while seeing the results update across the whole collection in real time. Filter by graded, ungraded, star rating, flag and clip color for fast library management! Organize Images in Albums Albums let you build and manage collections directly in DaVinci. Create albums based on shoot days, camera models, or any desired criteria, and save countless hours by tagging and making raw setting adjustments in batches. Albums appear as timelines on the Color, Cut and Edit pages for easy access. Instantly Search Library AI IntelliSearch lets you instantly find any photo across your entire project using plain language search. Analyze your albums and search for specific people, objects, animals or scenes without manual tagging. You can even label individuals to search for them by name! Direct Image Capture Camera Controls let you tether a Sony or Canon camera directly to DaVinci Resolve for live image capture. Adjust camera settings such as ISO, exposure, white balance, monitor with live view and save capture presets to lock in a consistent look before you shoot. Images save directly into an album! Full Resolve FX Support Resolve FX and Open FX plug-in support is available for still images on the Photo page, allowing you to apply effects, graphics, transforms and DCTLs. You can apply looks directly in the Photo page with the help of LUTs or generate LUTs to later apply looks in-camera or while monitoring. DaVinci AI Toolset You can access DaVinci Resolve’s powerful native AI tools within the Photo page. Tools like the AI Magic Mask let you make one click selections of an object or person, and separately color grade different elements on an image. Or use the new AI UltraSharpen to upscale low resolution images.