Important Information regarding Database Management

DaVinci Resolve 15.0 requires a database upgrade from DaVinci Resolve 14.3.1 and previous versions. We strongly recommend that you backup your existing database (both DiskDB and PostgreSQL) before performing an upgrade.


What's new in DaVinci Resolve 15

Fusion - Key new features

  • Fully integrated into the DaVinci Resolve timeline
  • Improved workflows removing the need for round trip renders to Fusion
  • Initial support for a full Metal, CUDA or OpenCL GPU processing pipeline
  • Improved UI for faster and more fluid workflow
  • New node graph (Flow)
  • More


Fusion - Visual effects features

  • Vector Paint
  • 2D and 3D Compositing
  • 3D Camera Tracking in DaVinci Resolve Studio
  • Planar Tracking and Rotoscoping
  • Node Based Workflow
  • 3D Workspace
  • More


Fusion - Broadcast design and motion graphics features

  • 2D and 3D Titles
  • 3D Logos
  • Animated Text
  • Spline Based Animation
  • Replicate Objects
  • Expressions and Macros
  • More

Fairlight - Key new features

  • ADR (Automatic Dialog Replacement)
  • Audio Bounce of a range in selected tracks to layers
  • Audio Bounce of one or multiple buses to tracks
  • Audio Automation Editing
  • Fixed playhead timeline
  • Audio scrollers
  • More

Fairlight - General improvements

  • Support for audio normalization in the Edit and Fairlight pages
  • Support for pitch control for clips
  • Support for Media Pool preview of audio
  • Support for audio fade in and out to playhead in the Fairlight timeline
  • Support for mixed audio track formats from source clips
  • Support for trim to playhead operations in the Fairlight timeline
  • More


Performance

  • Support for project versioning snapshots to store project backups at set intervals
  • Support for only loading the last used timeline when opening a project
  • Support for an option to load all the timelines when opening a project
  • Support for bypassing color processing on all pages for improved performance on low power systems
  • Support for trimming H.264 and other temporal codec formats in Media Management
  • Support for GPU acceleration for the ResolveFX Match Move plugin
  • More


Edit

  • Support for adding, managing and delivering Subtitles and Closed Captions
  • Support for 2D and 3D title templates with ability to expand and customize in the Fusion page
  • Support to load multiple clips into the source viewer and access the 10 most recent clips
  • Support for stacked and tabbed timelines
  • Support for position curves in curve editor
  • Support for viewing and modifying keyframe curves beyond edit extents for clips with transitions centered on the edit
  • More


Media

  • Support for generation 4 color science when decoding CinemaDNG clips from Blackmagic Design cameras
  • Support for Blackmagic Design Film generation 4 to Extended Video LUTs
  • Support for Cintel HDR capture
  • Support for importing clip markers from a Final Cut Pro 7 XML file
  • Support for importing marker colors and duration markers on clips when importing media using FCP7 XML files
  • Support for preserving bin hierarchy when importing media and metadata from a Final Cut Pro 7 XML file
  • More


Color

  • Support for new SuperScale option for high quality resolution upscaling
  • Support for multiple timeline playheads with DaVinci Resolve Advanced panel control
  • Support for a new LUT browser in the Color page
  • Support for live preview of LUTs and gallery stills
  • Support for browsing grades from other timelines in the gallery
  • Support for browsing grades from other projects in the expanded gallery view
  • More


Deliver

  • Support for embedding a subtitle track when encoding QuickTime files
  • Support for embedding CEA-608 closed captions when encoding QuickTime files
  • Support for embedding CEA-608 closed captions when encoding MXF OP1A files
  • Support for embedding CEA-708 closed captions when encoding MXF OP1A clips
  • Support for native IMF encoding in DaVinci Resolve Studio
  • Support for native Kakadu based JPEG2000 decoding and encoding
  • More


General

  • Support for Portuguese in the DaVinci Resolve user interface
  • Support for French in the DaVinci Resolve user interface
  • Support for single seat Fusion Studio dongles
  • Support for external scripting of DaVinci Resolve Studio from local and network locations
  • Support for a console dialog with scripting support available in the Workspace menu
  • Support for Fairlight Audio Accelerator drivers in the DaVinci Resolve installer on Windows
  • More



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