What's new in DaVinci Resolve 15.2


Key new features

  • Improved Edit timeline performance and responsiveness
  • Support for improved visual animations when editing the timeline on the Edit page
  • Support for a visual keyboard customization utility to find, add and modify shortcuts
  • Support for per-module customizable shortcuts, including module specific actions and context menus
  • Support for showing the currently focused module in the user interface
  • Support for displaying duplicate frame ranges for clips on the timeline on the Edit page
  • Support for cleaning up and flattening video tracks on the Edit timeline
  • Support for adding, editing and exporting custom keyword sets from the keyword dictionary in the Workspace menu
  • Support for option to export gallery stills using the still label name
  • Support for ResolveFX Beauty in DaVinci Resolve Studio
  • Support for ResolveFX Blanking Fill for portrait videos
  • Support for VCA groups
  • Support for FairlightFX Multiband Compressor
  • Support for FairlightFX Stereo Fixer
  • Support for decoding Panasonic 8K SHV clips in DaVinci Resolve Studio

Edit

  • Improved Edit timeline performance and responsiveness
  • Support for improved visual animations when editing the timeline on the Edit page
  • Support for displaying duplicate frame ranges for clips on the timeline on the Edit page
  • Support for viewing inspector properties for the highest visible clip under the playhead in the Edit timeline when there is no active selection
  • Support for viewer overlay controls for the highest visible clip under the playhead in the Edit timeline when there is no active selection
  • Support for marking a clip within a compound clip or a timeline in the source viewer
  • Support for cleaning up and flattening video tracks on the Edit timeline
  • Support for resizing audio transitions to sub-frame boundaries
  • Support for setting ease-in and ease-out on keyframes from the keyframe context menu in the Edit and Fairlight page inspectors
  • Support for setting ease-in and ease-out on keyframes from the keyframe context menu in the Edit timeline
  • Support for temporarily toggling snapping while scrubbing the playhead by invoking the snapping shortcut in the Edit timeline
  • Support for defining characters per second thresholds to highlight non-conforming subtitle captions in the inspector
  • Support for automatically enabling dynamic zoom when on-screen controls are modified on the Edit page
  • Support for timeline indicators for clips with updated grades or compositions in collaborative projects
  • Support for toggling the visibility of retime controls and retime curves by invoking the context menu or the shortcut in the Edit timeline
  • Support for fast timecode entry in clip attributes, marker dialog, new timeline, render settings and other timecode widgets
  • Support for quickly accessing recent undo/redo actions from the Edit menu
  • Improved results when performing transitions on clips being composited with other layers
  • Improved behavior when using the Push video transition on a title clip

Fusion

  • Improved scripting API support with ability to import and export Fusion compositions
  • Support for GPU acceleration for the Trails tool in the Fusion page

Color

  • Support for ResolveFX Beauty in DaVinci Resolve Studio
  • Support for ResolveFX Blanking Fill for portrait videos
  • Support for ResolveFX ACES Transform
  • Support for ResolveFX Gamut Limiter
  • Support for bypassing a mixer node input by disabling the node connected to that input
  • Support for option to export gallery stills using the still label name
  • Support for Camera RAW controls for Canon and Panasonic clips from the DaVinci Resolve Advanced and Mini panels
  • Support for clipping output gamut to a different display gamut
  • Support for an ST.2084 3000 nits gamma option in Resolve Color Management
  • Support for improved color matching using color charts
  • Support for OpenFX extension for a plugin to describe itself as not spatially awareSupport for including non-spatially aware OpenFX plugins when generating LUTs on the Color page
    • Check Developer Documentation in the Help menu for more details
  • Support for including the ResolveFX Color Transform plugin when generating LUTs on the Color page
  • Support for importing Dolby Vision metadata for clips in the Color page Dolby Vision option menu
  • Support for previewing tone mapping using embedded, imported or custom metadata for Dolby Vision IMF clips
  • Support for for up to 64 controls when creating DCTLs
  • Updated OpenFX developer documentation with OpenFX 1.4 samples
  • Updated OpenFX developer documentation with temporal frame access samples
  • Updated OpenFX developer documentation with transition sample
  • Improved support for handling aspect ratios for various ResolveFX plugins
  • Improved support for handling UI overlays for projects with output scaling applied
  • Improved behavior when closing Power Curve Windows drawn on the Color page

Fairlight

  • Support for VCA groups
  • Support for FairlightFX Multiband Compressor
  • Support for FairlightFX Stereo Fixer
  • Support for customizable test tones and noise generation from the Fairlight menu
  • Support for selecting and modifying audio transitions
  • Support for navigating the Fairlight timeline using timecode entry
  • Support for setting audio monitoring output delay in system preferences
  • Support for indicating clips with changed inspector properties on the Fairlight timeline
  • Support for applying a FairlightFX plugin to multiple selected audio clips
  • Support for additional Fairlight Audio Accelerator IO settings on Windows
  • Support for Fairlight Audio Interface RS-422 9-Pin serial control on Windows
  • Support for Talkback using the Fairlight Audio Accelerator on Windows
  • Support for Fairlight MADI expander for the Fairlight Audio Accelerator on Windows
  • Support for additional Fairlight edit operations including cut or copy the head or tail of the current clip from the Edit menu
  • Improved playback performance when performing audio automation
  • Improved handling of custom multi-channel format mappings for Audio FX

Media and Deliver

  • Support for decoding Panasonic 8K SHV clips in DaVinci Resolve Studio
  • Support for hardware accelerated encoding of H.264 and H.265 using specific NVIDIA GPUs on DaVinci Resolve Studio; Windows and Linux only
  • Support for hardware accelerated encoding of H.264 and H.265 using Intel Quick Sync on supported hardware on DaVinci Resolve Studio; Windows only
  • Support for decoding Canon RMF clips using the Canon SDK
  • Support for encoding Dolby Vision version 4 metadata in IMF renders
  • Support for creating a subclip from a Media Pool clip marker
  • Support for clip usage indicators in the Media Pool clip thumbnail for the active timeline
  • Support for a clip usage listing in the Media Pool clip context menu for the active timeline
  • Support for showing usage indicators for clips inside a compound clip on the active timeline
  • Support for adding flags to clips when focused on the source viewer
  • Support for duplicating media pool clips and current timelines from the Edit menu
  • Support for a toggle control for switching between single and dual pane mode in Media Pool on the Edit page
  • Support for storing the alpha channel in optimized media for clips with an embedded alpha channel
  • Support for an option to render alpha channel either as straight or premultiplied when rendering individual clips
  • Support for Sony XAVC Long GOP encoding on DaVinci Resolve Studio
  • Support for Episode and Chapter in content metadata options for IMF exports

Cintel

  • Improved sub-pixel stabilization
  • Support for storing Cintel settings with each DaVinci Resolve project
  • Support for single frame captures
  • Addressed an issue with debayering artefacts that would sometimes affect pixel highlights
  • Addressed an issue with incorrect audio sync offsets when using Capture Now

General

  • Support for a visual keyboard shortcut mapping utility to find, add and modify shortcuts
  • Support for per-module customizable shortcuts, including module specific actions and context menus
  • Support for showing the currently focused module in the user interface
  • Support for adding, editing and exporting custom keyword sets from the keyword dictionary in the Workspace menu
  • Support for live save and backups for unsaved projects
  • Support for remembering the last used locations in the file browser for various import and export operations
  • Support for collaborating on projects in a PostgreSQL database with machines across multiple subnets
  • Support for toggling Mute and Dim in all pages from the Fairlight application menu
  • Support for configuring the gallery path during project import by Alt/Option-clicking Import Project
  • Improved organization of System Preferences with a new section for decode options
  • Support for easyDCP on Linux




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