Understanding the New Features in DaVinci Resolve 16

• Every new feature in DaVinci Resolve 16 explained
• Tutorials for safely upgrading to Resolve 16
• DaVinci Resolve 16 Learning Resources

DaVinci Resolve 16, the all in one editing, colour grading, audio mixing and delivery super-app, was announced at NAB on 8th April 2019. A scant 4 months it has completed it’s public beta and is now officially released (version 16.0 as of 8th August). In those four months Blackmagic Design released 7 iterations of the beta, each one adding a huge number of new features, bug fixes and ‘general improvements’.

In an unusual move they have simultaneously released a new version called 16.1 public beta, which includes yet more new features such as:

• Support for automatically grouping shots from one camera by analyzing timecode and camera number metadata
• Boring detector with timeline indicators to detect edits which are running too long
• Jump cut detector with timeline indicators for flash frames and jump cuts
• ResolveFX Stop Motion
• ResolveFX and OpenFX plugins can now process and modify the alpha channel
• Ability to preserve video essence for faster rendering of uncompressed clips without content changes
• Support for a full-screen viewer on an additional display on DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Requires: macOS 10.14.6 Mojave

As this only just came out today, it will be interesting to see how this tandem official-beta process works out. BMD have pitched it as a win-win, so that anyone who is relying on using an official stable release can, and those who want to live on the top end of the development curve, can too. You can read the 16.1 beta new features list here.

The release notes say that the Mac OS minimum requirements are macOS 10.14.16 Mojave, for both 16.0 and 16.1, but it appears that both versions run under High Sierra (10.13.6).

This demo from CEO Grant Petty will walk you through all of the latest announcements and a quick demo of Resolve 16.1 too.

In the rest of this post I’ll unpack what all the new features in the official 16.0 release are in detail and point you to some really useful resources for getting your head about the big picture of this huge update. However, if you want to jump straight into some DaVinci Resolve 16 specific tutorials, hit this other new post for that.

It’s also worth noting that as Fusion 16 (the standalone version) is using the same codebase as DaVinci Resolve 16 Studio, Blackmagic Design have also released updates to that, in tandem with the Studio and free versions of Resolve. To learn more about Fusion in DaVinci Resolve check out these previous posts for tips, tutorials and excellent paid training.

If you’re new to the world of DaVinci Resolve and are looking for comprehensive professional training instead of attempting to piece things together from YouTube tutorials, then I’d highly recommend checking out what LowePost.com has to offer ($79 for a year’s membership!), as well as the excellent high-end training from MixingLight.com and the new series of faster more accessible training from Ripple Training.com.

I cover all of these trainers in these two in-depth previous posts: Learn High-End Finishing Techniques with Fusion in Resolve | DaVinci Resolve 14 Training Courses Reviewed

But anyway, what exactly are all the new features in DaVinci Resolve 16 and where can you turn to learn all about them in detail?

Well you can peruse at your leisure the 86 breezy pages of the official DaVinci Resolve 16 New Features Guide, which is actually a very good idea. With 7 chapters covering each Resolve Page individually as well as a chapter on General Improvements and improvements to ResolveFX, you can learn a lot in a short amount of time.

What’s also great is that you can not only learn what the new features are, but also how to use them. Here are a few interesting tidbits and recommended reading:

• p.7 – Hide pages or page navigation to focus on a single page
• p.8 – Stay up to date with DaVinci Resolve > Check for Updates
• p.9 – Improved H.264 encoding on macOS
• p.10 – Decoding and linking of IMF supplemental packages
• p.23 – Individual Timeline Settings for Format, Monitoring, and Output
• p.26 – New Adjustments Clips
• p.28 – Paste Grades in the Edit Page
• p.31 – Reveal selected LUT used on node
• p.32 – Improved Auto Colour Correction and Shot Match
• p.34-38 – New and improved GPU accelerated scopes
• p.42 – (Studio Only) ResolveFX Object Removal
• p.46 – (Studio Only) ResolveFX Chromatic Aberration (remove colour fringing)
• p.55 – Fusion Planar and Camera Tracker improvements
• p.64-66 – Elastic Wave Audio Retiming (accurate performance matching)
• p.72 – FairlightFX Dialog Processor (6 plugins in one for polishing dialogue)
• p.72 – Create your own SFX with Foley Sampler
• p.80 – Quick Export (3 click preset based exports)
• p.82 – By-Pass Re-encode When Possible – Faster exports when the video clip stays the same
• p.83 – Deliver to YouTube/Vimeo/Frame.io (export and automatic login and upload)

A couple of quick extra quotes on some particular features. When using the improved Auto Colour Correction and Shot Match you’ll get “optimal results when working in the Rec.709 color space, and at a gamma of 2.4, so they work well in conjunction with using Resolve Color Management (RCM) to normalize media first.”

‘Bypass re-encode when possible’ also works in situations where you’ve placed a previously rendered Video+Audio clip onto a timeline and edited a new audio mix clip to replace the old audio mix. In this situation, a new file will be quickly written with the new audio, but the video component of that file won’t be re-encoded, again resulting in a fast export at the highest quality.”

It’s also worth noting that for the Deliver to… feature where it will export, login and upload to YouTube, Vimeo and Frame.io, you’ll need to login in a web browser and check your privacy settings for the video as it’s mostly likely to default to ‘public’ as that’s usually the default setting on the server side.

If you want to see in granular detail what was added or fixed in each of the DaVinci Resolve Studio beta releases, you can scroll through all that here on the Blackmagic Design forums:

• Beta 1 Release notes – 8th April 2019
• Beta 2 Release notes – 6th May 2019
• Beta 3 Release notes – 22nd May 2019
• Beta 4 Release notes – 6th June 2019
• Beta 5 Release notes – 3rd July 2019
• Beta 6 Release notes – 10th July 2019
• Beta 7 Release notes – 25th July 2019

As you can see they work those developers hard at Blackmagic!

If you’d rather not read your way through all the new features, then sit back and enjoy this official 25 minute tour of (some of) the new features in DaVinci Resolve 16. If you click through to YouTube you’ll be able to jump through all the timestamps for each of the 60 individual topics covered. Here are a few highlights:

• 00:15 – Difference between Edit and Cut pages
• 03:10 – Cut page smart edit features
• 06:23 – Cut page source tape mode
• 09:15 – Edit page custom timeline settings
• 09:38 – DaVinci Neural Engine and facial recognition
• 11:58 – Edit page shot stabilization
• 12:43 – Native frame.io integration
• 13:53 – Fusion page GPU accelerated tools
• 14:23 – Color page DaVinci Neural Engine color and shot match
• 14:42 – Color page curves with histogram overlay
• 14:55 – Color page paste attributes
• 15:58 – Color page Resolve FX and neural engine
• 19:18 – Fairlight page new loudness and metering tools
• 20:05 – Fairlight page ProTools session import
• 21:59 – Fairlight page new Fairlight FX plugins
• 23:55 – Fairlight page free foley sound library

DaVinci Resolve Editing Keyboard

everything old is new again #PostChat pic.twitter.com/VmXGxbNaHZ

— editR (@ronsussman) April 11, 2019

At the same time Blackmagic Design announced DaVinci Resolve 16 they also began to demo a whole new editing focused keyboard, which should be available in August 2019.

Editors with sufficient memory were quick to point out it’s retro styling, although it doesn’t seem to have received the ire of Apple’s $999 display stand for it’s similar price point of $995. For that level of investment you get the following features:

• All metal design for increased strength
• USC-C connector
• Integrated search dial control
• Buttons to instantly re-sort bins
• Large trim in and out buttons
• New keyboard modes for intelligent editing
• Buttons to allow search dial to live trim
• Buttons to change transition type
• Keypad for direct timecode entry

It looks like a premium device, and it certainly has a premium price point, but I’m not entirely convinced, though open to being corrected!, that it will deliver faster editing than a Wacom tablet and some decent keyboard shortcut memorisation.

Jason Druss a product specialist at Blackmagic Design, demonstrates the new editing keyboard in action in this short video from NAB 2019.

In this exceptionally long Technical Product Overview from CEO Grant Petty, you can get his perspective on the new DaVinci Resolve keyboard and their philosophy on the design: “there’s nothing cheap about it all… we’ve just chosen the most premium features we can.” The keyboard will feature repairable spare parts, which should extend it’s life somewhat, which is great given the up-front investment.

I’m hoping to get my hands on one to review in detail, but it will be interesting to see if/how many editors jump for one of these when they become available.

How to safely upgrade to DaVinci Resolve 16

JayAreTV walks you through how to correctly back up your databases before upgrading your version of DaVinci Resolve to the latest version of the software.

If you really want to have both DaVinci Resolve 16 and DaVinci Resolve 15 installed on your system at the same time, these two tutorials will walk you through it for both Windows (below) and Mac (above). It’s not a perfect process, but it is possible with a few careful steps.

DaVinci Resolve 16 Best New Features

Theo from the ever dependable MiesnerMedia shares his 17 favourite new features in DaVinci Resolve 16.

• 01 | Switch off Navigation
• 02 | Project Notes
• 03 | Different Timeline Settings
• 04 | Non Rectified Waveforms
• 05 | Color Page | Options
• 06 | Lightbox | Clipsize
• 07 | Scrubbing with Shift-Left or Right Arrow
• 08 | Customizable Timeline Looping Range
• 09 | LUT
• 10 | Gang Viewer Zoom to Video Output
• 11 | Scopes
• 12 | Curves
• 13 | Chromatic Aberration Plugin
• 14 | Invert Colors
• 15 | B-Chain Control | Fairlight
• 16 | Deliver | Audio | All Timeline Tracks
• 17 | Disable Update During render

Should you finally switch to DaVinci Resolve?

The (french?) chap from Zebra Zone shares why he has switched away from Premiere Pro after a decade of use, and over to DaVinci Resolve 16 for all of his editing, grading and sound mixing requirements. In this fairly nicely produced video he outlines the 7 biggest reasons he found for making the leap, and covers a few current drawbacks. These aren’t actually too major other than the general necessity for investing in a decent GPU.

The hardest part about switching to another video editing application, or even just deciding to have the common decency to try another video editing software, is biting the bullet on the first couple of days in which everything is horrible. All your muscle memory is firing in the wrong directions, nothing works quite ‘how it should’ and it’s just painful. You keep thinking – I could be doing this faster if I was just working in _______ instead! But don’t give up, keep going and if you need some encouragement check out this previous post on tips for switching from and to all the major video editing software.

Colorist Denver Riddle shares his thoughts on the latest release of DaVinci Resolve, having been using it since version 8. This video is ideal for anyone using Resolve for the first time, or seriously considering switching to it as their core post production app.

In the video you’ll get a guided tour of each page and a quick overview of how you would work through the app, and could choose to turnover assets to other applications (or not) along the way.

Denver has a ton of great colour grading training and bespoke applications which you can check out in detail at colorgradingcentral.com.

Every new feature in DaVinci Resolve 16

If you do want to skim through every single new feature in the final release of DaVinci Resolve 16, here they all are….

Features marked with * are in progress.
Features marked with ^ have additional descriptions below

Key new features

• Addition of all-new Cut page
• Support for the DaVinci Resolve Editor Keyboard
• Multiple performance improvements with significantly faster Fusion processing
• Collaboration workflow improvements – DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Speed Warp motion estimation powered by the DaVinci Neural Engine in DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Timeline level resolution, frame rate, scaling and monitoring settings within the same project
• Upload directly to YouTube and Vimeo
• Quick Export for quickly performing renders from all pages
• Adjustment Clips to apply filters, effects and grades on top of a range of timeline clips
• Frame.io integration supporting media imports, direct uploads, marker and comment syncing – DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Significantly improved GPU accelerated real-time scopes
• Initial immersive 3D audio support including Dolby Atmos, Auro-3D, MPEG-H, and SMPTE ST 2098 – DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Free foley sound effects library available from the Blackmagic Design support website for use in DaVinci Resolve

Cut

• Dual timelines with the ability to quickly navigate or edit anywhere on the timeline
• Ability to use Source Tape mode to preview multiple media pool clips as a sequence of shots
• Dedicated trim tool in the viewer to allow for frame-accurate trimming
• Fast review mode with adaptive preview speeds to quickly review footage
• Intelligent editing behavior based on playhead proximity to edit points
• Dedicated edit and transition buttons
• Compact viewer controls for context-specific actions including transform, audio, text and effects
• Ability to access and edit all DaVinci Resolve transitions, effects and Fusion title templates
• Multiple media pool sort and display modes – including new filmstrip mode and new list mode with thumbnails
• Easy access to Quick Export options to export and share videos

Performance

• User selection to preserve video essence for faster rendering of clips without content changes^
• Improved playback performance with title templates in the effects library^
• Improved Fusion playback performance
• Improved caching performance for clips with Fusion comps
• Improved 3D engine performance for clips with Fusion effects
• Improved performance when playing back Fusion clips with cached effects
• Improved performance with support for GPU-accelerated scopes
• Improved performance for the Super Scale algorithm powered by the DaVinci Neural Engine in DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Improved playback performance on Linux systems with a single NVIDIA GPU

Collaboration

• Per-system render cache for collaboration projects – DaVinci Resolve Studio^
• Ability to create and modify markers in the Color page for collaboration projects – DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Ability to modify clip metadata and flags from the Color page for collaboration projects – DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Ability to display and change clip color from the Color page for collaboration projects – DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Ability to load collaboration projects in read only mode – DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Support for Dolby Vision and HDR10+ in collaboration projects – DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Frame.io integration supporting media imports, direct uploads, marker and comment syncing – DaVinci Resolve Studio^
• Ability to override the output and monitoring settings per collaboration system – DaVinci Resolve Studio^
• Ability to see the machine and IP address of the user who is currently using a non-collaboration project
• Options to show or hide flags and markers of specific colors
• Ability to delete markers and flags by color

Edit

• Speed Warp motion estimation powered by the DaVinci Neural Engine – DaVinci Resolve Studio^
• Timeline level resolution, frame rate, scaling and monitoring settings within the same project^
• Adjustment Clips to apply filters, effects and grades on top of a range of timeline clips^
• Ability to analyze video clips for detecting and classifying people powered by the DaVinci Neural Engine – DaVinci Resolve Studio^
• Custom safe areas for titles and actions^
• Ability to assign any media pool clip or timeline as an offline reference clip^
• Video orientation angle in the Clip Attributes dialog
• Ease in and out position keyframes in the curves editor
• Ability to view and edit keyframes for OpenFX plugins in timeline curves
• Stabilize video clips from the Inspector
• Support for pasting color correction properties from the Paste Attributes dialog
• Improved audio behavior when scrubbing in the Edit and Media page viewers
• Temporarily enable/disable snapping for titles on the viewer using the Alt/Opt key
• All available viewer area is automatically used for 2-up and 4-up displays
• Blade operations on a selected clip results in the preceding section being selected
• Ability to toggle viewer overlays on/off and assign shortcuts for specific modes in the Edit and Color page viewers^
• Support for a larger selection of words in the keyword dictionary from workspace menu
• Ability to group and manage smart bins using folders
• User preference to automatically create smart bin categories from media pool clips based on keywords, shot, scene and people metadata
• Ability to duplicate existing smart bins
• Ability to toggle between searching all media pool bins and current bin
• Support for Go to In/Go to Out functions for three point edits even when preview marks are not visible
• Support for switching the video monitoring output when toggling between source and timeline viewer in gang mode
• Automatic updating of the Usage in Media Pool list view
• Project setting to limit reel name matching to a specific number of characters when conforming or color tracing timelines^
• Project setting to ignore a specific number of characters from the beginning of the reel name when conforming or color tracing timelines^
• Newly pasted clips are now automatically selected
• Ability to render broadcast wave files with support for metadata when exporting timelines to Pro Tools
• Improved handling of video codec defaults and audio file names when exporting timelines to Pro Tools
• Ability to switch buses for monitoring from the Edit page
• Options to toggle views for rectified, full waveform and waveform borders in timeline options^
• Improved alpha channel handling for compound clips with more than two layers^

Fusion

• Fusion Studio 16 release concurrent with DaVinci Resolve 16
• Improved playback performance with title templates in the effects library
• Improved Fusion playback performance
• Improved 3D engine performance for clips with Fusion effects
• Support for MultiSampling in the 3D Renderer
• Ability to flexibly scale animation with changing clip lengths
• Improved performance when playing back cached Fusion clips
• Improved responsiveness of Fusion viewer interactions when using a Wacom tablet
• Ability to view and edit Fusion composition names from the clip thumbnail context menu
• Improved memory management on large Fusion compositions with a high layer count
• Improved GPU memory utilization for Fusion compositions with temporal processing
• Improved performance for Change Depth with new Error Diffusion option
• Improved performance and accuracy for Camera Tracker, with support for lens distortion
• Improved performance with Fusion Dissolve with GPU acceleration support
• Improved performance with Fusion TimeSpeed and TimeStretch with GPU acceleration support
• Improved performance for Planar Tracker
• Improved performance for B-Spline rendering with GPU acceleration support
• Improved performance for Vector Motion Blur and motion blur in other tools with GPU acceleration support
• Improved performance for Fusion Splitter and Combiner with GPU acceleration support
• Improved performance for Fusion BitmapMask with GPU acceleration support
• Improved performance for Fusion CornerPin and PerspectivePin with GPU acceleration support
• Improved performance with Fusion Mask rendering with GPU acceleration support
• Improved performance with Fusion Color operations with GPU acceleration support

Color

• All new scopes engine
  • GPU accelerated with real-time performance
  • Option to apply a low pass filter for cleaner views
  • CIE scope for viewing gamut distribution
  • Option to set quality of the scopes
  • Additional YRGB and YCbCr modes in Parade
  • Option to see extents in Parade and Waveform
  • Option to colorize Parade and Waveform
  • Additional luminance and chroma modes in Waveform
  • Ability to set ranges and view shadows, midtones and highlights independently in the Vectorscope
  • Ability to view individual or combined extents for shadows, midtones and highlights in the Vectorscope
  • Additional YRGB mode in the Histogram
• Option to see input or output histograms in the background of custom curves
• Option to see input or output histograms in the background of HSL curves
• Support for new auto-color and color match processing powered by the DaVinci Neural Engine^
• Ability to gang the zoom on the Color page viewer and the video output^
• Ability to view individual red, green and blue channels in the viewer^
• Ability to view and adjust keyframes for ResolveFX and OpenFX^
• Ability to adjust the thumbnail size for timeline and lightbox to view a larger range of clips
• Ability to copy and paste attributes between nodes
• Ability to step forward and backward by 1 second
• Ability to mark in-out ranges, mark current clip or clear ranges in the timeline for looped playback and to perform quick exports of specific sections
• New smart filter for clips with edit sizing
• New smart filter for clips with specific ResolveFX or OpenFX applied
• Ability to view and set stereoscopic floating windows in pixels^
• Additional strength controls for advanced video stabilization
• Tracks can be enabled/disabled from the application menu and using shortcuts
• Option to monitor stereoscopic content using line by line with the first line being even
• List view mode for gallery stills and PowerGrades
• Ability to update and navigate the current timeline wipe using the Timelines section in the gallery
• Ability to optionally enable scrubbing when performing live preview in the gallery^
• Support for a new Selected Still Images split screen mode
• Accessing clip attributes from the thumbnail context menu
• Revealing media in Media Pool from the thumbnail context menu
• Revealing applied LUT in LUT browser from the node context menu
• Support for Canon C700 IDTs in ACES workflows
• Support for tooltips with track names in the Color page timeline
• Support for AstroDesign ALog OETF in Resolve Color Management workflows
• Support for 203 nit gamma mapping in Color Management settings when performing SDR to HDR color space conversions
• Ability to pan and tilt an image beyond the project resolution in input, node and output sizing
• Modifying Canon and Panasonic Camera Raw controls from the DaVinci Resolve Mini and Advanced Panels
• Switching tabs automatically when adjusting primary parameters from DaVinci Resolve panels

ResolveFX

• ResolveFX Stylize powered by the DaVinci Neural Engine in DaVinci Resolve Studio
• ResolveFX Object Removal in DaVinci Resolve Studio^
• ResolveFX Analog Damage in DaVinci Resolve Studio
• ResolveFX Pencil Sketch in DaVinci Resolve Studio
• ResolveFX Chromatic Aberration in DaVinci Resolve Studio
• ResolveFX Chromatic Adaptation
• ResolveFX Vignette
• ResolveFX Invert Color
• ResolveFX Drop Shadow
• Support for the ResolveFX Blanking Fill, Lens Blur and Tilt Shift Blur in the Fusion page
• Support for the ResolveFX Patch Replacer in the Edit page
• Support for integrated beauty enhancements in ResolveFX Face Refinement
• Improved ResolveFX Beauty with a new Auto mode, better edge behavior, individual controls and larger parameter ranges
• Improved ResolveFX Scanline
• Improved behavior for handling glow sources in multiple ResolveFX plugins^
• Improved behavior for ResolveFX plugins with support for processing the alpha channel in the Edit timeline
• Improved ResolveFX Blanking Fill with better defaults, support for more granular cropping and easier controls
• Improved ResolveFX Warper with support for keyframing
• Improved ResolveFX Dead Pixel with support for keyframing
• Improved ResolveFX Colorspace Transform with support for SMPTE-C and Gamma 2.5

Fairlight

• Initial support for Dolby Atmos audio in DaVinci Resolve Studio^
• Initial support for Auro-3D audio in DaVinci Resolve Studio^
• Initial support for MPEG-H audio in DaVinci Resolve Studio*
• Initial support for SMPTE ST 2098 3D audio from DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Support for B-Chain monitoring in the Fairlight page in DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Support for labeling and protecting specific speakers from unwanted signal patching from the B-Chain port setup
• Support for a larger variety of track formats including support for 3D audio formats
• FairlightFX Frequency Analyzer
• FairlightFX Limiter
• FairlightFX Phase Meter
• FairlightFX Dialog Processor*
• FairlightFX Foley Sampler
• Elastic Wave adaptive audio timing
• Ability to save and recall multiple track automation mixes
• Ability to copy, paste, edit and erase user selected portions of track automation data from the Fairlight menu
• Improved viewing and control of 3D pans in the Fairlight pan tool
• Support for Fairlight Audio Accelerator via Thunderbolt expander for macOS
• Support for importing AAF timelines with support for decoding embedded audio content
• Viewing and editing automation parameters for buses in the timeline view
• New loudness monitoring standards – including ATSC, 1770 and R128 standards
• Improved clip normalization with an option to set loudness standards
• Ability to view integrated loudness curves for the Main bus in the timeline^
• Ability to reset playback volume by Alt/Opt-clicking the volume slider
• Media path mapping for the Sound Library
• Ability to save and recall full console library presets

Codecs and Delivery

• Quick Export for quickly performing renders from various pages^
• Rendering all timeline audio tracks individually in single clip mode^
• Decoding iOS Voice Memo, including lossless formats
• Improved support for decoding and linking IMF supplemental packages in DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Support for 20th Century Fox IMF preset in DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Option for DCP quantization levels when rendering using the Kakadu JPEG2000 codecs
• User alert when the render resolution is larger than the timeline resolution
• Ability to use Super Scale in timeline output scaling in order to perform upscaling on renders and deliveries
• Support for encoding to Panasonic SHV 8K in DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Support for trimming MXF clips with temporal codecs in media management
• Ability to minimize or disable viewer updates during rendering
• AMD hardware accelerated decoding of H.264 and H.265 on Windows in DaVinci Resolve Studio
• AMD hardware accelerated encoding of H.264 and H.265 on Windows in DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Improved support for NVIDIA H.264 and H.265 rendering parameters on the Delivery page on Windows and Linux in DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Improved support for Intel Quick Sync H.264 and H.265 parameters on the Delivery page on Windows in DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Option to select the hardware acceleration method for decoding H.264 and H.265 on Windows and Linux – DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Improved performance when decoding H.264 and H.265 clips on macOS
• Improved performance when encoding H.264 and H.265 clips on macOS
• Option to select hardware or software encoding for H.264 in macOS
• Ability to set the Entropy mode when encoding H.264 on macOS
• Improved display of options for H.265 profiles with implicit bit depth selection in the Deliver page on macOS
• Improved HDR metadata encoding when rendering to H.265
• Improved performance when encoding to AVI formats
• Support for D-Gamut and D-Log for DJI RAW clips
• Support for GPU accelerated decoding of Canon RAW clips using the Canon SDK
• Support for decoding Canon C700 Full Frame clips
• Support decoding Canon RAW clips in half res and quarter res mode
• Support for decoding and encoding Avid DNxUncompressed formats
• Support for decoding ARRI HDE clips
• Ability to control QuantScale and MaxFrameSizeInPercent parameters when encoding to Grass Valley formats
• Improved IMF composition settings options with the ability to rename native assets
• Improved naming support for native DCP and IMF renders
• Removed folder extensions from IMF/DCP renders

General

• Support for the DaVinci Resolve Editor Keyboard
• Exporting videos directly to YouTube^
• Exporting videos directly to Vimeo^
• Per OS login preferences and settings with support for local UI layouts, database management, system and user preferences^
• Ability to check for software updates from the DaVinci Resolve menu
• Playback speed indicators in Resolve viewers
• Ability to enable or disable individual pages in DaVinci Resolve^
• Ability to hide the page navigation bar from the Workspace menu
• Ability to enable or disable focused panel indicators in DaVinci Resolve
• Ability to list and navigate to open Media Pool windows from the Workspace menu
• Support for automatically checking for software updates when connected to the internet
• Support for Russian user interface
• Improved Live Save behavior on the Fusion and Color pages
• Ability to add and edit project notes from the Project Manager and app menu^
• Support for using timeline name and project name as burn in and render tags
• Support for editing descriptions and comments columns for timelines in the Media Page
• Ability to view the GPU Processing mode when set to Auto
• Support for using DaVinci Resolve Studio dongles to enable Fusion Studio
• General stability and performance improvements

Developer

• Ability for OpenFX plugins to access any frame from the current clip
• Scripting support for python 3.7
• Discoverable scripting APIs in python and python 3
• Combo boxes in Davinci CTL plugins
• Ability to encrypt and specify expiry dates for DaVinci CTLs
• Ability to query current timecode and current clip using the scripting API
• Improved scripting support for importing, exporting and restoring projects and archives
• Improved scripting support for listing, loading, renaming and deleting Fusion compositions and Color versions