Release of DaVinci Resolve Studio 18.5 Public Beta 3

[rand thompson]

What's new in DaVinci Resolve 18.5 b3

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• Support for Blackmagic RAW SDK 3.1.
• Project setting to select language when transcribing audio.
• Ability to select language when generating subtitles.
• Support for transcribing and generating subtitles from 14 languages.
⁃ Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish
• Ability to edit and delete words and phrases from transcribed text.
• Ability to find and replace search results in the transcription dialog.
• Transcription now automatically detects and displays silent segments.
• Ability to remove all silent segments from transcribed text.
• Clips added to timeline from transcription ignore deleted text.
• Select words or paragraphs in transcribed text with double click or triple click.
• Select all transcribed text with Control-A or Command-A.
• Ability to clear transcriptions.
• Options to specify lines per caption and inter-caption gap for generated subtitles.
• Improved padding for subtitle backgrounds.
• Subtitles are now center aligned by default.
• Support for Blackmagic film color spaces in Fusion.
• Ability to relink, replace and reveal USD, FBX and Alembic assets in the media pool.
• Project archives now include USD, FBX and Alembic assets.
• Media pool indicator for offline USD, FBX and Alembic assets.
• Option for Fusion MultiMerge layers to reflect input tool names.
• MultiMerge keyframes now animate layer enable state.
• Ability to multi-select and delete layers from the MultiMerge inspector.
• Improved support for large layer counts in MultiMerge.
• Support for auxiliary depth channels in uRenderer.
• Exporting current frame as still now supports data burn-ins.
• Explicit option to copy grades from flattened multicams to multicam angles.
• Ability to drag clips to extend timeline end with ripple disabled in the cut page.
• Support for video only and audio only transitions in the cut page.
• Scripting API support to trigger object mask tracking.
• Scripting API support to trigger stabilization.
• Scripting API support to invoke scene cut detection in timelines.
• Scripting API support to enable smart reframe for clips.
• Scripting API support to export current frame as still.
• Scripting API for adding subclips to the media pool.
• Scripting API support to export and import OpenTimelineIO files.
• Scripting API support to render PNG and JPEG image sequences.
• Ability to reset all qualifiers with the advanced panel.
• Advanced panels in tracker mode now show active power window controls.
• The delete flag action in the advanced panels now deletes all flags from the current clip.
• Addressed an issue with copying or pasting clips across hidden tracks in the Fairlight timeline.
• Addressed an issue where deleting unused cache would reset magic mask cache.
• Addressed an issue where changing grades would sometimes reset magic mask cache in prior nodes.
• Addressed an issue where super scale could not be enabled in the inspector for stereo 3D clips.
• Addressed some issues with Fusion overlays in edit.
• Addressed an issue with missing objects in Fusion duplicate on Apple silicon.
• Addressed an issue with AAF and EDL imports incorrectly setting clips to use local version.
• Addressed an issue with toggling color viewer overlay modes.
• Addressed an issue with data burn in exported ProRes clips.
• Addressed incorrect text transcription timing for clips with 44.1 KHz audio.
• Addressed an issue with animating masks for still images in the Fusion page.
• Addressed an issue with captions incorrectly generated for offline audio clips.
• Addressed an issue with start timecode and transcribe audio context menus for timelines in a timeline bin.
• Addressed an issue with image scaling when previewing video transition with vertical timeline.
• Addressed an issue with deliver presets not persisting start timecodes.
• Addressed mismatching clip timecode display in the gallery timeline album.
• Addressed an issue with local project libraries with long paths on Windows.
• Improved memory usage for source clips with very large resolutions.
• Addressed noise reduction artefacts in RCM projects on Windows and Linux.
• General performance and stability improvements.