What's New in DaVinci Resolve 20

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What's New in DaVinci Resolve 20

The following features have been added or updated.

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Key New Features

• Improved keyframing with dedicated curve view and timeline drawer.
• Voice over tool with record and monitor options.
• Import Blackmagic Cloud Shared folders to media pool.
• AI IntelliScript creates timelines with a user provided script.
• AI Magic Mask v2 with paint brush.
• AI Dialogue Matcher matches clip tone, level and reverberance.
• AI Audio Assistant automatically creates a finished mix.
• AI IntelliCut removes silences and checkerboards speakers.
• Deep image compositing toolset.

Cut Page

• Voice over palette with cue, voice tools and teleprompter.
• Ripple trimming of audio now available on secondary tracks.
• Replay multi views now show previously used camera angles.
• Tapping time buttons allows camera buttons to preroll replays.
• Auto resync media bins now supports stills and sequences.
• Live overwrite now supports edit keys and search dial.
• Mouse drag to live overwrite multi source and sync bin.
• Trim with safe edit avoids overwriting adjacent clips.
• Media pool metadata palette allows quick review of selected clips.
• Ability to copy, paste and remove attributes from timeline clips.
• Support for a dynamic trimming mode using JKL controls.
• Full featured audio mixer.
• Mini timeline now includes a context menu.

Edit Page

• Voice over tool with record and monitor options.
• AI Multicam SmartSwitch for automatic angle switching.
• AI VoiceConvert with built-in and user trainable models.
• Support for source tape.
• Ability to view and edit timelines in the source viewer.
• Multicam creation now supports a reference audio track.
• Opening compound clip from timeline matches playhead position.
• Access timeline settings from timeline tab context menu.
• User preference to wrap around 24h timecode.

 

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Cut and Edit Page

• Improved keyframing with dedicated curve view and timeline drawer.
• Import Blackmagic Cloud Shared folders to media pool.
• AI IntelliScript creates timelines with a user provided script.
• AI Dialogue Matcher matches clip tone, level and reverberance.
• AI Music Editor automatically edits music to desired length.
• AI animated subtitles highlights or animates spoken words.
• AI SuperScale now includes 3x and 4x enhanced upscaling.
• AI Detect Music Beats displays and allows beat snapping.
• New optimized UI layouts option for vertical videos.
• Custom grid for sorting and organizing of media pool thumbnails.
• Text+ paragraph, line wrapping and bounding tools.
• MultiText tool with layers and easy transform, clip and wrap controls.
• Subtitle tracks now support Fusion templates for styling.
• Selectively sync media originals with proxy only cloud sync.
• Imported PSDs can now be split into individual layers.
• Support for Alert Red viewer background mode.
• Transcription engine now offers extended language support.
• Smooth Cut now supports AI Speed Warp.
• Export audio transcriptions with speaker and timecode.
• Export transcriptions with improved phrase and sentence breaks.

Fusion Page

• Deep image compositing toolset.
• Multi layer pipelining for OpenEXR, PSD and stereoscopic 3D.
• Vector warping toolset for image patching and cleanup.
• Support for 180 VR.
• 3D Scene Dome Light.
• Support for native Cryptomatte workflows.
• View color page grade in media out node.
• Faster GPU based pano map and spherical stabilizer tools.
• Ability to search tool based on effects category.
• User selectable starting frames for compositions.

Color Page

• AI Magic Mask v2 with paint brush.
• AI Resolve FX Depth Map v2.
• Chroma Color Warper grading.
• Resolve FX Warper features new spline warp controls.
• Open Color IO supported as Resolve FX.
• New optimized UI layouts option for vertical video.
• Display viewer overlays for remote monitoring.
• Stream and monitor H.265 4:2:2 on supported hardware.
• Support for Samsung Log.
• Support for ACES 2.0.
• Ability to generate HDR light level PDF reports.
• LUTs and colorspaces can now be modified in multi-user projects.
• Node layer controls in the advanced panel.
• Lift, gamma, gain Micro Panel sensitivity improvements.

 

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Fairlight Page

• AI Audio Assistant automatically creates a finished mix.
• AI IntelliCut to remove silences.
• AI IntelliCut to checkerboard dialogue by speaker.
• AI IntelliCut to generate ADR Cues using transcription speaker info.
• Clip EQ now features 6 bands.
• EQ and Level Matcher processes match tone and clip levels.
• EQ and Gain now also available as Fairlight FX plugins.
• Fairlight Chain FX to create and restore frequently chained plugins.
• Drag header color to move tracks and busses in the timeline.
• Automation now supports per channel mode switching.
• Trim automation now remains active through a mix pass.
• Improved view presets store multiple parameters.

Codecs

• Apple ProRes encode support on Windows and Linux.
• Encode MV-HEVC without spatial video metadata.
• MV-HEVC encode support on Nvidia systems.
• Support for side by side stereo 3D media decode.
• Side by side display mode for stereo 3D clips in source viewer.
• Editable spatial video metadata properties in inspector.
• GPU accelerated H.265 4:2:2 encodes on supported Nvidia systems.
• GPU accelerated H.265 4:2:2 decodes on supported Nvidia systems.
• Support for growing TS, MTS and M2TS files as media streams.
• Support interlaced rendering for frame based formats.
• HT JPEG 2000 decode support for EXR.
• Quick Export dialog with custom user preset listings and list view.
• Ability to assign custom icons to user presets in deliver page.
• Support for Sony Burano 2.0.
• Support for RED SDK 8.6.
• Support for audio normalization for Dropbox presets.
• Improved PNG support with HDR and SDR signaling.

General Application

• User definable location for media created in Resolve.
• Resolve FX AI Set Extender.*
• Extras Download Manager for AI models and more.
• Updated remote monitor client with bitrate display.
• Remote monitor now installs with DaVinci Resolve on macOS.
• User preference for automatic cache management.
• Ability to enable dual screen windows in ultrawide displays.
• Support for OCIO 2.4.2 with ACES 2.0 support.
• Preference to import all clips with multi mono audio configuration.
• Bluetooth connection status popup dialog.
• Ability to filter which fonts are visible in Text+.
• Data burn options for synced audio.
• Support for Nvidia Blackwell GPUs with CUDA 12.8.
• General performance and stability improvements.

 

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Minimum System Requirements for macOS

• macOS 14 Sonoma or later.
• 8 GB of system memory or 16 GB when using Fusion.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Apple Silicon based computer or GPU which supports Metal.

Minimum System Requirements for Windows

• Windows 10 Creators Update.
• 16 GB of system memory or 32 GB when using Fusion.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Integrated GPU or discrete GPU with at least 4 GB of VRAM.
• GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 12.8.
• AMD/Intel official drivers from your GPU manufacturer.
• NVIDIA Studio driver 570.65 or newer.

Minimum System Requirements for Windows for Arm

• Windows 11 for ARM.
• Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite series processor.
• 16 GB of system memory or 32 GB for 4K or when using Fusion.

Minimum System Requirements for Linux

• Rocky Linux 8.6.
• 32 GB of system memory.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Discrete GPU with at least 4 GB of VRAM.
• GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 12.8.
• AMD official drivers from your GPU manufacturer.
• NVIDIA Studio driver 570.26 or newer.

 

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[Kwan Khan]

This is a HUGE update in many aspects!