Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve Studio 16.1 Beta 1

Features marked with * are in progress and may change before the final release

Cut
- Sync Bin view which shows synced clip cutaways for the current shot on the timeline in a live multi-view for up to 9 cameras
- Support for automatically grouping shots from one camera by analyzing timecode and camera number metadata
- Live overwrite from the Sync Bin multi-view where the desired camera number can be pressed on the keyboard and the cut away length can be adjusted live with the scroll dial
- Ability to extend the timeline from the Sync Bin view to easily find the next edit for your timeline
- Sync Clip window to perform timecode based, audio waveform based and in or out point based syncing for clips
- Smart Indicators on the timeline which show where the closest edit points are based on the playhead position
- 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
- Close Up is now powered by the DaVinci Neural Engine to automatically identify faces in the clip and reframe the shot for a close up on the subject
- Support for a blade action in the toolbar
- Support for a new blended scroll mode in the DaVinci Resolve Editor Keyboard that dynamically toggles between scroll and jog based
- Support for a new transition dialog to quickly find and apply the desired transition to the closest edit point using the scroll dial on the DaVinci Resolve Editor Keyboard
- Support for a new picture in picture mode to quickly apply a picture in picture edit by easily selecting the image quadrant using the scroll dial in the DaVinci Resolve Editor Keyboard
- Support for performing a slide edit by Alt/Option + dragging the timeline clip overlay
- Support for adding bins and moving clips between bins in the media pool
- Improved thumbnail clip hover behavior when selecting and previewing source media in the viewer
Edit
- Support for always using embedded timecode for clip based formats even when using frame count timecode project setting
- Ability to copy and paste transitions across multiple edit points in the timeline
- Support for track name and track number burn-in and render tags
- Support for dragging adjustment clips to media pool
- Support for renaming adjustment clips in the inspector
- Support for showing or hiding individual panels using keyboard shortcuts
- Support for opening Final Cut Pro 7 XML files from Finder or Explorer to import media or timelines
- Improved performance when analyzing clips for detecting and classifying people
- Improved easing behavior when applying smoothness to position keyframes
- Improved results when syncing multicam clips and syncing video and audio clips using audio waveforms*
- Improved blade behavior when there is a clip selection
Fusion
- Support for reading media with super scale applied in the Media Pool
- Improved memory management on compositions with multiple input layers
- Improved memory management on multi-GPU systems
- Improved viewer interactivity and playback performance on single GPU systems
- Improved render all savers status display
- Support for ACEScg as a gamut option
ResolveFX
- ResolveFX Stop Motion
- ResolveFX and OpenFX plugins can now process and modify the alpha channel
Color
- Support for viewing flags applied on the current clip on the video monitoring output*
- Support for an option to update the shared node grade from a version stored in a gallery still
- Ability to paste a power window by appending to the existing windows from the Power Windows option menu
- Support for a user preference under Color to restrict node navigation to color corrector nodes and avoid mixer nodes and splitter and combiner nodes
- Improved CIE scopes with a 1976 u’v’ view and the ability to show an additional reference gamut
- Improved color match processing powered by the DaVinci Neural Engine
- Ability to step the timeline wipe frame forward and back from the view menu and using the relevant shortcuts
- Support for previewing timeline clip grades from the gallery when live preview is enabled
Fairlight
- Support for 96 KHz and 192 KHz sample rates at a project level for DaVinci Resolve Studio
- Support for clipping indicator for main buses on the Fairlight mixer
- Support for enabling extended bounce tail durations from the option menu for audio clips with reverb and other tail effects
- Support for customizing the tail duration threshold for reverb and other tail effects
- Support for automatically enabling Insert In for an audio track when manually patching track inputs
- Improved performance when loading and switching timelines
- Improved performance when generating waveform profiles for nested timelines
- Improved peak hold and decay behavior for meters in FairlightFX plugins
- Support for displaying and persisting individual audio effect windows on top of other windows
Media and Delivery
- Ability to preserve video essence for faster rendering of uncompressed clips without content changes
- Support for decoding and encoding ProRes IMFs
- Support for decoding and encoding DNxUncompressed half float formats
- Support for decoding IMA4 format audio in QuickTime clips
- Support for a preference to stop renders when a frame or clip cannot be processed
- Support for decoding floating point TIFF images
- Support for decoding DPX 10-bit RGBA files
- Improved performance when decoding H.264 and H.265 clips using GPU acceleration on AMD graphics cards
- Improved encoding to Panasonic SHV 8K with support for 50fps in DaVinci Resolve Studio
- Ability to disable video on Pro Tools and audio only exports
- Ability to render adaptive audio tracks as discrete mono channels
- Ability to export subtitles when exporting a timeline to Pro Tools using the Deliver page preset
- Support for rendering embedded audio timecode for synced audio clips when using the Pro Tools export preset
- Support for GPU accelerated debayering on CUDA systems when decoding ARRIRAW clips using the ARRI SDK Full Res debayer
- Improved Vimeo render settings with options for setting description, visibility and password for the uploaded video
- Support for a warning when exporting an IMF or DCP package with an incorrect audio track setup
- Support for decoding spanned AVCHD MTS clips
- Improved playback speed when decoding JPEG 2000 clips
- Improved performance when media managing long wav files
- Improved behavior when rendering a single multi-channel audio track as individual wav files
- Improved ProRes 4444 playback performance
- Support for identifying and importing multiple Panasonic P2 shots in a single folder as separate clips
General
- Support for a full-screen viewer on an additional display on DaVinci Resolve Studio
- Ability to halve the current playback speed as well as playback at half, quarter and 1/8th speed using the Play Slow command
- Ability to repeat alternate frames for 48fps clips in Clip Attributes to emulate 24fps capture and playback
- Improved playback quality for variable frame rate QuickTime files
- Support for disabling unbuffered I/O for any Media Storage location on Mac systems
- Support for decoding ALAC files on Windows and Linux systems
- Support for an option to optimize projects in disk databases by Option/Alt right clicking a project in the project manager
- Support for accessing and editing project notes from the File menu
- Support for choosing the preferred network interface from the project server application when sharing databases and generating access keys
- General performance and stability improvements

Minimum system requirements

- Windows 10 Creators Update
- 16 GB of system memory is recommended and 32 GB is recommended minimum when using Fusion
- Blackmagic Design Desktop Video version 10.4.1 or later
- CUDA Driver version 418.105
- NVIDIA Driver version – As required by your GPU
- RED Rocket-X Driver 2.1.34.0 and Firmware 1.4.22.18 or later
- RED Rocket Driver 2.1.23.0 and Firmware 1.1.18.0 or later