Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve Studio 18.5b1

Key Features
- Multiple cut page improvements.
- Support for Blackmagic Cloud Presentations.
- DaVinci Neural Engine based subtitles from audio in Studio.
- DaVinci Neural Engine powered text based editing in Studio.
- Support for Universal Scene Description based workflows in Fusion.
- New Fusion multi-merge tool to composite and manage multiple layers.
- Multiple remote monitoring improvements.
- Support for fast per-timeline backups.
- Per-timeline Resolve Color Management.
- Support for edit and mix groups in Fairlight.
- Support for AI-based audio classification in Studio.
Cut
- Multiple timeline display improvements.
. Support for subtitles in the cut timeline.
. Enlarge a track by clicking on icon in the track header.
. Options to display clip names and indicators.
. Improved smart indicator and edit point display.
. Out of sync indicators for edited sync clips.
- Multiple timeline action improvements.
. Automatically detect and create captions from timeline audio.
. Perform DaVinci Neural Engine scene cuts in the cut timeline.
. Add audio, video and subtitle tracks.
. Split and join adjacent clips.
. Ripple option to toggle ripple edits on main track.
. Add markers and set default marker color.
- New edit actions.
. Ability to create split edits by rolling or trimming audio.
. Alt or Option trim to bypass ripple and add a gap on the main track.
. Trim and extend edit clip start or end to playhead.
. Resync misaligned synced clips.
- Reorganized toolbar for quick access to view options and edit actions.
- Right click on smooth cut to access favorite transitions on the toolbar.
- Cut page track numbering unified with other pages.
- Export current frame as still from media, cut and edit viewers.
- New motion graphic effects templates and transitions in cut and edit.
Media
- Support for AI-based audio classification in Studio.*
- Support for fast per-timeline backups.*
- Support for additional automatic smart bins.
- Import and export timelines using the OpenTimelineIO format.
- New 2x Enhanced Super Scale algorithm.*
- Ability to set Super Scale settings for media from the inspector.*
- Metadata panel support for marker subclips.*
- Ability to clear in-out ranges for multiple clips.
- Ability to change the starting timecode for multiple timeline selections.
- Ability to reorder favorites in media storage.
- Ability to clear recent media history in the source viewer.
- Support for custom pixel aspect ratios in clip attributes.
- Improved proxy linking for clips without timecode.
Edit
- DaVinci Neural Engine based subtitles from audio in Studio.*
- DaVinci Neural Engine powered text based editing in Studio.*
- Ability to add and delete keyframes using keyboard shortcuts.
- Ability to modify keyframes during playback on the edit timeline.
- Export current frame as still from media, cut and edit viewers.
- Ability to drag video tracks to reorder in the track index.
- Ability to stabilize multiple selected clips from the timeline.
- Retime curve now invokes the speed curve by default.
- Grades from flattened multicams are copied to multicam angles.*
- Ability to manage render caches across projects.*
- Ability to manually relink missing VFX Connect clips.
- Ability to select all clips under playhead in cut, edit and Fairlight.
- Ability to set key shortcuts for timeline view options and volume controls.
- Smoother video updates when the system cannot play in realtime.*
- Improved text wrapping for caption previews in the subtitle inspector.
- The timecode display window now shows timecode entry previews.
- The Export Edit Index action is now part of edit index options.
Fusion
- Support for importing Universal Scene Descriptor (USD) files.*
- Introduction of the USD toolset for managing USD assets.
- Support for USD Hydra based renderers including Storm.
- New multi-merge tool for compositing multiple layers.*
- Support for a native AI-based depth map tool in Studio.
- GPU accelerated Clean Plate.
- GPU accelerated Anaglyph.
- Up to 3x faster renders when using Fusion splitter tool.
- Find in media pool for clips and MediaIns in Fusion page.
- Support for OpenEXR DWA compression in Fusion savers.
- Support for BMD Film Gen 5 in Fusion's CineonLog tool.
- Support for previewing individual shape tools.
- Project setting option to disable tone mapping for Fusion conversions.
Color
- Per-timeline Resolve Color Management.*
- Support for matte finesse post-filter controls in Magic Mask.
- Ability to undo Camera RAW changes for each clip.
- Ability to set composite mode in the corrector node.
- Support for marker overlays and annotations in the viewer.*
- Support for showing missing LUTs as a viewer overlay.*
- Ability to manage missing LUTs from the LUT manager.*
- Ability to sort stills, LUTs and PowerGrade albums in the gallery.
- Generated LUTs now include spatial Resolve FX DCTL effects.
- Automatic background refresh of gallery stills for multi user projects.
- Improved highlight mode behavior during HDR grading.*
- Ability to copy and paste Vivid HDR trim metadata between clips.
- Improved performance when grading HDR footage.
- Up to 2x faster spatial noise reduction in Apple silicon.
- Improved tracking and cache management for Magic Mask.
- Support for Dolby Vision controls in DaVinci Resolve Mini panels.
- Support for color warper controls in DaVinci Resolve Mini panels.
- External matte node labels now default to the matte file name.
- Node label is now retained when converting to a shared node.
- Support for Leica L Log color management.
- Color space and gamma options are now organized by vendor.
Resolve FX
- AI-based Resolve FX Relight to add virtual lighting in Studio.*
- Invert Effect option in Resolve FX Glow for a dark glow effect.
- Option to export Resolve FX Flicker Addition analysis as an alpha channel.
- Ability to swap in and out colorspaces in Resolve FX Color Transform.
- Improved handling of blanking in Resolve FX Depth map analysis.
- Improved patch replacer results at patch edges.
- Bright region recovery control for Resolve FX Glow and Light Rays.
- Automatic input and output management for Resolve FX grading nodes.*
- Dragging a Resolve FX now applies it as a color grading node.
- Alt or option drag a Resolve FX to create an FX node.
- Support for smart initialization of OFX alpha mixing state.
- Alt or option resize selection to preserve ratio in warper and surface tracker.
- Up to 2x faster Beauty, Water Color and Stylize on Nvidia systems.
- Up to 1.5x faster Lens Blur and Aperture Diffraction on Nvidia systems.
Fairlight
- Support for edit and mix groups in Fairlight.*
- Improved elastic wave pitch handling with voice-specific option.*
- Support for nesting VCAs.*
- Enhanced Dolby Atmos support in Studio.*
- Support for voice isolation in Studio for Linux.
- Support for dialog leveler for Linux.
- Improved metering previews for muted or soloed tracks and monitors.
- Ability to set key shortcuts to scroll to selected track in the mixer.
- Track solos are now retained across project sessions.
- Ability to pan busses.
- Ability to select all clips under playhead in cut, edit and Fairlight.
- Ability to designate track and bus monitor sources from the tracks index.
- Multiple voice isolation improvements in Studio.
- Fairlight FX Monitor Control allowing third party Rewire integration.
- Ability to stream and spot from applications like Soundminer.
- Shift modifier action for 0.1 dB resolution automation level trimming.
General
- Support for Blackmagic Cloud Presentations.
- Sign in and upload videos directly to TikTok from DaVinci Resolve.*
- Remote Monitoring Improvements in Studio*
. Support for remote monitoring from Mac OS.
. Improved Mac OS client with support for more formats.
. New iOS client to monitor on iPad and iPhone.
. Support for connecting clients using Blackmagic ID.
. Support for streaming to multiple clients.
. Support for viewing streams on computer displays.
. Support for monitoring HDR streams.
- Ability to upload new versions to Dropbox Replay in Studio.
- Rocky Linux 8.6 based installation environment for DaVinci Resolve.*
- Press play multiple times for faster playback from the Advanced panel.
- DRT exports now include groups and shared nodes.
- DRA project archives now include VFX Connect media.
- Optimized Blackmagic Cloud project library connections.*
- New vertical resolution timelines and projects default to full frame with crop.
- Speed warp option for default motion estimation mode in project settings.
- Stabilization, scene cut and other progress dialogs show analysis speed.
- Quick export icon on edit and color pages.
- General performance and stability improvements.
Scripting & APIs
- Scripting API support to import and export DRT and DRB files.
- Scripting API support to load data burn presets.
- Scripting API support to get node label.
- Scripting API support to apply ARRI CDL and LUT to a clip.
- Scripting API support for querying and setting clip enabled state.
- Supported containers for selected codecs are now listed in the encode API.
- Ability to specify data and video range in the encode API.
Codec Support
- Support for Blackmagic RAW SDK 3.0.
- Support for rendering GIF, JPEG and PNG image sequences.
- Support for rendering animated GIF clips.
- Support for decoding AC3 audio in Linux.
- Ability to decode LogC3 ARRI clips as LogC4.
- Support for Sony XAVC raw controls.
- Ability to import MKV chapters as media markers.
- Ability to export timeline markers as MKV chapters.
- Hardware accelerated VP9 decodes in Resolve for supported Nvidia cards.
- Up to 50% faster encode speeds for Sony XAVC 420 8-bit clips.
- Support for decoding AV1 from MKV and WEBM clips.
- Support for encoding and decoding FFV1 formats.
- Encode support for ProRes, AV1, H.264, MP3, AAC in MKV containers.*
- Custom compression levels when rendering ZIP formatted EXRs.
- Hardware accelerated encode support for AV1 in AMD systems.
- Ability to use multiple hardware encoders in supported AMD systems.
- Up to 30% faster Apple ProRes hardware accelerated encode.
- Better disk usage estimates when rendering ProRes clips on Apple silicon.
- Quick export renders now include active subtitle and data burn in.