DaVinci Resolve 18.1 Update

What’s new in DaVinci Resolve 18.1

• Vertical resolution options in project settings for social media.
• Select custom thumbnails and channels for YouTube uploads.
• Support for individual timeline locks enhancing multi-user collaboration.
• New DaVinci Neural Engine enabled voice isolation in Studio.
• New Dialogue Leveler for natural smooth audio.
• Vector keyframing for Fairlight automation curve editing.
• Fairlight grid support for editing to timecode or musical tempo.
• Reorganized and streamlined view menu.
• Support for Resolve FX Dust Buster in the edit timeline.
• Improvements to ATEM Mini ISO project import to keep audio attached to video clips.
• Improved speed editor functionality in the edit page.
• Subtitle caption properties can now be overridden individually.
• Support for subtitle track presets and per-track formatting rules.
• Support for Magic Mask in the Fusion page.
• Support for Dolby Vision cinema trims.
• Support for fractional display scaling for Windows and Linux
• Support for smart bins to show individual marker clip listing.
• Navigating to markers in the viewer now selects the marker.
• Support for loading previous or next clip via source viewer actions.
• Drag media entries to auto smart bins to apply keyword, shot or scene.

Edit

• Improved speed editor functionality in the edit page, including:
  • Full screen view, resize timeline and review playback keys.
  • Trim, roll, slip edits and insert close ups in the edit timeline.
  • CUT, DIS and SMTH CUT keys.
  • Changing audio levels for clips in the edit timeline.
  • Setting default transition durations with the SET key.
  • Using sync bin and cam 1-9 keys to change multicam clip angles.
• Improved subtitle functionality:
  • Subtitle caption properties can now be overridden individually.
  • Improved subtitle handling for HTML bold and italics formatted text.
  • Support for subtitle track presets and per-track formatting rules.

Fusion

• Improved alpha handling with compound clips and transitions.
• Ability to multi-select, delete and realign transitions.
• Support for edit and trim actions on gaps.
• Support for timeline page scrolling.
• Shortcut to enable or disable all audio track destinations.
• New tracks are now added in context in the edit timeline.
• Support for Resolve FX Dust Buster in the edit timeline.
• Support for marker and track listing alongside the edit index.
• The change speed dialog now shows source clip duration.
• Reconform from bins persists the selected bin for the session.
• Drag and drop media as inputs to inspector on supported Fusion effects.

Color

• New Resolve FX Sky Replacement including generated sky textures.
• Support for motion blur for textures with Resolve FX Surface Tracker.
• Support for using Resolve FX alpha for grade isolation.
• Support for separate RGB controls in Resolve FX Film Grain.
• Support for Dolby Vision cinema trims.
• Color grading nodes with Resolve FX automatically get additional inputs.
• Ability to process alpha channel for supported Resolve FX in Color.
• Tracking now works over transition extents.
• Improved resize quality for multicam and compound clips.
• Improved quality when tracking faces in profile or partial occlusion.
• Improved eye sharpening behavior in Resolve FX Face Refinement.
• Improved DaVinci Resolve advanced panel features:
  • Improved clip and timeline toggle for grouped clips.
  • The pots mode now includes additional primary controls.
  • Improved qualifier menus.
  • Improved power windows menus.
  • Pressing shift down + loop toggles playhead mode.
  • Ability to dock reference wipe mode on the side panel.
• Improved handling of Text+ in RCM projects with DaVinci Wide Gamut.
• Improved HDR, division and percentage labeling on video level scopes.
• Ability to filter clips with object mask.
• Ability to filter clips by clip color.
• The effects inspector now shows an explicit delete icon.

Fairlight

• New Voice Isolation powered by the DaVinci Neural Engine in Studio.
• New Dialogue Leveler for natural smooth audio.
• Support for grid editing to timecode or musical tempo.
• Greatly improved automation editing and control including:
  • Automation curve editing with vector keyframing.
  • New snap automation glide time preference.
  • Automation now follows clip edits by default.
  • Automation now stays updated to match current playhead position.
  • Support for writing automation to start, end or all of a timeline.
  • New controls for auto punch, auto safe, zones and new mix.
• Ability to create audio crossfades between clips over a gap.
• Support for paste insert and ripple cut actions in the Fairlight timeline.
• Support for pasting multiple track names for adjacent tracks.
• Support for locating view to start and end of range selection.
• Rendering one track per channel now suffixes audio channel name.
• Mixers and meters show tooltip names for easier patch visibility.
• Confirmation dialog when deleting buses with assignments or automation.
• Support for deleting multiple buses from the bus format dialog.
• Multiple ADR usability improvements.

Codecs & I/O

• Select custom thumbnails for YouTube uploads.
• Select bit rates for supported codecs in YouTube presets.
• An option to review rendered clip before social media upload.
• Support for timeline markers in AAF import and exports.
• Custom preset support for Dropbox and Dropbox Replay uploads.
• Most suitable H.264/H.265 encoder is automatically selected.
• Support for decoding Dolby Vision H.265 Profile 5 clips.
• Hardware accelerated AV1 encodes in supported Nvidia systems.
• Support for UHD and DCI presets in output resolution scaling.
• Support for importing and exporting timeline markers in IMF workflows.
• Improved multichannel audio metadata in IMF delivery workflows.

Performance

• Up to 2x faster optical flow performance in enhanced mode.
• Up to 10x faster Text+ playback and render performance.
• Improved performance with RCM on Apple silicon.
• Up to 5x faster face refinement tracking and analysis.
• Up to 5x faster Resolve FX object removal performance.
• Up to 2x faster sharper resize performance on Apple silicon.
• Up to 4x faster spatial noise reduction performance.
• Up to 30% faster temporal noise reduction performance.
• Up to 5x faster video stabilization performance.
• Faster playback performance with large node graphs.
• Up to 2x faster decode performance for PIZ EXRs in Apple silicon.
• Improved RAW decode performance on Apple silicon.
• Up to 30% faster Nvidia accelerated playback for 8K H.265 clips.
• Up to 50% faster AV1 and H.265 encodes with dual Nvidia encoder.
• Improved startup time on Mac for users with many project libraries.
• OpenVINO accelerated AI-based Studio features in Windows Intel systems.

General

• Vertical resolution options in project settings for social media.
• Support for individual timeline locks enhancing multi-user collaboration.
• Improved audio management when importing ATEM projects.
• Simplified project setting presets accessible from the three dot menu.
• Reorganized and streamlined view menu.
• Support for exporting multiple selected projects.
• Support for copying and pasting project manager folders.
• Exported DRT timelines now include media sync information.
• Ability to copy and paste values when selecting virtual slider controls.
• Middle mouse drag to scroll clip thumbnails in color and Fusion.
• Support for fractional display scaling for Windows and Linux.
• Customize shortcuts for move clips, audio record and more actions.
• Ability to search for sub menus in keyboard customization.
• Keyboard customization action hover text shows the location of the action.
• Clickable warnings to easily resolve key shortcut conflicts.
• Scripting API support to spot audio to current track at playhead.
• Ability to select specific timelines to import from FCPXML files.
• General performance and stability improvements.

Like all updates DaVinci Resolve 18.1 update is available now for download free of charge from the Blackmagic Design website!