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DaVinci Resolve 20.0.0

Editing, color correction, visual effects, motion graphics and audio post production

Category: Video
Price: High
Popularity: Medium
Version String: 20.0.00049
Release Date: 2025-05-26
Architecture: Intel & AppleSilicon(ARM)
Minimum OS: macOS 13.0
Vendor Name: Blackmagic Design Inc
Homepage: www.blackmagicdesign.com

Version History 20.0.00049

Key New Features
• Improved keyframing with dedicated curve view and timeline drawer.
• Voiceover tools with cue, teleprompter, record and monitor options.
• Import Blackmagic Cloud Shared folders to media pool.
• AI IntelliScript creates timelines with a user provided script.

Cut Page
• 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.
• Support for a dynamic trimming mode using JKL controls.

Edit Page
• AI Multicam SmartSwitch for automatic angle switching.
• AI Voice Convert 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.

Cut and Edit Page
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.

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.
• 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.

Fairlight Page
• AI Audio Assistant automatically creates a finished mix.
• AI IntelliCut to remove silences, checkerboard dialogue and generate ADR cues.
• EQ and Level Matcher processes match tone and clip levels.
• Fairlight Chain FX to create and restore frequently chained plugins.

Codecs
• Encode MV-HEVC without spatial video metadata.
• 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.
• 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.
• Improved PNG support with HDR and SDR signaling.

General Application
• User definable location for media created in Resolve.
• Extras Download Manager for AI models and more.
• New optimized UI layouts option for vertical videos.
• 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.
• Bluetooth connection status popup dialog.
• General performance and stability improvements.

Description:

DaVinci Resolve 17
Hollywood’s most powerful tools for professional editing, color correction, audio post and visual effects!

DaVinci Resolve 17 Studio is the world’s only solution that combines professional 8K editing, color correction, visual effects and audio post production all in one software tool! You can instantly move between editing, color, effects, and audio with a single click. Whether you’re an individual artist, or part of a large team, it’s easy to see why DaVinci Resolve is the standard for high end post production and finishing on more Hollywood feature films, television shows and commercials than any other software.

Professional Editing
Perfect for both offline editorial and online finishing. You get every editing and trimming tool imaginable, stacked and tabbed timelines, multi cam, closed caption and subtitling tools, on screen annotations, faster project loading, 2D and 3D title templates, and dozens of other new features!

Cut Page Editing
Designed for projects with tight deadlines that need to be turned around quickly, the cut page is designed for editing speed. The sync bin and source overwrite tools are the fastest way to edit multi cam programs. You can work faster than ever with dual timelines, source tape and smart editing tools. The scalable interface is great for portable editing!

Advanced Color Correction
Hollywood’s favorite color corrector keeps getting better! You get advanced HDR primary color grading tools with unlimited secondary corrections, power windows and tracking along with a new color warper for refined grading, additional LUT support, shared grades, magic mask, better noise reduction, faster stabilization, super scaling, dozens of Resolve FX plugins and more.

Fusion Visual Effects
Fusion gives you a true 3D workspace with over 250 tools for creating feature film quality visual effects and stunning motion graphics! Now you can create sophisticated composites, use vector paint, animate titles, add 3D particles, key, rotoscope and more, all inside of DaVinci Resolve 17!

Fairlight Audio Post
Fairlight is a full blown digital audio workstation with high performance multi track sample level editing and mixing! You get ADR tools, support for sound libraries, audio and video scrollers for quickly syncing sound, a scrolling timeline, normalization and Fairlight FX plugins including a hum remover, de-esser, reverb and more. DaVinci Resolve Studio 17 also adds support for generating and editing Dolby Atmos home packages!

Upgrade from the free to the paid version of DaVinci Resolve 17 Studio and you also get automatic facial recognition for face refinement tools, temporal and spatial noise reduction, photorealistic optical quality motion effects, lens flare, lens blur, aperture diffraction, Revival restoration tools, film damage or film grain Resolve FX. DaVinci Resolve 17 Studio also includes lens distortion correction, high quality de-interlacing, HDR (High Dynamic Range) grading with Dolby Vision support, stereoscopic 3D tools, remote rendering, multiuser collaboration with chat and more.

DaVinci Resolve 17 App Store Limitations
The Mac App store version of DaVinci Resolve 17 Studio works with Metal and OpenCL only, does not support some external control panels, and may not be compatible with all 3rd party OpenFX or VST plugins. If you need these features, please purchase a DaVinci Resolve Studio license from a Blackmagic Design reseller and download the latest version of DaVinci Resolve Studio from the Blackmagic Design support website.

System Requirements
Current model iMacPro, iMac, MacBook. MacBook Pro or MacPro with integrated GPU or a discrete GPU with at least 2GB of graphics memory with 4GB minimum recommended. A fast SSD or hard disk for video, 8GB of system memory, 16GB when using Fusion, Mac OS X 10.15.x or higher, at least a 1440 x 900 resolution display.