DaVinci Resolve 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.

DaVinci Resolve 19 features powerful new DaVinci Neural Engine AI tools and over 100 feature upgrades. New AI tools include text based timeline editing, music remixing, dialogue separation and UltraNR noise reduction. IntelliTrack AI lets you use video to track the Fairlight audio panner.

ColorSlice vector grading and film look creator offer richer grading vibrance and color density. Plus there are new features for live TV production and broadcast. DaVinci Resolve now supports realtime selection of live camera recordings for instant replay to air with slow motion and stingers. Multi Source is the fastest way to see your cameras and edit to the timeline while the cameras are still recording

Can you use DaVinci Resolve on a budget PC?

DaVinci Resolve can be quite intensive and demanding on your computer. As most video editing programs, DaVinci relies heavily on the CPU and GPU, especially on the latter when using OpenFX or noise reduction, for that reason the recommended specs start with a discrete GPU with at least 2 GB of VRAM, a minimum of 16GB RAM and an 8-core CPU.

Is DaVinci better than Adobe Premiere?

DaVinci Resolve and Adobe Premiere Pro are both great options for video editing. The greatest advantage DaVinci has over Adobe Premiere is that it offers a free edition that is well rounded enough for most users.

For professional video editing you would need DaVinci Studio which has a $299 price tag. On the other hand, Adobe Premiere Pro requires a monthly subscription or an annual payment of $240. As far as video editing capabilities go, both offer color correction, color grading and both programs let you place different effects. Both are also great for audio editing and support a wide array of plugins.

The greatest advantage Adobe Premiere has over DaVinci Resolve is that it works seamlessly with other Adobe programs like After Effects, allowing you to add animations to your project. The greatest setback for DaVinci Resolve is that it needs slightly more processing power, RAM and graphics card power to deliver optimal performance.

Is DaVinci Resolve good for beginners?

DaVinci Resolve has become a go-to choice for aspiring content creators, filmmakers, or video editors mainly due to its free version which offers features like color grading, sound design, and many other visual effects.

What are other free Premiere alternatives?

In addition to DaVinci Resolve there are plenty of free solid video editors to choose from. Some of which are VSDC Free Video Editor, Shotcut and Movavi Video Editor Plus. Here is a longer list of Adobe Premiere alternatives.

Features

DaVinci Resolve Studio is also the only solution designed for multi user collaboration so editors, assistants, colorists, VFX artists and sound designers can all work live on the same project at the same time! Whether you're an individual artist, or part of a large collaborative 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.

You get unlimited creative flexibility because DaVinci Resolve makes it easy for individual artists to explore different toolsets. It also lets you collaborate and bring people with different creative talents together. With a single click, you can instantly move between editing, color, effects, and audio. Plus, you never have to export or translate files between separate software tools because, with DaVinci Resolve, everything is in the same software application.

DaVinci Resolve is the only post production software designed for true collaboration. Multiple editors, assistants, colorists, VFX artists and sound designers can all work on the same project at the same time! Whether you're an individual artist, or part of a larger collaborative team, it's easy to see why DaVinci Resolve is the standard for high end post production and is used for finishing more Hollywood feature films, episodic television programing and TV commercials than any other software.

DaVinci Resolve 18 features a revolutionary new cut page specifically designed for editors that need to work quickly and on tight deadlines! The new DaVinci Neural Engine uses machine learning to enable powerful new features such as facial recognition, speed warp and more. Adjustment clips let you apply effects and grades to clips on the timeline below, quick export can be used to upload projects to YouTube and Vimeo from anywhere in the application, and new GPU accelerated scopes provide more technical monitoring options than before. Plus, Fusion is dramatically faster and Fairlight adds immersive 3D audio. DaVinci Resolve 16 is a massive release with hundreds of features customers have asked for.

  • Support for additional audio track formats for IMF and DCP renders
  • Improved decode and encode performance for Kakadu DCP and IMF formats
  • Support for CUDA based R3D with the latest RED SDK on Windows and Linux
  • Adds Blackmagic RAW support for latest Blackmagic URSA Broadcast update
  • Support for new audio only and video only editing modes on the cut page
  • Added in and out buttons in the user interface on the cut page
  • Support for audio playback when trimming on the cut and edit pages
  • Improved zoom buttons for the timeline on the edit page
  • Improved smart indicator in the cut page for when using in and out points
  • Viewer resize icon on the cut page now correctly resizes the whole viewer
  • Cut page divider between timeline and viewer can now be moved via the divider
  • Close up edits in the cut page now vary the close up from 20% to 40% randomly
  • Search dial is more responsive when using the DaVinci Resolve Editor Keyboard
  • Removed auto jog mode on scroll with the DaVinci Resolve Editor Keyboard
  • Better responsiveness using shuttle with the DaVinci Resolve Editor Keyboard
  • Double press to clear in and out on the DaVinci Resolve Editor Keyboard
  • Improved performance in collaborative projects with multiple DaVinci systems
  • Support for monitor name in the workspace menu display options
  • Support for copy/paste in Dolby Vision mid tone offset values between clips
  • New scripting APIs to move media items, LUTs, markers, copy grades and more
  • Now uses 2 up view in sync bin when using live overwrite editing
  • Fixes a bug that caused the clip dividers in the source tape to scroll with audio
  • Opening the media folder in the cut page will re-sync to that folder contents
  • Multiple performance and stability improvements

What's New:

DaVinci Resolve 19 Beta 6 Changelog:

  • Support for Blackmagic RAW 4.2.
  • New halation saturation controls for Resolve FX Film Look Creator.
  • Import and export speaker tagged transcriptions as .srtx subtitle files.
  • New stinger templates in the effects library under generators.
  • Ability to resync media for all media bins from the replay toolbar.
  • Ability to jog at 0% replay speed.
  • Replay stingers now play in real time independent of the underlying media speed.
  • Add transition to all edits action in the cut timeline now uses the last used transition.
  • Transitions are now retained when ripple deleting clips.
  • Improved media pool and timeline sizing to maximize cut page viewer sizes.
  • Improved mouse scroll speeds in the edit and deliver timelines.
  • Support for clip handles with referenced Fusion compositions.
  • Support for changing audio format for timeline clips from the inspector.
  • Support for Dolby Vision HDMI tunneling on DeckLink 8K Pro G2.
  • Support for Dolby Vision tone mapped viewer previews and scopes when in dual SDI mode.
  • Greatly improved performance for some large Fusion compositions.
  • Support for collaboration using Blackmagic Cloud organization groups.
  • Support for current group filter in the DaVinci Resolve Advanced Panel.
  • Support for encoding to QuickTime JPEG YUV 422 and 444 formats.
  • Support for bitrate settings for H.264 and H.265 renders in Quick Export.
  • Rendered DNxHR 444 clips now default to using full data range.
  • Scripting API support to query for a timeline item's linked clips.
  • Scripting API support to query for a timeline item's track type and index.
  • Improved media pool scripting support for stereoscopic 3D clips.
  • Fusion Fuse examples are now available in the developer documentation folder in the help menu.
  • Addressed Fusion effect icon not being cleared when resetting a timeline composition.
  • Addressed incorrect color warper vectorscope indicator.
  • Addressed incorrect Resolve FX effects and overlays on clips with SuperScale and crop.
  • Addressed an issue with default Resolve FX Motion Trails behavior.
  • Addressed an issue with Resolve FX Lens Flare position limit.
  • Addressed an issue with adding or subtracting strokes with the 3D keyer in the edit page.
  • Addressed a crash when changing speed for multiple clips with auto track selector disabled.
  • Addressed an issue with pasting transitions from locked tracks.
  • Addressed an issue with muting and unmuting audio tracks for a timeline item in clip attributes.
  • Addressed an issue with muting clip from the context menu in the cut page timeline.
  • Addressed Alt numpad keys sometimes invoking timecode entry on Windows.
  • Addressed an issue with some H.265 media decoding with media offline frames.
  • Addressed an issue with render cache invalidation when changing node stack count.
  • Addressed an issue with capturing NTSC formats to Quicktime ProRes 422.
  • Addressed incorrect timecode errors for multicam or compound clip creation from interlaced clips.
  • Addressed an issue with resetting ColorSlice from the DaVinci Resolve Micro color panel.
  • Addressed issue with Text+ follower character range.
  • Addressed incorrect 3D motion path axis overlays in the Fusion viewer.
  • Addressed incorrect Fusion cache after scrubbing H.264 in the edit page.
  • Addressed issue with extruding and expanding some Fusion shapes.
  • Addressed incorrect bit depth metadata displayed for some DNxUncompressed 16 bit formats.
  • Addressed an issue with data level tagging for DNxHR 444 renders in auto mode.
  • Addressed render presets setting incorrect default audio tracks for audio normalization.
  • Addressed a start up issue with user paths with non-English characters on Windows.
  • Addressed a Resolve startup issue if the DaVinci Resolve Renderer plugin was in use on Mac.
  • Addressed scripting API issue with loading render presets.
  • Addressed scripting API issue with elision of long LUT names when querying node tools.
  • Addressed an issue where scripting APIs would not honor timeline disabled state.
  • General performance and stability improvements.

DaVinci Resolve 19 Release Notes

DaVinci Resolve 19 introduces powerful new DaVinci Neural Engine AI tools and over 100 feature upgrades! Editors can work directly with transcribed audio to find speakers and edit timeline clips. Colorists can produce rich film like tones with the ColorSlice six vector palette and produce cinematic images using the new film look creator effect which emulates photometric film processes. In Fairlight, the IntelliTrack AI can be used to track motion and automatically pan audio. VFX artists in Fusion have an expanded set of USD tools plus a new multipoly rotoscoping tool. The cut page has new broadcast replay tools for live multi camera broadcast editing, playout and replay with speed control.

Blackmagic Cloud

DaVinci Resolve 19 supports Blackmagic Cloud, so you can host your project libraries on the DaVinci Resolve Project Server in the cloud. Share projects and work collaboratively with editors, colorists, VFX artists and audio engineers on the same project at the same time, anywhere in the world.

Blackmagic Cloud for Organizations

The Organizations app lets larger companies define a single organization or company within Blackmagic Cloud. Now you can create groups or teams and quickly share projects to an entire group rather than one by one. You can also manage storage access, share Presentations, and create a single sign on.

DaVinci Resolve Studio Licenses

The Organizations app also lets you buy or rent DaVinci Resolve Studio licenses. This makes it easier for companies to assign and manage the allocation of licenses within large groups. Licenses can be costed against specific projects and then removed when it's complete.

Blackmagic Proxy Generator

The new Blackmagic Proxy Generator App automatically creates and manages proxies from camera originals. Create a watch folder and new media is automatically converted into H.264, H.265 or ProRes proxies to accelerate editing workflows. You can extract proxies into a separate folder for offline work.

Multi Source

Multi Source lets you see all your live cameras, or even just clips in a bin with a common timecode, in a multiview screen to look for any point of interest. You can scrub, play and select shots to add to the timeline or simply play to air. You can even switch live from any of the available angles.

Point of Interest

When watching live cameras or a multiview of clips and a signifiant event occurs, capture the moment with a POI marker. The POI is placed on all the clips at that same time so you can quickly find the event on every camera angle, play them to air and even automatically build a highlights timeline.

UltraNR Noise Reduction

UltraNR is a new DaVinci Neural Engine driven denoise mode in the Color page's spatial noise reduction palette. Use it to dramatically reduce digital noise from a frame while maintaining image clarity. Combine with temporal noise reduction for even more effective denoising in images with motion.

Film Look Creator

The new Film Look Creator lets you add cinematic looks that replicate film properties like halation, bloom, grain, flicker, gate weave and vignetting. Adjust exposure in stops and use subtractive saturation, richness and split tone controls to achieve looks usually found on the big screen.

Advanced Volumetric Rendering

uVolume lets you directly import volumetric VDB files into Fusion eliminating time consuming conversions. It also adds creative control of imported effects such as smoke, fire, clouds and explosions. You get complete control over density, temperature and color parameters of the VDB file in DaVinci.

MultiPoly Tool

The new MultiPoly tool displays all of your masks in a single list eliminating switching between nodes for faster, more accurate rotoscoping! Perfect for complex projects, you can view, select, add to and modify specific shapes, toggle their visibility and adjust parameters all from one location.

DaVinci Resolve 18.6.6 Update:

  • Ability to encode Panasonic AVC 100 and 50 in MXF Op Atom formats.
  • Option to encode big endian LPCM audio in QuickTime.
  • Addressed default alpha mode interpretation for some QuickTime media.
  • Addressed incorrect path separators in some project settings on Windows.
  • Addressed some Sony XAVC H clips being shown as offline.
  • Addressed a media management issue trimming Sony 8K X-OCN clips.
  • General performance and stability improvements.

Previous Release Notes:

DaVinci Resolve 18.5 introduces dozens of new tools including 4 new AI tools, over 100 feature upgrades and major updates to the Cut page. Editors can now transcribe audio within clips to search for media based on narrative content, or quickly generate subtitles for timelines with the automatic speech to text feature. DaVinci Neural Engine AI can analyze and automatically sort audio clips based on classification, and on the Fairlight page audio tracks can now be grouped for faster mix automation and editing. Colorists can use the new Relight FX to add virtual lighting to a scene. VFX artists can collaborate more easily with support for USD files and work faster with the multi-merge tool.

Next Generation Engineering

DaVinci Resolve 18 features some of the most cutting edge technology in the industry today. The DaVinci Neural Engine is an advanced machine learning system powering many of the software's most powerful tools, and it is fully supported in Apple M1 Mac models including M1 Ultra. Inclusion of the latest version of Dolby Vision means that users can view HDR on supported monitors, including on laptops. The future proof DaVinci Wide Gamut and Intermediate log grading environment allow you to work on media from any source. You can deliver to every projection and monitoring standard in use today. Plus DaVinci Resolve is the only software that you can use to edit and grade 8K footage in real time.

DaVinci Neural Engine Acceleration

The advanced machine learning algorithms of the DaVinci Neural Engine are supported on Apple's M1 and M1 Pro models. This gives you up to 300% speed improvement in dozens of tools that rely on accurate automated analysis of motion and content such as Smart Reframe, SpeedWarp or SuperScale.

Blackmagic Cloud

DaVinci Resolve 18 supports Blackmagic Cloud, so you can host your project libraries on the DaVinci Resolve Project Server in the cloud. Share projects and work collaboratively with editors, colorists, VFX artists and audio engineers on the same project at the same time, anywhere in the world.

Blackmagic Proxy Generator

The new Blackmagic Proxy Generator App automatically creates and manages proxies from camera originals. Create a watch folder and new media is automatically converted into H.264, H.265 or ProRes proxies to accelerate editing workflows. You can extract proxies into a separate folder for offline work.

Simplified Proxy Workflow

Switch between camera original footage and proxies in a single click. With Blackmagic Proxy Generated proxies, DaVinci Resolve knows where in the file tree to find them, instantly linking to the camera originals in the media pool. Edit with proxies, then relink to camera originals to grade.

Intelligent Media Management

DaVinci Resolve 18 adds intelligent media location management, so that when you are collaborating you can quickly link media to your unique file paths. Now you don't need to manually relink or search for assets when you work remotely. So you have more time for creativity and less time on file admin.