Blackmagic Design releases DaVinci Resolve 19.0

Blackmagic Design’s updates from NAB 2024. Protection of Da Vinci Resolve 19.0 begins at 34:15.

Initially posted on 30 April 2024 for the beta, and up to date for the ultimate launch.

Blackmagic Design has up to date DaVinci Resolve, its free color grading, modifying and post-production software program, and DaVinci Resolve Studio, its $295 industrial version.

DaVinci Resolve Studio 19.0 provides new options for reside broadcast modifying, together with a whole new replay system, plus new AI-based video modifying and audio mixing instruments.

Under, we’ve rounded up the important thing options for colorists and results artists, together with the brand new ColorSlice grading palette, the AI-powered IntelliTrack tracker and Defocus Background impact, the Movie Look Creator, and the brand new Multi Poly software for roto work.

Shade web page: new ColorSlice grading palette and AI-based IntelliTrack tracker
New options within the Shade Web page, DaVinci Resolve Studio’s colour correction toolset, embrace ColorSlice, a brand new six-vector grading palette, proven on the foot of the picture above.

It supplies controls for the RGB or CMY vectors of a picture – there’s truly additionally a seventh devoted vector for pores and skin tone – with choices to regulate the density, saturation and hue of every.

Within the current RGB Mixer palette, it’s now attainable to normalize channels as you regulate them.

The replace additionally provides IntelliTrack, a brand new level tracker powered by Neural Engine, DaVinci Resolve’s machine studying system, out there throughout the Tracker palette on the Shade Web page, for monitoring and selectively color-correcting objects inside a shot.

There’s a second new Neural Engine-powered characteristic within the Movement Results palette: the brand new UltraNR mode within the spatial noise discount software, which robotically adusts the luma and chroma thresholds of footage to take away noise, based mostly on a user-controllable pattern space.

Different modifications embrace a brand new Node Stack system, which lets customers break up a node graph into as much as 4 layers to simplify complicated grading workflows. The layers are utilized sequentially.

Resolve FX: new Movie Look Creator and Resolve FX plugins
Additionally out there by means of the Shade Web page, DaVinci Resolve Studio’s library of Resolve FX image-processing plugins now features a new Movie Look Creator.

It allows customers to use filmic appears to footage by deciding on from presets or adjusting over 60 management parameters, together with choices for creating cut up tone results, and for mimicking the properties of bodily movie, together with halation, grain and flicker.

Different new Resolve FX plugins embrace Defocus Background, an AI-powered impact that robotically isolates and blurs the background of shot, making a shallow depth of subject.

The prevailing Face Refinement impact has been up to date, and might now monitor a couple of face inside a shot. There are additionally new choices for adjusting monitor factors and interpolating keyframes.

Efficiency enhancements embrace pace boosts of “as much as 3x” for the Magnificence, Edge Detect and Watercolor results on Macs, and “as much as 2x” on NVIDIA programs.

Fusion: expanded USD help, referenced compositions, and new Multi Poly software for roto
Within the Fusion page, DaVinci Resolve Studio’s built-in compositing toolset, help for USD-based workflows – launched in DaVinci Resolve 18.5 – has been expanded.

The replace provides 4 new nodes for manipulating textures instantly in a USD scene with out having to edit the supply file: uTexture, uTexture Rework, uShader, uNormal Map.

There may be additionally a brand new uVolume software, for importing, shading and rendering volumetric results like hearth and smoke in OpenVDB format.

Workflow enhancements embrace a brand new Referenced Composition system, which makes it attainable to save lots of comps and reuse them throughout a number of clips or timelines.

Modifications made to the supply composition are robotically propagated to the entire copies.

For rotoscoping, a brand new Multi Poly software (proven above) makes it attainable to create a number of roto masks in a single node.

As well as, the entire Form instruments now help movement paths, and there are two new nodes: sText, for including textual content to shape-based node timber, and sBSpline, for creating spline shapes.

Efficiency enhancements embrace a pace increase of “as much as 3x” in Magic Masks.

Different toolsets: full new reside replay system and AI-based modifying instruments
Nevertheless, the largest modifications in DaVinci Resolve Studio 19.0 are to the modifying toolsets, with the Cut page getting new options aimed toward reside broadcast work.

They embrace the choice to view the entire reside digital camera feeds for a broadcast on a multi-view display, and to set POI (Level of Curiosity) markers throughout the entire feeds in actual time.

The markers can then be used to set off replays from every Level of Curiosity, with a variety of retiming presets for slow-motion playback.

Each the Minimize and Edit pages get new AI-based modifying instruments, together with voice isolation, speech-to-text transcription, and text-based timeline modifying, related these in instruments like Premiere Pro.

The Fairlight audio toolset additionally will get AI-based instruments, together with an audio panning system based mostly on the IntelliTrack tracker, and a dialogue separator for rebalancing speech and ambient sound.

Different new options embrace help for Ambisonic encompass sound, and computerized binaural rendering of Dolby Atmos mixes.

We don’t cowl video or audio modifying on CG Channel, however yow will discover a whole listing of modifications through the hyperlinks on the foot of the story.

Pricing and system necessities
DaVinci Resolve 19.0 and DaVinci Resolve Studio 19.0 can be found for Home windows 10+, CentOS 7.3/Rocky Linux 8.6, and macOS 13.0+. The updates are free to current customers.

The bottom version is free; the Studio version, which provides AI options, stereoscopic 3D instruments, HDR grading and extra Resolve FX filters and Fairlight FX audio plugins, prices $295.

Read a list of new features in DaVinci Resolve 19.0 and DaVinci Resolve Studio 19.0

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