DaVinci Resolve 16 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 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.

What’s New!
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What’s New
DaVinci Resolve 16 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!

Introducing The Cut Page
Introducing the Cut Page!
Designed specifically for editors working on high end fast turn around work such as television commercials and even news cutting, the cut page is all about speed. It’s an alternate edit page with a streamlined interface and revolutionary new tools that will help you work faster than ever. The cut page lets you import, edit, trim, add transitions, titles, automatically match color, mix audio and more. Whether you’re delivering for broadcast or for YouTube, the cut page has everything you need to get the job done, all in one place. Plus, the regular edit page is still available so you can switch between edit and cut pages to change editing style right in the middle of a job.

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Dual Timeline
Dual Timeline
Revolutionary dual timeline lets you quickly navigate the whole edit and trim without wasting time zooming and scrolling.

Source Tape
Source Tape
Quickly review all clips in a bin as if it was a single “tape” so you can select and add shots to the timeline without having to search a bin.

Dedicated Trim Interface
Dedicated Trim Interface
The new trim interface in the viewer lets you see both sides of an edit and trim in frame accurate detail so you can create the perfect cut!

Intelligent Edit Modes
Intelligent Edit Modes
To save time you don’t have to place in points in the timeline as the edit modes can intelligently sync clips and edits for you.

Fast Review
Fast Review
Quickly review an entire timeline or clips with variable speed playback that’s automatically set based on clip length.

Transform, Retime and Stabilize
Transform, Retime and Stabilize
Built in tools for picture in picture effects, retiming, stabilization, dynamic zoom, text, audio and more, all in one place!

Quick Export
Quick Export
Instantly render, upload and share your project to popular online services such as YouTube and Vimeo!

Media Import
Media Import
Quickly import individual files or entire directory structures with subfolders as bins into your project right from the Cut page.

Portable Editing
Portable Editing
The interface is scalable and works well on smaller laptop screens, giving you the highest amount of usable space!

New Editing Features
New Editing Features
in DaVinci Resolve 16
DaVinci Resolve includes everything professional editors need to cut blockbuster films, television shows, and commercials. It’s perfect for both offline and online editing. The high performance playback engine makes editing and trimming incredibly fast, even for processor intensive formats such as H.264 and RAW.

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Custom Timeline Settings
Custom Timeline Settings
Now you can create timelines with different frame rates, resolutions, monitoring and output settings in the same project!

Adjustment Clips
Adjustment Clips
Apply blend modes, transformations, ResolveFX, color grades and more on top of a stack of clips in the timeline.

Facial Recognition
Facial Recognition
Use the DaVinci Neural Engine to detect faces in your clips and automatically create bins based on the people in each shot.

Speed Warp Retiming
Speed Warp Retiming
Incredibly high quality motion estimation speed changes and frame rate conversions powered by the DaVinci Neural Engine.

Image Stabilization
Image Stabilization
Analyze shots and apply stabilization with full camera lock, zoom, smooth and strength controls right on the Edit page.

Keyframe Curve Editor
Keyframe Curve Editor
Ease controls for position along with ResolveFX and OpenFX keyframes in the timeline curve editor makes animating effects faster.

Tape Style Audio Scrubbing
Tape Style Audio Scrubbing
High quality, tape style scrubbing with pitch correction makes it easier to understand dialogue while scrubbing.

Faster, Smarter Encoding
Faster, Smarter Encoding
Encode only the frames that have changed instead of re-encoding entire files for dramatically faster rendering when delivering!

FrameIO Integration
Frame.io Integration
Collaborate remotely by browsing Frame.io content, seeing comments and synchronizing annotations, all without leaving DaVinci Resolve.

New Fusion Features
New Fusion VFX Features
in DaVinci Resolve 16
With over 250 built in tools, Fusion VFX’s advanced 3D compositing engine and node based workflow let you quickly connect effects and tools together in a flow chart style, making it easy to create cinematic feature film quality visual effects and broadcast motion graphics right inside of DaVinci Resolve!

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Faster 3D Performance
Faster 3D Performance
Dramatically improved GPU accelerated performance for all 3D operations.

GPU Accelerated Tools
GPU Accelerated Tools
Time effects, dissolves, stereo, vector motion, pinning, color and more!

Faster Masks
Faster Masks
All mask operations are accelerated, including B‑Spline and bitmap masks.

Improved Trackers
Improved Trackers
Greatly improved performance and accuracy in planar and camera trackers.

Better Caching
Better Caching
Faster and more reliable playback when using smart cache and user cache.

Better Memory Management
Better Memory Management
Makes working with large compositions with high tool counts more reliable.

New Color Features in DaVinci Resolve 16
New Color Features
in DaVinci Resolve 16
DaVinci Resolve’s legendary color tools let you manipulate color in breathtaking ways to get results that are simply impossible on other systems. That’s why DaVinci Resolve has been used on more feature films and television shows than any other grading system! You get powerful primary and secondary tools, curves, tracking, stabilization and more!

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ResolveFX Keyframe Track
ResolveFX Keyframe Track
The Keyframe Editor now supports viewing and editing keyframes for both ResolveFX and OpenFX plugins, making it easier to create animations.

GPU Accelerated Scopes
GPU Accelerated Scopes
GPU accelerated scopes show more detail, have faster performance, and add dozens of new options for advanced technical monitoring!

Curves with Histograms
Curves with Histograms
Custom and HSL curves can display a histogram that lets you see which part of the curve affects the image to help guide your adjustments.

Secondaries
Auto Color Balance and Matching
The auto color balance and auto shot match tools now use the DaVinci Neural Engine to process images for more accurate results.

Gallery and Wipe
Gallery and Wipe Improvements
Gallery sort controls, hover scrub, match reference wipe, stills in split screen, and timeline wipe options make it easier to organize grades.

Copy and Paste Attributes
Copy and Paste Attributes
Copy the color grade, windows, tracking and plug in effects from one node, and paste only the attributes you want on to another node.

Gang Viewer Zoom to SDI Output
Gang Viewer Zoom to SDI Output
Gang the Color page viewer with the SDI or HDMI video output so zoomed images appear on both the user interface and your video output device.

View Independent Channels
View Independent Channels
Independently view R, G, or B channels in the viewer to help evaluate images for noise, artifacts, or when manually color matching.

Improved OpenFX Compatibility
Improved OpenFX Compatibility
ResolveFX and OpenFX can request random frames from the GPU, making DaVinci Resolve compatible with more third party plugins than ever.

Fairlight Audio
New Fairlight Features
in DaVinci Resolve 16
With Fairlight in DaVinci Resolve, audio is no longer an afterthought in post production! You get a completely integrated and powerful digital audio workstation with full mixer, EQ and dynamics processing, sample level audio editing, ADR tools, sound library support, FairlightFX audio plugins and more!

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3D Audio
Immersive 3D Audio
Mix and master projects in immersive 3D audio formats such as Dolby Atmos, Auro 3‑D, SMPTE ST 2098 and the new 26 channel super bus.

Elastic Wave Alignment
Elastic Wave
Stretch audio to align the waveforms of one clip with another for ADR or retiming to picture effects, all without changing pitch!

Timeline Bus Tracks
Timeline Bus Tracks
New bus tracks lets you see buses in the timeline along with regular tracks, making it easy to view and edit automation parameters.

Enhanced Loudness Monitoring
Enhanced Loudness Monitoring
New support for loudness monitoring standards such as ATSC, 1770 and R128 give you more technical monitoring options than ever before.

New FairlightFX
New FairlightFX
More creative and technical FairlightFX plugins such as frequency analyzer, limiter, phase meter, dialog processor and a new foley sampler.

New Foley Sound Library
New Foley Sound Library
Download 500 royalty free foley sounds from Blackmagic Design to use with the new foley sampler in DaVinci Resolve.

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New Collaboration Features
in DaVinci Resolve 16
Featuring a universal timeline, powerful database driven design, bin and clip locking, built in chat, timeline comparison tools and more, DaVinci Resolve Studio is the world’s only post production solution that lets different artists all work together on the same project at the same time!

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Clip, Timeline and Bin Locking
Shared Markers
Use shared markers to create, modify and add notes so passing tasks and communicating between users is quick and fool proof.

Per User Cache
Individual User Cache
Each user in a collaborative project can generate and manage their own cache files to optimize performance on their system.

Read Only
Read Only Mode
Open collaborative projects in read only mode so you can copy and paste assets out of it or review cuts without affecting other users.

Read Only
HDR Collaboration
With support for collaborative Dolby Vision and HDR10+ projects, each user has access to the SDR and HDR elements they need.

DaVinci Resolve Studio
Upgrade to DaVinci Resolve Studio for even more creative tools and options! You get a huge set of indispensable ResolveFX and FairlightFX plugins, along with support for 4K, 8K and higher resolution projects at frame rates up to 120 frames per second. You also get the new DaVinci Neural Engine which enables features such as facial recognition, speed warp retiming, automatic color balancing and automatic color matching. DaVinci Resolve Studio also adds film grain tools, advanced noise reduction, blur and mist effects, HDR grading, 10bit H.264 support, 3D immersive audio, stereoscopic 3D support, multi user collaboration tools and more!

DaVinci Neural Engine
DaVinci Neural Engine
The new DaVinci Neural Engine uses state of the art deep neural networks and learning, along with artificial intelligence to power new features such as speed warp motion estimation for retiming, super scale for up-scaling footage, auto color and color matching, facial recognition and more! The DaVinci Neural Engine is entirely cross-platform and uses the latest GPU innovations for AI and deep learning to provide unparalleled performance and quality. The DaVinci Neural Engine provides simple tools to solve complex, repetitive and time consuming problems. For example, it enables facial recognition to automatically sort and organize clips into bins based on people in the shot!

New Resolve FX Analog Damage
New Resolve FX Analog Damage

New Resolve FX Pencil Sketch
New Resolve FX Pencil Sketch

New and Improved ResolveFX
DaVinci Resolve Studio 16 features major improvements to existing ResolveFX, along with several new plugins that editors and colorists will love! You get new ResolveFX plugins for adding vignettes, drop shadows, removing objects, adding analog noise and damage, chromatic aberration, stylizing video and more! There are also improvements to the scanline, beauty, face refinement, blanking fill, warper, dead pixel fixer and colorspace transformation plugins. Plus, you can now view and edit ResolveFX keyframes from the timeline curve editor on the Edit page or from the keyframe panel on the Color page!

No Monthly Cloud Licensing
No Monthly Cloud Licensing
Unlike cloud based software, DaVinci Resolve Studio does not require a connection to the internet and there are no monthly subscription fees. DaVinci Resolve Studio is only $299, which is 50% less than the cost of popular cloud subscriptions. Plus, you get full nonlinear editing, advanced color correction, Fusion effects and motion graphics, and Fairlight professional audio tools, all included in the one easy to buy solution. It’s like getting 4 high end professional applications for the cost of one!

Legendary DaVinci Quality
Legendary DaVinci Quality
DaVinci Resolve’s Emmy™ award-winning image processing technology features deep 32-bit float processing combined with unique, patented YRGB color science that processes luminance independent of color. This allows you to adjust the luminance of video without rebalancing the color of your highlights, midtones, or shadows! The massive internal color space is perfect for the latest HDR and wide color gamut workflows.

Blackmagic RAW
Blackmagic RAW
Raw File
Blackmagic RAW is a new and modern codec that gives you stunning image quality and blazing fast performance in an intelligent new file format. Featuring advanced de-mosaic technology and a revolutionary intelligent design, Blackmagic RAW gives you both the quality and benefits of RAW with the speed, ease of use and file sizes of traditional video formats.

Blackmagic RAW is a hybrid codec with an intelligent design that moves part of the de-mosaic process into the camera where it can be hardware accelerated by the camera itself. This gives you incredibly efficient encoding and small file sizes. Blackmagic RAW files are much more than just a simple RAW container because they combine image data along with information about the unique characteristics of the camera’s sensor. This gives you much better image quality, even at high compression settings. Plus, you get total control over RAW settings such as ISO, white balance, exposure, contrast, saturation and custom color spaces. Blackmagic RAW also includes extensive metadata support including user customizable sidecar metadata files, plus GPU and CPU acceleration, new Blackmagic Design Generation 4 Color Science, different encoding options for constant quality or constant bitrate and more!

Raw Metadata
Raw Metadata Detail
With Blackmagic RAW you can shoot, edit and grade projects all from a single file format. Picture adjustments and settings that you make in the camera will come into DaVinci Resolve via metadata and are completely editable. You can even make changes to the RAW settings in DaVinci Resolve, open the files in other applications that support Blackmagic RAW and automatically see the settings. You get a consistent look and controls between software applications, even on different platforms. Blackmagic RAW is the world’s fastest and highest quality RAW format.

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Hardware Control Panels
When you have a client looking over your shoulder you need to work fast. DaVinci Resolve control panels are designed to give you fluid, hands-on control over multiple parameters at the same time, allowing you to create looks that are simply impossible with a standard mouse! All controls are logically placed near your natural hand positions and are made out of the highest quality materials. You get smooth, high resolution weighted trackballs, along with precision engineered knobs and dials that feature the perfect amount of resistance so you can accurately adjust any setting. DaVinci Resolve control panels let you instinctively touch every part of the image!

Hardware Control Panels
Fairlight Professional Consoles
Fairlight mixing consoles provide high quality controls for nearly every parameter and feature in the software. Unique user interfaces and dynamic configuration changes provide fast to use buttons and controls that are optimized for the task at hand allowing you to work faster with Fairlight audio than any other tool in the world. With the modular design you can start with a larger console frame than you need and add more modules to meet the growing needs of your facility.

Channel Control
Dual function control knobs and buttons for each channel strip.

Chassis Bay
Modular cast steel chassis available
in 2, 3 and 5 bay configurations.

LCD Monitor
High resolution screen with HDMI and SDI inputs.

Channel Fader
Motorized fader panel with 12 channel strips and controls buttons.

Audio Editor
Hardware control panel for high speed audio editing.

Consoles Diagram
LCD Monitor
Fairlight Console LCD Monitor

High resolution screen with HDMI and SDI inputs for viewing channel controls, meters, video and more.

Channel Control
Fairlight Console Channel Control

8 dual function touch sensitive knobs and buttons for each of the 12 fader channel strips, giving you fingertip control of up to 192 parameters!

Channel Fader
Fairlight Console Channel Fader

Fader panel featuring 12 precision motorized faders with call, solo, mute, and automation controls, along with LED display for each channel’s status.

Audio Editor
Fairlight Console Audio Editor

Dedicated hardware control panel for high speed, precision audio editing that lets you work much faster than is possible with a traditional mouse.

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