Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve Studio (Dongle)

New Features

Color

Automatic Processes

• • Automatic color match grade from one to many clips

• • Automatic 3D perspective object multi-point tracker

User Interface

• • Offline clip icon displayed if media is missing from media pool or storage

Custom Curves Grading

• • Custom Curves with bezier handle control

• • Image contrast adjustable with flexible curve end points

• • HDR curve control for extended dynamic range images

Secondary Grading

• • Additional advanced 3D keyer with multiple additive isolation qualifiers

• • Keyer Finesse controls also include Clean Black and Clean White

Power Windows

• • Conversion of Circle, Linear, and Polygon windows to PowerCurve window

Automatic Object Tracking

• • 3D Perspective object tracking

• • Support for insertion and deletion of window shape points even after tracking analysis

• • Automatic keyframe blending between PowerCurve/Polygon window control points

Internal and External Key/Matte

• • Connect RGB to KEY node and KEY to RGB node for extended key grading control

Fully Nodal Processing Architecture

• • Quick and simple node graph clean up tool

Compound Node Flexibility

• • Multiple nodes can be combined and displayed as a single node

• • Compound nodes include one full featured downstream corrector

• • Compound nodes can be opened and edited and saved

• • Store Memories, Stills, and PowerGrades as Compound Nodes

• • User locks of Compound Nodes permit sharing without revealing internal structure

Clip Version Grading

• • Delete unused version option

Clip Group Grading

• • Pre or Post clip group grade can be collapsed into the main clip node graph

DaVinci Managed Colorspace Grading

• • User selection of Source, Timeline, and Output color space

• • Mix REC.709, BMD Film, Linear, 2.2 gamma, etc. with a consistent monitor and output color space

• • REC.709 timeline default simplifies grading with multiple source color spaces

ACES Colorspace Grading

• • ACES Colorspace v1.0 transform support

Panasonic Varicam Grading

• • Real-time decoding and playback of Panasonic Varicam 35 clips

• • Automatic color space and decode config using camera metadata

Copy Grades Between Clips

• • Add Correction and Add Correction With Keyframes can be selected from one thumbnail to multiple

Ripple Grades Between Clips

• • Ripple from one clip to many

• • Ripple from one clip to selected group

• • Ripple and append new node to many clips

Edit

Editing

• • Support for audio plug-ins

• • Simplified Option click single track Auto Track selection

• • Enhanced Edit/Media playback to prioritize audio for slow codecs or complex grades

Flexible Full Featured User Interface

• • Flexible User Interface with top down selections of display layout

• • Select just Timeline and viewers or add Inspector, mixer, media pool and effects as you need

• • Fit to screen toggles on Edit and Color pages with position memory

• • Title and transform motion paths are visible and editable on the viewer

• • Motion paths include bezier handle control

• • Reference video comparisons to timeline with SDI output

Multi-Cam Editing

• • On-the-fly optimized media for smooth multi-cam playback

• • Sync clips by timecode, in/out point, audio, or manually

• • User selection to switch or cut to alternative angle

• • User selection to for video only, audio only, or both

• • Angle selection by mouse or keyboard

• • Cuts honor Link Selected modes

Timeline and Viewers

• • Option clicking to split video and audio during roll

Trim Edits

• • Multi-selection trimming of edits or clips

• • Asymmetrical trimming of multiple clips on the same track

• • Double click trim modes to place in source viewer

Audio

• • Real-time audio playback of multiple audio channels even in reverse play

• • Smooth audio playback for frame-by-frame playback, nudge, and JKL fast and slow stepping

• • Smooth audio playback for JKL and dynamic JKL trimming

• • Constant Audio sync with video for easy to the word editing

• • Re-sampled audio for speed changed clips

• • Support for 32, 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96, 192 kHz audio

• • Audio only clips can be edited and rendered

• • Support for audio Automation controls

Audio Plug-In Support

• • Support for a wide range of VST and AU plug-ins

• • Multiple plug-ins can be applied per clip or per track

• • Support for a wide range of VST and AU plug-ins

• • Edit page inspector used for most plug-in controls

• • Support for plug-in user UI controls

Timeline List

• • Timelines can be nested and edited just like compound clips

• • Nested Timelines can be decomposed and re-edited

• • Timelines and timeline folders consolidated into Media Pool for simple select all operations

Transitions

• • Curve editor for transitions provides ultimate flexibility and effect control

Scalable Power

Quality Image Processing

• • DaVinci Color Managed Color Science

Dynamic Multi-Point Render Cache

• • User selectable render cache of clips in multiple layer composite

• • User selectable Render Cache for final render option

Media

Real-Time Mixed Image and File Support

• • Optimized media and proxy support for using the same project on systems with different performance

Media File Flexibility

• • Media Storage Favorites to quickly find commonly used folders

• • Generation of subclips from the Media Storage or within the Media Pool

• • Media Pool Smart Bins with non-destructive sort filters and nested selection criteria

• • Display name column in Media Pool offers simple-to-advanced tag based naming on any or multiple clips

• • Drag and drop clips from desktop to Media Pool bins or Timelines

• • Simple one folder re-link operation for offline clips

Media Management

• • Clips and Timelines can be copied, transcoded, moved, and deleted via media management rules

• • Copied, transcoded, and moved clips can be automatically relinked to current timelines

• • Full source clips, as used or used with handle controls for media management operations

• • LUTS, stills, and cache can also be archived and restored

Camera Codec Support

• • Panasonic Varicam v35 and HS

Delivery

Delivery

• • Export to ProTools with separate audio clips, single layer video mix-down, and AAF

• • Render Audio only clips

• • Render Sony XAVC Intra

Control

Multiple Panel Support

• • Supports Tangent Devices Wave and Elements, JL Cooper Eclipse, Avid Artist Color, and Oxygentec ProPanel control panels

All Features

Workflow

Grade Live On Set

• • Grade real time video direct from the camera

• • Primaries, secondaries, power windows and more

• • Confirm lighting and camera angles on set

• • Save looks that can be applied to you camera raw files during grading

• • See exactly how your shots are going to look when finished

Post Production

• • Vast native camera file and video format support

• • Work from your camera original files without conversion

• • Edit and grade virtually any type of footage in real time

Collaborative Editing and Grading

• • An editor and multiple colorists can work on the same timeline from different workstations simultaneously to complete a shot

• • Break down a large job into parts that can be worked on separately

Editing and Grading for Photographers Turned Cinematographers

• • Raw image and color grading controls

• • Adjust images precisely or use a color chart to automatically balance your footage

Remote Grading

• • Choose your favorite colorist for the job, wherever they are in the world

• • Work over a regular Internet connection, in real time

Multi-Camera Productions

• • Resolve’s multi-cam tool lets you sync cameras manually using marked points or automatically using timecode or audio waveforms

• • Switch cameras as if cutting live

• • Go back and refine the cut with b-roll or alternate takes, or intercut with other multi-cam timelines

Episodic Television

• • Resolve’s compatibility with editing systems lets colorists start grading before the final edit is complete

• • Every time changes are made in editorial they can be sent to Resolve and the timeline will update automatically

• • You can work right up to the on-air deadline and deliver the final master as soon as you complete your grade

Supporting Freelance Editors

• • Resolve simplifies and facilitates creating files and round tripping projects with editorial

• • Manage media, sync audio, and convert raw footage into ProRes or DNxHD proxy files for use in FCP X, Avid, or Premiere

• • Track the relationship between proxies and your original footage for finishing

• • After editing Resolve will automatically reconnect the edited sequence to the original camera raw files

Color

Unlimited Grades

• • Node based processing; each node can have its own color correction, etc.

• • Join nodes sequentially or in parallel

• • Combine grades, effects, etc. in any order

• • Collapse nodes into a compound node

Grading from Raw Files

• • Extensive control over raw images

• • De-bayer with highlight recovery, white balance, color space, and gamma controls

• • Fine-tune exposure, sharpness, etc.

Primaries

• • Balance an image prior to color correction with the primary color corrector

• • Set lift, gamma, and gain with Resolve’s YRGB color space and ACES 1.0

Precision Secondaries

• • Target specific areas of the image

• • Drag over an area to pull a clean key and isolate areas

• • For complex grades, Matte Finesse controls ensure everything blends seamlessly

Automatic Color Match

• • Automatic primary base grade by analyzing shots containing standard color charts

• • Applicable to film, video, or raw footage

• • Set source gamma, target gamma, and target color space for the chart used

• • Identify the color chip chart and Resolve will balance the shots, even if from different cameras, etc.