About DaVinci Resolve 16 for

Windows
The free DaVinci Resolve 16 includes all of the same high quality
processing as DaVinci Resolve 16 Studio and can handle unlimited
resolution media files. However it does limit project mastering and output
to Ultra HD resolutions or lower. DaVinci Resolve 16 only supports a single
processing GPU on Windows and Linux and 2 GPUs on the latest Mac Pro.

If you need features such as support for multiple GPUs, 4K output, motion
blur effects, temporal and spatial noise reduction, de-interlacing, HDR
tools, camera tracker, multiple Resolve FX, 3D stereoscopic tools, remote
rendering, an external database server and collaboration tools that let
multiple users work on the same project at the same time, please upgrade
to DaVinci Resolve 16 Studio.

We hope you do decide to upgrade as your facility grows and you do more
advanced work!

Important Information regarding Database

Management
DaVinci Resolve 16.0 requires a database upgrade from DaVinci Resolve
15.3.1 and previous versions. We strongly recommend that you backup
your existing database (both DiskDB and PostgreSQL) before performing
an upgrade.

What's new in DaVinci Resolve 16

Features marked with ^ have additional descriptions below

Key new features

• Addition of all-new Cut page
• Support for the DaVinci Resolve Editor Keyboard
• Multiple performance improvements with significantly faster Fusion
processing
• Collaboration workflow improvements - DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Speed Warp motion estimation powered by the DaVinci Neural Engine in
DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Timeline level resolution, frame rate, scaling and monitoring settings within
the same project
• Upload directly to YouTube and Vimeo
• Quick Export for quickly performing renders from various pages
• Adjustment Clips to apply filters, effects and grades on top of a range of
timeline clips
• Frame.io integration supporting media imports, direct uploads, marker and
comment syncing - DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Significantly improved GPU accelerated real-time scopes
• Initial immersive 3D audio support including Dolby Atmos, Auro-3D and
SMPTE ST 2098 - DaVinci Resolve Studio

Cut
• Dual timelines with the ability to quickly navigate or edit anywhere on the
timeline
• Ability to use Source Tape mode to preview multiple media pool clips as a
sequence of shots
• Dedicated trim tool in the viewer to allow for frame-accurate trimming
• Fast review mode with adaptive preview speeds to quickly review footage
• Intelligent editing behavior based on playhead proximity to edit points
• Dedicated edit and transition buttons
• Compact viewer controls for context-specific actions including transform,
audio, text and effects
• Ability to access and edit all DaVinci Resolve transitions, effects and Fusion
title templates
• Multiple media pool sort and display modes - including new filmstrip mode
and new list mode with thumbnails
• Easy access to Quick Export options to export and share videos
• Ability to switch between fixed and moving playhead modes in the timeline
• Ability to use the R key shortcut to change clip speeds
• Ability to use the A key shortcut to auto color the selected clip

Performance
• User selection to preserve video essence for faster rendering of clips
without content changes^
• Improved playback performance with title templates in the effects library^
• Improved Fusion playback performance
• Improved caching performance for clips with Fusion comps
• Improved 3D engine performance for clips with Fusion effects
• Improved performance when playing back Fusion clips with cached effects
• Improved performance with support for GPU-accelerated scopes
• Improved performance for the Super Scale algorithm powered by the
DaVinci Neural Engine in DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Improved playback performance on Linux systems with a single NVIDIA GPU
• Improved playback performance when selection follows playhead is enabled
in the edit page
• Improved performance when marquee selecting multiple clips in the edit
page

Collaboration
• Per-system render cache for collaboration projects - DaVinci Resolve
Studio^
• Ability to create and modify markers in the Color page for collaboration
projects - DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Ability to modify clip metadata and flags from the Color page for
collaboration projects - DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Ability to display and change clip color from the Color page for collaboration
projects - DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Ability to load collaboration projects in read only mode - DaVinci Resolve
Studio
• Support for Dolby Vision and HDR10+ in collaboration projects - DaVinci
Resolve Studio
• Frame.io integration supporting media imports, direct uploads, markers,
annotations and comment syncing - DaVinci Resolve Studio^
• Ability to override the output and monitoring settings per collaboration
system - DaVinci Resolve Studio^
• Ability to see the machine and IP address of the user who is currently using
 a non-collaboration project
• Options to show or hide flags and markers of specific colors
• Ability to delete markers and flags by color

Edit
• Speed Warp motion estimation powered by the DaVinci Neural Engine -
DaVinci Resolve Studio^
• Timeline level resolution, frame rate, scaling and monitoring settings within
the same project^
• Adjustment Clips to apply filters, effects and grades on top of a range of
timeline clips^
• Ability to analyze video clips for detecting and classifying people powered
by the DaVinci Neural Engine - DaVinci Resolve Studio^
• Custom safe areas for titles and actions^
• Ability to assign any media pool clip or timeline as an offline reference clip^
• Ability to copy and paste clips and edits across timelines and projects with
different frame rates
• Ability to toggle between rectified and non-rectified waveforms for audio
clips in Media Storage and Media Pool
• Video orientation angle in the Clip Attributes dialog
• Ease in and out position keyframes in the curves editor
• Ability to view and edit keyframes for OpenFX plugins in timeline curves
• Stabilize video clips from the Inspector
• Support for pasting color correction properties from the Paste Attributes
dialog
• Support for copying retime and scaling attributes between clips in the edit
timeline
• Improved audio behavior when scrubbing in the Edit and Media page
viewers
• Temporarily enable/disable snapping for titles on the viewer using the
Alt/Opt key
• All available viewer area is automatically used for 2-up and 4-up displays
• Blade operations on a selected clip results in the preceding section being
selected
• Ability to toggle viewer overlays on/off and assign shortcuts for specific
modes in the Edit and Color page viewers^
• Support for a larger selection of words in the keyword dictionary from
workspace menu
• Ability to group and manage smart bins using folders
• User preference to automatically create smart bin categories from media
pool clips based on keywords, shot, scene and people metadata
• Ability to duplicate existing smart bins
• Ability to toggle between searching all media pool bins and current bin
• Support for Go to In/Go to Out functions for three point edits even when
preview marks are not visible
• Support for switching the video monitoring output when toggling between
source and timeline viewer in gang mode
• Automatic updating of the Usage in Media Pool list view
• Project setting to limit reel name matching to a specific number of
characters when conforming or color tracing timelines^
• Project setting to ignore a specific number of characters from the beginning
of the reel name when conforming or color tracing timelines^
• Newly pasted clips are now automatically selected
• Ability to render broadcast wave files with support for metadata when
 exporting timelines to Pro Tools
• Improved handling of video codec defaults and audio file names when
exporting timelines to Pro Tools
• Ability to switch buses for monitoring from the Edit page
• Options to toggle views for rectified, full waveform and waveform borders in
timeline options^
• Improved alpha channel handling for compound clips with more than two
layers^
• Improved marker annotation with support for lines and rectangles
• Improved naming behavior for duplicated bins, clips and timelines

Fusion
• Fusion Studio 16 release concurrent with DaVinci Resolve 16
• Improved handling of edit sizing in new projects with edit sizing applied to
clips after Fusion effects^
• Improved playback performance with title templates in the effects library
• Improved Fusion playback performance
• Improved 3D engine performance for clips with Fusion effects
• Support for MultiSampling in the 3D Renderer
• Ability to flexibly scale animation with changing clip lengths
• Improved performance when playing back cached Fusion clips
• Improved responsiveness of Fusion viewer interactions when using a
Wacom tablet
• Ability to view and edit Fusion composition names from the clip thumbnail
context menu
• Improved memory management on large Fusion compositions with a high
layer count
• Improved GPU memory utilization for Fusion compositions with temporal
processing
• Improved performance for Change Depth with new Error Diffusion option
• Improved performance and accuracy for Camera Tracker, with support for
lens distortion
• Improved performance for Dissolve with GPU acceleration support
• Improved performance for Duplicate tool with GPU acceleration support
• Improved performance for TimeSpeed and TimeStretcher with GPU
acceleration support
• Improved performance for Planar Tracker
• Improved performance for B-Spline rendering with GPU acceleration support
• Improved performance for Vector Motion Blur and motion blur in other tools
with GPU acceleration support
• Improved performance for Splitter and Combiner with GPU acceleration
support
• Improved performance for BitmapMask with GPU acceleration support
• Improved performance for CornerPin and PerspectivePin with GPU
acceleration support
• Improved performance for Fusion Mask rendering with GPU acceleration
support
• Improved performance for Fusion Color operations with GPU acceleration
support
• Improved performance when selecting a paint tool with multiple strokes
• Improved zoom behavior in the keyframe and spline panels
• Improved visual progress and feedback when rendering savers
• Improved performance and stability when rendering mask shapes when
using the Metal GPU processing mode
Color
• All new scopes engine
⁃ GPU accelerated with real-time performance
⁃ Option to apply a low pass filter for cleaner views
⁃ CIE scope for viewing gamut distribution
⁃ Option to set quality of the scopes
⁃ Additional YRGB and YCbCr modes in Parade
⁃ Option to see extents in Parade and Waveform
⁃ Option to colorize Parade and Waveform
⁃ Additional luminance and chroma modes in Waveform
⁃ Ability to set ranges and view shadows, midtones and highlights
independently in the Vectorscope
⁃ Ability to view individual or combined extents for shadows, midtones
and highlights in the Vectorscope
⁃ Additional YRGB mode in the Histogram
• Option to see input or output histograms in the background of custom
curves
• Option to see input or output histograms in the background of HSL curves
• Support for new auto-color and color match processing powered by the
DaVinci Neural Engine^
• Ability to gang the zoom on the Color page viewer and the video output^
• Support for box and difference wipe modes in the Color page viewer
• Ability to view individual red, green and blue channels in the viewer^
• Ability to view and adjust keyframes for ResolveFX and OpenFX^
• Ability to adjust the thumbnail size for timeline and lightbox to view a larger
range of clips
• Ability to copy and paste attributes between nodes
• Ability to step forward and backward by 1 second
• Ability to mark in-out ranges, mark current clip or clear ranges in the
timeline for looped playback and to perform quick exports of specific
sections
• New smart filter for clips with edit sizing
• New smart filter for clips with specific ResolveFX or OpenFX applied
• Ability to view and set stereoscopic floating windows in pixels^
• Additional strength controls for advanced video stabilization
• Improved stabilization behavior for clips with rotation applied in clip
attributes
• Tracks can be enabled/disabled from the application menu and using
shortcuts
• Option to monitor stereoscopic content using line by line with the first line
being even
• Support for 4:4:4 SDI input for Resolve Live
• List view mode for gallery stills and PowerGrades
• Ability to update and navigate the current timeline wipe using the Timelines
section in the gallery
• Ability to optionally enable scrubbing when performing live preview in the
gallery^
• Support for a new Selected Still Images split screen mode
• Accessing clip attributes from the thumbnail context menu
• Revealing media in Media Pool from the thumbnail context menu
• Revealing applied LUT in LUT browser from the node context menu
• Support for Canon C700 IDTs in ACES workflows
• Support for tooltips with track names in the Color page timeline
• Support for AstroDesign ALog OETF in Resolve Color Management workflows
• Support for 203 nit gamma mapping in Color Management settings when
performing SDR to HDR color space conversions
• Ability to pan and tilt an image beyond the project resolution in input, node
and output sizing
• Modifying Canon and Panasonic Camera Raw controls from the DaVinci
Resolve Mini and Advanced Panels
• Switching tabs automatically when adjusting primary parameters from
DaVinci Resolve panels
• Copying and pasting nodes with the Blackmagic Design Advanced panels
using the first two keys under the left-most trackball
• Support for tagging the video monitoring signal with Rec.2020 color space
information based on the output color space

ResolveFX
• ResolveFX Stylize powered by the DaVinci Neural Engine in DaVinci Resolve
Studio
• ResolveFX Object Removal in DaVinci Resolve Studio^
• ResolveFX Analog Damage in DaVinci Resolve Studio
• ResolveFX Pencil Sketch in DaVinci Resolve Studio
• ResolveFX Chromatic Aberration in DaVinci Resolve Studio
• ResolveFX Chromatic Adaptation
• ResolveFX Vignette
• ResolveFX Invert Color
• ResolveFX Drop Shadow
• Support for the ResolveFX Blanking Fill, Lens Blur and Tilt Shift Blur in the
Fusion page
• Support for the ResolveFX Patch Replacer in the Edit page
• Support for integrated beauty enhancements in ResolveFX Face Refinement
• Improved ResolveFX Beauty with a new Auto mode, better edge behavior,
individual controls and larger parameter ranges
• Improved ResolveFX Scanline
• Improved behavior for handling glow sources in multiple ResolveFX
plugins^
• Improved behavior for ResolveFX plugins with support for processing the
alpha channel in the Edit timeline
• Improved ResolveFX Blanking Fill with better defaults, support for more
granular cropping and easier controls
• Improved ResolveFX Warper with support for keyframing
• Improved ResolveFX Dead Pixel with support for keyframing
• Improved ResolveFX Colorspace Transform with support for SMPTE-C and
Gamma 2.5

Fairlight
• Initial support for Dolby Atmos audio in DaVinci Resolve Studio^
• Initial support for Auro-3D audio in DaVinci Resolve Studio^
• Initial support for SMPTE ST 2098 3D audio from DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Support for B-Chain monitoring in the Fairlight page in DaVinci Resolve
Studio
• Support for adding crossfades to clips
• Initial support for selection and editing of video tracks and clips
• Support for labeling and protecting specific speakers from unwanted signal
patching from the B-Chain port setup
• Support for a larger variety of track formats including support for 3D audio
 formats
• FairlightFX Frequency Analyzer
• FairlightFX Limiter
• FairlightFX Phase Meter
• FairlightFX Dialog Processor
• FairlightFX Foley Sampler
• Elastic Wave adaptive audio timing
• Ability to save and recall multiple track automation mixes
• Ability to copy, paste, edit and erase user selected portions of track
automation data from the Fairlight menu
• Improved viewing and control of 3D pans in the Fairlight pan tool
• Support for the Fairlight PCIe Audio Accelerator on macOS
• Support for the Fairlight Audio Interface on macOS
• Support for the Fairlight Audio Desktop editor on macOS
• Support for the Fairlight Audio Console on macOS
• Support for the Fairlight PCIe Audio MADI upgrade
• Support for importing AAF timelines with support for decoding embedded
audio content
• Ability to save and recall presets for Fairlight buses for equalizer, dynamics,
plugins and channel setup
• Support for configuring and monitoring external audio sources
• Support for a timecode generator output in Fairlight page for driving
external audio applications in DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Viewing and editing automation parameters for buses in the timeline view
• New loudness monitoring standards - including ATSC, 1770 and R128
standards
• Improved clip normalization with an option to set loudness standards
• Ability to view integrated loudness curves for the Main bus in the timeline^
• Ability to reset playback volume by Alt/Opt-clicking the volume slider
• Media path mapping for the Sound Library
• Ability to save and recall full console library presets

Codecs and Delivery

• Quick Export for quickly performing renders from various pages^
• Rendering all timeline audio tracks individually in single clip mode^
• Support for the latest Blackmagic RAW SDK 1.4
• Decoding iOS Voice Memo, including lossless formats
• Improved support for decoding and linking IMF supplemental packages in
DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Support for 20th Century Fox IMF preset in DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Option for DCP quantization levels when rendering using the Kakadu
JPEG2000 codecs
• User alert when the render resolution is larger than the timeline resolution
• Ability to use Super Scale in timeline output scaling in order to perform
upscaling on renders and deliveries
• Support for encoding to Panasonic SHV 8K in DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Support for trimming MXF clips with temporal codecs in media management
• Ability to minimize or disable viewer updates during rendering
• AMD hardware accelerated decoding of H.264 and H.265 on Windows in
DaVinci Resolve Studio
• AMD hardware accelerated encoding of H.264 and H.265 on Windows in
DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Improved support for NVIDIA H.264 and H.265 rendering parameters on the
Delivery page on Windows and Linux in DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Improved support for Intel Quick Sync H.264 and H.265 parameters on the
Delivery page on Windows in DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Option to select the hardware acceleration method for decoding H.264 and
H.265 on Windows and Linux - DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Improved performance when decoding H.264 and H.265 clips on macOS
• Improved performance when encoding H.264 and H.265 clips on macOS
• Option to select hardware or software encoding for H.264 in macOS
• Ability to set the Entropy mode when encoding H.264 on macOS
• Improved display of options for H.265 profiles with implicit bit depth
selection in the Deliver page on macOS
• Improved support for reading EXIF metadata
• Improved HDR metadata encoding when rendering to H.265
• Improved performance when encoding to AVI formats
• Improved AVI support with ability to decode BGRA clips
• Improved performance when performing audio only renders
• Support for decoding Sony Venice V4 clips
• Support for D-Gamut and D-Log for DJI RAW clips
• Support for GPU accelerated decoding of Canon RAW clips using the Canon
SDK
• Support for decoding Canon C700 Full Frame clips
• Support decoding Canon RAW clips in half res and quarter res mode
• Support for decoding and encoding Avid DNxUncompressed formats
• Support for decoding ARRI HDE clips
• Ability to control QuantScale and MaxFrameSizeInPercent parameters when
encoding to Grass Valley formats
• Improved IMF composition settings options with the ability to rename native
assets
• Improved naming support for native DCP and IMF renders
• Removed folder extensions from IMF/DCP renders

General
• Support for the DaVinci Resolve Editor Keyboard
• Exporting videos directly to YouTube^
• Exporting videos directly to Vimeo^
• Per OS login preferences and settings with support for local UI layouts,
database management, system and user preferences^
• Support for specifying OS level environment variables to configure
preferences and support folders for custom installations
⁃ See Technical documentation in the Help menu for more details
• Ability to check for software updates from the DaVinci Resolve menu
• Playback speed indicators in Resolve viewers
• Ability to enable or disable individual pages in DaVinci Resolve^
• Ability to hide the page navigation bar from the Workspace menu
• Ability to enable or disable focused panel indicators in DaVinci Resolve
• Ability to list and navigate to open Media Pool windows from the Workspace
menu
• Support for automatically checking for software updates when connected to
the internet
• Support for Russian user interface
• Improved Live Save behavior on the Fusion and Color pages
• Ability to add and edit project notes from the Project Manager and app
menu^
• Support for using timeline name and project name as burn in and render
tags
• Support for editing descriptions and comments columns for timelines in the
Media Page
• Ability to view the GPU Processing mode when set to Auto
• Support for using DaVinci Resolve Studio dongles to enable Fusion Studio
• General stability and performance improvements

Developer
• Ability for OpenFX plugins to access any frame from the current clip
• Scripting support for python 3.7
• Discoverable scripting APIs in python and python 3
• Combo boxes in Davinci CTL plugins
• Ability to encrypt and specify expiry dates for DaVinci CTLs
• Ability to query current timecode and current clip using the scripting API
• Ability to launch and perform scripting on DaVinci Resolve in headless mode
using the -nogui command line option
• Improved scripting support for importing, exporting and restoring projects
and archives
• Improved scripting support for listing, loading, renaming and deleting
Fusion compositions and Color versions
• Improved scripting support with ability to call GetCurrentTimecode() during
playback

Pre-installation Notes
• DaVinci Resolve 16 introduces support for operating system user-level
configurations and preferences. When starting DaVinci Resolve 16 for the
first time, your system level global configuration files, layouts, logs and
other preferences will be copied into your user folder. The existing system
level files will be left untouched and will continue to work with older
versions. Any changes made to your system or user level preferences in
DaVinci Resolve 16 will not be reflected in older versions.
• DaVinci Resolve 16.0 requires a database upgrade from DaVinci Resolve
15.3.1 and previous versions. We strongly recommend that you backup
your existing database (both DiskDB and PostgreSQL) before performing an
upgrade.
• DaVinci Resolve 16.0 requires a graphics card with at least 2GB of VRAM
which supports Metal, OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 10. This applies to both the
compute and display graphics cards. Please also install the latest graphics
drivers on Windows and Linux recommended by your graphics card vendor.
• DaVinci Resolve Studio 16.0 requires a firmware update for the DaVinci
Resolve Advanced Panel. Please note that this firmware cannot be
downgraded to work with previous versions of DaVinci Resolve Studio.
Feature Descriptions
User selection to preserve video essence for faster rendering of
clips without content changes
The option to "Bypass re-encode when possible" can be toggled in the
Advanced Settings in the Deliver page. When enabled, DaVinci Resolve
determines if the source file codec matches the selected delivery codec
and if the clip has no modifications and then bypasses re-encoding the
video content.

Improved playback performance with title templates in the effects

library
The Fusion based title temples available on the Effects Library play
significantly faster on the timeline with many effects playing in real-time
without caching. These effects benefit from a high performance GUI GPU.
This enhancements is currently only available on single GPU systems are
will be available in multi-GPU systems in a future beta update.

Per-system render cache for collaboration projects

Collaboration projects now have support for render caching clips. The
render cache data is stored per system and each collaboration user can
generate and manage their cache files.

Frame.io integration supporting media imports, direct uploads,

marker and comment syncing
DaVinci Resolve Studio now supports native integration with Frame.io.
Login using the Sign In button under the Frame.io section of Internet
Accounts under Preferences and follow the on-screen prompts. Once the
sign-in is complete, the Media Storage will have a Frame.io entry where
the projects and clips within the account can be accessed. Frame.io clips
added to the Media Pool are automatically downloaded in the background
for use in the project. Timelines or sections of the timeline can be
rendered and uploaded using the Frame.io Deliver page preset. Timelines
uploaded to Frame.io automatically sync markers and comments which are
visible to all the users who have access to the clip and project.

Ability to override the output and monitoring settings per

collaboration system
The "Use Local Overrides" option can be enabled in the Video Monitoring
section of Project Settings in a collaboration project. When enabled, the
user can customize monitoring settings for their system.

Speed Warp motion estimation powered by the DaVinci Neural

Engine
The "Speed Warp" option for optical flow motion estimation can be
selected from the Edit page Inspector under Retime and Scaling for clips
with speed changes. The Speed Warp takes effect for retimed clips with
optical flow processing enabled.

Timeline level resolution, frame rate, scaling and monitoring

settings within the same project
Resolution, frame rate, scaling and monitoring settings can now be set
independently for each timeline. By default, new timelines pick up these
options from the Project Settings. Users can choose to override these
defaults with custom values by using the "Use Custom Settings" button in
the New Timeline creation dialog. The timeline settings can also be
accessed and modified using the Media Pool timeline context menu.

Adjustment Clips to apply filters, effects and grades on top of a

range of timeline clips
Adjustment clips act as generator clips that get their input from the clips
and tracks below them. Adjustment Clips can be added to the timeline
from the Effects section in the Effects Library, adjusted to the appropriate
length and modified and graded independently.

Ability to analyze video clips for detecting and classifying people

powered by the DaVinci Neural Engine
Multiple video clips can now be processed for face recognition from the
clip context menu in the media pool. Detected people can be named and
individual faces can be untagged or reclassified from the People dialog
accessible from the Workspace menu. Automatic smart bin creation can be
enabled for people from the Preferences dialog and the People field can be
used like other metadata in smart bin and filter creation.

Custom safe areas for titles and actions

Safe areas for titles and actions can now be customized from the Editing
section of User Preferences by enabling "Use custom safe area overlays"

Ability to assign any media pool clip or timeline as an offline

reference clip
Any Media Pool clip or timeline can now be assigned as an offline
reference clip for a timeline. This can be done by switching the source
viewer to offline mode and dragging the desired Media Pool clip on to the
viewer. Please note that the source timecode of the selected offline
reference clip will need to match the timecode of the timeline.

Ability to toggle viewer overlays on/off and assign shortcuts for

specific modes in the Edit and Color page viewers
Viewer overlays for the Edit and Color page viewers can now be toggled
from the View menu, under the Viewer Overlay submenu. Additionally,
custom shortcuts can be assigned for each individual mode to switch
modes quickly.

Project setting to limit reel name matching logic when conforming

or color tracing timelines
Two options have been added in Project Settings under Conform Options in
General Options to limit reel name matching when conforming or color
tracing. The first limits the matching logic to a user defined number of
leading characters in the reel name. The second ignores a user defined
number of leading characters in the reel name.

Options to toggle views for rectified, full waveform and waveform

borders in timeline options
The timeline options dialog in the Edit timeline now provides toggles for
rectified waveforms, full clip height waveforms as well as waveform
borders similar to the Fairlight page timeline

Improved alpha channel handling for compound clips with more

than two layers
Previously, alpha channels were preserved for single layer compound clips.
Now, even compound clips with multiple layers correctly preserve alpha
channels and composites when placed on a timeline.

Improved handling of edit sizing in new projects with edit sizing

applied to clips after Fusion effects
In new projects, edit sizing operations including zoom, cropping and
blanking will be applied on the output of the Fusion composition, allowing
Fusion effects to access the full image content from the Media Pool.
Projects created on previous versions of DaVinci Resolve will continue to
perform edit sizing operations before Fusion effects.

Support for new auto-color and color match processing powered

by the DaVinci Neural Engine
The "Apply Auto Primary Grade" and "Apply Auto Shot Match" actions are
now powered by a new algorithm powered by the DaVinci Resolve Neural
Engine. The legacy methods can still be accessed by enabling "Legacy
Auto Color" and "Legacy Shot Match" from the Color tab of User
Preferences.

Ability to gang the zoom on the Color page viewer and the video
output
The "Gang viewer zoom with video output" option can be found in the
three-dot option menu of the Color page viewer. Enabling this option will
pan, tilt and zoom the reference monitor output in conjunction with the
viewer in the Color page. You can reset the reference monitor output by
applying zoom to fit in the viewer.

Ability to view individual red, green and blue channels in the

viewer
The menu options to enable individual viewer channels on the Color page
viewer can be found in the View menu under "Viewer Channels".

Ability to view and adjust keyframes for ResolveFX and OpenFX

ResolveFX and OpenFX plugins that are applied in the Color page node
graph can now be seen in the keyframes section of the Color page and can
be managed from there.

Ability to view and set stereoscopic floating windows in pixels

3D Stereoscopic floating windows can now be viewed and modified in
pixels using the option in the 3D panel three-dot option menu.

Ability to optionally enable scrubbing when performing live

preview in the gallery
When Live Preview is enabled in the Gallery three-dot option menu,
additional hover scrub preview options are now available to disable
scrubbing, enable hover previews only on the thumbnails or both on the
thumbnail and viewer.

ResolveFX Object Removal in DaVinci Resolve Studio

The ResolveFX Object Removal plugin can be used in the Color page to
quickly remove unwanted objects from the clip. In order to use this plugin,
an alpha mask of the object needs to be fed in and "Use OFX Alpha" needs
to be enabled on the node with the plugin.

Improved behavior for handling glow sources in multiple

ResolveFX plugins
The generated glow in the Aperture Diffraction, Glow, Lens Reflections and
Light Rays plugins can now be filtered to emanate from specific parts of
the image. This can be enabled by turning on the Use OFX Alpha option in
the appropriate ResolveFX node and either drawing power windows or
providing an alpha channel input into the node.

Initial support for immersive 3D audio formats

Individual immersive 3D audio formats can be turned on from Project
Settings under Fairlight to make them available as bus and track formats.
In addition, the target Dolby Atmos RMU settings can be specified in
Preferences, under the Video and Audio I/O tab.

Ability to view integrated loudness curves for the Main bus in the
timeline
When automation is enabled, the Fairlight track index shows additional
entries for main buses. Clicking the eye icons allows mix parameters for
each bus to be viewed and manipulated from the timeline.

Quick Export for quickly performing renders from various pages

Quick Export can be accessed from the File menu in order to quickly
render a timeline directly from the Edit and Color pages without having to
create a render job in the Deliver page.

Rendering all timeline audio tracks individually in single clip mode

The audio tab in the Deliver page settings has a new output track option
for single clip render jobs called "Timeline Tracks". This option allows
render all audio tracks in the timeline as is to the file being rendered.

Exporting videos directly to YouTube

The "Internet Accounts" tab in System Preferences allows you to specify
your YouTube login. Once the login is complete, the Deliver page will have
an option to "Upload directly to YouTube" under the YouTube preset.

Exporting videos directly to Vimeo

The "Internet Accounts" tab in System Preferences allows you to specify
your Vimeo login. Once the login is complete, the Deliver page will have
an option to "Upload directly to Vimeo" under the Vimeo preset.

Per OS login preferences and settings with support for local UI

layouts, database management, system and user preferences
System and User preferences are now stored at an operating system user
level. When starting DaVinci Resolve 16 for the first time, the system level
global configuration files, layouts, logs and other preferences will be
copied into the local user folder. The existing system level files will be left
untouched and will continue to work with older versions. Any changes
made to DaVinci Resolve preferences will not be reflected in older
versions. The DaVinci Resolve activation information, LUTs and existing
Disk Databases will continue to be stored at the system level.

Ability to enable or disable individual pages in DaVinci Resolve

The "Show Page" submenu under the Workspace menu allows you to show
or hide individual pages in DaVinci Resolve

Ability to add and edit project notes from the Project Manager
and app menu
The "Project Notes" dialog, invoked from the Project Manager context
menu, can be used to view or modify notes related to the project. Project
notes can also be viewed in the Notes column in the Project Manager list
view
Minimum system requirements
• Windows 10 Update
• 16 GB of system memory is recommended and 32 GB is recommended
minimum when using Fusion
• Blackmagic Design Desktop Video version 10.4.1 or later
• NVIDIA/AMD/Intel GPU Driver version – As required by your GPU
• RED Rocket-X Driver 2.1.34.0 and Firmware 1.4.22.18 or later
• RED Rocket Driver 2.1.23.0 and Firmware 1.1.18.0 or later

Installing DaVinci Resolve Software

Double-click the DaVinci Resolve Installer icon and follow the onscreen
instructions.

To remove DaVinci Resolve from your system, go to the Programs and

Features control panel, select DaVinci Resolve, click on Uninstall and follow
the onscreen prompts.

Migrating Legacy Fairlight projects to DaVinci Resolve

In order to import legacy Fairlight DR2 projects into DaVinci Resolve,
download and install the following utility on your Windows system:
https://downloads.blackmagicdesign.com/DaVinciResolve/Fairlight-Project-
Importer.zip

After installing the utility, you should see an option to "Import Fairlight
Project" in the Fairlight menu in DaVinci Resolve.

Additional Information
Please refer to the latest DaVinci Resolve Configuration Guide for details on
Windows support, including certified driver versions for third party hardware.
It is available from www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/.

You will also need to download and install the latest Blackmagic Design
Desktop Video software for monitoring with your Blackmagic Design video
hardware. Desktop Video is available from
www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/.

© 2001-2019 Blackmagic Design Pty. Ltd. All rights reserved. Blackmagic Design,
Blackmagic, DeckLink, Multibridge, Intensity, H.264 Pro Recorder and "Leading the creative
video revolution" are trademarks of Blackmagic Design Pty. Ltd., registered in the U.S.A and
other countries. Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects and Adobe Photoshop are
registered trademarks of Adobe Systems. Avid Media Composer and Avid Pro Tools are
registered trademarks of Avid. Apple Final Cut Pro, Apple Motion and Apple Soundtrack Pro
are registered trademarks of Apple Computer.

Some applications use the Qt UI framework (https://www.qt.io/) under the terms of the
LGPL version 2.1. The Qt dynamic libraries, built from unmodified source are included in the
application bundle. A copy of the LGPL is included in the Blackmagic application support
directory. The support note at
http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/detail/supportnotes/supportnote?
sid=3947&pid=3989&snid=9703&isSDK=false&os=linux provides further details including
how to obtain the Qt source.

Updated August 7, 2019.