As the only software solution in the world
, DaVinci Resolve combines editing, color grading, visual effects, motion graphics and audio post-production in one application. Thanks to its attractive, modern user interface, DaVinci Resolve is easy to learn. It is simple enough for beginners, yet powerful enough for professionals. With DaVinci Resolve you work faster and at a higher quality level, because you don't have to learn several applications or change software for different tasks. You can edit all processes with the original image quality directly from the camera. Basically, you get your own post-production studio in one application. Best of all, DaVinci Resolve teaches you exactly the same tools that Hollywood professionals use.
Hollywood's number one post-production tool
For movies and TV shows, top industry professionals use DaVinci Resolve more often than any other solution. That's because DaVinci Resolve is known for its impressive quality and creative tools that are light years ahead of other applications. You get Emmy? award-winning image processing technology with 32-bit floating point, patented YRGB Color Science and a massive color gamut for the latest HDR workflows. Plus, with legendary high-quality audio processing in Fairlight, you get the best sound in the industry. DaVinci Resolve has the exact same tools that professional colorists, editors, VFX artists and sound engineers use every day to finish your favorite movies and stream TV shows.
What's new in DaVinci Resolve 17
DaVinci Resolve 17 offers new image processing in the latest advanced HDR color spaces, a powerful audio engine, workflows for immersive 3D audio and more. Colorists get new HDR grading tools, AI-powered magic mask tools and more. Fairlight updates include mouse and keyboard-based edit selection tools and a Fairlight Audio Core. There is also a high-performance audio engine with support for 2000 tracks in one system. Editors can look forward to several new features, such as a new metadata-supported slate view with bin subdivisions for faster footage retrieval, zoomable waveforms for audio editing, intelligent recadrating, proxies, effects as live previews and more. In addition, effects, titles and transitions created in Fusion can now be used in the Edit and Cut workspaces.
Universal solution for post-production
DaVinci Resolve is divided into several workspaces so that you can work on tasks in the right environment with the best tools. Editing takes place in the Cut and Edit workspaces. The Fusion workspace is used to edit visual effects and motion graphics. Color correction takes place in the Color workspace, sound editing in the Fairlight workspace and media planning and output in the Media and Deliver workspaces. A single click is all it takes to switch between the workspaces.
Edit - The world's fastest and most advanced professional system for non-linear editing
The Edit workspace is the most advanced non-linear editing system on the market. The familiar design with track layout, dual viewports and standard workflows allows beginners to learn quickly and professional editors to complete more challenging tasks. It's perfect for larger projects such as feature films, TV shows, streaming, commercials, documentaries and more. The edit workspace is equipped with numerous features such as drag-and-drop editing, context-sensitive tools for automatic trimming, fully customizable keyboard shortcuts for faster work. There is also a library of hundreds of titles, transitions and effects that you can add to a project and animate. Also included is a complete toolset for media management, organization and timeline handling
Cut - For editors who need to turn work around quickly
The Cut workspace is perfect for projects with tight deadlines and working on documentation. The Cut workspace user interface supports streamlined workflows, makes it easy for new users to get started and is designed for speed. With features such as Source Tape for source tape viewing, Fast Review for quick checking, dual timelines and intelligent editing tools, you can work faster than ever. The Sync Bin and Source Overwrite tools provide a quick and easy way to cut multicam programs and create perfectly synchronized intermediate cuts. Every operation in the cut workspace causes an action. So you spend more time cutting and less time searching for commands. Plus, the scalable interface makes it easy to edit on the go.
Color - Hollywood's favorite for color grading
DaVinci Resolve's Color workspace is Hollywood's most evolved color corrector, used to color grade and finish more high-end feature films and TV shows than any other system. Exciting new features make it even more appealing. New users will get great results while learning the more advanced tools. Users familiar with image editing programs will easily master adjustments for contrast, color temperature, midtones, saturation and more with the new primary correction sliders. The Color workspace has an incredible array of primary and secondary color grading features on board, including PowerWindows, qualifiers, tracking and advanced HDR tools and more.
Fusion - Createfeature film-quality visual effects and motion graphics
The Fusion workspace lets you create cinematic-quality visual effects and broadcast-quality motion graphics directly in DaVinci Resolve. A node-based workflow makes it easy to create sophisticated effects and animations faster than ever before with layers. To create visual effects and motion graphics, you get hundreds of 2D and 3D tools, including advanced animation curves and keyframe editors that let you create beautiful, natural and realistic animations. Fusion has everything from point, planar and 3D camera tracking, rotoscoping and keying tools for photorealistic compositing creations to spectacular animated titles, 3D particle systems and more.
Fairlight - Professional tools for audio post-production
The Fairlight workspace is equipped with hundreds of professional tools for audio post-production. With Fairlight, you have a digital audio workstation (DAW) virtually integrated directly into your editing and color correction system. Familiar keyboard-based editing tools help you work incredibly fast, especially if you're switching from other software to Fairlight. The great new Fairlight Audio Core allows you to use up to 2000 audio tracks simultaneously, each with real-time effects, EQ and dynamics processing. You get sample-accurate editing tools, advanced ADR and Foley tools, and FairlightFX effects such as reverb, de-esser, de-buzz and more. You can mix and deliver in stereo, 5.1, 7.1 and even the latest immersive 3D audio formats completely within a project.
Media and Deliver - An incredible range of formats for finishing and mastering
The Media and Deliver workspaces have everything you need to import, manage and deliver final projects. While you import and sort footage in the Cut and Edit workspaces, you get a dedicated full-screen view in the Media workspace. This allows you to concentrate fully on preparing footage before you start editing, synchronizing clips and sorting media into bins and adding metadata. In the media workspace, you can also clone camera memory cards for backup purposes. Quick Export allows you to output files from anywhere in the software and upload them to YouTube, Vimeo and Twitter. The Deliver workspace also gives you access to all encoding options and formats as well as the render list for exporting multiple jobs.
Resolve FX
DaVinci Resolve Studio 17 features more than 100 GPU- and CPU-accelerated Resolve FX effects in various categories such as blur, lighting, image restoration, beauty, stylize and more. Version 17 also offers eleven new plug-ins for Texture Highlights, Detail Restoration, Video Collage, 3D Keyer, HSL Keyer, Luma Keyer, Blur, Motion Paths, Noise Reduction, Image Transforms and False Color. The "Video Collage" plug-in is suitable for zoom-like picture-in-picture videos, virtual chore effects and more. The plug-ins for object removal, pixel error correction, dust removal, blurring and film grain have also been improved. All Resolve FX effects can be animated via the new Inspector, which is unified in the Cut, Edit and Fusion workspaces.
DaVinci Neural Engine
The DaVinci Neural Engine uses state-of-the-art neural networks, machine learning and artificial intelligence. It supports features such as face recognition, object removal, intelligent re-cadring, speed changes via speed warp, super scale for upscaling footage, automatic color matching and more. The DaVinci Neural Engine works completely cross-platform using the latest GPU innovations for Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning to deliver unrivaled performance and quality. Using easy-to-use tools, DaVinci Neural Engine tackles complex, repetitive and time-consuming problems. For face recognition, for example, it's possible to sort clips by people in bins, re-crop frames and more.
Compatible with third-party plug-ins and media
With so many workflows and applications available, you need a post-production solution that's compatible with just as many systems. DaVinci Resolve works with any media, from direct attached hard drives to NAS and SAN systems. You can extend DaVinci Resolve with third-party Open FX and VST plug-ins or use third-party templates for titles and graphics. To integrate workflows and media management systems into DaVinci Resolve, there is a new workflow integration API and a new encoding API for developers. And because DaVinci Resolve is compatible with all major file formats and post-production applications, you can easily use files in DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro X, Media Composer and Premiere Pro.
Multi-user collaboration
DaVinci Resolve is the only way to create and expand your own post-production studio. DaVinci Resolve is designed with collaboration in mind, allowing more people to work on the same projects at the same time as your workload grows. In addition, collaboration between editors, colorists, VFX artists, animators and sound engineers is managed through a powerful multi-user database system and universal timelines. The crowning glory is that you don't have to import or export files or transcode projects. Conforming and managing changes is also eliminated and work cannot be lost. DaVinci Resolve is the only application in the world that allows users to work collaboratively and simultaneously on a project.
