New: Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve v18 is Now Available

Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve v18 is a big update that adds a lot of new features.  The biggest being the new collaborative workflow support that works with the new Blackmagic Cloud.

What’s new in DaVinci Resolve v18?

DaVinci Resolve 18 is a really big update and it adds a lot of new features, but the really big news is the collaborative workflow support. It supports multiple people working on the same product from anywhere on the planet!

It’s really amazing and it works with our new Blackmagic Cloud website. It’s really easy to use as the DaVinci Resolve project window now has a local tab for your local projects and a cloud tab for projects on Blackmagic Cloud. You can use the cloud projects in the same way as local projects, but the cloud projects can be shared with any other user who has a Blackmagic Cloud ID. This means you could work on a project in New York and then share the project with a colorist in London and they could grade while you edit. All at the same time.

DaVinci Resolve 18 also includes the new Blackmagic Proxy Generator app that automatically creates and manages proxies from camera originals. You can create a watch folder and any new media is automatically converted into H.264, H.265 or ProRes proxies. It’s fully automatic! There is also a new proxy menu in DaVinci Resolve for switching between camera original footage and proxies in a single click.

Not only can you do collaboration with Blackmagic Cloud, but you can even live stream the viewer to a remote user such as a client. This is important when color grading as your client can watch the session from their location. There is a new viewer app called DaVinci Remote Monitoring, which they use to watch the grade. It’s designed for high end film and features low latency, high quality 12-bit image quality and can output to a DeckLink card.

This update also features incredible new tools for colorists. Located in the magic mask palette, the new object mask is able to recognize and track the movement of thousands of unique objects. The new depth map effect lets you instantly generate a 3D depth map of a scene to quickly grade the foreground separately from the background, and vice versa, while ultra beauty gives you advanced control over a subject when performing corrective beauty work.

FlexBus is Fairlight’s flexible audio busing and routing system designed for managing high track counts, extensive plug-in processing, perfect synchronization and multiple project deliverables. DaVinci Resolve 18 now lets you convert legacy fixed bus Fairlight projects to FlexBus with a single click. The Dolby Atmos deliverable toolset has also been expanded to support rendering of a binaural output from a complex Dolby Atmos mix.

In Fusion, GPU acceleration allows paint brush strokes to be generated and displayed in real time, for a more intuitive approach when performing cover up work or graphic design. Instant visual feedback allows you to assess your work and make corrections in any stroke style or shape. Subtitle support has also been expanded to include TTML and XML timed texts and embedded MXF/IMF subtitles.

DaVinci Resolve 18 is now available as a public beta from www.blackmagicdesign.com/support.