DaVinci Resolve history time: Resolve has known an incredible pricing roller coaster since it first came out in the ’80. Software has changed the game for editors in ways that are hard to imagine today. To fully understand how much has changed, you’d probably wanna take a tour that also explains why “DaVinci” is still being used as a prefix for Resolve. Here’s a brief history lesson from industry veteran Marc Wielage.
How to take your video editing to the next level with ChatGPT
I have to admit I’ve not followed much of the developments in AI over the last year or two. AI image generation just doesn’t really interest me. Well, except perhaps for generating concept images for an actual photoshoot.
ChatGPT, on the other hand, is something I’ve been experimenting with quite a bit. I’ve mostly been using it for research, but this video from Kyler Holland shows how we can use ChatGPT to make our video editing lives easier.
DaVinci Resolve 18.5 lets you relight subjects in the edit
Blackmagic Design has officially announced DaVinci Resolve 18.5. It’s the final version of the beta first announced in April. We got to see it for ourselves at NAB 2023 in its early stages, and it already looked pretty impressive.
Now, features like AI text editing have come to all in the DaVinci Resolve 18.5 stable production release. This isn’t the only new change, but it’s the major one. It also receives the Relight tool, a bit of a Cut page overhaul, better remote monitoring and a lot more.
Blackmagic adds AI text editing in DaVinci Resolve 18.5 Public Beta
During NAB 2023, Blackmagic Design announced the new DaVinci Resolve 18.5 Public Beta. Building on what is already a very solid video editing platform, Blackmagic – like just about everybody else – is jumping on AI to help improve and speed up the editing workflow. Probably the biggest new feature in the Resolve 18.5 Beta is AI-powered speech recognition and subtitle generation, with text-based editing.
The complete notes for the new DaVinci Resolve 18.5 beta are listed below, but other highlight features include a new standalone proxy generator application, timeline improvements in the Cut page, improved Media page organisation, more GPU acceleration in the Fusion page, AI-based scene relighting, more colour tools and improved audio tools in Fairlight. We spoke with Simon Hall on the Blackmagic stand to find out more.
How to shoot and edit a hyperlapse in DaVinci Resolve from start to finish
If there’s one name that often springs to mind when we come to the topic of hyperlapses, it’s Matthew Vandeputte. He’s been making content about hyperlapses for years and even shoots them for a living. In the past, he’s made tutorials on how he creates his hyperlapse sequences, but they’ve generally been Adobe based, in either Premiere Pro or After Effects. This is for good reason. They’ve been the best tools available at the time.
Lately, though, it appears Matthew’s been making the transition away from Adobe. So, he’s back with a new twist on an old tutorial showing how he creates his timelapses with DaVinci Resolve. It’s a complete start-to-finish tutorial, beginning with how to shoot the sequences so that you have a good starting point, all the way through to being ready to render the final sequence.
How to colour grade your footage using… Wait, what? Microsoft Excel?
There are some rather mad people on the Internet. And they don’t get much madder than the folks at Syrp Lab. But building a DaVinci Resolve style system of colour grading in Microsoft Excel isn’t quite as crazy as it might first appear. You see, under the hood, DaVinci Resolve is essentially just running some maths when it changes the colour of your images. Maths is all Excel does, too.
The Excel work shown in the video essentially allows you to see what DaVinci Resolve, and similar grading apps are doing under the hood. The maths behind the madness of colour grading. It helps you to understand exactly what each tool in the grading palette – Lift, Gamma, Gain and just about every other control – is doing. Ultimately, it helps you to become better at colour grading.
DaVinci Resolve for iPad has come out of beta and is now available to download in the App Store
Well, that beta cycle didn’t last very long! Blackmagic has today announced that DaVinci Resolve for iPad has hit its first official release version. The initial launch of DaVinci Resolve for iPad comes with the Cut Page and the Color Page. This is going to be somewhat disappointing for those who were hoping to see fully-fledged Edit and Fairlight pages. Bear in mind, though, Resolve for the iPad isn’t intended to replace the desktop version but to complement it.
The Cut and Color pages, though, are pretty much identical to its desktop counterpart, barring desktop-specific features like menus. I’ve been playing with the beta version for a couple of weeks and I have to say that editing video with the iPad has become an absolute pleasure and it’s very easy to transfer projects between iPad and desktop either via SSD (yes, it supports external SSD storage) or the Blackmagic Cloud.
DaVinci Resolve 18.1 finally brings vertical and square video support for TikTok, Instagram and other social platforms
Blackmagic Design has announced the new DaVinci Resolve 18.1 update which finally brings native vertical video editing features to the software. It also adds the Neural Engine-enabled AI dialogue leveller and AI voice isolation tools to the cut, edit and Fairlight pages to help make your voice stand out more easily from the background noise. Fairlight grid support has also been added to help you more easily edit to the beat.
DaVinci Resolve 18.1 also comes with improved support for the Blackmagic ATEM Mini Pro ISO. It’s now easier to import projects created using the ATEM Mini ISO and edit them in DaVinci Resolve and audio is attached to the video clips properly.
Blackmagic has officially announced DaVinci Resolve coming to the iPad before the end of 2022
Teased briefly by Apple during the iPad Pro M2 announcement, Blackmagic has today officially announced DaVinci Resolve for iPad and provided more details about its features and capabilities. It’ll be available at some point before the end of 2022 from the Apple App Store as a free download, with an upgrade to DaVinci Resolve Studio available as an in-app purchase.
It’s optimised for Apple Silicon and Blackmagic says it offers 4x faster 4K UHD ProRes render performance on the new iPad Pro with the M2 processor, with HDR support for customers using the 12.9″ iPad Pro with the M1 chip. A clean feed grading output can also be sent to an Apple Studio Display, Pro Display XDR or an AirPlay-compatible display to maximise the editing experience and quickly create grades or colour-correct clips straight from the iPad.
Blackmagic’s DaVinci Resolve 18 comes out of beta and has now officially launched
Blackmagic Design launched the beta of DaVinci Resolve in April with a whole host of new and cool features. Now, the company has announced that it’s no longer in beta and has hit that finally stable version that makes it the latest official release. Amongst the standout features are full integration with the new Blackmagic Cloud, an improved proxy generator and built-in gyro stabilisation for footage shot with Pocket Cinema Cameras.
Besides these, there are a lot of great new additions, some modifications and the usual array of fixes – and you can see the complete list below – but every section of the application from media and editing, through colour, FX, Fairlight and Fusion to delivery sees an update with new tools to help speed up your workflow and increase your capabilities.
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