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DaVinci Resolve 21 Beta 1

About DaVinci Resolve 21
Welcome to DaVinci Resolve 21!
This installer will add DaVinci Resolve software to your system as well as additional software for remote monitoring and utilities for setting up hardware control panels. It also installs Blackmagic RAW Player and Blackmagic Proxy Generator into the applications folder.

The free version of DaVinci Resolve 21 includes all of the same high quality processing as DaVinci Resolve 21 Studio and can handle unlimited resolution media files. However it does limit project mastering and output to Ultra HD resolutions or lower and only supports a single processing GPU on Windows and Linux.

If you need features such as support for multiple GPUs, 4K output, motion blur effects, temporal and spatial noise reduction, multiple AI-based tools, HDR tools, camera tracker, voice isolation, surround sound and immersive audio, multiple Resolve FX, 3D stereoscopic tools and remote rendering, please upgrade to DaVinci Resolve 21 Studio.

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

Installing DaVinci Resolve Software on MacOS
Double-click the DaVinci Resolve Installer icon and follow the onscreen instructions. To remove DaVinci Resolve from your system, double-click the Uninstall Resolve icon.

Installing DaVinci Resolve Software on Windows
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.

Installing DaVinci Resolve Software on Linux
Double-click the DaVinci Resolve installer and follow the onscreen instructions. To remove DaVinci Resolve from your system, select the uninstall option after running the installer.

For DaVinci Resolve 21, we have taken efforts to keep the project libraries compatible with DaVinci Resolve 19.1.4. While this allows you to access the project library with 19.1.4, individual projects created or opened in 21 will no longer be accessible in 19.1.4. We recommend a full project library backup as well as individual project backups before opening projects in 21.

What's new in DaVinci Resolve 21
The following features have been added or updated.

Photo Page
New photo image editing now fully integrated within DaVinci Resolve.
Image library with tagging, favorites, ratings and album collections.
Albums let you build, manage and tweak photos at source resolution.
Native RAW support for major camera formats.
Import media from Apple Photos on macOS.
Import Lightroom Catalog files into the media pool.
Use Resolve multi-user collaboration and Blackmagic Cloud syncing.
Support for DaVinci color control toolset and grading panels.
Looks, LUTs, ResolveFX and OpenFX for your images.
GPU accelerated batch exports and conversions.
Cut and Edit Page
Keyframing provides powerful retime controls with 4-point bezier.
Keyframe and add curves for multiple selected clips.
Keyframing ease options, loop, ping pong, reverse and stretch.
Keyframe Fusion effects, generators and text along with edit effects.
Subframe support for keyframing and markers.
Native support for OGraf HTML graphics.
Native support for Lottie animations.
Resolve FX Picture in Picture effect.
Font browser window for text and subtitle elements.
Preview fonts during font selection as a preference.
Spell checking for all text elements.
Emoji and color fonts for Text+ and MultiText.
Multicam angle previews in clean feed and video outputs.
Multicams can include all audio tracks for each angle.
Multicams can use full clip extents on creation and during sync.
Replay control to limit view to the last 5 minutes of recorded media.
Replay editor allows timeline selection from search dial.
Replay now allows independent start and end stingers.
Replay title palette allows up to 6 favorite titles.
Mono audio now plays on left and right channels of stereo tracks.
Improved waveforms, markers and fades for short edit tracks.
Source timelines support auto track selectors.
DRT timeline import supports link and conform options.
Compare timelines with timeline backup snapshots.
Subtitle inspector now supports search and replace.
Edit page lets you show or hide tracks from the index.
Support for editing EDL clip name in the edit index.
Affinity .af file support with group and individual layer control.
Edit page timecode options for frames, subframes or audio samples.
Duration timecode option to show duration for clip selection.
Improved timeline view options with presets and clip name option.
View remote color versions in the source viewer.
Local color grade versions use remote grades on new clip creation.
Timeline menu action to select transitions in the cut and edit page.
Paste and remove attributes for clip color, markers and flags.
Paste and remove attributes to retain image position under crop.
Switch audio channels for multi-clip selections via the context menu.
Edit page source tape includes multicam clips.
Match frame finds source media for nested clips and multicams.
Resolve FX Video Collage with separate tile fill and border controls.
Subtitle support for fade in and out.
Media Pool and Metadata
Support for tabbed layouts.
Thumbnail, list and metadata views can be set for each bin.
Star rating support for clips.
Cut page supports smart bin views.
Export media bin thumbnails as a PDF.
Automatic smart bin and clip filter for offline clips.
Custom metadata for smart bins, filters, data burn and naming tags.
Customize your project poster frames.
Show input colorspace and gamma in metadata view.
Transcription column support in list view.
Custom keyboard shortcuts to set thumbnail, list or metadata views.
Ability to reset audio clip attributes to the original configuration.
Color Page
Clip groups now support grade versions.
Node graphs can now be viewed as a layer list.
Node stacks now support up to 8 layers.
Customizable HDR and nit scopes ranges.
ACES AMF improvements, with transform name and custom folders.
Adobe RGB colorspace and gamma support.
OpenFX 1.5 color management APIs for colorspace aware effects.
Advanced panel controls for 2.39 and 2.4 safe area aspect ratios.
Multi-user projects can bypass color management on the color page.
Pasting tracking data between power windows retains original shape.
Fairlight Page
Folder tracks allow a group of tracks to be folded down or expanded.
Go to mouse pointer support using the C key.
Fusion Page
Support for Krokodove motion graphics effects.
Over 100 new motion graphics effects and tools.
New Macro Editor with inspector view and publishing to edit effects.
Fusion animation can be creatively driven by Fairlight audio.
Native support for OGraf HTML graphics.
Native support for Lottie animations.
Text+ and MultiText support spell checking.
Font improvements include emoji, color fonts and more.
Improved MultiText for position, pivot, alignment and CSV import.
Support for USD SDK 25.11 with Hydra 2.0 API for Storm renderer.
USD support for 3D matte objects and textures.
Support for USD Texture Projector and Catcher.
Global in-out controls for USD Loader.
Native support for creating Relief Maps.
Change inspector properties for multi-tool selections.
Change common inspector values in all selected multi-tool layers.
User defined metadata variables in paths, expressions and scripts.
Lens Distort offers checkerboard calibration and GPU acceleration.
Guides and rulers persistence, presets and improved snapping.
MediaIn nodes show clip name.
Open keyframes and spline as a new window.
Codecs and I/O
Enhanced MXF growing file support for broadcast workflows.
MXF OP1A support for MPEG2 bitrate and other encode options.
Canon CR3 RAW decode support.
Fujifilm RAF RAW decode support.
Apple ProRAW decode support.
Support for compressed ARW from Sony A7V and newer cameras.
Improved Nikon NEF RAW decode support.
HDR decode support for HEIC, JPEG, PNG and TIFF images.
HEIC encode support on macOS and Windows.
HDR encode support for HEIC, JPEG, PNG and TIFF images.
Improved EXIF metadata support for stills formats.
Intel QuickSync AV1 4:4:4 decode and encode support.
Windows ARM H.265 10-bit 4:2:2 decode support.
Per render job option to override RCM or ACES outputs.
General Improvements
Powerful, expanded and flexible data burn-in window.
Preferences and project settings can now be searched.
Multi-user projects support dynamic project switching.
Up to 3x faster file sync performance to Blackmagic Cloud.
General performance and stability improvements.
Note: Sony camera control on Windows needs the Sony IEDT application to be installed from the Sony website.

Minimum system requirements for Mac OS
macOS 15 Sequoia or later.
8 GB of system memory or 16 GB when using Fusion.
For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
Apple Silicon based computer.
Minimum system requirements for Windows
Windows 10 Creators Update.
16 GB of system memory or 32 GB when using Fusion.
For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
Integrated GPU or discrete GPU with at least 4 GB of VRAM.
GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 12.8.
AMD/Intel official drivers from your GPU manufacturer.
NVIDIA Studio driver 581.57 or newer.
Minimum system requirements for Windows for Arm
Windows 11 for ARM.
Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite series processor.
16 GB of system memory or 32 GB for 4K or when using Fusion.
Minimum system requirements for Linux
Rocky Linux 8.6.
32 GB of system memory.
For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
Discrete GPU with at least 4 GB of VRAM.
GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 12.8.
AMD official drivers from your GPU manufacturer.
NVIDIA Studio driver 580.119.02 or newer.
Additional Information

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