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DaVinci Resolve 20.1

About DaVinci Resolve 20
Welcome to DaVinci Resolve 20.1!
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 20 includes all of the same high quality processing as DaVinci Resolve 20 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 20 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 20.1, 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 20.1 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 20.1.

What's new in DaVinci Resolve 20.1
The following features have been added or updated.

Key Features
Apple Vision Pro spatial and immersive video workflows in macOS.
Direct monitoring of immersive content in Apple Vision Pro.
Support for Apple Spatial Audio Format.
Cut and Edit Page
Improved easing behavior for multiple keyframes.
More consistent easing for curves, keyframes and inspector controls.
Improved curve editor for active curves, ease, locked parameters.
Ability to adjust curves from the timeline keyframes and curves tray.
Keyframes are now displayed beyond clip edit points.
Ability to set a shortcut to switch between curve and keyframe views.
Curves option to disable auto zoom graph height for custom zoom.
Support for built in MultiText character level styling.
Support for MultiText indent, align and paragraph level styling.
Ability to import CSV files as column-aligned MultiText text boxes.
Additional smart reframe mode to affect pan only, tilt only or both.
Support for custom guides and snapping in the timeline viewer.
Ability to toggle extents for selected safe area overlays.
Ability to create subclip from edit timeline in out range.
Support for find in media pool for USD based geometry clips.
Options to sync media pool audio using in, out and marker.
Ability to sync audio for stereoscopic 3D videos.
Menu action to move playhead to mouse pointer using the C key.
Menu actions for full extent, detailed and custom zoom for timeline.
Timeline tab action to load to source viewer.
Configurable actions to explicitly enable or disable clip.
Audio and video only insert controls in the source viewer.
Improved right to left language handling in transcriptions.
Ability to view transcriptions for clips on the source timeline.
Fusion Page
Support for new immersive option in the viewer 360 Views menu.
Support for new immersive patcher tool.
Support for Magic Mask v2 in Fusion.
Support for caching deep composites to disk.
Option to downscale clip compositions to timeline resolution.
Improved DoD and RoI support for deep image compositing tools.
Improvements for USD Renderer for overscan.
Edit individual tool controls from the inspector context menu.
Improved shape duplicate tool with style, jitter and aligned rotations.
Support for swizzler to create alpha only multi layer outputs.
Support for swizzler background channels.
Support for regular expression based selection in Cryptomatte.
Color Page
Improved color viewer safe area display selection.
Ability to switch timeline resolution on the fly from the color viewer.
Improved cache retention for copied versions and timelines.
Improved magic mask retention for copied versions and timelines.
DCTL Support for ACES 2.0 Core.
Resolve FX
New ColorTone Diffuser emulates light based lens filters.
Natural and strong split tone modes in Film Look Creator.
New Split Tone with additional controls.
Separate RGB sliders and shimmer controls in light rays.
Secondary glow ability in glow.
New atmosphere controls in light rays and glow.
Ability to regrain skin smoothening areas in face refinement.
Fairlight Page
Support for half speed timeline playback.
Action to enable focus mode using the W key.
Ability to record in 32-bit floating point.
Audio waveforms are now accurate when recording.
Clip context menu action to regenerate waveform profiles.
Faster Audio Assistant analysis with short clips improvements.
Audio Assistant option to view the full UI of underlying effects.
Dialogue matcher ambience controls and improved wet dry matches.
Support for deleting busses from track headers and index.
Shift option command for fine mouse based scrubbing zoomed out.
Shift and command click to add to selection in mixer.
Codec and IO
Support for Blackmagic RAW 5.0 SDK.
Faster decodes for URSA Cine 12K LF and URSA Cine 17K 65 clips.
Support for decoding and encoding webp images.
12-bit support and custom quality controls for DNx.
Support for encoding H.264 and H.265 in MXF Op1A clips.
Support for decoding Samsung APV clips.
Improved native Windows H.264 and H.265 bit rate controls.
New deliver preset for Tencent video uploads.
General
Improved layouts for small, dual screen and vertical video views.
Improved per-system bin layout retention for multi-user projects.
Use shift space to display the effects search dialog in all pages.
Ability to search for effects in both English and application language.
Clone tool support for xxhash64 checksums.
DRT timeline exports now include Fusion media references.
Viewers now reflect updates to still images by other applications.
Concurrent viewer overlays for DeckLink and remote monitoring.
Scripting API support for voice isolation for audio clips and tracks.
Support for Electron 36.3.2 for workflow integrations.
New Javascript promises API for asynchronous workflow operations.
Support for audio only TS growing files.
General performance and stability improvements.
Minimum system requirements for Mac OS
macOS 14 Sonoma 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 or GPU which supports Metal.
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 570.65 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 570.26 or newer.

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