12/11/2024
Today we released DaVinci Resolve 19.1, which includes a range of features and improvements that will give you more control and significantly speed up your multicam, audio and visual effects workflows.
On the edit page, there is a new trim slider for the audio menu of the inspector, allowing channels of a source clip to be trimmed independently. You can trim one or more channels at once, allowing you to balance the audio of a multichannel recording before editing it in the timeline. There are also new menu actions to select nearest in, out or roll edit points, and improved audio ducker support allowing you to select multiple tracks to trigger the ducking. This is useful in a two shot where you can select audio from both characters to automatically trigger background noise reduction.
For Fairlight, audio tracks can now be duplicated or disabled from the track header context menu, while duplicated tracks will make an identical copy, including all media, settings and automation. You can also reorder tracks and busses by dragging their name in the mixer and when trimming audio you will now see the waveform overlays of the clip being worked on and the clip next to it. These improvements will make it clearer and easier to make adjustments to your audio.
There are new Fusion effects, including generators so you can quickly create backgrounds such as stage curtains, a star field and gradient or radial lines. There are also new title templates to make it easy to add more interesting titles to your work including those with a glass effect, rainbow style or a gradient outline. In addition, Fusion media inputs will now honor upper or lower field dominance for interlaced footage. This means the effects you apply will display and render correctly based on the original scan pattern. In addition, there is a new tool in Fusion which lets you export USD assets and scenes from compositions, including all geometry, lighting and cameras, speeding up your post production visual effect workflow. This update also includes support for USD 24.08 with improved MaterialX performance and polygon and B-spline viewer toolbar controls.
When color grading, you can now copy the active node stack layer from timeline clips in the gallery and apply to clips on your current timeline. This allows you to easily copy a grade from one layer to another, giving you more flexibility to create and compare different looks. If you're working with a DaVinci Resolve Mini Panel there is now a dedicated setting in the menu that allows you to more easily edit custom curve control points using your panel.
For DaVinci Resolve Studio, there are improvements to object mask caching, so you can edit clips prior to the object mask node and the mask will be retained. This means if you resize, color grade or change the order of nodes before the color mask, the mask itself won't be affected. There is also new support for decoding and playback of spatial photos and videos. This means you can now edit, color grade and apply effects to this footage and render it for playback on your Apple Vision Pro.
This update also adds reorder functionality to jobs in the render queue. This means you can now drag and drop jobs in your render queue to change the order when your priorities change and you need to render something quickly. There’s also the ability to encode 10 bit H.265 Main10 formats in DaVinci Resolve on Windows, giving you higher quality rendered images, as well as a new context menu option on the media page to automatically sync bins from file folders.
DaVinci Resolve 19.1 update is available now as a free download from http://bmd.link/u3J9Vz
