Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve Studio 20
DaVinci Resolve is the only software that integrates editing, colour correction, visual effects, motion graphics, and audio post-production into a single tool. Its sleek, modern interface is easy for beginners to learn while still being powerful enough for professionals. Work more efficiently and produce higher quality results without switching between multiple applications, maintaining the original quality of your camera images throughout the entire process. It's like having your own post-production studio in one app, using the exact same tools Hollywood professionals rely on.
This Perpetual Licence is not version specific and can be updated to the latest version of Resolve. The DaVinci Resolve Studio Activation Key is a physical activation code that can be used on a maximum of two systems simultaneously (for example, a desktop workstation and a laptop). If the licence key is activated a third time, all previous activations will be cleared and you will need to activate any copy again.
Hollywood Grade Post Production
High end professionals working on feature films and television shows use DaVinci Resolve more than any other solution. You get DaVinci's Emmy award winning image technology with 32-bit float processing, patented YRGB colour science and a massive wide gamut colour space for the latest HDR workflows, plus the legendary quality of Fairlight audio processing.
DaVinci Resolve 20
DaVinci Resolve 20 introduces more than 100 new features including powerful AI tools designed to assist you through every stage of your workflow. Use AI IntelliScript to create timelines from a text script, AI Animated Subtitles to animate words as they are spoken, and AI Multicam SmartSwitch to assemble a timeline based on speaker detection. The cut and edit pages introduce a dedicated keyframe editor and voiceover palettes, AI Audio Assistant creates professional mixes automatically, Fusion adds advanced multi layer compositing, and the Color Warper now includes Chroma Warp.
Cloud Collaboration
Blackmagic Cloud
Host your project libraries and optionally sync all of your media. Share projects and work collaboratively with editors, colourists, VFX artists and audio engineers at the same time, anywhere in the world.
Share Cloud Folders
Cloud folders let you share clips, images and graphics with collaborators. All content appears as virtual clips until used in a project, then syncs locally so you can access large amounts of media while staying organised.
URL Presentations Sharing
Review projects in Presentations with clients who don't have a Blackmagic Cloud account. Generate a URL link, share it, and review clips together with timeline markers and group chat.
Icon View with Thumbnails
Cloud storage features an icon view with thumbnails so you can visually identify clips. Hover to scrub through content and view camera and clip metadata in the inspector panel.
Blackmagic Cloud for Organizations
The Organizations web app lets larger companies define a single organisation, create groups or teams, share projects, manage storage access, and enable single sign on.
DaVinci Resolve Studio Licences
The Organizations app also lets you rent DaVinci Resolve Studio licences, making it easier to assign and manage allocations within large groups and cost them against specific projects.
Blackmagic Proxy Generator
Automatically creates and manages proxies from camera originals. Create a watch folder and new media is converted into H.264, H.265 or ProRes proxies to accelerate editing workflows.
Simplified Proxy Workflow
Switch between camera original footage and proxies with a single click. Resolve instantly links back to camera originals so you can edit with proxies then relink to grade.
Blackmagic Cloud Camera Sync
Blackmagic URSA Cine and PYXIS can upload proxy files followed by camera originals to Blackmagic Cloud, automatically syncing to DaVinci Resolve projects for fast collaborative editing.
Cut and Edit
New Layout for Vertical Timelines
When a vertical timeline loads, the cut, edit and colour page layouts automatically rearrange to optimise working with a vertical viewer, giving you maximum use of the screen.
Voice Over Palette
Record a voice over track during timeline playback with cue, record and stop controls, plus quick access to voice isolation, dialogue levelling, a prompter script and countdown.
Refined Keyframe Editing
A dedicated keyframe editor in the cut and edit pages allows for finer parameter animation using keyframe curves, parameter modes and ease controls.
Improved Text+ Graphic Layout
Text+ has been updated with point, text box, circle and path styles for more refined control over text graphics, and PSD files can be split into individual layers in place.
Create Unique Text Layers
The MultiText tool creates multiple text layers in one place. Use inspector tabs to set individual appearance, layout, warping and keyframe animation per layer.
New Live Overwrite Controls
Drag directly in the viewer to live overwrite a camera angle into the timeline. Drag horizontally to paint at the playhead, or drag down to turn the angle into a draggable clip.
Source Viewer Timeline Editing
Open a timeline in the source viewer to review, compare and edit between two timelines with stacked timelines and drag and drop media between them.
Safe Trimming Mode
Prevents you from accidentally overwriting crucial edits. Drag trim points to fill gaps and Resolve pauses at each cut point until you choose to continue.
New Audio Mixer
The cut page now features a full audio mixer with professional loudness metering, pan, fader, solo, mute, EQ, Dynamics and FX controls per channel.
Voice Over Tool
On the edit page, record directly into the timeline with quick controls for file name, audio input, destination track, countdown and input monitoring.
Multi Source
See all your live cameras, or clips sharing a common timecode, in a multiview. Scrub, play, select shots to add to the timeline or switch live from any angle.
Point of Interest
Capture significant moments with a POI marker placed on all clips at the same time, so you can find the event on every angle and build a highlights timeline.
Replay Palette
Set a POI with a single key, select a camera and cue the event. Run to play to air automatically via ATEM, switch cameras, or dump the playout for the next replay.
Auto Stinger
Moving graphic and sound transitions signal a switch between live and replay. Auto stingers play in real time at the head and tail of a replay, even in slow motion.
Color
Chroma Colour Warp
Intuitively adjust colour and saturation with a single motion in the viewer. Use stroke or point to point modes and add pin points to isolate regions you don't want to affect.
Remote Monitoring Improvements
When streaming remotely, you can display power windows and overlays on the reference monitor. H.265 4:2:2 streaming is now supported.
UltraNR Noise Reduction
A new DaVinci AI Neural Engine driven denoise mode that dramatically reduces digital noise while maintaining image clarity. Combine with temporal noise reduction for even better results.
Film Look Creator
Add cinematic looks that replicate film properties like halation, bloom, grain, flicker, gate weave and vignetting, with exposure in stops and subtractive saturation controls.
ColorSlice Six Vector Grading
Uses subtractive colour processes to adjust image density, saturation and hue, producing rich filmic colours. Customisable vector slices enhance colour without spill.
Marker Overlays and Annotations
The Color page viewer now supports marker overlays and annotations. Leave written notes, pick marker colour and thickness, and draw directly in the viewer.
Composite Modes within Nodes
Corrector nodes now feature composite modes, affecting how node values blend into the pipeline without needing a layer mixer, for cleaner node graphs.
Automatic Depth Map
Instantly generate a 3D depth matte of a scene to grade foreground and background separately, bringing attention to action or adding atmosphere behind subjects.
Fusion
Deep Image Compositing
Access depth data in deep image EXR files with new nodes to merge, transform, resize, crop, recolour and generate holdouts, rendering deep EXRs with the Fusion saver node.
Multi Layer Pipeline
Fusion supports multi-layer images across all nodes. Read multi-layer EXRs or Photoshop files and access any layer in any node without independent renders.
Vector Warping Toolset
Vector warp, vector transform and vector denoise use motion vectors to enable intricate temporal effects, leveraging a clip's natural movement.
Support for 180 VR
PanoMap, spherical stabiliser, LatLong patcher, 3D VR camera and 3D viewers now support 180 degree angle of view for immersive content production.
3D Scene Dome Light
Simulates natural ambient lighting in a 3D scene and integrates 360 HDRI images for accurate reflections and global illumination.
View Colour Grade in Fusion
Preview colour page clip grades directly in the Fusion page viewer through the MediaOut node, saving time when reviewing the final look of a clip.
Advanced Volume Rendering
uVolume imports volumetric VDB files directly into Fusion with complete control over density, temperature and colour for smoke, fire, clouds and explosions.
MultiPoly Tool
Displays all of your masks in a single list, letting you view, select, add to and modify shapes, toggle visibility and adjust parameters from one location.
Fairlight
6 Band Clip EQ
Clip EQ now features 6 bands on the cut, edit and Fairlight pages, matching the track EQ in the mixer so settings can be copied between clip, track and EQ plug-in.
EQ and Level Matcher
Adjust a target clip's audio to match a reference clip's level or tonal spectrum, letting you intercut clip sections without manual changes.
Chain FX
Build a Chain FX of up to six favourite plug-ins with customised settings, saved as presets, and combine Chain FX for longer chains in the channel effects slots.
Automation Improvements
Per-channel automation mode selection lets you dynamically adjust multiple tracks with different modes in a single pass, such as Snap, Latch or Trim.
AI Audio Panning to Video
The IntelliTrack AI point tracker automatically generates precision audio panning by tracking people or objects across 2D and 3D spaces.
AI Fairlight FX
An AI based dialogue separator lets you rebalance dialogue against background sound and room reverberation, with controls for voice, background and ambience.
Fairlight Ducker Track FX
Automatically lowers one track when dialogue is present without complex side chain setup, with advanced controls to fine tune the mix.
Ambisonic Surround Sound
Record, mix, monitor and deliver full sphere Ambisonic soundtracks with 1st to 5th order busses, native effects, spherical panning and head tracking support.
Next Generation Engineering
DaVinci Resolve features some of the most cutting edge technology in the industry. The DaVinci AI Neural Engine powers many of the most advanced tools and is fully supported on Apple M series and Snapdragon X Elite. The future proof DaVinci Wide Gamut and Intermediate log grading environment lets you work on media from any source and deliver to every standard in use today. It's also the only software that can edit and grade 8K footage in real time.
Remote Monitoring via SRT
SRT streaming from Blackmagic Cloud ensures high quality, low latency video, ideal for live collaboration with end-to-end encryption protecting your streams.
AI Set Extender
Creates a scene extension to fill an entire frame based on a simple text prompt, generating missing regions caused by limited angles, blanking or cropping.
Apple Immersive Workflows
New tools and parameters support Apple Immersive workflows including spatial audio, letting you import URSA Cine Immersive clips to edit, grade, mix and deliver for Apple Vision Pro.
DaVinci Wide Gamut Colour Space
A timeline colour space and gamma standard providing a universal internal working space, larger than BT.2020, ARRI wide gamut and ACES AP1.
8K Real Time Colour Correction
Only DaVinci Resolve supports 8K digital negative debayering, editing and grading in real time, working directly on RAW footage for the most accurate results.
AI Tools
DaVinci Resolve provides some of the most intelligent AI and advanced feature algorithms available in post production. These tools produce quick, accurate results that elevate visual quality while saving hours of time, from Magic Mask tracking to Smart Reframe, object removal and the industry leading tracker.
AI IntelliScript
Automatically generates timelines based on the original project script by matching transcribed audio to the script and constructing a timeline of the best takes.
AI Dialogue Matcher
Automatically matches the tone, level and room environment of dialogue across clips recorded in different environments or on different devices.
AI Music Editor
Automatically adjusts a music track's length to fit your video, analysing the clip and offering four versions with visual edit indicators.
AI Animated Subtitles
Keep viewers engaged with subtitles animated as words are spoken. Drag animated Fusion title templates onto the subtitle track to change appearance and animation style.
AI Multicam SmartSwitch
Automatically switches multi-cam angles based on the active speaker in a scene by analysing audio and lip movement in the video.
AI Voice Convert
Applies a pre-generated voice model to an existing recording, retaining inflection, pitch and emotion. Ideal for improving noisy recordings or creating ADR.
New AI SuperScale
Now features 3x and 4x enhanced upscaling for the highest visual quality, ideal for archival material or stock footage matched to deliverable resolution.
AI Magic Mask 2
Updated for more accurate tracking in a single mode. Use points and paint tools to refine selections and track motion, even around obstructions.
AI Resolve FX Depth Map 2
Faster scene analysis and more practical mattes. Isolate foreground characters, apply lens blur to backgrounds and refine the resulting matte.
AI IntelliCut Audio Processing
Removes silence, splits dialogue into tracks per speaker for individual mixing, and creates ADR lists to replace dialogue, automating time consuming tasks.
AI Audio Assistant
Automatically creates a professional mix by organising tracks, evening out dialogue levels, adjusting effects and music, and mastering the final mix.
AI Detect Music Beats
Analyses beat driven music and places markers at each beat so you can snap clips to the nearest frame when editing to the beat.
IntelliTrack AI Tracking
Powered by the DaVinci AI Neural Engine, optimising tracking and stabilisation in the colour and Fusion pages, and auto generating audio panning in Fairlight.
Music Remixer FX
Adjust music to fit the style of your show with mute and level controls for voice, drums, bass, guitar and more, turning vocal pieces into instrumentals.
Person Mask
Uses the DaVinci Neural Engine to detect people and track movement, producing clean traveling mattes for secondary grades or effects.
Tools for Content Creators
Vertical Resolution for Social Media
Square and vertical video resolutions are available in project and timeline settings for TikTok, Instagram, X, YouTube Shorts and Snapchat. Combine with Smart Reframe for quick setup.
Upload Directly to Social Media
Link your social accounts to upload directly to YouTube, Vimeo and Twitter as you export, with compression settings optimised for each platform.
Import ATEM Mini Projects
Open live production projects from ATEM Mini ISO models as a timeline. Fine tune edits, replace shots, and relink to Blackmagic RAW camera files for Ultra HD finishing.
Advanced Noise Reduction
A unique upscaling algorithm creates new pixels when increasing resolution, producing more detail than standard resizing when scaling archival or HD footage.
Optical Flow Speed Change
An advanced retiming algorithm analyses scene content and builds new frames, letting you slow down action with sharp, intelligently constructed frames.
Mix 2,000 Tracks in Realtime
Fairlight Audio Core is a low latency audio engine that uses all CPU cores, supporting up to 2,000 tracks each with real time EQ, dynamics and 6 plug-ins on a single system.
Track and Follow Objects
The tracker palette follows objects and people to apply secondary grading or effects, tracking window contents in 3D space for a quick and accurate mask.
Hardware and Software Integration
Streamline your workflow with editing keyboards, grading panels and audio consoles designed to work with DaVinci Resolve software. Faster than software alone, dedicated features are placed directly at your fingertips, letting you adjust multiple parameters simultaneously on the same panels used in Hollywood.
