Blackmagic Design Announces DaVinci Resolve 17

[Canon Rumors Guy]

Over 300 new features including HDR grading, AI magic mask, improved Fairlight usability, improved editing, and much more!
Fremont, CA, USA – Monday, November 9, 2020 – Blackmagic Design today announced DaVinci Resolve 17, a major new release with over 300 new features and improvements including HDR grading tools, redesigned primary color controls, next-generation Fairlight audio engine including Fairlight audio core and support for 2,000 real-time audio tracks plus dozens of other time-saving tools for editors including a redesigned inspector, new bin sorting and metadata clip views!
DaVinci Resolve 17 public beta is available for download now from the Blackmagic Design web site.

DaVinci Resolve 17 is a major new release with over 100 new features and 200 improvements. The color page features new HDR grading tools, redesigned primary controls, AI-based magic mask, and more.
Fairlight updates mouse and...

Continue reading...

 

[Mt Spokane Photography]

I got the email yesterday and went to see if it was available, but just a announcement. I just use the free version to check 8K playback and verify that my R5 is recording all the video modes properly.

 

[jvillain]

Wow, that came out of no where. It is amazing how tight a ship they run over at BMD.

A lot to like in there. The biggest for me is that the it sounds like the color controls will no longer be hyper sensitive when you are editing in ACES. Sound like it might be easier to have parallel SDR & HDR paths. If it is possible to do one grade and deliver both that would be huge but I am not sure that is what they are describing.

With more AI it is going to mean we are going to need bigger. beefier video cards. Lets hope AMD and NVidia get their supply act together. What I don't see here is better support for AMD video cards on Linux in specific the ability to use the hardware encoders and decoders like you can with NVidia. That sucks rhinos.

 

[Etienne]

Great for Mac, terrible for PC. The interface on the Windows version is not scaleable. You need a microscope to read the menu items or anything else in the interface.
Edit: if you use your 65" 4K TV as a monitor, you'll probably be able to read the menus

 

[jvillain]

Great for Mac, terrible for PC. The interface on the Windows version is not scaleable. You need a microscope to read the menu items or anything else in the interface.
Edit: if you use your 65" 4K TV as a monitor, you'll probably be able to read the menus

Same thing on Linux. But they have made changes in the interface with 17 to make some things much easier to see. The new magic mask is just insane in how well it works. You can do rotoscoping with out a green screen. Amazing. The warping tool is another really great idea.

 

[SteveC]

Never did get davinci resolve to work on my linux box (and it won't work on my windows box either, I'm running a super old version of windows, airgapped).

A great package for those who can use it, meanwhile I've been using Flowblade which is buggy and crashprone.

 

[peters]

Great for Mac, terrible for PC. The interface on the Windows version is not scaleable. You need a microscope to read the menu items or anything else in the interface.
Edit: if you use your 65" 4K TV as a monitor, you'll probably be able to read the menus

Jeah, indeed a bummer - and disapointing that they still didnt fix it in V17.
But there is a fix: rightclick the application, properties, compatibility, High dpi settings. There you can try some stuff like forcing the windows scaling...