If you’re not enamored with Adobe’s business practices, Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve, which has presented itself as an excellent alterative to Adobe Premiere, has just received a major update.
Per MacRumors, DaVinci Resolve 21’s new feature set includes a Photo page that extends the application’s color grading toolset to still photography for the first time, meaning photographers can now apply primary color correction, curves, qualifiers, power windows, and node-based edits to stills, with changes held at the original source resolution. An additional LightBox view displays whole albums with grades applied, and Sony or Canon cameras can be tethered for direct capture into albums.
A good amount of this update centers on AI, and a new tool, entitled “IntelliSearch,” can index media, allowing editors to search for objects, spoken keywords, or specific faces. A new CineFocus feature also allows users to shift a shot’s focal point after recording and add bokeh, while a set of facial tools can age or de-age subjects, reshape features, and remove blemishes.
The new UltraSharpen and Motion Deblur, can help salvage soft or blurry footage.
Other new features include four-point Bezier easing, the ability to adjust multiple clips simultaneously, and Fusion effects that can now be altered from the Cut and Edit pages. Text elements have gained a multi-language spell check, a font browser, emoji support, and character-level styling. The Cut page now has smart bins, while a new MultiMaster trim manager lets colorists generate multiple HDR and SDR deliverables from a single timeline.
Finally, DaVinci Resolve 21 now offers support for Ograf HTML graphics and Lottie animations, wherein users can now drag .json and .lottie files directly into the media pool, where they will be treated like fully rendered animation clips. There’s also a Picture in Picture effect, and expanded IntelliScript support for Final Draft and plain text screenplays.
The DaVinci Resolve 21 public beta is available now to download for free from the Blackmagic Design website, albeit there’s no official announcement as to when the final version will be released to the public. The software requires a Mac running macOS 14 Sonoma or later, or an iPhone or iPad running iOS 16 or iPadOS 16 or later to install and run.
Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.
Via MacRumors and Blackmagic Design
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