DaVinci Resolve 18.0 Beta 2 Offers Eye Watering Amount Of DAW Feature Updates
Blackmagic Design today announced DaVinci Resolve 18.0 beta 2, which has an eye watering amount of new features in the Fairlight DAW section. We have the details.
About DaVinci Resolve 18
The free DaVinci Resolve 18 includes all of the same high quality processing as DaVinci Resolve Studio 18 and can handle unlimited resolution media files. However it does limit project mastering and output to Ultra HD resolutions or lower. DaVinci Resolve 18 only supports a single processing GPU on Windows and Linux and 2 GPUs on the latest Mac Pro.
If you need features such as support for multiple GPUs, 4K output, motion blur effects, temporal and spatial noise reduction, de-interlacing, HDR tools, camera tracker, multiple Resolve FX, 3D stereoscopic tools and remote rendering, please upgrade to DaVinci Resolve Studio 18.
New Fairlight Updates
Ability to convert fixed bus projects to FlexBus in project settings.
Ability to freely order tracks and buses in the mixer via the track index.
Ability to nudge custom millisecond or sub-frame intervals in the timeline.
Improved quality for time stretched audio.
Improved Dolby Atmos immersive mixing, including binaural monitoring.
Native support for Dolby Atmos production for Linux and Apple silicon.
Independent controls to enable automation and expose parameters.
Improved behavior of automated tracks under VCA control.
Improved meters with configurable decay, peak hold and display modes.
Ability to ctrl-alt click to remove gain and elastic wave keyframes.
Ability to double click a clip in the timeline to rename.
Ability to set record clip name prefix at a per-track level.
Support for renaming underlying tracks when renaming a linked group.
Equalizers with improved Q controls and mouse wheel inputs.
Dynamics with enhanced metering, gain display and enable controls.
Dynamics with improved dry mix, soft knee and metering in FlexBus.
Improved plugin management with replace and copy settings in the mixer.
New built in presets for equalizers and dynamics.
Hold shift and double click clips to extend the edit selection range.
Support for applying audio gain on range selection.
Improved waveform display accuracy under crossfades.
Origination time metadata is now persisted when bouncing mix to track.
Option to trim from unity on the Fairlight Desktop Console.
Support for VCA and bus spill on the Fairlight Desktop Console.
Support for using the Fairlight Desktop Console on Linux systems.
Studio monitoring support for FlexBus on consoles.
Fairlight console option to mute speakers on timeline load.
Support for chasing timecode via Fairlight audio interfaces.
Support for user views in the Fairlight Desktop Console.
Improved mapping for audio effects on the Audio Editor panel.
Ability to use alt + solo to invoke solo safe in the Audio Editor panel.
Support for a new clear mutes action in the timeline menu.
Enabling track mixer controls brings window to focus if already open.
Grid and list modes are persisted for patch, bus and VCA assign.
Mac, Windows And Linux
It’s worth noting that Resolve is one of the few DAWs offering Mac, Windows and Linux support.
Minimum system requirements for macOS
macOS 10.15 Catalina
8 GB of system memory. 16 GB when using Fusion
Blackmagic Design Desktop Video version 12.0 or later
Integrated GPU or discrete GPU with at least 2GB of VRAM.
GPU which supports Metal or OpenCL 1.2.
Minimum system requirements for Windows
Windows 10 Creators Update.
16 GB of system memory. 32 GB when using Fusion
Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 10.4.1 or later
Integrated GPU or discrete GPU with at least 2GB of VRAM
GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 11
NVIDIA/AMD/Intel GPU Driver version – As required by your GPU
Minimum system requirements for Linux
CentOS 7.3
32 GB of system memory
Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 10.4.1 or later
Discrete GPU with at least 2GB of VRAM
GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 11
NVIDIA/AMD Driver version – As required by your GPU