Blackmagic is going big on the capabilities of Blackmagic Cloud and the syncing between camera, cloud, and DaVinci Resolve.
This new beta adds support for live sync that allows you to start editing footage coming directly from a camera — while it’s still recording!
The new Film Look Creator OFX now has a new preset, “Clean Slate” that lets you start from zero and add from there. I really like this tool and now that it has that, I like it even more!
There’s more Replay features on the cut page, and the checkered background options for Cut/Edit pages look useful when dealing with footage with an alpha channel.
One feature that caught my eye is the ability to save layouts presets and map them to a keyboard shortcut. Now you can press a keystroke and have the panels open you need for conform. Hit another and you’re seeing your preset for editing. This could also be used as a way to toggle between Primary and HDR palettes on the color page. Very handy!
And plenty of other features and bug fixed listed below!
From Blackmagic Design:
Today we released public beta 4 of DaVinci Resolve 19 which adds further improvements to the DaVinci public beta, including the ability to live sync video from Blackmagic Design cameras. This allows H.264 proxies from the camera to sync into a DaVinci Resolve bin while the camera is recording. This means that within seconds, editors and colorists in post production facilities around the world can see media arriving in real time. Now they can start editing and grading, even while the camera continues to record. Files are live synced to Blackmagic Cloud as they are recorded, and then live synced to all DaVinci Resolve workstations that are connected to the same cloud project. All you need to do is connect to the project!
This update also adds new selection features for Blackmagic Cloud organizations, enabling you to view and switch organizations right from the project manager. This means you no longer have to log out of Blackmagic Cloud to select projects in a different organization.
For DaVinci Resolve Studio users, there is a new occlusion mask for the surface tracker so you can more clearly specify the object you want to track, while tracker modifiers in Fairlight will now default to using IntelliTrack to ensure you the best results when applying audio panning. There are also various improvements to Resolve FX film look creator to provide you with a more realistic film look in HDR mode, as well as better halation and handling of aspect ratios when using this effect.
Other improvements include a new option to select checkerboard and grey alpha viewer background in the cut and edit pages so you can quickly identify images and clips with alpha channels. New and imported projects will now default to camera originals over proxies if they are available, allowing you to grade or edit using the higher quality original footage.
There’s also support for Blackmagic RAW 4.1, improved waveform display for media with synced audio, retention of the playhead position when opening nested clips and a range of general performance and stability improvements.
For details, downloads, and update instructions, visit the Blackmagic Design Support Page.
Back up your projects and database before upgrading! Individual projects created or opened in 19.0 will no longer be accessible in 18.6.6.
Remember that this is still in beta, so be careful of using it on important projects.
Report bugs to Blackmagic Design in the DaVinci Resolve forum.
What’s New in DaVinci Resolve 19 Public Beta 4
– Ability to Live Sync content from Blackmagic Design cameras.
– Support for Blackmagic RAW SDK 4.1.
– New replay menu controls to add most recent and go to end.
– Improved speed change indicator in the cut page.
– Option to select checkerboard and grey alpha viewer backgrounds in the cut and edit viewers.
– New nested timeline indicators in the cut page with decompose clip context menu option.
– Improved audio waveform visibility when trimming audio in the cut page.
– Improved real time control response to clip equalizer changes.
– Ability to assign keyboard shortcuts for up to 5 UI layout presets.
– Ability to switch Blackmagic Cloud organizations in project manager.
– New occlusion mask input for Surface Tracker in Fusion.
– Fusion tracker modifiers now default to using IntelliTrack if available.
– Fusion clip listing now ignores color page clip filters.
– Various improvements to Resolve FX Film Look Creator.
– Ability to lock a node stack layer.
– New IMF iQIYI Deliver page preset.
– Media management now falls back to copy for trim failures.
– Preferences option to automatically patch armed tracks without audio input.
– Ability to resize 2-up and 4-up views in the media pool.
– New projects now default to preferring originals over proxies.
– Improved thumbnail and waveform previews for growing files.
– Scripting API support for getting node stack layers of a timeline item.
– Addressed issue with shape color picking offset in Fusion.
– Addressed an issue with ending project names with periods in local libraries on Windows.
– Addressed decompose on edit being ignored when replacing with an in out range in the edit page.
– Addressed the Replay Editor go to end button not working in the timeline.
– Addressed incorrect color for JPEG renders.
– Addressed an issue with clearing icon when resetting Color Slice from a color panel.
– Addressed an issue with Surface Tracker undo and redo in Fusion.
– Addressed an issue where live overwrite is not allowed when a camera is selected on the replay panel.
– Addressed an issue where viewer playback point should stay at the out point after a live overwrite
– Addressed an issue where some scripts don’t show in Workspace menu at startup on Linux systems
– Addressed an issue with invoking show tracker controls shortcut in Fairlight.
– Addressed potential audio issues after changing audio format of edited media in the source viewer.
– Addressed an issue with playhead position after viewing nested clip contents.
– Addressed an issue changing color bar values with mouse wheel hover in the Color page.
– Addressed incorrect preview position on the full clip waveform in the source viewer.
– Addressed an issue with exporting Audio Vivid timelines with pan automation.
– Addressed incorrect waveform for media with synced audio.
– Addressed Fusion viewer corruption issues in RCM projects on systems with NVIDIA GPUs.
– Addressed viewer overlay issue when animating a Fusion template.
– Addressed an issue where not all selected points would be published to the Fusion tracker.
– Addressed a cursor issue when moving between upper and lower cut page timelines.
– Addressed an issue loading projects with Apple cinematic clips.
– New add window option for Advanced Panels in the power window side panel.
– Addressed incorrect data burn display with grey or checkerboard background.
– General performance and stability improvements.
Gedaly is the Founder and Lead Educator of DVResolve.com and is Blackmagic Design Certified Master Trainer. He’s edited commercials for major brands and has done color & VFX for independent films. He consults on post-production workflow and creating online education. Gedaly is the co-founder of Working.Actor, a former marketing manager for large brands, and creates original film projects with his production company Razee.