Blackmagic Design doesn’t give us any hints on when a new version comes out of beta, but I think beta 6 is a good sign that it’s close!
The Film Look Creator OFX, one of my favorite v19 features, got an additional control for halation. Boosted Fusion performance and DNx defaulting to full are great.
One really handy new feature is being able to set bitrate for H264/5 renders when using Quick Export.
Keeping transitions when ripple deleting is a nice time saving feature too.
The cut page continues to get improvements, which is probably a good thing… I just don’t use it much.
And of course there’s plenty of bug fixes and other features listed below.
From Blackmagic Design:
Today we released public beta 6 of DaVinci Resolve 19 which adds further improvements to the DaVinci public beta, including support for Blackmagic RAW files shot on the new Blackmagic PYXIS 6K and Blackmagic URSA Cine 12K LF cameras.
DaVinci Resolve 19 Beta 6 adds support for retaining transitions when ripple deleting clips saving multiple keystrokes when editing your footage, as well as updated mouse scroll speeds in the edit and deliver pages to match the cut page. In addition, this update now defaults to using the full data range for rendering DNxHR 444 clips so brightness is accurately represented if working with this footage in other post production systems.
For Studio users this update adds support for Dolby Vision metadata when using DeckLink 8K Pro G2. This means you can preview footage live on supported consumer displays that are being color graded in DaVinci Resolve using Dolby Vision. In addition, there are new halation saturation controls for the Resolve FX film look creator, which allow you to fine tune the red orange halo around bright light sources when applying this cinematic look to your footage.
For Fusion, there are a number of improvements including faster render speeds for some larger Fusion compositions. In addition, Fusion Fuse examples are now available in the developer documentation folder of the help menu, making it easier to create your own custom Fusion plugins.
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 6
- Support for Blackmagic RAW 4.2.
- New halation saturation controls for Resolve FX Film Look Creator.
- Import and export speaker tagged transcriptions as .srtx subtitle files.
- New stinger templates in the effects library under generators.
- Ability to resync media for all media bins from the replay toolbar.
- Ability to jog at 0% replay speed.
- Replay stingers now play in real time independent of the underlying media speed.
- Add transition to all edits action in the cut timeline now uses the last used transition.
- Transitions are now retained when ripple deleting clips.
- Improved media pool and timeline sizing to maximize cut page viewer sizes.
- Improved mouse scroll speeds in the edit and deliver timelines.
- Support for clip handles with referenced Fusion compositions.
- Support for changing audio format for timeline clips from the inspector.
- Support for Dolby Vision HDMI tunneling on DeckLink 8K Pro G2.
- Support for Dolby Vision tone mapped viewer previews and scopes when in dual SDI mode.
- Greatly improved performance for some large Fusion compositions.
- Support for collaboration using Blackmagic Cloud organization groups.
- Support for current group filter in the DaVinci Resolve Advanced Panel.
- Support for encoding to QuickTime JPEG YUV 422 and 444 formats.
- Support for bitrate settings for H.264 and H.265 renders in Quick Export.
- Rendered DNxHR 444 clips now default to using full data range.
- Scripting API support to query for a timeline item’s linked clips.
- Scripting API support to query for a timeline item’s track type and index.
- Improved media pool scripting support for stereoscopic 3D clips.
- Fusion Fuse examples are now available in the developer documentation folder in the help menu.
- Addressed Fusion effect icon not being cleared when resetting a timeline composition.
- Addressed incorrect color warper vectorscope indicator.
- Addressed incorrect Resolve FX effects and overlays on clips with SuperScale and crop.
- Addressed an issue with default Resolve FX Motion Trails behavior.
- Addressed an issue with Resolve FX Lens Flare position limit.
- Addressed an issue with adding or subtracting strokes with the 3D keyer in the edit page.
- Addressed a crash when changing speed for multiple clips with auto track selector disabled.
- Addressed an issue with pasting transitions from locked tracks.
- Addressed an issue with muting and unmuting audio tracks for a timeline item in clip attributes.
- Addressed an issue with muting clip from the context menu in the cut page timeline.
- Addressed Alt numpad keys sometimes invoking timecode entry on Windows.
- Addressed an issue with some H.265 media decoding with media offline frames.
- Addressed an issue with render cache invalidation when changing node stack count.
- Addressed an issue with capturing NTSC formats to Quicktime ProRes 422.
- Addressed incorrect timecode errors for multicam or compound clip creation from interlaced clips.
- Addressed an issue with resetting ColorSlice from the DaVinci Resolve Micro color panel.
- Addressed issue with Text+ follower character range.
- Addressed incorrect 3D motion path axis overlays in the Fusion viewer.
- Addressed incorrect Fusion cache after scrubbing H.264 in the edit page.
- Addressed issue with extruding and expanding some Fusion shapes.
- Addressed incorrect bit depth metadata displayed for some DNxUncompressed 16 bit formats.
- Addressed an issue with data level tagging for DNxHR 444 renders in auto mode.
- Addressed render presets setting incorrect default audio tracks for audio normalization.
- Addressed a start up issue with user paths with non-English characters on Windows.
- Addressed a Resolve startup issue if the DaVinci Resolve Renderer plugin was in use on Mac.
- Addressed scripting API issue with loading render presets.
- Addressed scripting API issue with elision of long LUT names when querying node tools.
- Addressed an issue where scripting APIs would not honor timeline disabled state.
- 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.