Blackmagic Design has announced the availability for immediate download of the public beta for DaVinci Resolve 12.5. It was designed to make it easier for professional editors and colorists to work faster and have more creative options than ever before. Blackmagic Design demonstrated it at NAB 2016.
DaVinci Resolve 12.5 is a massive update with over 1,000 enhancements and 250 new features which includes major additions to the editing toolset, new and enhanced color features, including improved HDR support, and powerful new effects. DaVinci Resolve 12.5 adds dozens of new editing and trimming features such as the new swap and shuffle edits, seven entirely new trim operations, paste inserts, an expanded edit overlay with ripple overwrites and append edits, and much more.
In addition, timeline performance has been greatly improved so editing is faster and the new Camera Viewer option plays video full screen, making it easier for customers to preview their cut on laptops or systems with a single display.
DaVinci Resolve 12.5 introduces an entirely new way to navigate clips using audio waveforms. The source view features a revolutionary audio waveform overlay that allows you to see the audio waveform and video clip at the same time. This is the fastest way to navigate to different parts of a clip based on spikes, silent areas, or other visual cues in the audio waveform.
A new metadata keyword dictionary makes it easier to choose common or previously created keywords and quickly apply them to clips. Metadata can now also be imported or exported via CSV files. Media Pool metadata columns can also be customized and saved, colors can be assigned to specific clips, and markers can now be single frame or durational.
Display names, which hare used throughout the software, can be automatically created based on metadata tags such as scene, shot, and take information, saving editors hours when importing and working with large amounts of footage. New Power Bins in the Media Pool allow sharing of content between projects, making them perfect for graphics, stock footage, and sound effect or music libraries that are used across multiple projects.
The timeline curve editor has been improved so customers can now select, move, and edit groups of multiple keyframes at the same time. There are also new visual controls for adding or selecting keyframes, as well as a menu for selecting parameters and curves to edit.
For colorists, DaVinci Resolve 12.5 introduces major enhancements to the node editor so now it’s possible to quickly navigate between nodes, swap nodes, select multiple nodes with a lasso, copy node contents, extract nodes, use embedded alpha channels in mattes and more. When dragging a saved grade from the gallery, customers now have the option to drag the grade in as a single compound node or as a fully expanded node tree.
The public beta of DaVinci Resolve 12.5 and DaVinci Resolve 12.5 Studio are now available for download from the Blackmagic Design website free of charge for all current DaVinci Resolve customers. Blackmagic Design has been demonstrating it at booth SL217 at NAB 2016.