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Blackmagic Design Davinci Resolve 18 Studio (USB Dongle)

Blackmagic Design Davinci Resolve 18 Studio (USB Dongle)

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  • Hardware Accelerated Decoding H.264/H.265
  • Multicam Editing, Grading, VFX, and Audio Post
  • Multi-User, Same Timeline Collaboration
  • Complete Non-Linear Video Editing
  • Node-Based Color Grading
  • Fusion VFX Compositing & Motion Graphics
  • Apple Metal and CUDA GPU Processing
  • Emmy Award-Winning Image Processing
  • Mac, Windows, and Linux Compatible
$295.00
Availability: In stock
UPC: 9338716000870

The Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve 18 Studio (USB Dongle) is now the world’s only all-in-one solution that combines professional HD, 2K, 4K, 8K editing, color correction, visual effects, and audio post-production in one software application. You can instantly shift between editing, color, effects, and audio with a single click. DaVinci Resolve Studio is also the only solution designed for multiple user collaboration so editors, assistants, colorists, VFX artists, and sound designers can all work live on the same project at the same time! Whether you’re an individual artist or part of a large collaborative staff team, it’s easy to see why DaVinci Resolve is the standard for high-end post-production and finishing on more Hollywood feature films, television shows, and commercials than any other software.

DaVinci Resolve Studio features a new high-performance playback engine that’s up to 10 times faster than before. In addition to extensive CPU and GPU optimizations, you also get better threading and GPU pipelining, lower latency, much faster UI refresh rates, support for Apple Metal, and much more. This makes DaVinci Resolve faster and more responsive than ever so you get the incredibly fluid performance and more precise editing, even on long timelines with thousands of clips. Scrubbing and playback are instantaneous and there is powerful new acceleration for processor intensive formats like H.264, making it possible to edit 4K images on a laptop.

Legendary Fairlight audio is now fully built into the DaVinci Resolve. Fairlight is famous for being used at the world’s highest-end studios for audio posts on film and television. Fairlight is known for both its superior sound quality and its speed. You get a massive set of professional audio tools for recording, editing and sweetening, professional bussing, mixing and routing, and multi-format mastering to 3D audio formats such as 5.1, 7.1, Dolby, and even 22.2. The state of the art, super low latency audio engine is designed to work with 192kHz 96-bit audio and delivers up to 1,000 tracks with real-time EQ, dynamics processing, and plug-ins on every track when used with the Fairlight Audio Accelerator. Plus the new Fairlight audio can record up to 96 channels while simultaneously playing back up to 160 audio channels while mixing it all in real-time! There simply is no other software available with this level of dedicated audio power.

For coloring, there are over 20 new Resolve FX filters that make it easy to remove dust, fix dead pixels, warp images, and more. The amazing new face enhancement tool lets you automatically recognize and tracks facial features so you can quickly smooth skin, adjust skin tone, brighten eyes, and even change lip color, all without having to manually select or rotoscope any part of the image. The face enhancement tool is an indispensable feature that colorists will use every single day. In addition, there are new stabilization, match move, and other image processing tools that give colorists more creative options than ever before. You can add a DaVinci Resolve Micro Panel, DaVinci Resolve Mini Panel, or a DaVinci Resolve Advanced Control panel for the ultimate high-speed workflow. All controls are logically placed near natural hand positions and are made out of the highest quality materials. Smooth, high resolution weighted trackballs and precision engineered knobs and dials feature the perfect amount of resistance for accurately adjusting any setting. The DaVinci Resolve control panels give colorists and editors fluid, hands-on control over multiple parameters at the same time, allowing them to create looks that are simply impossible with a standard mouse.

New Features in Davinci Resolve Studio 18

Key new features:

• Addition of all-new Cut page
• Support for the DaVinci Resolve Editor Keyboard
• Multiple performance improvements with significantly faster Fusion processing
• Collaboration workflow improvements - DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Speed Warp motion estimation powered by the DaVinci Neural Engine in DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Timeline level resolution, frame rate, scaling, and monitoring settings within the same project
• Upload directly to YouTube and Vimeo
• Quick Export for quickly performing renders from all pages
• Adjustment Clips to apply filters, effects, and grades on top of a range of timeline clips
• Frame.io integration supporting media imports, direct uploads, marker and comment syncing - DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Significantly improved GPU accelerated real-time scopes
• Initial immersive 3D audio support including Dolby Atmos, Auro-3D, MPEG-H, and SMPTE ST 2098 - DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Free foley sound effects library available from the Blackmagic Design support website for use in DaVinci Resolve

Cut

• Dual timelines with the ability to quickly navigate or edit anywhere on the timeline
• Ability to use Source Tape mode to preview multiple media pool clips as a sequence of shots
• Dedicated trim tool in the viewer to allow for frame-accurate trimming
• Fast review mode with adaptive preview speeds to quickly review footage
• Intelligent editing behavior based on playhead proximity to edit points
• Dedicated edit and transition buttons
• Compact viewer controls for context-specific actions including transform, audio, text, and effects
• Ability to access and edit all DaVinci Resolve transitions, effects, and Fusion title templates
• Multiple media pool sort and display modes - including new filmstrip mode and new list mode with thumbnails
• Easy access to Quick Export options to export and share videos

Performance

• User selection to preserve video essence for faster rendering of clips without content changes^
• Improved playback performance with title templates in the effects library^
• Improved Fusion playback performance
• Improved caching performance for clips with Fusion comps
• Improved 3D engine performance for clips with Fusion effects
• Improved performance when playing back Fusion clips with cached effects
• Improved performance with support for GPU-accelerated scopes
• Improved performance for the Super Scale algorithm powered by the DaVinci Neural Engine in DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Improved playback performance on Linux systems with a single NVIDIA GPU

Collaboration

• Per-system render cache for collaboration projects - DaVinci Resolve Studio^
• Ability to create and modify markers in the Color page for collaboration projects - DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Ability to modify clip metadata and flags from the Color page for collaboration projects - DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Ability to display and change clip color from the Color page for collaboration projects - DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Ability to load collaboration projects in a read-only mode - DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Support for Dolby Vision and HDR10+ in collaboration projects - DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Frame.io integration supporting media imports, direct uploads, marker and comment syncing - DaVinci Resolve Studio^
• Ability to override the output and monitoring settings per collaboration system - DaVinci Resolve Studio^
• Ability to see the machine and IP address of the user who is currently using a non-collaboration project
• Options to show or hide flags and markers of specific colors
• Ability to delete markers and flags by color

Edit

• Speed Warp motion estimation powered by the DaVinci Neural Engine - DaVinci Resolve Studio^
• Timeline level resolution, frame rate, scaling, and monitoring settings within the same project^
• Adjustment Clips to apply filters, effects, and grades on top of a range of timeline clips^
• Ability to analyze video clips for detecting and classifying people powered by the DaVinci Neural Engine - DaVinci Resolve Studio^
• Custom safe areas for titles and actions^
• Ability to assign any media pool clip or timeline as an offline reference clip^
• Video orientation angle in the Clip Attributes dialog
• Ease in and out position keyframes in the curves editor
• Ability to view and edit keyframes for OpenFX plugins in timeline curves
• Stabilize video clips from the Inspector
• Support for pasting color correction properties from the Paste Attributes dialog
• Improved audio behavior when scrubbing in the Edit and Media page viewers
• Temporarily enable/disable snapping for titles on the viewer using the Alt/Opt key
• All available viewer area is automatically used for 2-up and 4-up displays
• Blade operations on selected clip results in the preceding section is selected
• Ability to toggle viewer overlays on/off and assign shortcuts for specific modes in the Edit and Color page viewers^
• Support for a larger selection of words in the keyword dictionary from the workspace menu
• Ability to group and manage smart bins using folders
• User preference to automatically create smart bin categories from media pool clips based on keywords, shot, scene, and people metadata
• Ability to duplicate existing smart bins
• Ability to toggle between searching all media pool bins and current bin
• Support for Go to In/Go to Out functions for three-point edits even when preview marks are not visible
• Support for switching the video monitoring output when toggling between source and timeline viewer in gang mode
• Automatic updating of the Usage in Media Pool list view
• Project setting to limit reel name matching to a specific number of characters when conforming or color tracing timelines^
• Project setting to ignore a specific number of characters from the beginning of the reel name when confirming or color tracing timelines^
• Newly pasted clips are now automatically selected
• Ability to render broadcast wave files with support for metadata when exporting timelines to Pro Tools
• Improved handling of video codec defaults and audio file names when exporting timelines to Pro Tools
• Ability to switch buses for monitoring from the Edit page
• Options to toggle views for rectified, full waveform, and waveform borders in timeline options^
• Improved alpha channel handling for compound clips with more than two layers^

Fusion

• Fusion Studio 16 release concurrent with DaVinci Resolve 16
• Improved playback performance with title templates in the effects library
• Improved Fusion playback performance
• Improved 3D engine performance for clips with Fusion effects
• Support for MultiSampling in the 3D Renderer
• Ability to flexibly scale animation with changing clip lengths
• Improved performance when playing back cached Fusion clips
• Improved responsiveness of Fusion viewer interactions when using a Wacom tablet
• Ability to view and edit Fusion composition names from the clip thumbnail context menu
• Improved memory management on large Fusion compositions with a high layer count
• Improved GPU memory utilization for Fusion compositions with temporal processing
• Improved performance for Change Depth with new Error Diffusion option
• Improved performance and accuracy for Camera Tracker, with support for lens distortion
• Improved performance with Fusion Dissolve with GPU acceleration support
• Improved performance with Fusion TimeSpeed and TimeStretch with GPU acceleration support
• Improved performance for Planar Tracker
• Improved performance for B-Spline rendering with GPU acceleration support
• Improved performance for Vector Motion Blur and motion blur in other tools with GPU acceleration support
• Improved performance for Fusion Splitter and Combiner with GPU acceleration support
• Improved performance for Fusion BitmapMask with GPU acceleration support
• Improved performance for Fusion CornerPin and PerspectivePin with GPU acceleration support
• Improved performance with Fusion Mask rendering with GPU acceleration support
• Improved performance with Fusion Color operations with GPU acceleration support

Fairlight

• Initial support for Dolby Atmos audio in DaVinci Resolve Studio^
• Initial support for Auro-3D audio in DaVinci Resolve Studio^
• Initial support for MPEG-H audio in DaVinci Resolve Studio*
• Initial support for SMPTE ST 2098 3D audio from DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Support for B-chain monitoring in the Fairlight page in DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Support for labeling and protecting specific speakers from unwanted signal patching from the B-chain port setup
• Support for a larger variety of track formats including support for 3D audio formats
• FairlightFX Frequency Analyzer
• FairlightFX Limiter
• FairlightFX Phase Meter
• FairlightFX Dialog Processor*
• FairlightFX Foley Sampler
• Elastic Wave adaptive audio timing
• Ability to save and recall multiple track automation mixes
• Ability to copy, paste, edit and erase user-selected portions of track automation data from the Fairlight menu
• Improved viewing and control of 3D pans in the Fairlight pan tool
• Support for Fairlight Audio Accelerator via Thunderbolt expander for macOS
• Support for importing AAF timelines with support for decoding embedded audio content
• Viewing and editing automation parameters for buses in the timeline view
• New loudness monitoring standards - including ATSC, 1770, and R128 standards
• Improved clip normalization with an option to set loudness standards
• Ability to view integrated loudness curves for the Main bus in the timeline^
• Ability to reset playback volume by Alt/Opt-clicking the volume slider
• Media path mapping for the Sound Library
• Ability to save and recall full console library presets

Codecs and Delivery

• Quick Export for quickly performing renders from various pages^
• Rendering all timeline audio tracks individually in single clip mode^
• Decoding iOS Voice Memo, including lossless formats
• Improved support for decoding and linking IMF supplemental packages in DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Support for 20th Century Fox IMF preset in DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Option for DCP quantization levels when rendering using the Kakadu JPEG2000 codecs
• User alert when the render resolution is larger than the timeline resolution
• Ability to use Super Scale in timeline output scaling in order to perform upscaling on renders and deliveries
• Support for encoding to Panasonic SHV 8K in DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Support for trimming MXF clips with temporal codecs in media management
• Ability to minimize or disable viewer updates during rendering
• AMD hardware-accelerated decoding of H.264 and H.265 on Windows in DaVinci Resolve Studio
• AMD hardware-accelerated encoding of H.264 and H.265 on Windows in DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Improved support for NVIDIA H.264 and H.265 rendering parameters on the Delivery page on Windows and Linux in DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Improved support for Intel Quick Sync H.264 and H.265 parameters on the Delivery page on Windows in DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Option to select the hardware acceleration method for decoding H.264 and H.265 on Windows and Linux - DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Improved performance when decoding H.264 and H.265 clips on macOS
• Improved performance when encoding H.264 and H.265 clips on macOS
• Option to select hardware or software encoding for H.264 in macOS
• Ability to set the Entropy mode when encoding H.264 on macOS
• Improved display of options for H.265 profiles with implicit bit depth selection in the Deliver page on macOS
• Improved HDR metadata encoding when rendering to H.265
• Improved performance when encoding to AVI formats
• Support for D-Gamut and D-Log for DJI RAW clips
• Support for GPU accelerated decoding of Canon RAW clips using the Canon SDK
• Support for decoding Canon C700 Full Frame clips
• Support decoding Canon RAW clips in half res and quarter res mode
• Support for decoding and encoding Avid DNxUncompressed formats
• Support for decoding ARRI HDE clips
• Ability to control QuantScale and MaxFrameSizeInPercent parameters when encoding to Grass Valley formats
• Improved IMF composition settings options with the ability to rename native assets
• Improved naming support for native DCP and IMF renders
• Removed folder extensions from IMF/DCP renders

Specs
 
In the Box

Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve 18 Studio (USB Dongle)
Software and Manual SD Card

 

 

Minimum System Requirements  
Mac

macOS 10.13.6 High Sierra

16 GB of system memory is recommended and 32 GB is recommended minimum when using Fusion

Blackmagic Design Desktop Video version 10.4.1 or later

CUDA Driver version 418.105

NVIDIA Driver version - As required by your GPU

RED Rocket-X Driver 2.1.34.0 and Firmware 1.4.22.18 or later

RED Rocket Driver 2.1.23.0 and Firmware 1.1.18.0 or later

Windows

Windows 10 Update

16 GB of system memory is recommended and 32 GB is recommended minimum when using Fusion

Blackmagic Design Desktop Video version 10.4.1 or later

NVIDIA/AMD/Intel GPU Driver version – As required by your GPU

RED Rocket-X Driver 2.1.34.0 and Firmware 1.4.22.18 or later

RED Rocket Driver 2.1.23.0 and Firmware 1.1.18.0 or later

Linux

CentOS 7.3

32 GB of system memory is recommended minimum

Blackmagic Design Desktop Video version 10.4.1 or later

NVIDIA/AMD Driver version – As required by your GPU

RED Rocket-X Driver 2.1.34.0 and Firmware 1.4.22.18 or later

RED Rocket Driver 2.1.23.0 and Firmware 1.1.18.0 or later

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