Blackmagic Design Announces DaVinci Resolve 17.4 Activation

Blackmagic Design Announces DaVinci Resolve 17.4

Fremont, CA, USA - Thursday, October 21, 2021 - Blackmagic Design recently announced DaVinci Resolve 17.4, which significantly increases the speed of DaVinci Resolve on the new Apple Mac models equipped with the M1 Pro and M1 Max chips. Customers can now playback, edit, and grade 8K projects faster than ever before, and work with up to 12 streams of 8K footage.

DaVinci Resolve 17.4 can be downloaded immediately from the Blackmagic Design website.

Additionally, DaVinci Resolve 17.4 accelerates the decoding of 12K Blackmagic RAW files by over three times and the rendering of H.265 files by 1.5 times. Additionally, the performance of the DaVinci Neural Engine is up to four times faster, enabling real-time facial recognition, object detection, and smart reframing! Support for ProMotion 120Hz displays enables incredibly smooth playback and editing, and HDR viewers are also supported on Apple's new MacBook HDR displays.

Dropbox Replay integration is also included in DaVinci Resolve 17.4. DaVinci Resolve Studio projects will seamlessly transfer to Dropbox Replay for easy video review and approval. Dropbox Replay's frame-accurate colored markers, comments, and annotations are synced almost instantly to the DaVinci Resolve timeline. Additionally, customers will only need to sign in once with a simple login. Additionally, quick and easy render setup via dedicated Dropbox and Dropbox Replay presets, as well as automatic background uploads that are monitored for progress and confirmed when complete, are included.

DaVinci Resolve 17.4 includes automatic background and cursor resizing and placement when creating captions, as well as nested timeline subtitle tracks that now auto-populate the main timeline to expedite caption creation.

Additionally, the edit page has been enhanced with improved functionality for positioning curves in the timeline, allowing customers to more easily adjust the ease in and out points. This results in a more customized transition between points when zooming or repositioning an image. Additionally, customers will be able to use the DaVinci Resolve Speed Editor to quickly switch between cameras in multicam clips on the edit page, which will speed up the process of cutting programs together. Additional support for asymmetrical trimming enables customers to change the in point of a transition without affecting the out point, or vice versa, allowing them to fine-tune work more quickly.

Customers benefit from enhanced support for languages that use combined glyphs and those that write right to left, such as Arabic and Hebrew. When combined with enhanced vertical layouts, rotation, and line direction capabilities when using Text+, this enables customers to work in a broader range of languages and layouts.

DaVinci Resolve 17.4 improves support for automatic color management, making project setup faster and easier. Additionally, this update adds support for ACES 1.3, which includes gamut compression, allowing customers to display wide gamut images more accurately and ensure they are receiving the best representation of the source image.

A new Resolve FX called custom mixer enables customers to combine effects and fine-tune grade adjustments. Additionally, a new 3D keyer enables finer adjustments to the key and matte finesse settings, simplifying the process of creating clean masks with more accurate keys and finer edges. Additionally, there is a new film halation effect for DaVinci Resolve Studio that adds the effect of a glow or light reflections around high contrast edges, giving images a more filmic look.

Fairlight audio now supports Steinberg VST3 audio plugins, providing customers with additional audio effects for creating the perfect soundtrack. Additionally, keyboard shortcuts or click and drag are used to reorder, move, and duplicate effects in the Fairlight mixer, single-sided audio transitions are displayed as fades, and multi channel audio outputs are supported.

When customers complete projects, they can now export them with YouTube video chapters, with improved encode settings for the YouTube render preset, and with the ability to use hardware-accelerated H.265 on Windows.

DaVinci Resolve 17.4 Features

Key Features

Hardware accelerated Apple ProRes on Apple M1 Pro and M1 Max.
120Hz support on Apple M1 Pro and M1 Max for smoother UI and playback.
Faster DaVinci Neural Engine performance on Mac OS 12.
Native HDR viewers on supported Mac hardware.
Comments and annotations sync between Dropbox Replay and DaVinci Resolve Studio.
Markers and comments sync between Dropbox and DaVinci Resolve Studio.
Export timeline markers titles as YouTube video or Quicktime chapters.
Steinberg VST3 support giving access to even more audio effects.
Simplified color management, SDR and HDR selection and new automatic project settings.
New Resolve FX including film halation.
Improved 3D keyer and matte finesse controls.
Text+ support for combining glyphs, vertical layouts and right to left for Arabic, Hebrew etc.
Significantly faster ProRes decode, encode and AI performance for M1.
Subtitle backgrounds auto resize and nested timelines decompose to parent.

Support for Apple M1 Pro and M1 Max

Hardware accelerated Apple ProRes on Apple M1 Pro and M1 Max.
120Hz support on Apple M1 Pro and M1 Max for smoother UI and playback.
Faster DaVinci Neural Engine performance on Mac OS 12.
Native HDR viewers on supported Mac hardware.
Native full screen mode on Mac.

Dropbox Comment Integration

Dropbox login within DaVinci Resolve preferences.
Render directly to Dropbox or Dropbox Replay.
Automatic background uploads when render completes.
Comments and annotations sync between Dropbox Replay and DaVinci Resolve Studio.
Markers and comments sync between Dropbox and DaVinci Resolve Studio.

Edit

Subtitle and caption backgrounds now auto-resize to fit text content.
Subtitle tracks in nested timelines now decompose to the main timeline.
Adding a new subtitle caption now auto-focuses on the text area.
Simple titles and subtitles are faster on Apple Silicon systems.
Improved ease in and out functionality for position curves in the timeline.
Options to include effects and grades for render in place operations.
Switch multicam angles in the edit page with the speed editor.
Ability to mark selection for timeline gaps.
Edit asymmetric audio transitions created in the Fairlight page.
Trim video and audio transitions asymmetrically using cmd/ctrl.
Fine audio clip gain adjustments using shift + mouse drag.
Support for pasting retime attributes on audio clips.
Option to limit audio sync to the first timecode match.
Preview composite modes by hovering over each mode in the inspector.
Ability to set per-clip deinterlace quality in the inspector.
New square iris transition.
Support for custom aspect ratio controls for shape transitions.
Improved overlays for Fusion tools in the viewer.
Improved undo support for Fusion effects and Text+ in the inspector.
Support for folder based organization of effect templates.
New customizable key actions to go to previous/next timeline tabs.
Ability to close timeline tabs with middle click.
Preview generators and titles from the effects panel in the cut viewer.

Color

Support for an automatic mode for color managed projects.
Support for ACES 1.3, gamut compression and new CSC transforms.
New 3D Keyer with new modes, better selection/stroke logic, live feedback.
Improved HSL and Luma keyers with updated matte finesse controls.
Track forward and back with a single action in trackers and magic masks.
Node tooltips now indicate LUT and effect type present.
Dragging new links to layer and key mixers auto-creates node inputs.
Dragging color nodes over key links creates key-to-RGB connections.
Added individual primary and secondary tool icons for faster switching.
Clip filters for timeline clips with Dolby Vision analysis or trim.
Disabled clips are now shown as gray in the timeline.
Support for applying camera LUTs and CDLs to ARRI MXF ProRes clips.
The printer light state is now persisted across application restart.
Navigating to markers in the timeline now auto scrolls to center marker.

Resolve FX

Film halation emulates film stock reflections and scatter with Studio.
Custom mixer to combine effects and grades with finer control.
Improved 3D, HSL and Luma keyers in edit and Fusion.
Better noise handling and key refinement for existing keyers.
Improved patch replacer with ability to align source and target.
Film grain with interactive previews and grain freeze options.

Fairlight

Support for Steinberg VST3 audio plugins on Mac OS and Windows.
Ability to reorder, move and duplicate effects in the mixer.
Support for copying clip ranges with partial fades.
Single-sided audio transitions are now displayed as fades.
Support for multi channel audio outputs on Linux.
Better waveform displays at smaller track heights and lower zoom levels.
Ability to shift-click and cmd-click on keyframe selections in the timeline.
Navigating to previous or next timeline marker now selects the marker.
Improved default processing order in Fairlight mixers.
Automation curves display current values when no automation is present.
Point selections now flash in edit selection mode.
Improved column order and search behavior in the clip index.
Improved jog, scroll and shuttle with the editing keyboard and speed editor.
Fairlight FX meters have resizable displays and improved channel labels.
Improved audio performance when using Blackmagic monitoring devices.

Fusion

Text+ support for combined glyphs and right to left language layouts.
Improved vertical Text+ layout, vertical glyphs, rotation and line direction.
Improved Text+ character grouping, spacing, underlining and borders.
Text+ supports per-character stylistic sets for supported fonts.
Support for OpenType features, including old-style numbers in Text+.
Multiple Text+ improvements for character styling and animation.
Hover to show tool descriptions in the effects panel and add tool window.
Improved default tracker search and pattern size for grid warps.
New search area scale slider in tracker options.

Codecs and File I/O

Improved encode settings for YouTube render preset.
Option to export a timeline marker color as YouTube video chapters.
Option to export a timeline marker color as QuickTime chapter markers.
Support for decoding opus audio in QuickTime and MP4 clips.
Hardware-accelerated Panasonic 8K AVC decodes on Apple Silicon.
Improved decode speeds for ARRI ARX clips.
Hardware-accelerated H.265 encodes on free version on Windows.
H.264 encode profile options on supported Nvidia systems with Studio.
H.264/H.265 encode bit rate controls on supported Windows Intel systems.
Faster encodes and decodes for Windows Intel systems with Studio.
Support for encoding to ZIP1 EXR format.
Ability to add custom languages in DCP/IMF composition naming options.
Ability to use approved operator / rating / region lists for DCP naming.
Marker support in the IO encode plugin SDK
Ability to bypass re-encodes for Sony XAVC Intra clips.
Improved retention of comments metadata for third party XML workflows.
Improved display of render job names with tooltips.

General

Right-click audio icon to adjust volume on media, color and deliver pages.
Auto-identifying media storage sequential image formats as stills or clips.
Prompt to overwrite existing projects when invoking save as.
Locked project indicator for PostgreSQL databases with usage info tooltip.
Ability to clone a PostgreSQL database from the project manager.
Ability to export PostgreSQL access keys from the project manager.
Option to import into current timeline when importing an AAF.
Scripting API support to access inspector properties for video clips.
Scripting API support to set playhead position on the timeline.
Scripting API support to get color version for video clips.
Scripting API support for reflecting upload status in render job APIs.
Scripting API support for setting network optimization in render jobs.
Scripting API support for H.264 multi-pass encode option in Mac OS.
Improved scripting property set when querying MediaIn nodes.
General performance and stability improvements.

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