The Blackmagic Speed Editor Keyboard with DaVinci Resolve Studio Dongle is designed for professional editors who need to work faster and turn around work quickly with your DaVinci Resolve Studio software. With dedicated buttons and a high-quality jog shuttle knob, it’s much faster than a mouse! Simply plug DaVinci Resolve Speed Editor into any computer’s USB‑C connection and you are ready to go!

The Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve Studio is a significant release that introduces cloud-based workflows for a new type of remote collaboration. Customers can use Blackmagic Cloud to host project libraries and collaborate in real-time with multiple users globally on the same timeline. For a more efficient editing workflow, the new Blackmagic Proxy generator automatically creates proxies linked to camera originals. There are several new Resolve effects, including ultra beauty and 3D depth map, enhanced subtitling for editors, GPU-accelerated Fusion paint and real-time title template playback, and Fairlight fixed to FlexBus conversion.

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INSTRUCTIONS: We strongly recommend backing up all projects prior installing DaVinci Resolve Studio. To activate DaVinci Resolve Studio, your computer must be connected to the internet. Simply type or copy/paste in the activation key when first launching the DaVinci Resolve Studio application. Once activated your DaVinci Resolve system does not need to be connected to the internet. The serial number can operate on TWO Computers at the same time. You can de-activate from the activated computers if you want to move the activation to another computer.

Resolve has been growing from an industry-standard color grading software to a more and more complete post-production solution. Today, in one comprehensive application, Resolve includes advanced color correction, complete non-linear video editing, Fairlight audio post-production, and Fusion VFX compositing and motion graphics. To access each toolset, simply switch to the tab/page that offers it. In addition to all this, Resolve also offers a powerful collaboration workflow and supports a suite of control panels designed specifically for color grading/video editing and Fairlight. Across all these pages, Resolve 18 offers major new features as well as a faster workflow thanks to the new Apple Metal and CUDA GPU processing.

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 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 post 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 recognizes 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

Support for Blackmagic Cloud to host and manage cloud-based project libraries.
New Blackmagic Proxy Generator App automatically creates and manages proxies.
Ability to choose between working with proxies or camera original files.
Support for intelligent path mapping to relink files automatically.
Improved project library performance for private server.
New object mask recognizes and tracks movement of thousands of objects automatically.
New depth map generates 3D depth matte of a scene in DaVinci Resolve Studio.
New surface tracker for tracking warped surfaces in DaVinci Resolve Studio.
Refined ultra beauty tool in Resolve FX beauty for advanced corrective work.
Expanded subtitle support for TTML and XML timed texts, and embedded MXF/IMF.
Support for reversing shape, iris and wipe transitions in the edit page.
New 5x5 multicam enables viewing of up to 25 simultaneous different angles.
Faster GPU accelerated paint tool with smoother strokes.
Support for live previews when using the Text+ color picker.
Ability to convert historical fixed bus projects to FlexBus in project settings.
Improved Dolby Atmos immersive mixing, including Binaural monitoring.
Decomposition of nested timelines with all track data including FX and automation.
Innovative space view scope in Fairlight shows position and relationship in 3D space.

Media & Edit

Support for reversing shape, iris and wipe transitions in the edit page.
New subtitle improvements including:
- Support for timed text TTML, XML and embedded MXF/IMF subtitles.
- Ability to view and import subtitles from media storage.
- Support for relinking subtitle clips from the media pool.
- Subtitle region support with multiple simultaneous captions per track.
- Set individual presets, text positions and intuitively edit between regions.
- Add, rename and manage regions from the timeline context menu.
- Ability to import, export and embed multiple subtitle tracks as TTML.
Support for showing up to 25 simultaneous multicam angles on the viewer.
Edit Index now shows clip duration.
Ability to navigate keyframes outside trimmed clip extents.
Ability to navigate retime keyframes using hotkeys.
Smart bin filter for disabled timelines.
Render in place and open in Fusion actions can be assigned shortcuts.
Reset Fusion composition now works on multiple clip selections.

Color

New object mask capability in Magic Mask.
Adjustment clips and Fusion generators can bypass color management.
Support for syncing clip groups in remote grading sessions.
Ability to trigger bidirectional tracking from advanced and mini panels.
Support for matte finesse and 3D qualifier in advanced and mini panels.
Dolby Vision highlight clipping support in advanced panels.
Support for bypassing color outputs from advanced panels.
Add key mixers with auto-connected key outs from advanced panels.
ACES support for Blackmagic Gen 5 camera formats.
Support for the HDR Vivid standard.
Reference gamut compression enabled by default in ACES 1.3.

Resolve FX

New Resolve FX Depth Map to generate 3D depth based keys in Studio.
New Resolve FX Fast Noise.
New Resolve FX Despill.
New Resolve FX Surface Tracker for tracking warped surfaces in Studio.
Improved Resolve FX Beauty with new ultra mode.
Improved edge strength and filter controls in Resolve FX Edge Detection.
Option to composite from a second input in Resolve FX Transform.
New bokeh preset for Resolve FX Lens Reflections.
Green-purple control for Resolve FX Chromatic Aberration.
Sizing awareness option in Resolve FX lens flare and radial & zoom blurs.

Fairlight

Ability to convert fixed bus projects to FlexBus in project settings.
Ability to freely order tracks and buses in the mixer via the track index.
Ability to nudge custom millisecond or sub-frame intervals in the timeline.
Improved quality for time stretched audio.
Improved Dolby Atmos immersive mixing, including binaural monitoring.
Native support for Dolby Atmos production for Linux and Apple silicon.
Independent controls to enable automation and expose parameters.
Improved behavior of automated tracks under VCA control.
Improved meters with configurable decay, peak hold and display modes.
Ability to ctrl-alt click to remove gain and elastic wave keyframes.
Ability to double click a clip in the timeline to rename.
Ability to set record clip name prefix at a per-track level.
Support for renaming underlying tracks when renaming a linked group.
Equalizers with improved Q controls and mouse wheel inputs.
Dynamics with enhanced metering, gain display and enable controls.
Dynamics with improved dry mix, soft knee and metering in FlexBus.
Improved plugin management with replace and copy settings in the mixer.
New built in presets for equalizers and dynamics.
Hold shift and double click clips to extend the edit selection range.
Support for applying audio gain on range selection.
Improved waveform display accuracy under crossfades.
Origination time metadata is now persisted when bouncing mix to track.
Option to trim from unity on the Fairlight Desktop Console.
Support for VCA and bus spill on the Fairlight Desktop Console.
Support for using the Fairlight Desktop Console on Linux systems.
Studio monitoring support for FlexBus on consoles.
Fairlight console option to mute speakers on timeline load.
Support for chasing timecode via Fairlight audio interfaces.
Support for user views in the Fairlight Desktop Console.
Improved mapping for audio effects on the Audio Editor panel.
Ability to use alt + solo to invoke solo safe in the Audio Editor panel.
Support for a new clear mutes action in the timeline menu.
Enabling track mixer controls brings window to focus if already open.
Grid and list modes are persisted for patch, bus and VCA assign.

Fusion

Multi-button mode selection in inspector for multiple tools.
Support for all modern and future python 3 versions for scripting.
Support for live previews when using the Text+ color picker.
Multiple new composition blend modes.
New expression animated Custom Poly modifier for masks and strokes.
Faster GPU accelerated paint tool with smoother strokes.
Faster duplicate tool with additional blur, glow and size controls.
Improved fade-on and text ripple title performance.
Improved performance for night vision, glitch, TV and other effects.

Codecs

Support for video uploads to internet accounts using custom presets.
Support for encoding mono and stereo MP3 audio.
New HyperDeck export preset in the Quick Export and deliver page.
Ability to render individual clips with timeline effects.
Ability to embed Blackmagic RAW metadata in QuickTime renders.
Custom quality and profile media management options where available.
Support for rendering Dolby Vision compatible H.265 clips.
Support for decoding CMYK format TIFF files.
Support for record date and time metadata for JPEG stills.
Alpha channel support in the IO Encode Plugin SDK.
Support for RED SDK 8.2.2.
New 1440p YouTube preset.
Render option to override ACES gamut compression for round trips.
Main10 is now the default H.265 encoding profile on Mac.

General

Support for 10-bit viewers on Windows and Linux in Studio.
Stream video output to remote monitoring in Windows and Linux in Studio.
Apple Neural Engine support for DaVinci Neural Engine on M1 and M1 Pro.
Support for Korean localizations in DaVinci Resolve.
PostgreSQL 13 is now bundled with Project Server.
Support for desktop notifications for collaboration chat.
User preference to import Finder tags as clip keywords on Mac.
Support for importing and exporting Final Cut Pro v1.10 XMLs.
Ability to unlink Dropbox comment and marker sync for timelines.
Playback and render now prevents Mac systems from sleeping.
Support for per-system project working paths in collaboration and cloud.
Support for per-system render cache mode in collaboration and cloud.
Support for setting current project settings as default.
Scripting API support for creating Fusion compositions.
Scripting API support for exporting project archives.
Scripting API support to get and set timeline start timecode.
Scripting API support to detect stale media bins and refresh them.
Scripting API support for updating camera raw sidecar files.
General performance and stability improvements.

Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve Studio Dongle with Speed Editor