Blackmagic Design has updated DaVinci Resolve to version 17.2. Some of the key new features include a quicker start-up time, a live save setting as default, and support for applying crossfades in Fairlighttimelines.
Full List of Improvements
- Dramatically improved application startup performance
- Live save is now on by default
- Support for custom naming for individual timeline clips
- Support for adding transitions by double-clicking or dragging to viewer
- Support for decoding AV1 clips on Windows
- Accelerated AV1 decodes on supported Intel, NVIDIA and AMD platforms
- Support for decoding MKV clips
- Support for exporting IMSC-1 compatible TTML captions in IMF clips
- Support for option to include project name subfolder in media management
- Support for pasting HDR and color warper attributes in the Color page
- Support for Fusion template bundles
- Support for applying and managing crossfades in the Fairlight timeline
- Support for a batch fade and crossfade editor in the Fairlight page
- Support for persisting Fairlight edit mode between application restarts
- Support for moving audio clips to match timeline timecode position
- Support for setting handles when performing audio only renders
- Support for controlling track processing order in the Fairlight mixer
- Support for accessing Fairlight patch and link in the edit and deliver page
- Ability to show or hide specific audio I/O ports for patching in Fairlight
- Support for Fairlight console firmware 1.6 with full FlexBus mixing support
- Improved waveform displays in the Fairlight timeline
- Improved auto-scroll behavior when dragging clips in the Fairlight timeline
- Support for ACES color science 1.2.
- Support for selecting per-clip ACES DCTLs from context menu
- Support for new IDTs for the Canon EOS-R5 cameras
- Option to use white point adaptation in project settings for RCM workflows.
- Option to use white point adaptation in Resolve FX color space transform
- Support for codec passthrough when rendering IMF JPEG2000 clips.
- Support for trimming Sony Raw and XAVC MXF in media management.
- Support for reading gyroscopic metadata on Sony Venice clips
- Ability to update RMD metadata files for R3D clips
- Improved spatial and temporal deinterlace quality
- Improved curves range display for position and zoom on the edit timeline
- Improved color management for Blackmagic RAW Gen 5 color science
- Improved decode performance for 8K H.265 clips on Apple Silicon systems
- Improved scripting API with the ability to import custom frame sequences
- Improved scripting API with the ability to delete timelines
- Improved scripting API with the ability to query current page
- Improved scripting API with the ability to add generators and titles
- Improved scripting API with the ability to specify render alpha options
- Improved scripting API with the ability to switch layout presets
- Improved scripting API with the ability to quit the application
- Improved iXML data support with AAF export workflows
- General performance and stability improvements
