Blackmagic Design has released DaVinci Resolve 20.2.1, which adds more consistent ripple trimming behavior, better copy and paste behavior of attributes, as well as improved track recognition for timeline source editing. The update also improves compatibility with Apple ProRes RAW and Sony ARW clips.
What’s new in DaVinci Resolve 20.2.1?
The following features have been added or updated.
- Paste attributes dialog now retains user selections across copies.
- Addressed paste insert edits not following sync lock state.
- Trim to and extend edits now honor the 1 second J and L edit threshold.
- Addressed insert with in out not honoring source timeline track configuration.
- Addressed jittery playback when scrubbing with go to mouse cursor.
- Addressed issue with live preview on single viewer set up.
- Addressed delays with Shift-click to change edit track controls.
- Addressed issue with detaching audio from synced video subclip.
- Addressed audio marker position when detaching audio from synced video.
- Addressed issue entering Chinese, Japanese or Korean text in MultiText.
- Addressed issue with getting subtitle text via scripting API.
- Addressed a media pool clip context menu crash with split colorspace and gamma.
- Addressed issue with color picker cursor on SDI viewer output.
- Addressed search all effects not returning Resolve FX results.
- Addressed video playback issues in the Fairlight page.
- Addressed slow bounce operations in the Fairlight page.
- Voiceover beeps now follow monitoring gain, mute and dim settings.
- Addressed Fusion viewer guides context menu issue with quad view.
- Addressed decode issues with some Apple ProRes RAW clips.
- Addressed Sony ARW purple artefacts in overexposed areas.
- General performance and stability improvements.

