About DaVinci Resolve 17

The free DaVinci Resolve 17 includes all of the same high quality processing as DaVinci Resolve 17 Studio and can handle unlimited resolution media files. However it does limit project mastering and output to Ultra HD resolutions or lower. DaVinci Resolve 17 only supports a single processing GPU on Windows and Linux and 2 GPUs on the latest Mac Pro.

If you need features such as support for multiple GPUs, 4K output, motion blur effects, temporal and spatial noise reduction, de-interlacing, HDR tools, camera tracker, multiple Resolve FX, 3D stereoscopic tools and remote rendering, please upgrade to DaVinci Resolve 17 Studio.

We hope you do decide to upgrade as your facility grows and you do more advanced work!

What’s new in DaVinci Resolve 17.2

• 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.

Minimum system requirements

• Windows 10 Creators Update.
• 16 GB of system memory. 32 GB when using Fusion.
• Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 10.4.1 or later.
• Integrated GPU or discrete GPU with at least 2 GB of VRAM.
• GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 11.
• NVIDIA/AMD/Intel GPU Driver version – as required by your GPU.

Installing DaVinci Resolve software

Double-click the DaVinci Resolve Installer icon and follow the onscreen instructions. To remove DaVinci Resolve from your system, go to the Programs and Features control panel, select DaVinci Resolve, click on Uninstall and follow the onscreen prompts.

Migrating legacy Fairlight projects to DaVinci Resolve

In order to import legacy Fairlight DR2 projects into DaVinci Resolve, download and install the following utility on your Windows system:
https://downloads.blackmagicdesign.com/DaVinciResolve/Fairlight-Project-Importer.zip

After installing the utility, you should see an option to “Import Fairlight Project” in the Fairlight menu in DaVinci Resolve.

Additional information

Please refer to the latest DaVinci Resolve configuration guide for details on Windows support, including certified driver versions for third party hardware. It is available from www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/.

You will also need to download and install the latest Blackmagic Design Desktop Video software for monitoring with your Blackmagic Design video hardware. Desktop Video is available from www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/.

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Updated May 11, 2021.