Blackmagic Design has released DaVinci Resolve 19.1 with a range of features and improvements designed to give more control and speed up multicam, audio and visual effects workflows. On the edit page, there is a new trim slider for the audio menu of the inspector, allowing channels of a source clip to be trimmed independently. You can trim one or more channels at once to allow balancing the audio of a multichannel recording before editing it in the timeline. There are also new menu actions to select nearest in, out or roll edit points, and improved audio ducker support allowing selection of multiple tracks to trigger the ducking.

For Fairlight, audio tracks can now be duplicated or disabled from the track header context menu, while duplicated tracks will make an identical copy, including all media, settings and automation. Reordering of tracks and busses are enabled by dragging their name in the mixer and when trimming audio the waveform overlays of the clip being worked on and the clip next to it are visible. These improvements are designed to make it clearer and easier to make audio adjustments.

There are new Fusion effects, including generators for quickly creating backgrounds such as stage curtains, a star field and gradient or radial lines. There are also new title templates to make it easy to add more interesting titles, including those with a glass effect, rainbow style or a gradient outline. In addition, Fusion media inputs will now honor upper or lower field dominance for interlaced footage. There is also a new tool in Fusion which lets users export USD assets and scenes from compositions, including all geometry, lighting and cameras.

For DaVinci Resolve Studio, there are improvements to object mask caching, allowing editing of clips prior to the object mask node and the mask will be retained. There is also new support for decoding and playback of spatial photos and videos. This allows users to edit, color grade and apply effects to this footage and render it for playback on Apple Vision Pro.

This update also adds reorder functionality to jobs in the render queue. This allows users to drag and drop jobs in the render queue to change the order as priorities change. There’s also the ability to encode 10 bit H.265 Main10 formats in DaVinci Resolve on Windows, giving higher quality rendered images, as well as a new context menu option on the media page to automatically sync bins from file folders.

DaVinci Resolve 19.1 update is available now as a free download from https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/family/davinci-resolve-and-fusion