Blackmagic Design just released DaVinci Resolve 16.2.1 update. In essence, it brings new support for encoding 32-bit float audio in QuickTime clips and for trimming QuickTime audio during media management. This update also improves performance of 10-bit H.265, ProRes, DNxHR and OpenEXR clips and more.
The free DaVinci Resolve 16.2 includes all of the same high-quality processing as DaVinci Resolve 16.2 Studio and can handle unlimited resolution media files. However, it does limit project mastering and output to Ultra HD resolutions or lower. DaVinci Resolve 16.2 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, remote rendering, an external database server and collaboration tools that let multiple users work on the same project at the same time, please upgrade to DaVinci Resolve 16.2 Studio.
What’s new in DaVinci Resolve 16.2.1
- Support for decoding H.265 4:4:4 12-bit on supported NVIDIA GPUs.
- Support for encoding H.265 4:4:4 12-bit on supported NVIDIA GPUs.
- Support for encoding 32 bit float audio in QuickTime clips.
- Support for trimming QuickTime audio clips during media management.
- Support for Metal based R3D decode with the RED 7.3 RC SDK.
- Support for double clicking drp files in Windows and Linux.
- Support for performing open with on FCP7 XML files on Windows.
- Improved decode support of H.265 4:4:4 clips up to 10-bit.
- Improved performance with ProRes clips on high end CPUs.
- Improved performance with DNxHR clips on high end CPUs.
- Improved playback performance with compressed OpenEXR clips.
- Improved performance for Dolby Vision analysis.
- Improved stability on Windows systems with Intel graphics.
- Addressed an issue with clean feed previews in Mac 10.15.4.
- Addressed an issue with decoding phone camera clips with AAC audio.
- Addressed an issue with truncated node labels on some displays.
- Addressed issues with HDR tone mapping when using adjustment layers.
- Addressed an issue with the sync bin work working with an empty timeline.
- Addressed an issue with transitions when dragging clips across timelines.
- Multiple performance and stability improvements.
Minimum system requirements for macOS
- macOS 10.14.6 Mojave
- 16 GB of system memory. 32 GB when using Fusion
- Blackmagic Design Desktop Video version 10.4.1 or later
- Integrated GPU or discrete GPU with at least 2GB of VRAM.
- GPU which supports Metal or OpenCL 1.2.
Minimum system requirements for Windows
- Windows 10 Update
- 16 GB of system memory. 32 GB when using Fusion
- Blackmagic Design Desktop Video version 10.4.1 or later
- Integrated GPU or discrete GPU with at least 2GB of VRAM
- GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 10
- NVIDIA/AMD/Intel GPU Driver version – As required by your GPU
Minimum system requirements for Linux
- CentOS 7.3
- 32 GB of system memory
- Blackmagic Design Desktop Video version 10.4.1 or later
- Discrete GPU with at least 2GB of VRAM
- GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 10
- NVIDIA/AMD Driver version – As required by your GPU
Head over to Blackmagic Design’s support pages to read all about the newest update and to download DaVinci Resolve 16.2.1, which as all updates to Resolve is available as a free download.
[source: Blackmagic Design]
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