DaVinci Resolve Studio by Blackmagic Design is a comprehensive post-production suite that combines professional editing, color correction, visual effects, and audio post-production into a single application. This integrated workflow allows editors and colorists to switch between tasks instantly without the need to export or translate files between different software tools. By centralizing the creative process, it significantly speeds up project delivery while maintaining high-fidelity image quality throughout the pipeline.
Key Features
- IntelliTrack AI: Generates precise tracking data using the DaVinci Neural Engine to stabilize footage or automatically pan audio in Fairlight by following on-screen subjects.
- ColorSlice Vector Grading: Provides specialized subtractive color controls to adjust skin tone density and saturation, allowing for deep, film-like color management without affecting the entire image.
- UltraNR Noise Reduction: Utilizes advanced AI algorithms to clean up digital noise in low-light footage while strictly preserving image detail and texture.
- Film Look Creator: Applies photometric film attributes such as halation, bloom, and grain to digital footage, simulating the aesthetic of physical film stock.
- Fairlight AI Audio Tools: Separates dialogue from background noise and remixes music tracks using voice isolation and dialogue separator features for broadcast-clear sound.
- Multi-Source Editing: Displays time-synced camera angles in the Cut page, allowing editors to cut live multi-cam content rapidly by scrubbing through aligned footage.
Use Cases
Professional colorists and filmmakers utilize this software for grading feature films and episodic television, ensuring consistent looks across varied lighting conditions. Content creators and VFX artists also employ the Fusion page for compositing and the Fairlight page for mixing audio in complex productions without leaving the interface.
The studio version offers a complete end-to-end solution that removes the friction of round-tripping between applications, making it a preferred choice for high-end post-production facilities.
Version 20.3.1 — December 2025
- Added support for searching effects using Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters in the library.
- Improved the accuracy of viewer overlay positions in Fusion when applying specific transform operations.
- Improved stability by resolving a crash that occurred when viewing custom fields in the metadata panel.
- Fixed an issue where HDR10 metadata was not being correctly embedded during export.
- Fixed a bug affecting the display of viewer overlays on remote monitors during client review sessions.
- Fixed a masking issue in the MultiMerge tool that occurred when using concatenated transforms.
- Fixed signal output irregularities when monitoring stereoscopic 3D video.
- General performance and stability improvements.