Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve 19 Public Beta with AI Features Launched

Software NewsNAB 2024

by Reuben EvansApril 13^th, 2024

DaVinci Resolve 19 introduces AI features, text-based timeline editing, the ability to create film looks, and more. Blackmagic Design’s all-in-one app adds new features in each of the panes for editing, color grading, effects, audio, and delivery. This year’s enhancements focus on using machine learning tools to accelerate common tasks for post-production professionals. They’ve also added multicam features for broadcasters.

Blackmagic Design is leveraging their integrated hardware and software business to streamline video production tasks. The headliner for this release is AI. Creatives will be pleased to see that Blackmagic Design’s implementation of AI is aimed at reducing the tedious, repetitive tasks.

Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve 19 adds text-based editing

Resolve created simple transcripts before, but now you can use those transcripts for editing. Users will be able to identify multiple speakers, replace text, and edit the timeline right in the transcription. This feature should prove useful to documentary filmmakers, along with anyone who works with voice-over and interviews.

Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve 19 adds AI features

IntelliTrack is the new AI tracking tool in Davinci Resolve 19. Blackmagic claims that it achieves “incredible tracking performance.” This claim stands out because Resolve has had a long-standing reputation for incredible tracking performance in color grading.

UltraNR reduces the video noise in your images. It uses AI to identify the areas that need to be cleaned up, while protecting other parts of the image from a loss of detail.

Resolve adds new tools for color grading

Color Slice and Film Look Creator appear in the Color page of DaVinci Resolve. Color slice provides a new dedicated skin vector with an emphasis on producing deep, rich, film-like images.

Film Look Creator enables you to create film looks that protect skin tones and allow you to manipulate parameters associated with shooting on film, like halation, bloom, and flicker.

Resolve offers a new tool called BG DeFocus. This effect allows you to simulate shallow depth of field in post-production.

New tools for Fusion and Fairlight

VFX and audio have not been left out of the updates. Fairlight audio receives AI enhancements for music remixing, dialogue separation, and automatic ducking. Blackmagic Design also introduced an industry-first AI-based panning/tracking tool. An object moving from one side of the screen to the other can be tracked with IntelliTrack and then the audio pan can match the object’s movement automatically.

Pricing and Availability

DaVinci Resolve 19 is in public beta now. The free version will continue to be offered, and the Studio version will remain at $295. For more information visit the blackmagicdesign.com

What do you think about AI in DaVinci Resolve 19? Is this something you are excited about using? Let us know in the comments below!