Now you can you instantly generate a 3D depth matte of a scene in order to grade the foreground separately from the background (or vice versa) with the new depth map effect. Whether it’s animals, vehicles, people, or more, the DaVinci Neural Engine intuitively isolates these elements, allowing you to do advanced secondary grading and effects applications.

Inside the magic mask palette, you’ll find the new object mask which can now recognize and track the movement of thousands of unique objects.

ColorĪlways outstanding and immensely popular for color correction, DaVinci Resolve 18 has introduced some terrific new capabilities: intuitive object mask, an automatic depth map, the ability to track moving warp surfaces, and an updated version of Resolve Beauty FX. To make this easier for viewers, all you have to do is add and rename markers to your timeline to automatically create chapter markers from one set of colored timeline markers when sending to QuickTime formats or uploading directly to YouTube. Of course, you want viewers to watch your video in its entirety, but we’re all guilty of jumping to a particular section or scene we deem most relevant. Purpose-built for large scale multicam projects, this feature simplifies viewing, cutting, and switching between more angles, so you’re no longer moving between pages for different angles. Inside the multicam viewer, a new 5x5 option enables up to 25 different angles simultaneously in a single multicam clip. More options mean more room for creativity. With the effects library’s shape, iris and wipe transitions, DaVinci Resolve now features checkboxes which allow you to reverse the transition’s direction. What’s new is subtitles, reverse transitions, simultaneous angles, and chapter markers.Įxpanded subtitle support now includes TTML and XML timed texts, as well as embedded MXF/IMF subtitles, so now you can view and import subtitles from media storage, create regions to support multiple simultaneous captions per track, and (when indicating different speakers) set individual presets and text positions. For editing, no need to panic, as the familiar timeline layout and features are all still there. In part 2 of our blog series on the new features in DaVinci Resolve 18 from Blackmagic Design, let’s focus on editing and color, where this application has always been highly regarded for being both intuitive and relatively easy.

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