html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"A recording of Blackmagic Designs livestream of its announcements for NAB 2025. You can see the new features in Da Vinci Resolve 20.0 at 2:13:20 in the video.Blackmagic Design has updated DaVinci Resolve, its free colour grading, editing and post-production software, and DaVinci Resolve Studio, its $295 commercial edition.DaVinci Resolve Studio 20.0 is a major release, adding over 100 new tools, including a set of new AI-powered features for video editing and audio production.The update currently available in public beta is free to all existing users.Below, weve rounded up the key features for colorists and effects artists, including a new Chroma Warp tool, a new deep compositing toolset, and full support for multi-layer EXRs.The new Chroma Warp tool makes it possible to create looks with intuitive gesture controls.Color page: New Chroma Warp, plus updates to the Resolve FX Warper and Magic MaskFor grading, the Color pages Color Warper gets a new Chroma Warp tool.It is designed to create looks intuitively, with users selecting a color in the viewer, and dragging to adjust its hue and saturation simultaneously.Among the existing tools, the Resolve FX Warper effect gets a new Curves Warp mode, which creates a custom polygon with spline points for finer control when warping images.Magic Mask, DaVinci Resolves AI-based feature for generating mattes, has been updated, and now operates in a single mode for both people and objects.Workflow is also now more precise, with users now placing points to make selections, then using the paint tools to include or exclude surrounding regions of the image.Another key AI-based feature, the Resolve FX Depth Map effect, which automatically generates depth mattes, has been updated to improve speed and accuracy.For color management across a pipeline, the software has been updated to ACES 2.0, and OpenColorIO is supported as Resolve FX.Effects artists get deep compositing support in the integrated Fusion compositing toolset.Fusion: new deep compositing toolsetFor compositing and effects work, the Fusion page gets support for deep compositing.Deep compositing, long supported in more VFX-focused apps like Nuke, makes use of depth data encoded in image formats like OpenEXR to control object visibility.It simplifies the process of generating and managing holdouts, and generates fewer visual artifacts, particularly when working with motion blur or environment fog.Deep images can now be viewed in the Fusion viewer or the 3D view, and there is a new set of nodes to merge, transform, resize, crop, recolor and generate holdouts.It is also possible to render deep images from the 3D environment, and export them as deep EXRs via the Fusion saver node.Fusion: new vector warping toolset, plus support for 180 VR and multi-layer workflowsOther new features in the Fusion page include a new optical-flow-based vector warping toolset, for image patching and cleanup, and for effects like digital makeup.There is also a new 360 Dome Light for environment lighting, and support for 180 VR, with a number of key tools updated to support 180 workflows.Pipeline improvements include full multi-layer workflows, with all of Fusions nodes now able to access each layer within multi-layer EXR or PSD files.Fusion also now natively supports Cryptomatte ID matte data in EXR files.We aim to cover the new features on the Fusion Page and in Fusion Studio, Blackmagic Designs standalone compositing app in a separate story, so check back for more details.IntelliScript automatically generates an edit timeline matching a user-provided script.Other toolsets: lots of new AI features for video editing and audio productionDaVinci Resolve Studio 20.0 also features a lot of new AI features powered by the softwares Neural Engine, although primarily in the video editing and audio production toolsets.The Cut and Edit pages get new AI tools for automatically creating edit timelines matching a user-provided script; generating animated subtitles; editing or extending music to match clip length; and matching tone, level and reverberance for dialogue.There are also new tools for recording new voiceovers during editing to match an edit.Workflow improvements include a dedicated curve view for keyframe editing; plus a new MultiText tool and updates to the Text+ tool for better control of the layout of on-screen text.For audio post work, the Fairlight page gets new AI features for removing silences from raw footage, and automatically balancing an audio mix.We dont cover video or audio editing on CG Channel, but you can find a complete list of changes via the links at the foot of the story.Codec and format supportOther key changes include native support for ProRes encoding on Windows and Linux systems as well as macOS.MV-HEVC encoding is now supported on systems with NVIDIA GPUs, and H.265 4:2:2 encoding and decoding are GPU-accelerated on NVIDIAs new Blackwell GPUs.Again, you can find a full list of changes to codec and platform support via the links at the foot of the story.Upcoming features include generative AI-based background extension.Future updates: new toolsets for immersive video and AI background generationBlackmagic Design also announced two upcoming features not present in the initial beta.Artists creating mixed reality content will get a new toolset for ingesting, editing and delivering immersive video for Apples Vision Pro headset.There will also be a new generative AI feature, Resolve FX AI Set Extender, available via Blackmagic Cloud.More details will be announced later this year, but Blackmagic says that it will enable users to generate new backgrounds for shots by entering simple text prompts.The video above shows a range of use cases, including extending or adding objects to existing footage, and generating a complete new background behind a foreground object.Price, system requirements and release dateDaVinci Resolve 20.0 and DaVinci Resolve Studio 20.0 are available in beta for Windows 10+, Rocky Linux 8.6, and macOS 14.0+.Blackmagic Design hasnt announced a final release date for the updates, which are free to existing users.New perpetual licenses of the base edition are free; 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