AdvertisementsĪs you can see, it’s a fairly small desktop unit, but it contains a huge jog/shuttle wheel, and all of the essential buttons to allow you to easily perform tasks in the Cut Page with minimal effort.

Or you can just keep it permanently connected to your camera’s USB and avoid Bluetooth altogether. So, yes, you can use it wirelessly and just connect it to USB when you need to charge it. It connects to your computer either via USB cable or over Bluetooth. The DaVinci Resolve Speed Editor, which talks directly with the Cut page to really speed up your editing workflow.

The DaVinci Neural Engine automatically detects faces and repositions the footage for you so that you don’t have to worry about having to reframe everything manually.įinally, there’s a new piece of hardware. There’s a new Smart Reframe tool for social media that lets you quickly create square or vertical versions of your video for posting to Instagram, Facebook and other social media applications.

You now get to preview your audio waveform when trim sections of clips to let you easily time up a cut to the beat without having a permanent audio waveform on your screen (like there is in the Edit tab). You can now edit the metadata directly within the cut tab, to be able to manually enter all of your shot details for each and every clips. There are also new ways to view your footage, with better organisation and sorting of clips based on many more factors than have previously been available. In the latest version of Resolve, they’ve brought some nice workflow updates to help speed things up, but one of the biggest features is that you now get live previews when you mouse over transitions, effects and even Fusion effects.Īll you need to do is mouse over the effect, and as you move your mouse cursor from left to right (you don’t even have to click) it scrubs through the effect in your monitor window. It’s only really seen slight updates so far, to tweak how well it performs.

The cut page is a relatively new addition to Resolve, having only been added in version 16. So, let’s look at these changes in order of the tabs along the bottom of the application.

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