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The DaVinci Resolve 20 final release version is now available. Including a handful of new AI-assisted features, such as AI IntelliScript, AI Animated Subtitles, and AI Multicam SmartSwitch, the final release marks the latest stable version of DR 20 with various fixes and stability improvements collected from beta testers.
Before the 2025 NAB Show, Blackmagic Design announced the new DaVinci Resolve 20 public beta during a live stream. Less than two months later, today, the Australian company launches the final release version of Resolve 20. This should be the final stable version with all the fixes from the beta testing.
As I wrote in the initial DR 20 announcement article, Resolve version 20 includes more than 100 new features, including many AI tools designed to assist you with all stages of your workflow. There are the AI IntelliScript, which creates timelines based on a text script; AI Animated Subtitles, which animates words as they are spoken; and AI Multicam SmartSwitch, which creates a timeline with camera angles based on speaker detection.
The cut and edit pages also include a dedicated keyframe editor and voiceover palettes, and AI Fairlight IntelliCut can remove silence and checkerboard dialogue between speakers. In Fusion, BMD added the multi-layer compositing workflows. Finally, the Color Warper now includes Chroma Warp, and the Magic Mask and Depth Map have also gotten updates.
The key new features in Resolve 20 include the following points:
As a reminder, here is a full list of the new features and improvements included in the new Resolve 20 ordered by pages:
On the Cut Page, Resolve 20 introduces a voice-over palette with cue markers, voice tools, and even a built-in teleprompter. Audio ripple trimming is now available on secondary tracks, while replay multi-views show previously used angles. There’s also support for auto resyncing stills and sequences, improved live overwrite workflows via mouse drag or edit keys, and a new “trim with safe edit” feature to protect adjacent clips. The metadata palette gets a usability boost, with quicker clip reviews and streamlined attribute management. Dynamic trimming with JKL controls is now supported, and the mini timeline gains a right-click context menu. Plus, the page now includes a full-featured audio mixer.
Over on the Edit Page, key highlights include a new voice-over tool with monitoring options, and several AI-powered features. AI Multicam SmartSwitch enables automatic angle switching, while AI VoiceConvert supports both built-in and user-trainable voice models. Other additions include source tape support, timeline viewing and editing in the source viewer, audio-reference-based multicam creation, and compound clip access improvements. Timeline settings are now accessible via a tab context menu, and a new wrap-around 24-hour timecode preference has been added.
On both Cut and Edit Pages, Resolve 20 improves keyframing with a new curve view and timeline drawer. You can now import Blackmagic Cloud shared folders into the media pool, while AI IntelliScript allows automatic timeline creation based on a user-provided script. AI Dialogue Matcher handles tone, levels, and reverberation matching, and the AI Music Editor trims music to fit desired durations. Subtitles can now animate with speech using AI-animated subtitles, while AI SuperScale gets expanded 3x and 4x upscaling. New features also include beat detection and snapping, optimized vertical video layouts, customizable media pool grids, and advanced Text+ and MultiText formatting tools. Fusion-styled subtitle tracks are now supported, PSD layers can be split, and transcription tools now support more languages with better export formatting. “Smooth Cut” transitions now benefit from AI Speed Warp.
The Fusion Page sees the arrival of a deep image compositing toolkit, multi-layer OpenEXR/PSD/stereo 3D pipelines, and vector warping for cleanups. New features include 180° VR support, dome lights, native Cryptomatte workflows, and the ability to view color grades in the MediaOut node. Performance is improved with GPU-accelerated pano mapping and stabilization, tool searching by effect category, and user-defined starting frames.
Colorists benefit from major upgrades on the Color Page, including Magic Mask v2 with brush painting, and an updated Depth Map effect. Chroma grading tools now include a new Color Warper, and the Resolve FX Warper gets spline controls. Support for OpenColorIO FX and ACES 2.0 is now integrated. There’s a vertical video UI layout, remote monitoring overlays, 4:2:2 H.265 streaming on supported hardware, Samsung Log support, and HDR light-level PDF reporting. In collaborative workflows, LUTs and colorspaces can now be modified in multi-user projects, and node layer control is accessible via the advanced panel. The Micro Panel sees sensitivity improvements to lift, gamma, and gain.
The Fairlight Page is now heavily infused with AI features: the AI Audio Assistant can create a finished mix, AI IntelliCut removes silences, checkerboards dialogue by speaker, and even generates ADR cues from speaker transcripts. Clip EQ now offers 6 bands, and both EQ and gain adjustments are available as Fairlight FX plugins. A new Fairlight Chain FX allows for plugin chain presets. Track organization is easier with drag-and-drop headers, and automation now supports per-channel switching and persistent trimming. Preset management has also been expanded.
Codec support has been widened significantly. ProRes encoding is now available on Windows and Linux, with MV-HEVC support (including on NVIDIA GPUs) and editable spatial video metadata. Stereo 3D improvements include side-by-side decoding and source viewer display modes. Additional codec updates include accelerated H.265 4:2:2 workflows, growing media file support, interlaced frame rendering, JPEG 2000 (HT) decoding, and improved PNG handling for HDR/SDR signaling. Quick Export gets list views and icon customization, with added support for Sony BURANO 2.0, RED SDK 8.6, and Dropbox audio normalization.
Lastly, general application updates round things out with user-defined media locations, a Resolve FX AI “Set Extender,” and a new Extras Download Manager for models and tools. The remote monitor client now includes bitrate display and installs by default on macOS. Other enhancements include auto cache management, ultrawide dual-screen support, OCIO 2.4.2 and ACES 2.0 integration, multi-mono import preferences, font filtering in Text+, synced audio data burn options, and support for the latest NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs with CUDA 12.8. Overall system performance and stability have also been improved.
In their press release, Blackmagic Design also thanked all of the customers who participated in the beta program, tested the software in various workflows, reported bugs, and helped make DaVinci Resolve 20 more reliable.
It seems to me that this time, Blackmagic Design managed to launch the final version much quicker than it used to be the case in the past. It took less than two months to finalize the release after DR 20 was initially announced, which is an impressive achievement in my opinion.
The new DaVinci Resolve 20 is available now for free and can be downloaded from the Blackmagic Design website. As always, the fully featured Studio version can be purchased separately or as part of select Blackmagic Design products. Existing owners of the Studio version can update for free.
Do you use DaVinci Resolve for your post-production work? Which new feature of DR 20 is going to help you the most? Is there something else you would like to see added to version 21? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section underneath the article.
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Jakub Han is a freelance filmmaker based in Vienna. He is interested in new tech and trends in filmmaking and passionate about action sports and short documentaries. Jakub has over 10 years of experience with camera work and post-production.