MixingLight – New Little Features Packing A Punch In DaVinci Resolve 18.1

DaVinci Resolve 18.1 is a feature-rich update. Colorist and finisher Joey D’Anna offers his list of impactful features – that aren’t obvious.

Resolve 18.1 is the first major feature update to Resolve 18, and as usual, BMD has dropped some incredible, big headline-grabbing features. But they’ve also added dozens of smaller improvements you may not know about!

In this Insight – that’s what we’ll be focusing on, how to use some hidden gems that I found from the release notes. These new features allow you to work faster and more efficiently.

By the end of this Insight, you should understand:

• Performance improvements for fixed node structures & debayering
• How to Copy/Paste multiple projects and folders between databases
• Big Speed Editor improvements on the Edit page
• New Track and Marker indexes for managing the timeline on the Edit page
• New view menu layout on the Color page
• A new warning to protect yourself from making big errors while color grading!
• Middle-click scroll in the Color page’s thumbnail timeline
• Filtering by object mask
• Improvements to ResolveFX alpha usage