Blackmagic Design Showcase DaVinci Resolve 21
Introducing a major new update at NAB 2026, Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve 21 introduces a new Photo page, which enables colorists and photographers to use Hollywood’s most advanced color tools for still photos.
Other updates include new AI tools such as IntelliSearch for fast content searching, CineFocus for focal point adjustment and tools for facial refinement. The Krokodove toolset adds over 70 new graphics to Fusion, Fairlight folders simplify audio track management, adn the update introduces improvements to keyframing, MultiMaster trim passes, layer list node graphs and more.
DaVinci Resolve 21 features include:
- New photo image editing now fully integrated within DaVinci Resolve.
- Support for DaVinci color control toolset and grading panels.
- Reframe and crop images at original source resolution and aspect ratio.
- LightBox view gives an overview of entire album with grades applied.
- Albums let you build, manage and tweak photos at source resolution.
- Direct image capture via Sony or Canon tethered cameras.
- Looks, LUTs, Resolve and Open FX for your images.
- Photo page is integrated with Blackmagic Cloud collaborative workflow.
- AI IntelliSearch lets you easily search for people or objects.
- AI Speech Generator transforms written text to spoken voice.
- AI CineFocus allows refocus with realistic bokeh and lens effects.
- AI Face Age Transformer lets you age or de-age a face.
- AI Face Reshaper for flexible reshape and resize of facial features.
- AI Blemish Removal to repair facial and skin blemishes.
- AI SlateID to read slate and populate clip metadata.
- AI UltraSharpen for high fidelity sharpening of moving images.
- AI Motion Deblur enables removal of common motion blur artifacts.
- Keyframing provides powerful retime controls with 4 point bezier.
- Fusion animation can be creatively driven by Fairlight audio.
- Native support for OGraf HTML graphics and Lottie animations.
- Spell checking, color fonts and Emoji for Text+ and MultiText.
- Smart bin views in Cut page.
- MultiMaster trim pass to grade single timeline to many deliverables.
- Render Magic Mask in place as an external matte.
- Node graphs can now be viewed as a layer list.
- Support for Krokodove motion graphics effects.
- New Macro Editor with inspector view and publishing to edit effects.
- Support for USD SDK 25.11 with Hydra 2.0 API for Storm renderer.
- Folder tracks allow a group of tracks to be folded down or expanded.
- Apple Immersive workflows now support foveated rendering.
- VR180 and VR360 deliver presets for Meta Quest and YouTube.
- Fusion adds Panomap immersive rotation and ILPD retargeting.
- Resolve FX Picture in Picture effect.
- IntelliScript supports Final Draft or plain text screenplay imports.
- Metadata panel supports star rating and tagging for clips.
DaVinci Resolve 21 will be demonstrated on the Blackmagic Design NAB 2026 booth.
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