BlackMagic Design announces DaVinci Resolve Studio’s beta update. It now supports AV1 encoding on AMD Radeon GPUs. AMD graphics card users and DaVinci Resolve Studio editors can now use AV1 encoding. This new encoding outperforms H256 (HEVC) encoding. AV1 is also considered “royalty-free,” unlike HEVC. HEVC still requires royalties even though it’s more available than AV1.
AMD Radeon users receive this support last, as NVIDIA and Intel GPUs have had this update for months. Intel’s Arc GPUs received AV1 support in April, while NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 GPUs received support at launch last year.
The DaVinci Resolve 18.5 b2 update changelog doesn’t specify AMD graphics cards. However, it’s expected that the support will cover the current desktop and mobile series of AMD RDNA 3 architecture products.
Other improvements include enhanced bitrate and quality when encoding AAC audio in Windows 11. Fixed issues with syncing Blackmagic Presentation’s markers. Resolved issues with temp and tint wheel sensitivity on micro and mini panels. The update also fixes issues with composite mode on disabled nodes. Also, setting color space in the media pool for color-managed timelines. It also supports magic mask tracking after rippling node changes—and incorrect gamma when caching to Apple ProRes 4444 on Apple Silicon.
Furthermore, the update fixes audio playback issues when changing clip speed. The pitch correction offline audio clips in OpenTimelineIO import issues with per-timeline overrides for disabling Fusion tone mapping and more.
“DaVinci Resolve 18.5 b2 Changelog
- Ability to perform hardware-accelerated AV1 encoding on AMD systems on DaVinci Resolve.
- Improved bitrate and quality when encoding AAC audio in Windows 11.
- Addressed an issue with syncing Blackmagic Presentations markers in DaVinci Resolve.
- Addressed an issue with temp and tint wheel sensitivity on the micro and mini panels.
- Addressed an issue with the composite mode being applied on disabled nodes.
- Addressed issue with setting color space in the media pool for color-managed timelines.
- Addressed an issue with magic mask tracking after rippling node changes.
- Node graph composite mode live preview with Alt/Option.
- Addressed incorrect gamma when caching to Apple ProRes 4444 on Apple Silicon.
- Addressed an issue with viewing subtitle controls in Inspector on the cut page.
- Addressed an issue with crop in the Resolve FX Transform plugin.
- Addressed an issue with toggling visibility for markers using keyboard shortcuts.
- Addressed an issue with line spacing with imported SRT files.
- Addressed an issue with playback speed variance when switching to cinema viewer.
- Addressed audio playback issues when changing clip speed with pitch correction.
- Addressed an issue with external Dolby Atmos renderer metadata in fixed bus mode.
- Addressed an issue with applying Dolby Atmos master gain on exports.
- Addressed incorrect sync point offset when copying and pasting in range mode.
- Addressed incorrect colors for edit groups created from the track index.
- Addressed a decode issue for H.264 clips on some Windows systems.
- Addressed an issue with H.265 playback performance on some AMD systems.
- Addressed an issue with offline audio clips in an OpenTimelineIO import.
- Addressed an issue with OpenTimelineIO export in DaVinci Resolve.
- Addressed issues with per-timeline overrides for disabling Fusion tone mapping.
- Addressed dragging of media pool assets to Fusion inspector.
- Additional shading options in the Fusion viewer dropdown.
- Additional control visibility options to Fusion uCamera.
- Overlays for the viewed camera are now hidden in the USD viewer.
- Click the viewer dropdown to toggle between the camera and scene lights.
- Support for film back fitting options in uRenderer.
- Addressed an issue with clamped highlights in some Fusion viewer LUTs.
- Addressed an issue inserting tools without outputs into an existing pipe.
- Addressed an issue with reloading invalid paths in uLoader.
- Addressed an issue with uRenderer cameras list.
- Addressed an issue when copying PoV from an existing scene camera.
- Addressed an issue with 3D and USD viewer labels in some languages.
- Scripting API support to create subtitles from timeline audio.
- Scripting API support to transcribe source clips.
- General performance and stability improvements.”
This update gives AMD Radeon GPU owners access to superior AV1 encoding performance. DaVinci Resolve Studio editors the latest tools and features to enhance their workflow.
Sources: VideoCardz, BlackMagic
