New Beta 2 of Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve 16 available - Free and Studio
[09:40 Mon,6.May 2019 by Rudi Schmidts]
As you would expect from Blackmagic there is already the second beta of the upcoming version 16 of DaVinci Resolve. According to the current feedback of our readers already the last beta seemed to run relatively stable on many systems, but the statements in our forum certainly don't give a representative picture. We personally fight for example with the support of AMD Vega graphics cards, which still ran with remarkable performance under version 15.
Here again some highlights from the current readme file: You can now exclude unchanged clip areas from reencoding when creating a video file ("Bypass re-encode when possible"). Furthermore, many title templates should now be playable on single GPU systems in real time. In collaboration projects, users can now share the render cache. The Speed Warp Motion Estimation can now also be appreciated by neural networks (and seems to achieve quite good results). Resolution, frame rate, scaling and monitoring can now be set independently for each timeline per project. (In fact, the 4K-2K downscaling with an old Intensity Pro finally works fine with us, too). There is much more to read in the Readme.
Next, we'll try to find out if the problem with the AMD GPUs is homemade or if Beta 16 is basically breaking new ground here. Because actually it would be expected that AMD GPUs should be supported better than worse in the future, because the Apple branch of the program has to be optimized for AMD. Because Nvidia is known to be Persona Non Grata in the Appleversum meanwhile...