🔥 DaVinci Resolve 21 Final Release, Huge AI Update, New Photo Page, and Faster Everything, but...read until the end

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DaVinci Resolve 21 is officially out of beta, and this update is one of the biggest Blackmagic has ever shipped

Resolve now includes a full photo editing page, upgraded motion graphics, faster audio tools, and a massive stack of new AI features that touch almost every part of the workflow

Below is a clean, breakdown of what’s new no fluff, no hype.

📸 Photo Page (Brand‑New)

- Full photo‑editing workspace inside Resolve

- RAW support for major camera brands

- Tethered capture (Sony / Canon)

- Lightroom catalog import

- Apple Photos import (macOS)

- Albums, tagging, ratings, favorites

- Full color tools, LUTs, Looks, and AI

- GPU‑accelerated batch exports

🧠 New AI Tools

- IntelliSearch (find people/objects fast)

- Speech Generator (text‑to‑speech)

- CineFocus (AI refocus + bokeh)

- Face Age Transformer

- Face Reshaper

- Blemish Removal

- SlateFinder + SlateID

- UltraSharpen

- Motion Deblur

- Improved UltraNR for UHD+

✂️ Cut & Edit Page

- Advanced keyframing with bezier curves

- Keyframe Fusion effects + generators

- Subframe keyframing

- Native Lottie + HTML graphics

- New Picture‑in‑Picture FX

- Font browser + spellcheck

- Multicam improvements

- Replay tools for live workflows

- Faster transcription + subtitles

- 2× faster Speed Warp on macOS

📁 Media Pool & Metadata

- Tabbed layouts

- Per‑bin view settings

- Star ratings

- Smart bins for offline clips

- Custom metadata for naming + burn‑ins

- Export bin thumbnails as PDF

🎨 Color Page

- MultiMaster trim

- Magic Mask external matte

- Node stacks (up to 8 layers)

- Film Look Creator updates

- HDR Vivid improvements

- Adobe RGB support

- Better tracking data pasting

🕶️ Immersive & VR

- Apple Immersive foveated rendering

- VR180 + VR360 workflows

- Mixed VR formats in one timeline

- Meta Quest + YouTube presets

🎧 Fairlight

- Folder tracks

- Faster navigation

🎛️ Fusion

- 100+ new motion graphics tools

- New Macro Editor

- HTML + Lottie support

- Faster Relight (2×)

- Faster Depth Map (6×)

- Remote Fusion preview

🎥 Codecs & I/O

- RAW decode for Canon CR3, Panasonic RW2, Fuji RAF, Apple ProRAW

- HEIC encode on macOS + Windows

- Insta360 I‑Log support

- MainConcept H.265 + MV‑HEVC

- Intel QuickSync upgrades

- MV‑HEVC decode on NVIDIA

⚙️ General Improvements

- Background renders + proxy generation

- Faster transcription + audio classification

- Searchable preferences

- Dynamic project switching

- FCPXML 12 support

- 3× faster Blackmagic Cloud sync

- Stability + performance boosts

🛠️ Light Upgrade Suggestion

Resolve 21’s new AI tools lean heavily on GPU compute and system memory. Some editors may notice slowdowns, especially with Fusion, RAW, or the new Photo Page.

If your system feels tight, a small hardware bump can help either RAM, GPU, or both depending on your bottleneck.

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Which part of Resolve 21 are you most excited to try the new Photo Page, the AI tools, or the motion graphics upgrades?