Davinci Resolve Studio 18.6 is fast now?!

DaVinci Resolve Studio that's the paid version is the fastest it's ever been Thanks To The DaVinci Resolve 18.6 update specifically I'm talking about the DaVinci Resolve normal engine that's the AI engine which Powers the software's most powerful tools it's been good for a long time but it's just got way way faster especially if you're using a modern AMD or Nvidia GPU I'm running an Nvidia RTX 4080 GPU in my system and these effects absolutely fly especially magic masks which were never slow but now they feel faster and smoother than ever so let's run through some of them I'm going to explain what each of these awesome Studio only features do and give you a real quick demo to show you just how fast they really are and we're going to kick things off with auto subtitles the auto subtitles were added back in DaVinci Resolve 18.5 and why while they were never slow the now super duper quick back when 18.5 launched I made a video talking about the auto subtitles and they'd run it around 28 times real speed which was pretty quick but let's see how quick they're running now on 18.6 so here I've got a 30 minute timeline it's just a 30 minute clip but it's all a-roll it's all me talking so there's a lot of subtitles to be generated here so to run the auto subtitles all you need to do you click on timeline at the top and then you come down to create subtitles from audio there's a few options you can change if you want to and then you simply hit create now even with OBS running and me recording all this stuff on my computer I'm still getting 30 what's that 30 34 35 times real speed so it's going to do this entire 30 minute timeline in like 40 seconds 40 seconds that's genuinely really really quick it's actually just gone up to 35. oh 35.9 times rail speed and it's nearly done and it's going to have generated all of these automatic subtitles for us and there they are done now I actually use those Auto subtitles within resolve to generate the subtitles for my YouTube videos and they're so accurate these days I don't even check them I just generate the subtitles last thing I do at the end of the project and then I upload them along with the video to YouTube and job done and now let's just go even quicker so big thumbs up from me next up let's talk magic masks magic masks are honestly probably one of my favorite features within DaVinci Resolve Studio that potentially worth the price of the upgrade alone magic masks just take the effort out of tracking and rotoscoping they will automatically track people and objects and then you can use that mask for Selective color grading compositing putting text behind things mask transitions or even just messing around in the woods like I generally do and once again now they've just got even better than before so same timeline as before 4K a with some 4K footage and we're running at the full resolution so we're going to jump over to the color page it's this icon here to enable the magic masks and then you get the magic mask options down here now you don't need to do anything fancy all I'm going to do is draw a little squiggle over me and I'm going to click on this icon here to enable the overlay and the area that it's found will be marked in red now all I'm going to do is hit this icon to track forwards and backwards and we're getting crazy tracking speeds 50 frames per second with this footage this is a one minute segment of that clip so it's exactly one minute long and it's going to track the entire thing in I don't know what's this 20 seconds or so 20 seconds to do magic masks on a one minute 4K clip 55 frames per second now and it's done now we can turn off our overlay and let me just right click on the nodes add an alpha output drag our blue to our blue and then we get rid of this background now the other thing I've noticed is it's not just the tracking speed if I jump over to the edit page I can scrub through this and there's no delay whatsoever I can hit play and it's super responsive it's so good now just out of curiosity I've got a 1080p timeline this time with some 1080p footage of this little doggo so we're just gonna jump onto the color page we'll do our little tracky track and then we're gonna hit track no messing around this is even quicker 60 something done let's just add our Alpha output jump back onto the edit page and we've got our doggo that's crazy magic masks as I said were never slow but now it feels like real time it tracks faster than real time and there's no delays no hiccups no issues whatsoever on the edit page oh so good thank you very much black magic I'm very very happy with that that's awesome next up voice isolation voice isolation was another relatively recent feature and what it will do is automatically pick up on voices within your audio and get rid of any background noise so if you're out in a street it will just pick up your voice and get rid of all of the general Ambience and all that sort of thing it's been really really effective since they launched it but initially it could get a little bit choppy it was actually weirdly hard on the system Sometimes some people will noticing some delay once it had been applied all that sort of stuff once again it's now super quick super impressive and super duper smooth like me smooth so check out this clip here me and the legend that is Darren mosten just sitting around having a beer and if we have a listen to the audio so that's good after all that's talking you can hear there's a lot of background noise because we're in a busy environment so let's give the footage a click in the inspector we go to the audio Tab and we have the voice isolation and it's as simple as toggling it on you do get an amount scale so you can lower this down and fine tune it to get it perfect let's just leave that on 100 and again it's super smooth we've got no lag no issues with playback and as soon as I hit play so that's good after all that talking it's basically got rid of all of that background noise and now you can just hear our dialogue perfectly chefs kiss lovely jobly super smooth easy voice isolation for the win but what about speed warp anyone that's used speed warp in DaVinci Resolve Studio knows that it is or has always been the most taxing Studio only feature it could bring even the most powerful rigs to a standstill but I'm happy to report this has got much quicker too now if you've never heard of speed warp what it allows you to do is to artificially slow down footage that wasn't shot at a high frame rate so you can take 30 frames per second put it on a 30 frames per second timeline but still run it at 20 speed for slow motion horses speedwolf will fill in those gaps and make it look nice and smooth and it does a pretty good job but as mentioned it was always super stressful on your rig so let's see how it performs now so here we are we have a 4K timeline with 4K footage at 25 frames per second so if we go to speed change we're going to knock this down to 20 and hit play and our footage is gonna look something like this super choppy because we don't have enough frames now all we need to do within the inspector scroll down to the re-time and scaling change the retime process to Optical flow and this will sort of try and blend the frames together to give us a better looking piece of footage but then we want to take it up to the next level we change motion estimation to speed warp now straight away I can hit play it could occasionally take a little while to figure out what was going on but now it's really responsive we can still click around the timeline with no real issues as well but we are dropping frames still we're still getting 13 to 14 frames which honestly is pretty good for Speed warp but it's not real time but we can fix that with one quick change so if we really quickly just change the playback timeline proxy resolution to half no caching no anything now we do get real time played back with speed warp enabled and we can make Cuts we can delete footage we can do a little Ripple delete on there and everything just works real-time playback even at half resolution with speed warp on is almost unheard of and now it's buttery smooth well hey I'm done that in ages mine's blown now I want you to take a look at this footage and see if it still looks good does it look different to the rest of the footage we've had on this video hmm what this footage you're looking at is 720p well this video you're looking at is of course 4K I've used the built-in super scale Studio feature to bump up the resolution so that it doesn't look super blurry and horrible it actually looks pretty good this is the 720p footage and this is the same footage with super scale enabled now super scale has been there for a while but they recently made it better with a 2X enhanced version which I'm going to show you and what it will do is sharpen up and try and artificially upscale low resolution footage again it used to be quite resource heavy not as bad as speed warp but it did slow things down a little bit once again it's got nice and quick so we're back on our 4K timeline I've got my 720p footage down here and we're just going to make sure that our proxy is back up to full so we can see how it works in real time now we're just going to open up the inspector right down at the bottom superscale this was added in DaVinci Resolve 18.5 it's much easier to access if we enable that we've got super scale two times enhanced and once again we can just hit play with no lag no delays and it all acts like regular footage if we just zoom this in and hit play you can see sort of the sharpening you can see actually looks pretty good for 720p footage if we just toggle that off it becomes noticeably blurrier and we lose a lot of detail it back on and there you go super scale once again in real time and last but not least let's talk about some of the facial recognition features there's actually two individual resolve Studio there's face refinement which will automatically pick up on faces and then track the eyes and the chin and the nose and the mouth so that you can do some dedicated retouching of people's faces but there's also a facial recognition feature which will scrub through your footage find faces so that you can just pick them out from Smart bins particularly useful for like weddings or whether you've just recorded loads of different people's faces and you can really quickly go I want to see all the footage of the Bride or the groom or important person a or whatever and once again both of these features I've got really really quick so let's start off with a facial refinement 4K 4K once again and there are no proxies enabled so let's jump over to the color page and all you need to do to enable this one in the effects Library click on your little magnifying glass and we're just going to search for face refinement we'll drop that onto our node like so and then we simply hit analyze and again in no time whatsoever it's picked up the face and it's tracking this it doesn't give you a multiplier but this is I don't know two to three times faster than real time it's scrubbing through this clip it's a 25 second clip there we go done in no time whatsoever so we can just disable our overlay now we can come in and amend the texture we can put a skin mask on there we can change the eyes the lips the brush the forehead the cheek there are all sorts of specific facial retouching and it took no time at all to track it's so good look how pretty I am e next up for facial recognition so to enable the facial recognition first thing you want to do click on DaVinci Resolve top left go to preferences go to user at the top editing and just make sure that you have this automatic smart bins for people metadata turned on because we're going to need that in a second once that is done I'm going to go to my bin so this is a bunch of sort of wedding footage of these bride and groom around a church and whatever else now we can highlight all of this footage right click and there's an option to analyze clips for people if we give that a click it's going to run through all of those clips again no delay there's eight Clips it's done it in I don't know how long that was super quick and now we go this is the person's name so I'm just going to put bride this one is groom it's missed this one it's struggled with that angle but now we've got bride there's all the shots of the bride groom there's all the shots of the groom if we just close this down within our smart bins we have people we can expand that and we can see bride and groom and it's just filtered out all of the shots so we know that this shot here will have the grooming this one will have the bride in job done super quick no time at all happy days it's so quick and these speed improvements just go to make DaVinci Resolve Studio even better value it's been good value for a long time and all of these features have been really awesome to use simple quick all that sort of stuff but now having everything work in basically real time on the timeline with no hiccups and no delay and no lag and having everything track and whatever a two three four up to 50 times faster than real speed just makes the whole process that little bit sweeter if you've got any thoughts or feedback or anything else you'd like me to try or demo make sure to let me know in the comment section below thanks ever so much for watching take it easy I'll catch you next time see ya

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Length: 14min 45sec (885 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 28 2023