It’s no secret that I work with the Resolve design team at DaVinci, and also write the User Manual. If you hate reading, this is the next best thing to all the chapters I’m about to recommend in the updated user manual. (update) If you like video tutorials, Ripple Training has just released my “What’s New in DaVinci Resolve 12” title, in which over the course of five hours I provide an in-depth look at nearly every new feature found in DaVinci Resolve 12.

After months of development, the DaVinci Resolve 12 public beta is upon us, with dozens upon dozens of new features to use and explore, encompassing both the evolution of Resolve into a fully satisfying creative editing solution, as well as an extension of Resolve’s already powerful grading tools with fantastic new features and numerous workflow enhancements to make grading and finishing faster and smoother then ever. The DaVinci Resolve 17 Reference Manual is available to download now from the Blackmagic website.The beta edition of the Resolve 12 User Manual is included with the installation in the DaVinci Resolve application folder

I probably wouldn’t recommend reading the whole thing from start to finish, but definitely go through the pages documenting the features you’re already using to see what you might have missed, and then expand out from there as your needs go. There are very few stones that remain unturned! It contains more than 400 pages on colour grading, over 300 on audio, and almost 1500 on Fusion alone. As well as the basics like project management, settings, ingesting and editing media, it goes into great depth on the more detailed aspects, too. The manual covers every possible topic you can imagine in DaVinci Resolve over around 200 chapters (which is why it’s 3,588 pages long). And while it may be easy to get to grips with the basics, wrapping your head around the entire workflow and what everything does is no easy task. It now incorporates a full-blown non-linear editing system, more advanced colour correction and grading features, the complete Fusion feature set, as well as a slew of new Fairlight audio tools.

It’s expanded a lot since its early days to meet the needs of its users. DaVinci Resolve is a complex application when you really dig down into it.

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