DaVinci Resolve 15 beta 8 released

[Peter Chamberlain]

DaVinci Resolve 15 Public Beta 8 is now available as a free download from http://bmd.link/CWdTn9.

Thank you to everyone who have used our previous betas and providing feedback as it’s very helpful for our ongoing stability and development. Please continue to report bugs with steps to repo, system information and diagnostic logs on the v15 beta sub forum and if you have a bug, please review the forum for similar issues in the specific beta build you are using before you start a new thread.

Key features:
Added support for preset library for equalizer, dynamics, plugins and global track properties in the Fairlight page
Added support for performing an insert operation by holding Cmd/Ctrl+Shift while dragging clips from the media pool or source viewer
Added support for an option to insert nested and compound clips in their decomposed state during edit operations
Added support for creating clip annotations for a selected clip on the timeline from the timeline viewer
Added support for processing Fusion compositions in linear gamma in color managed and ACES workflows
Added support for changing clip color from the thumbnail context menu on the Color page
Added support for changing clip color from the application menu on the Media, Edit and Color pages
Added support for showing the bin name in the title bar of a floating Media Pool bin
Added support for configuring the Fusion memory cache in the playback menu
Added support for modifying the filename field in the Deliver page
Added support for setting timeline colorspace in the Fusion viewer display
Added support for exporting subtitles from timeline track context menus and the File menu
Added support for accessing the console dialog from all pages from the Workspace menu
Added support for importing marker colors and duration markers on clips when importing media using FCP7 XML files
Added support for storing the alpha channel when caching to Uncompressed 10-bit float formats
Added initial support for temporal OpenFX plugins on the Fusion page
Improved codec and format listing in the Deliver page
Updated smart render cache settings to no longer cache H.264 clips automatically


Issues Addressed:
Media:
Addressed an issue where blanking would not be rendered correctly when delivering to H.264
Addressed an issue where previewing certain TIFF files would cause a crash
Addressed issues with decoding R3D clips on the GPU when in Metal mode
Addressed an issue where media pool metadata fields for Take and Scene could sometimes not be edited on clips with linked audio
Addressed issues with stereo 3D renders when left and right eye clips were swapped

Edit:
Addressed an issue where performing cut on a clip would ripple the timeline if in and out marks were present on the Edit page
Addressed an issue where selecting the 'Select Nearest Clip To Slip/Slide' option would not update the Slip/Slide icon correctly
Addressed an issue where the position curve bezier handles could not be easily controlled on the Edit page
Addressed an issue where blading and moving audio clips using shortcuts would not immediately follow the playhead

Fusion:
Addressed an issue where playback would work incorrectly with video field processing enabled on Fusion page
Addressed an issue where Fusion tools would sometimes only process one field when video field processing is enabled
Addressed an issue where enabling motion blur in a Transform tool on the Fusion page would sometimes cause a crash
Addressed an issue where the 3-dot menus on the Fusion page would not open until the mouse button was released
Addressed an issue where certain Fusion titles would not play in real-time even when cached
Addressed an issue where performing corner pinning on a Fusion tracker would crash Resolve
Addressed an issue where changing the 2D particle render view would cause a crash
Addressed an issue where alpha mattes from the Fusion page would be inverted in the Color page
Addressed an issue where opening or saving a macro from the macro editor would cause a crash
Addressed an issue where overlays on the Fusion viewer would not update correctly when modified
Addressed an issue where imported SVG files would not honor the user-specified resolution
Addressed an issue where dragging clips from power bins into a Fusion composition would behave incorrectly

Color:
Addressed an issue where viewers in Cinema mode would not work correctly on Linux
Addressed an issue where enabling current clip with handles with a clip filter would repeatedly display warnings
Addressed an issue where image artifacts could be seen on the edges of clips with transforms
Addressed an issue where adjusting the track point size in ResolveFX Match Move would behave incorrectly
Addressed an issue where selecting a clip with a transition would not jump to the first frame after the transition on the Color page
Addressed a crash in dual output HDR mode when enabling the black and white highlight mode

Fairlight:
Addressed an issue where audio playback on the source viewer would result in corrupted playback
Addressed an issue where audio playback would work incorrectly when using Blackmagic playback devices for monitoring in Linux
Addressed an issue where audio clips would sometimes lose sync when a clip pitch shift was applied
Addressed an issue where applying pan presets for mono tracks to a stereo track would produce incorrect pan settings
Addressed an issue where live previews of audio clips would behave incorrectly if the waveform viewer was visible in the Media page
Addressed an issue where adding nested timelines with FairlightFX De-Esser would sometimes cause a crash
Addressed an issue where the Audio FX icon would only be displayed on the first track of a linked group
Addressed an issue where a Fairlight preset would only get applied to the first of any selected tracks
Addressed an issue where multi-channel pan settings would sometimes not be loaded correctly
Addressed an issue where some Fairlight dialogs could not be fully viewed on small screens
Addressed an issue where dropping multiple Audio FX onto a track in a linked group would not correctly add all the effects

General:
Addressed an issue where audio playback would stutter when using system audio devices in Linux
Addressed an issue where timeline thumbnails in the media pool would sometimes not be loaded for non-current timelines
Addressed an issue where a delivery preset could not be created unless a timeline was present
Addressed an issue where a render job would sometimes not render the entire timeline when the length of the timeline would change
Addressed an issue where clicking on a selected render preset would not correctly update the settings
Addressed an issue where cache for certain clips would be lost on application restart
General performance and stability improvements