“While it is regretted that this user manual contains such a staggeringly overwhelming amount of information, our emphasis has always been to ensure that (hopefully) every control and workflow you encounter in DaVinci Resolve is explained somewhere within the contents of these pages” the company justifies these 4,000 pages. Resolve 18 is no different, as the 4,000 pages manual has just published after Resolve 18 (public beta) was released a few days ago. The DaVinci Resolve 18 Manual DaVinci Resolve 18 ManualĪs the tradition calls, after the release of new software and/or updates, Blackmagic Design sort you out with an updated user manual. This 4,000 manual covers all the nuts and bolts of the software, from cutting, and grading to advanced workflow. Linux NVIDIA Drivers can be found on their website.Blackmagic has published the full manual of the newly released public beta of DaVinci Resolve 18. You’ll find that Linux provides a similar power experience with Resolve in both 1080p or 4K and above to Windows. If you need to use consumer-grade video from say, an iPhone or Android device, or even gameplay footage, you’ll need to transcode it into an easier to manage format (DNxHD, etc., H.264 is for an end result, not editing). The main issue with Linux at the moment is that if you’re running AMD GPUs, you’ll need to download AMD’s own drivers and not the unsupported open-source ones you’d naturally gravitate to on Linux.ĪAC Audio doesn’t work either and H.265/H.264 footage is only available in the Studio version of Resolve.

To install Resolve on CentOS past the requirements, you’ll want to follow Seth Goldin’s blog.

This is mostly a hold over from Blackmagic not intending Resolve to be consumer-focused back before they switched gears.

Update: CentOS is the chosen platform for post-production, as indicated to us by a Reddit user.

While it does seem to work on other distros like Debian and Mint, it seems that Blackmagic have only ever really done proper tests on CentOS. As mentioned above, DaVinci Resolve on Linux is a little bit of a weird one.

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