About DaVinci Resolve 20

Welcome to DaVinci Resolve 20.2.1!

This installer will add DaVinci Resolve software to your system as well as additional software for remote monitoring and utilities for setting up hardware control panels. It also installs Blackmagic RAW Player and Blackmagic Proxy Generator into the applications folder.

The free version of DaVinci Resolve 20 includes all of the same high quality processing as DaVinci Resolve 20 Studio and can handle unlimited resolution media files. However it does limit project mastering and output to Ultra HD resolutions or lower and only supports a single processing GPU on Windows and Linux.

If you need features such as support for multiple GPUs, 4K output, motion blur effects, temporal and spatial noise reduction, multiple AI-based tools, HDR tools, camera tracker, voice isolation, surround sound and immersive audio, multiple Resolve FX, 3D stereoscopic tools and remote rendering, please upgrade to DaVinci Resolve 20 Studio.

We hope you do decide to upgrade as your facility grows and you do more advanced work!

Installing DaVinci Resolve Software on MacOS

Double-click the DaVinci Resolve Installer icon and follow the onscreen instructions. To remove DaVinci Resolve from your system, double-click the Uninstall Resolve icon.

Installing DaVinci Resolve Software on Windows

Double-click the DaVinci Resolve Installer icon and follow the onscreen instructions. To remove DaVinci Resolve from your system, go to the Programs and Features control panel, select DaVinci Resolve, click on Uninstall and follow the onscreen prompts.

Installing DaVinci Resolve Software on Linux

Double-click the DaVinci Resolve installer and follow the onscreen instructions. To remove DaVinci Resolve from your system, select the uninstall option after running the installer.

For DaVinci Resolve 20.2.1, we have taken efforts to keep the project libraries compatible with DaVinci Resolve 19.1.4. While this allows you to access the project library with 19.1.4, individual projects created or opened in 20.2.1 will no longer be accessible in 19.1.4. We recommend a full project library backup as well as individual project backups before opening projects in 20.2.1.

What's new in DaVinci Resolve 20.2.1

The following features have been added or updated.

• Paste attributes dialog now retains user selections across copies.
• Improved magic mask response when adding and deleting points.
• Addressed paste insert edits not following sync lock state.
• Trim to and extend edits now honor the 1 second J and L edit threshold.
• Addressed insert with in out not honoring source timeline track configuration.
• Addressed jittery playback when scrubbing with go to mouse cursor.
• Addressed issue with live preview on single viewer set up.
• Addressed delays with Shift-click to change edit track controls.
• Addressed issue with detaching audio from synced video subclip.
• Addressed audio marker position when detaching audio from synced video.
• Addressed issue entering Chinese, Japanese or Korean text in MultiText.
• Addressed issue with getting subtitle text via scripting API.
• Addressed a media pool clip context menu crash with split colorspace and gamma.
• Addressed issue with color picker cursor on SDI viewer output.
• Addressed search all effects not returning Resolve FX results.
• Addressed video playback issues in the Fairlight page.
• Addressed slow bounce operations in the Fairlight page.
• Voiceover beeps now follow monitoring gain, mute and dim settings.
• Addressed Fusion viewer guides context menu issue with quad view.
• Addressed output blanking showing as viewer background color.
• Addressed decode issues with some Apple ProRes RAW clips.
• Addressed Sony ARW purple artefacts in overexposed areas.
• General performance and stability improvements.

Minimum system requirements for Mac OS

• macOS 14 Sonoma or later.
• 8 GB of system memory or 16 GB when using Fusion.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Apple Silicon based computer or GPU which supports Metal.

Minimum system requirements for Windows

• Windows 10 Creators Update.
• 16 GB of system memory or 32 GB when using Fusion.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Integrated GPU or discrete GPU with at least 4 GB of VRAM.
• GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 12.8.
• AMD/Intel official drivers from your GPU manufacturer.
• NVIDIA Studio driver 570.65 or newer.

Minimum system requirements for Windows for Arm

• Windows 11 for ARM.
• Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite series processor.
• 16 GB of system memory or 32 GB for 4K or when using Fusion.

Minimum system requirements for Linux

• Rocky Linux 8.6.
• 32 GB of system memory.
• For monitoring, Blackmagic Design Desktop Video 12.9 or later.
• Discrete GPU with at least 4 GB of VRAM.
• GPU which supports OpenCL 1.2 or CUDA 12.8.
• AMD official drivers from your GPU manufacturer.
• NVIDIA Studio driver 570.26 or newer.

Additional Information

You will also need to download and install the latest Blackmagic Design Desktop Video software for monitoring with your Blackmagic Design video hardware. Desktop Video is available from www.blackmagicdesign.com/support.

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Updated September 22, 2025.