

In terms of features, there are tons of new things in Resolve 17 so you can watch the video above or dig into the new Resolve 17 website. I say “7 month delay” but it might not be a delay at all within Blackmagic’s development team. This 7 month delay might have made many think this was going to be a revolutionary release of what has become a Swiss Army knife of post-production but it’s more an incremental update depending on which Resolve page you spend more of your time in.


I think everyone expected this updated version around the April NAB timeframe but instead we get it via Blackmagic CEO Grant Petty webcast in November. Resolve 17 is now out in the wild (in beta form that is!). The public beta of DaVinci Resolve 17.1 for M1 powered Macs is available for download now from the Blackmagic Design website.The DaVinci Resolve engineering team has done such a great job and it’s exciting to be part of this technology revolution.” “We think it’s important that DaVinci Resolve customers can purchase these new Macs and run native software to get the best performance possible. “We’re excited to support the new Macs powered by M1,” said Grant Petty, Blackmagic Design CEO.DaVinci Resolve 17.1 is also compatible with macOS Big Sur, and is initially only available for Mac.

Significantly, the combination of M1,Metal processing and DaVinci Resolve 17.1 offers up to 5 times better performance when compared to previous generation computers. Plus the unified memory architecture on M1 enables DaVinci Resolve 17.1 to leverage the power of CPU and GPU processing more effectively, avoiding the need for PCI Express transfers.
