DaVinci Resolve Photo Tools Update

credits: Blackmagic Design

Blackmagic Design has released DaVinci Resolve 21 Beta 2, a quick follow-up to the recent public beta. It comes less than a month after the first version and mostly focuses on fixing issues and smoothing things out, especially around the new Photo page. The fast turnaround suggests Blackmagic is paying close attention to early feedback as it continues pushing Resolve further into photo editing.

Most of the changes in Beta 2 are about reliability, tools like crop, flip, and rotate for still images have been adjusted to behave more consistently, and there are fixes related to crop resolution metadata, which can affect both accuracy and exports. Support for photo formats has also been improved, including better decoding for RAF and 12-bit NEF files. There is also a small but useful addition for photographers, you can now export stills with their original file names, which makes managing larger batches a bit easier. Other changes include adjustments to retime curves and keyframe behaviour, meant to make edits feel more predictable.

Outside of the Photo page, there are a few broader updates. IntelliSearch has been improved to organise media a bit faster and more efficiently, and there are general performance and stability fixes across the app, including in Fusion’s 3D and compositing tools.