Resolve now x3 faster on Macs

Blackmagic Design has released DaVinci Resolve 17.3, which it says works up to 3 times faster on Apple Mac models with the M1 chip.

The update enables Mac users to play back, edit and grade 4K projects faster, and even work on 8K projects on an Apple M1 laptop.

The new processing engine uses tile-based rendering, which also gives customers up to 30% longer battery life on laptop computers when working in DaVinci Resolve.

Furthermore, DaVinci Resolve 17.3 supports a new option on Mac computers with M1 for H.265 hardware encoding. Users can prioritise speed vs quality when rendering, improving render times up to 65%. Resolve can also decode AVC Intra files utilising the Apple M1 chip, speeding up decoding and playback when working with these file formats.

There are also a number of feature enhancements to the Resolve toolset, including with its HDR grading tools, latency improvements with Fairlight audio, new bin sorting and metadata clip views.

DaVinci Resolve 17.3 is available as a free download from the Blackmagic Design website.

Grant Petty, Blackmagic Design CEO, said: “This is truly an amazing update that gives customers huge performance and power efficiency gains on Mac models with M1, and it totally transforms your computer, simply by downloading this free of charge DaVinci Resolve software update

“This speed increase is stunning and it’s hard to believe. I have not seen a speed improvement this large since the original 68000 to Power PC transition back in the 1990’s and it is just amazing. Who would have thought just a year ago that multiple 4K streams could be played back and edited natively on a MacBook Air, but it’s easy now on DaVinci Resolve with M1.”