Just ahead of NAB 2025, Blackmagic Design announced DaVinci Resolve 20 and here we outlined many of the changes. Now, at the show, they released the public beta, which brings over 150 new features across the platform. Nino stopped by the Blackmagic Design booth to speak with DaVinci Resolve specialist Simon Hall, who highlighted the key updates, many centered around AI-assisted workflows aimed at streamlining the editing process while keeping creative decisions in the user’s hands. It’s important to note what Simon pointed out: the idea of AI is not to replace the person “in the seat” but to provide tools that simply make editing quicker. Let’s have a look at what stood out! Intelliscript. Image credit: Blackmagic Design AI script-based pre-editing – Intelliscript One of the most exciting new features is Intelliscript, an AI-powered tool that assembles timelines based on a written script, a transcript, or an audio transcription. It doesn’t require any special formatting – a basic text file with paragraphs is enough. Editors can use this to auto-assemble long interviews or scripted scenes, with the system matching text to spoken content. When multiple takes exist, the tool stacks them in the timeline so you can choose the best version during the edit. It also works with multi-camera setups, allowing the same script to be applied across multiple angles. Multiple camera views into a timeline. Image credit: CineD AI-assisted multicam switching Nino asked Simon how Resolve handles multicam edits, especially with two or three cameras recording at once....
Published By: CineD - Thursday, 10 April