Looks great to me as a big fan of version 8. I wonder if some of the features demoed here are exclusive to the full version or if we get it all in the lite version? He does say it's "free" at the end.

@flash, regarding nodes, it's a simplified nodal system. Basically you add as many instances of color corrections as you want and you can turn them off or rearrange them however you see fit. Each node is a full set of all the corrections Resolve can make - primaries, secondaries, tracks, etc. But it's not quite full nodal compositing as you would see in Nuke or Shake.

All changes

Interface re-designed to streamline the grading process

• Fast user login by entering user name or scroll user thumbnails
• Browse and select projects with scrubbable thumbnail or list view
• Search and sort project lists
• Larger color palettes with direct user access to more tools for faster grading
• Larger and clearer text to ease eye strain during long grading sessions
• Larger timeline thumbnails makes selecting shots faster
• Resizable gallery stills stored and displayed in user named albums
• Gallery now includes 48 'Looks' for fast grade selection
• Full screen viewer mode for accurate window and qualifier control
• Cinema review mode offers a clean full screen to sit back and enjoy

Clip Management

• Browse and select clips in the media library with thumbnail or list view
• Re-sizeable and scrubbable Library and Media Pool thumbnails
• Fast clip management with drag and drop clips between bins in the Media Pool
• Clip list view now also displays PAR, video/data level, frame rate and audio channels
• Optional automatic creation of the Master Timeline to match the Media Pool
• Master and Default timelines option to sort in timecode order or reel # and timecode order
• Reveal clip in Finder

Conform

• Expandable timeline view for conforming
• Drag and drop clip editing
• Consolidate RED camera clips with user defined handles
• Speed warps from FCP XML and Avid AAF
• User selection of common keyboard shortcut layouts

Color

• Log grading includes contrast and pivot with low and high range controls
• Composite RGBA clips using embedded Alpha
• Stereoscopic 3D floating windows include position, softness and rotation
• Separate 3D monitoring controls for GUI/SDI/WFM mesh
• Camera Raw palette offers real time direct control of raw images
• Camera Raw image debayer and decode settings optionally saved per graded version
• Nodes can now be named and wire linking is faster
• Window palette displays the selected windows and position
• Key shapes and position are displayed in the new key palette
• Image transforms are now controlled in the sizing palette
• Tracker and stabilization palette with editable keyframe tracks for pan, tilt, zoom & rotate
• Stabilization strength control to blend stable and original image track
• Eight colored user selected pins & flags to mark clips for fast & easy location and sorting
• Clip thumbnail timeline filters for color corrected, tracked, rendered, pins and flags
• User configurable preset descriptions for graded version names

Audio

• Multitrack audio decoding from BWF, Quicktime and MXF files - Op-Atom and OP-1a
• Multitrack audio encoding to Quicktime and MXF formats - Op-Atom
• Audio waveform display and 16 channel audio meters with selectable dB and dBu scale
• User selectable reference alignment levels for dBu scale
• One-click Auto-Sync of multiple dual system audio files with camera images

Dailies

• Dailies production metadata fields for fast data entry
• Automatically assign iXML production metadata with audio sync
• Dailies clip sort and simultaneous multiple format rendering
• Simple text name burn in for dailies deliverables
• Source clip data burn-ins include custom text, logos & user selectable fade up/down times
• One click generation of LUTs from the clip grade
• User configurable folders to save LUTs

Deliverables

• Dedicated screen for creating rendered deliverables includes large viewer and timeline
• Deliverables user easy setups can now be saved and recalled
• Batch render queue shows job status
• Encoding and decoding Avid DNxHD in QuickTime
• Avid DNxHD444 codec encode/decode is supported on all platforms
• Up to 50% faster DNxHD/MXF encoding speed
• Additional 'Force Highest Quality' settings when rendering clips
• Additional Resolve control panel controls for Camera Raw selection

General

• Resolve Control Panel shortcuts to new Log, Raw and Stereoscopic controls
• Canon C500 camera support
• Improved decoder performance for uncompressed MXF on Linux
• Projects are now saved in file based database with optional database server
• 4K monitoring with DeckLink 4K
• Resolve for Mac OS; hot plug and play for removable drives
• Resolve for Mac OS; now a 64 bit app

I'm glad that they have put in log grading. It really helps in selecting luma levels for grading.

I had to install CUDA Toolkit 4.2 (the latest), otherwise it would say no CUDA devices found. Download here: http://www.nvidia.com/content/cuda/cuda-downloads.html

Maybe others had the same problem...

I also downloaded and installed the latest driver (on the same page).

@danyyyel

You can try http://www.personal-view.com/faqs/blackmagic-cinema-camera/davinci-resolve-faq

Kind of a mixed bag for me so far - performance took a big hit on my machine versus v8 but the interface does look nicer.

In my Mac Book Pro 15" 2009 work with a 1440x900 monitor.

@Marcus 8.1 works on my MacBookPro early 2011. Not like a rocket but it works.

I'm trying out Resolve 9 on Windows 7 and the user interface looks pretty unfriendly so far. How do you:

• Switch the window mode so it's not always on top
• Switch between windowed and full-screen display
• Drag the window to a second monitor
• Minimize the main window to the Windows task bar

Wow, I have to wonder whether BMD have ever used Windows before? There's no obvious way to save a project to a folder, or even to import your footage... Do you need an EDL just to get started?

EDIT: I see the problem - no AVCHD file support. Too bad, some of its features look like they would've been useful.

@LPowell

Switch the window mode so it's not always on top

You can't, and this is nothing new.

Switch between windowed and full-screen display

You can't, and this is nothing new. Also, they want you to utilize the display's whole resolution. I know with everything going on in there, I wouldn't want to be windowed either.

Drag the window to a second monitor

You can drag the scopes to a second monitor.

Minimize the main window to the Windows task bar

Press the windows key, or ALT + TAB.

There's no obvious way to save a project to a folder

Resolves saves the Projects to some default location, but if you wish to fetch it, you can "File > Export Project" and save it where you please.

or even to import your footage... Do you need an EDL just to get started?

Load clips into media pool from the Media tab. The whole Resolve process works from left to right. You do not need an EDL to get started. There's plenty of tutorials that answer these basic questions more in depth, like Youtube etc.

I see the problem - no AVCHD file support. Too bad

Transcoding is the solution here.

@Macalincag - "There's plenty of tutorials that answer these basic questions more in depth, like Youtube etc."

Thanks for the reply, but the only tutorials I was able to find were for versions prior to Resolve 9 on the Mac. While Alt-Tab does work, it seems there's no way to move the window to my calibrated secondary monitor, which has more workspace than my primary HDTV monitor.

I'm with Vitaliy on the transcoding issue, it would be a time-consuming step backward for me. Rewrapping the MTS files into MOV containers without transcoding might be workable, but I don't know if there's something comparable to ClipWrap that runs on Windows?

@Macalincag - "Yeah, it seems as though the desired monitor you wish to work on should be your primary monitor (with the Windows task bar)."

Actually, it seems as though BMD expects you to set up your computer as a dedicated Resolve workstation plugging into a Log and Transfer workflow. But as you say, it's still in Beta, and hopefully the release version will integrate more flexibly with Windows and Adobe-based workflows.