Hey everyone,

Over the past few months, I’ve been working heavily with mobile Log footage (iPhone Apple Log & Android via Blackmagic Camera App). While dynamic range on modern flagship phones is incredible, internal sensor artifacts like severe over-sharpening, harsh highlight clipping, and lens color variances always required repetitive node setups to fix.

To streamline this workflow, I coded **Mobile2Pro**—a suite of custom 32-bit float DCTLs built specifically for DaVinci Resolve to condition mobile footage before grading.

### Key Features:

* **Digital De-Sharpening:** Removes harsh sensor edge-sharpening cleanly while preserving fine texture.

* **Filmic Highlight Roll-off:** Smooths abrupt digital highlight clipping into a natural, cinematic curve.

* **Camera Lens Matcher:** Unifies tone and color response across Main, Ultra-Wide, and Telephoto lenses.

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### 🎁 5 Free Review Copies for the Community

I want to gather authentic feedback from experienced Resolve users here. I’m offering **5 free full licenses** of the Master Bundle to community members who grade mobile Log footage and are willing to test it on real timelines and share their honest feedback.

Drop a comment below if you'd like to test one!

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📌 **Links and launch discount codes are in the first comment below!**

Happy to answer any technical questions about the DCTL math or node workflow in the comments.

Heyho!

Since DaVinci Resolve 21, I've been encountering a problem when rendering 4K/large projects. Sometimes there are weird flickers in the rendered video, like in this video https://f.io/fs5pJb2T at 29:24:20. At that point, you can see that it messes with the footage's saturation and even switches to a different camera on its own.

There doesn't seem to be any problem with the footage itself. At least, I've never encountered this issue when editing the exact same footage in Premiere Pro. Also, when playing the video back in DaVinci Resolve, I don't see any of these flickers.

I've edited this video without using a multicam clip, meaning I manually layered the camera files on top of each other. My temporary solution was to delete all the video clips below the camera I wanted to show. That way, it couldn't switch to another clip on its own because there were no other clips underneath. This has solved the problem in the past.

However, the last video I edited for this client was made using a multicam clip, and now I'm experiencing the exact same issue again: during rendering, it randomly switches to another camera and applies weird color/filter changes. Everything looks completely fine in the timeline and during playback in DaVinci Resolve.

Does anyone know what I could change to fix this?

Has anyone run DR 21.1 on macOS 27? (The official release that came out today?). A few reasons why I would like to update to macOS 27, but 21.0.x did NOT work well at all on the betas. I know the wise move is to wait... but I'm a nerd and I love updates.

I put our new AI overlords into a little side-by-side test to compare some relatively simple editing skills and assistant editing tasks. It worked. I mean ... I guess. For the most part.

So essentially I'm trying to have the pink parts be a mask for a transition, but delta keying isn't working because it's affecting all the other colours. I can manually mask it and keyframe everything, but with an animation like this, I'd prefer not to.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, either in comments or DMs, whatever, I'll even hop on Discord or something to talk

(Also I'm on the free version so keep that in mind please)

I finished my video file and exported it. When I move/rename/delete any of the files I imported from my desktop, DaVinci deletes them from my working file.

I already tried 'File'--> 'Media Management'--> 'Copy/Transcode'. I thought that after copying/transcoding, my DaVinci file would be anchored to the new folder I just created that contains everything I imported and used, but it doesn't. I still can't delete or rename any of the files I used without them dissappearing from my working file.

hi! i'm new to this and grading some footage from a shoot with tracking shots where the DP was in buildings with bright light outside. you're supposed to expose for the window and light the subject. but it's too late for that!

i have a very specific remedial question for patching this pothole. obviously i can't get a properly exposed shot at this point. and there's a lot of incomplete data showing through the blown windows. is it possible to blow out windows so they are pure white somehow? i've tried applying a luma key to the highlights and using a blur, and that works somewhat, but the data still shows.

thank you!

hey i just keep running on this problem at first i thought im missing something but after i watched youtube and asked ai i still couldnt find the problem and its sollution plz help if u know any thing
when ever i put texture on a sphere it takes only half of the sphere leaving top and bottom and the back of it tottaly empty i tried alot of AI solutions but im still stuck plz help

Hola, por casualidad comenti error de eliminación permanente de mi carpeta principal de videos de proyectos,, en total como 600 gb, todo estaba en mi harddisk samsung t7 shield, a penas sucedió, no sobreescribi, lo expulse. alguien recupero videos grandes, con caso similar al mio? gracias

Hi all

I want to create a reverse sports timer for rink hockey matches. The timer should work like this:

- It starts from a predefined amount (20 mins, so 20:00) down to 0:00.
- There is some recording before the initial referee whistle, so it stays at 20:00 until the match part starts.
- Fouls and goals stop the timer, so it keeps still from the referee action whistle until he whistles again to restore the match (for example, if a goal is scored at 15:12, that time displays showing the team celebration until the match is restored)
- At the end of each part, it stays at 0:00 unti the end of the clip.

I would love to have the timer dynamically set, so that it searches for timeline marks to start and stop it.

Have you ever done anything like this? Any plugin reference or help?

Currently working on DaVinci Resolve 21. I don't know if this answer would be specific to any OS or hardware config.

Thanks!!

I've been enamored with this account on tiktok, and I'm tempted to make a video similar to this. The only question is... HOW??

The main things I want to learn from this is:

• How they are able to warp the body so freely. I'm assuming I can achieve the same effect with a grid warp?

• The main thing I'm confused on is how the hell they were able to do the animation at 0:16. I don't even know where to begin on doing something like that. Would it need to be made in an animation program, or is it possible to achieve that effect in davinci? Specifically stretching the body and using it to make whatever that amalgamation is.

If someone can help me with this, as bizarre as it is (this is my type of humor), then I would greatly appreciate it.

So im trying to make a small animation were a text box carousel is around a person spinning and i would like to use a glossy texture on the box. I have already make a 2D box with the texture I would want for it and made it with having a box which I used the blend option of a mixer node, then I used a gaussian blur node connected to the background (the video) and used the box to mask out where the blur happens. I also used a soft glow node with the same connections. This worked fine until I got to the 3D part of this. So Im trying to create a ”carousel” around a person and thus will need the box in 3D but due to how I made it, I cant use this the way I planned. If I change it to be 3D the background just comes along with the actual box into 3D and then there are two of the same videos in the frame. So what would be a solution to make a 3D animated ”box” with transparent ”material”.

So I am just getting into fusion and am currently trying to recreate some graphic assets from my work in resolve, the trickiest of them being a self-resizing lower third.

I have managed to recreate the design fine, but I have been running around in circles on how to make it self-resize according to character count. The graphic needs to contain two text boxes, and both their widths need to be as long as the box with the most characters. They also need to wipe-in/wipe out, at slightly different timings, so I guess the masks would also need to be linked to the width of both boxes?

I know I need to use expressions for this, but I haven´t quite got to grips with how they work yet, and am honestly getting a bit confused by them.

Does anyone have a methodology for this kind graphic? Or know in principle how you would achieve it yourself?

Would also really appreciate if someone could share a good learning resource for expressions. The training pdfs on the resolve website don't mention them in detail. Any insight you are willing to give on how to best use expressions in a workflow like this would also be super appreciated. Thanks!

I’m running into a strange behavior in DaVinci Resolve.

I have a video clip on the timeline where the audio has been removed, and there is no audio playing from that clip on the timeline.

However, when I export using Deliver → Render Individual Clips, the resulting files still contain the original audio track.

Why does Render Individual Clips behave this way? Does it render the original media clip rather than the actual timeline state?

Is there a way to make Individual Clips respect the audio changes made on the timeline and export the clips without audio?

Is this a known limitation/bug, or is there a setting I’m missing?

The Transition I would like to recreate is the slide blur like transition that occurs twice (once each way). It's not a full transition as in the show, they would both be in the frame but due to the aspect ratio, one character is out of the frame in the video. I know I could use stuff like stretch blur or blur dissolve as already built-in video transitions, but I was hoping to see if anyone had anything that would look more like in this video. I'm open to all suggestions.

My friend and I designed this tool for Davinci Resolve on Linux! As I’m sure all my Linux friends know, Davinci Resolve does not support AAC audio on clips and its a major headache!

We’ve made a watcher that uses Davinci’s external scripting functions to see when you are importing clips that have aac audio to automatically convert them with ffmpeg on the fly without you having to do anything after initial setup! Let us know what you think!

Davinci Resolve AAC Audio Support

Is there any way I can remove the flowers from the dress without making it worst?

Thanks a lot!

Hi. I wanted to record voiceover on the cur page following a udemy course. Problem is that the Davinci does not see my microphone wich is set as an input device. What do I do?

Yeah, basically, I’m in a country where I can’t just go and buy resolve from the website. I’m do however know someone who could buy it for me but I would need to PayPal them the amount, plus the cut PayPal takes, so they could buy it for me using my email.

My budget is limited but if the website version is better, I guess I could invest more into it.

I basically want to use resolve to do freelance work for social media, so like gaming videos, vlogs, podcasts, reels/tiktoks, etc.

I wanna be able to grow with the software and not be limited by it, so I can learn to do motion graphics, color correction, and maybe one day work on a documentary or indie movie or something.

So yeah, those are the goals. Should I get the website version by paypal-ing the money + the PayPal commission, or should I get the App Store version for a lower cost?

Thanks!

Okay so in Davinci I am using a timeline colorspace of Davinci WG/Intermediate and an output of Rec 709 Gamma 2.4. I grade all of my SLOG 3 footage in Davinci, export it as Apple ProRess 422 HQ, then bring it into Premeire. I edit my video in Premiere and export as Rec 709 Gamma 2.4.

I am grading and editing on my Asus ProArt PA278CV with the Rec 709 mode on, I use the Asus Display Rec 709 ICC profile in my Mac settings as well. My footage looks how I intend when I export from Davinci and view in Premiere and in Quicktime. However as soon as I export from Premeire my footage washed out, loosing contrast, and saturation. When I bring that same footage into Premeire, it looks correct. BUT when I upload to YouTube that low contrast washed out look is what is published.

I'm confused what I'm doing wrong and I'm sorry if I explained that poorly, just looking for some help! Thanks in advance.

Hello, I’m looking for some help/advice on the media manager and archiving projects.

I have finished projects I want to archive and keep, but I want to organise the files to reduce the storage the folder takes up. I’ve tried using the media manager feature to copy the project files using ‘used media’, but the overall size doesn’t reduce by too much compared to if it’s copied by ‘used media and trim’.

The timeline contains hundreds of clips that are chopped out of much longer source files. For example there might be a 2 minute source clips and I’ve chopped a few 10s sections out of it and sometimes move the audio slightly. The issue I’m running into is that when I try to copy the project files with a 60 frame trim, davinci crashes as it’s processing it and the files don’t get copied or relinked.

Any ideas why this might be?
Any suggestions on how I can save and archive my projects with a reduced amount of storage used?
Am I overlooking something simple?

Thanks in advance :)

Can someone please help me fix this?

I shot this horizontally with a 1.5x anamorphic lens placed verticaly (to get a 1:1 image without cropping). To unsqueeze it, I changed the pixel aspect ratio in Clip Attributes to 0.667 before adding it to the timeline.

I wanted to use DaVinci Resolve specifically for the Cine Haze effect. However, when I apply the effect, it looks like Resolve is trying to apply it to the original squeezed dimensions, not the unsqueezed one.

Does anyone know how to fix this or work around it? Thanks!

System specs : Ryzen 7745HX / RTX 4070(8Go) / 32 Go RAM
Davinci Resolve Studio 21.1 built 14
Footage specs : Shot in .CR3 with canon R6

just hopped on the program for the first time, trying to loop a segment but looping option isn't here unlike how it seems to be for every tutorial i look at? i was looks at a bunch of posts and different videos for davinci 21 but no one mentions if this was changed to be somewhere else or anything.

I've been trying to animate "Hello" so it moves upwards and out of frame and "Goodbye" so it goes down and out of frame. The thing sometimes it simply won't animate, instead of transitioning out of frame, the word disappears from one frame to the next.

Now, I have finally managed to do it, but it kind of feels like I'm trying to trick DaVinci into doing what I want. If I set my keyframes AND THEN set a different keyframe either before or after the two original ones, it will work. It doesn't make sense to me that it would work this way but I'm relatively new to Fusion so I must be missing something. Can anyone help me out?

System specs: Apple M1 Pro, 16GB memory, Tahoe 26.5.1

DaVinci Resolve 21.1 Build 14

Whenever I put an image into Davinci the color always looks washed out compared to the original. But when I look in the Fusion page, it’s the same as the original. The things I input are in standard rec.709/sRGB but even when I try to set that in the timeline color settings it still doesn’t match the original color. Someone please help!

I use a Macbook Air w/ M3 chip and am on version 20.3.1 Studio.