The Top 8 DaVinci Resolve AI Editing Tools: Explore the Newest AI Features for Seamless Video Creation

AI is undoubtedly the way of the future for film and video content creators. Regardless of how you feel about AI, if you’d like to stay relevant in this industry, it’s very important that you stay up to date on the latest AI tools, features, and technologies.

One area of content creation that has seen the most AI innovation has been video editing and post-production. Yet, depending on which video editing software you use, you might have a completely different set of AI features and tools at your disposal.

So, as we’ve done with Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro, let’s give you a consolidated overview of all of the AI-powered tools and features available to users of Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve—plus provide some further insights into how you can prepare your post-production workflows for further AI improvements and innovations in the future.

A look at DaVinci Resolve 19

Before we dive into the specific AI-powered tools and features, let’s take a quick look at the latest version of Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve. As most video editors should probably know, Blackmagic Design offers two versions of DaVinci Resolve.

The two versions of Resolve are a free version that offers limited resolutions and GPU rendering support, plus only certain other features, and a paid Studio version that offers resolutions up to 32K, multiple GPUs for faster workflow speeds, and expanded tools and support.

The latest version of DaVinci Resolve is version 19, which has introduced many new AI tools powered by the DaVinci Neural Engine. This latest version is perhaps the platform’s most ambitious in terms of AI workflows and automations, which are all aimed at making video editing faster, easier, and more powerful than ever before.

The 8 best Davinci Resolve AI editing tools

With all of the above information in mind, let’s now look at some of the best Davinci Resolve AI editing tools in this latest version 19. For the purposes of this article, we’re going to follow along with a lot of the information laid out in this video from Ripple Training, which is featured below.

As you can see in the video, Resolve 19 offers eight exciting new AI-powered features. Let’s explore each one to see how it could assist your editing workflows.

1. AI Super Scale

The first of the AI tools in DaVinci Resolve we’d like to highlight is the AI Super Scale tool.Using a unique upscaling algorithm, this tool creates new pixels when increasing an image's resolution. This newly generated data has more detail in upscaled images than standard resizing controls.

This AI tool is ideal for scaling archival footage into modern resolutions or upscaling HD footage to match a 4K or 8K project—a true game changer for documentary-style projects where editors have to deal with archival or older footage.

2. AI Audio Ducker

The newest DaVinci Resolve AI editing tool is the Ducker Track FX feature, which lets users auto-adjust the level of another track without setting up complex side chain compression or automation curves.

This means that editors will be able to automatically set music or background noise to lower when dialog is present and then fine-tune the audio mix with advanced controls. A great tool to combine with Soundstripe’s royalty free music for your video projects, or perhaps even our new AI song editor feature.

3. AI Speech to Text Transcription

Another area in which AI has made major strides is transcription, and this new AI tool in Resolve can automatically transcribe video and audio clips.

Editors need only select the clips in the media pool, use the menus to select audio transcription, and then transcribe. They can then mark in and out points to edit or delete text, generate sub clips, add markers, or even remove silence from their videos.

4. AI Scene Cut Detection

At the request of many video editors, Blackmagic has also added a scene cut detection feature accessible directly on the Cut timeline. Users simply need to navigate to the timeline menu and click ‘detect scene cuts’.

From there, you’ll see that any selected clips will be analyzed for content, and cut points automatically be placed on every new edit in the rendered clip. Editors can then further modify or remove trim points as needed.

5. AI Smart Reframe

We’re also happy to report that a new AI Smart Reframe has been added to DaVinci Resolve 19. Editors will now be able to use 16:9 HD or Ultra HD and quickly create square or vertical versions for posting to Instagram and other apps as needed.

Using the DaVinci Neural Engine, Resolve will now automatically identify action and reposition the image inside a new frame so users don’t have to do it manually. You can even fine-tune the results.

6. AI Create Subtitles from Audio

Similar to transcriptions, Blackmagic has also added a new auto subtitle feature on the Cut and Edit pages that can transcribe timeline speech to text automatically into a subtitle track on the timeline.

To activate this AI-powered feature, users simply need to click ‘create subtitles from audio’ in the timeline menu. Once analyzed, they can then click the individual captions to modify them in the inspector.

7. AI Editing with Text

While not completely new to DaVinci Resolve, Blackmagic has added some notable improvements to the transcription workflow, making it now possible to edit clips based on their transcribed text directly on the timeline.

The AI-powered analyzer can now detect multiple voices, allowing you to assign names to different speakers and refine text-based search and text replacement operations.

8. AI Intellitrack

Finally, a new IntelliTrack AI Davinci Resolve point tracker lets editors automatically generate precision audio panning by tracking people or objects as they move across 2D and 3D spaces.

With AI audio panning to video, all of you editors will be able to quickly pan multiple actors in a scene, controlling their voice positions in the mix environment.