

“While it is regretted that this user manual contains such a staggeringly overwhelming amount of information, our emphasis has always been to ensure that (hopefully) every control and workflow you encounter in DaVinci Resolve is explained somewhere within the contents of these pages” the company justifies these 4,000 pages. Resolve 18 is no different, as the 4,000 pages manual has just published after Resolve 18 (public beta) was released a few days ago. The DaVinci Resolve 18 Manual DaVinci Resolve 18 ManualĪs the tradition calls, after the release of new software and/or updates, Blackmagic Design sort you out with an updated user manual.

This 4,000 manual covers all the nuts and bolts of the software, from cutting, and grading to advanced workflow. I hope they will never change the way the update works.Blackmagic has published the full manual of the newly released public beta of DaVinci Resolve 18. Or if you employ freelancers, they won't be able to update themselves and fuck up your system mid project. You won't accidentally hit an update button popping up mid session. It's an advantage really: You are in control of it. That's why they chose to go the installer route as opposed to an integrated update routine. The latter usually use Resolve on systems that aren't connected to the internet.

The thing with Resolve is that it covers a broad user base, from single home users to the biggest post productions. Normally, you only have to uninstall when downgrading, updates "replace" so to say. Maybe it was a bug / coincidence that happened because you skipped so many versions going from 15.0.0 to current.

That you are getting the version error here is indeed weird and wrong. Entering your name and e-mail and such, which probably takes 30 seconds, is a pretty fair price for an otherwise free software, isn't it? If you buy the Studio version, you can even skip that step.Īfter you have backed up your database, you can just install over the old version.
