🎉 DaVinci Resolve 19 is here

This week’s new tools, tutorials, and resources 👇️

• Brandfetch: A search engine for popular brand colors, logos, fonts, and more.

• Canva for Students: A collection of Canva templates for college students (Work Kit).

• Segment Anything Model: Track and mask objects instantly with AI (Tool).

• Scrnshts: A curation of App Store screenshot designs.

• Blobs: Generate unique organic “blob” vectors (Plugin).

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🆕 DaVinci Resolve 19 is here

Blackmagic Design just dropped DaVinci Resolve 19, and it’s a game-changer with 100+ new features.

The best part? It’s 100% free.

The free version is powerful but limited to 4K output, while the Studio version, priced at $295, offers more robust features like multi-GPU support and HDR tools.

Here are some new AI features coming to DaVinci:

• 🖼️ IntelliTrack AI: Automatically tracks objects in your video, making complex edits a breeze.

• 🎵 Music Remixer FX: Lets you adjust or mute voice, drums, bass, guitar, and more to match your video’s style.

• 😀 Person Mask: Detect and track people in a shot with AI, creating clean traveling mattes for secondary grades or effects.

• 🔍️ SuperScale: Creates new pixels for higher resolution images with AI, adding more detail than standard resizing.

• ❌ Object Removal: Remove moving objects in static shots.

• ✨ Face Refinement: Automatically detect and track faces and use its parameters for beauty work, skin smoothing, correcting color casts, and retouching features like eyes, lips, and cheeks.

And… way more!

Additionally, the software now supports improved collaboration through Blackmagic Cloud, making it easier for multiple users to work on the same project simultaneously.

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❌ Procreate says no to AI

Procreate, the popular iPad design app, has made waves in the digital art community by pledging never to incorporate generative AI tools into its products.

While many platforms are embracing AI, Procreate is taking a different approach, emphasizing its commitment to supporting artists over chasing new tech trends.

This decision has resonated with users, especially as other companies like Adobe face criticism for their AI integration.

Procreate’s anti-AI pledge may set a new standard for art and design tools, focusing on keeping the creative process in human hands.

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📸 Adobe announces Frame.io and Lightroom integration

Adobe just announced an exciting new feature that integrates Frame.io with Adobe Lightroom.

Frame.io, started in 2014, changed video editing by letting teams easily review and comment on videos online. It’s known for making video collaboration smoother and was bought by Adobe in 2021, adding new features like Camera-to-Cloud for faster uploads.

• Starting in beta, photographers with cameras that support Camera-to-Cloud (C2C) can now upload images directly from their cameras to Frame.io.

• From there, they can instantly edit those images in Lightroom, streamlining the workflow from capture to final edit.

• This means photographers can work all day without stopping to move or download their photos.

Instead, they can send their pictures straight to the cloud, where editors who are not on-site can edit and deliver them right away.

📰 Other news you might’ve missed:

• Figma now allows you to transfer work to your clients in Pro plans (previously limited to Org & Enterprise plans).

• Bezi released “Frames for 3D,” allowing you to control multiple objects simultaneously with a container.

• LottieFiles released “dotLottie,” which is the newest and most optimized animation format.

• Jitter released “Alignment” tools, allowing you to arrange your layers faster.

• Blender LTS released a new update (v4.2.1 and 3.6.15).

• OpusClip now allows you to upload up to 10 hours of footage from a wide range of platforms including Twitch, Dropbox, and Google Drive.

• Lottielab now supports 4K video exporting.

• Captions is releasing its video generation and editing features as APIs.

• Webflow has a new “BuildShip” app that allows you to add AI workflows and fetch data via APIs on your Webflow website.

• Lottielab released “Preview Playground,” allowing you to preview your animations and test interactions like your users.

• KREA now allows you to create images using the “Flux” AI model.

• ElevenLabs cut the pricing of its Turbo v2 and 2.5 models, making it 50% cheaper.

• Notion is hosting its first-ever in-person conference.

• Midjourney’s new web editor is now available to everyone.

• Luma AI’s “Dream Machine” v1.5 is now available — it comes with higher-quality text-to-video and custom text rendering.

• Runway’s “Gen:48” short film competition is returning from September 14-16, 2024.

• Runway’s image-to-video feature is now available for Gen-3 Alpha on its iOS app.

• Runway’s “Gen-3 Alpha Turbo” model now supports using an input image as the last frame of your video.

• ElevenLabs launched the “ElevenLabs Impact Program” and is partnering with nonprofits to provide free licenses to enhance accessibility.

• Stability AI released “Stable Fast 3D,” a tool that can transform a single image into a 3D asset.

• Stability AI released “Search and Recolor” for its “Stable Assistant” tool, allowing you to automatically apply specific colors to an object.

• Photomater and Pixelmator Pro now feature a completely redesigned “Auto Straighten” algorithm that is 5x more precise.