The DaVinci Resolve 17 Reference Manual is available to download now from the Blackmagic website. I probably wouldn’t recommend reading the whole thing from start to finish, but definitely go through the pages documenting the features you’re already using to see what you might have missed, and then expand out from there as your needs go. There are very few stones that remain unturned! It contains more than 400 pages on colour grading, over 300 on audio, and almost 1500 on Fusion alone. As well as the basics like project management, settings, ingesting and editing media, it goes into great depth on the more detailed aspects, too. The manual covers every possible topic you can imagine in DaVinci Resolve over around 200 chapters (which is why it’s 3,588 pages long). And while it may be easy to get to grips with the basics, wrapping your head around the entire workflow and what everything does is no easy task.

It now incorporates a full-blown non-linear editing system, more advanced colour correction and grading features, the complete Fusion feature set, as well as a slew of new Fairlight audio tools. It’s expanded a lot since its early days to meet the needs of its users. DaVinci Resolve is a complex application when you really dig down into it.

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