DaVinci Resolve

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Davinci Resolve is a proprietary video editor, color correction and compositing application.

Installation

There is a free version and a paid version (a.k.a. Studio).
For the free version, install davinci-resolve^AUR or davinci-resolve-beta^AUR.
For the Studio version, install davinci-resolve-studio^AUR or davinci-resolve-studio-beta^AUR.

To run DaVinci Resolve, it is required to use suitable OpenGL and OpenCL drivers. Open-source OpenCL drivers are currently unsupported. Please notice that incompatible OpenCL drivers should be uninstalled as they may cause Resolve to crash (e.g. uninstall opencl-mesa if you are using a proprietary equivalent).

Standalone Intel GPUs are currently unsupported. If using hybrid AMD + Intel setups, you can use the Intel GPU as the primary graphics card and use a proprietary OpenCL driver for the AMD GPU.

Table of OpenGL drivers
GPU vendor	Type	Driver	OpenGL	Documentation	Tested driver version	Works with DaVinci Resolve	Tested DR version	Notes
AMD / ATI	Open source	xf86-video-amdgpu	mesa	AMDGPU		No
	Open source	xf86-video-ati	mesa	ATI		Not tested
	Proprietary	xf86-video-amdgpu	amdgpu-pro-libgl^AUR	AMDGPU PRO	21.10_1247438-1	Yes	17.1.1	Requires running Resolve with the `progl` wrapper script. See documentation.
Intel	Open source	xf86-video-intel	mesa	Intel graphics		Yes
NVIDIA	Open source	xf86-video-nouveau	mesa	Nouveau		No
NVIDIA	Proprietary	nvidia	nvidia-utils	NVIDIA	460.32.03-1	Yes	17.0b6-1	Tested on optimus laptop using nvidia-xrun.

Table of tested OpenCL drivers
GPU Vendor	OpenCL driver	Tested driver version	Works with DR	Tested DR version	Comment
Neutral	opencl-mesa		No
AMD	opencl-amd^AUR	21.10.1247438-1	Yes	17.1.1	Tested with RX 580
AMD	opencl-amd^AUR	20.50.1234664	Yes		Tested on RX 6800 XT
Intel	intel-compute-runtime	21.21.19914-1	Partly	17.2.1	Launches normally, can open a project. But unable to start playing the timeline (even without video tracks) in the Cut and in the Edit pages. However in the Fairlight page it is able to play timeline. Tested with Intel Core i7-8700 CPU.
	beignet^AUR	1.3.2+12+gfc5f430c-2	No		Core dumped
	intel-opencl^AUR	5.0.r63503-2	No		Core dumped
	intel-opencl-runtime^AUR	1:18.1.0.013-2	No		Core dumped
Nvidia	opencl-nvidia	460.32.03-1	Yes		Suitable, but working on cuda instead?

DaVinci Resolve Checker

You can run davinci-resolve-checker script, which will tell you if your configuration is suitable for running DR. In good configurations it should output:

All seems good. You should be able to run DaVinci Resolve successfully.

BlackMagic Design Cards

If using DeckLink, UltraStudio or Intensity cards for video capture and playback, install Desktop Video Software with decklink^AUR package.

Tips and tricks

Decrease installation time

Compression of a Davinci Resolve package takes significant time, because the binary is quite large. You can avoid compression and decompression by installing Davinci Resolve like this (assuming you use yay):

   $ PKGEXT='.pkg.tar' yay -S davinci-resolve

See Makepkg#Use other compression algorithms page for more information.

Troubleshooting

Logs location

DaVinci Resolve creates log file '$HOME/.local/share/DaVinciResolve/logs/ResolveDebug.txt' at every launch. If are you having problems, try to inspect it for useful messages.

Application window misses title bar

It is a problem of a Linux version of DR There is a workaround for KDE - a window rule to force enable title bar. See [1]

You can manually create a file describing needed window rule:

DaVinci_Resolve_main_window_always_with_titlebar_and_frame.kwinrule

[DaVinci Resolve main window always with titlebar and frame]
Description=DaVinci Resolve main window always with titlebar and frame
clientmachinematch=0
noborder=false
noborderrule=2
titlematch=0
types=1
wmclass=davinci-resolve
wmclasscomplete=false
wmclassmatch=1

Then go to System Settings > Window Management > Window Rules and import this file.

My .mp4 clips are shown as audio clips and even its sound is not working

This problem only affects a free version of DR for Linux. MP4 containers are not supported, also AAC audio is not supported. Note, that as of April 2020, even studio version does not support AAC decoding in MP4 files. See supported codecs pdf in #See also.

To workaround, you may convert your video file to another format or purchase a studio version. Transcoding command may look like this:

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v dnxhd -profile:v dnxhr_hq -pix_fmt yuv422p -c:a pcm_s16le -f mov output.mov

You can automate this task using incron. It will automatically convert files appeared in specified folder. See setup example on this article.

Another alternative is to write a resolve script for that purpose. See documentation for Resolve Scripting for more information.

There is no yet (as of April 2021) such a document for DR 17, but DR 17.1 and DR studio 17.1 both supports mp3 files. However, for some reason, integrating mp3 audio to mov file is not playing.

HiDPI

To enable compatibility with high-resolution displays, set the following environment variables accordingly:

export QT_DEVICE_PIXEL_RATIO=2
export QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=true

Source: https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=84614&p=469009&hilit=hidpi#wrapper

Wine version

Some plugins are available for Windows, but not available for Linux, so you may want to use Davinci Resolve via wine. Also, wine version could potentially workaround the linux-only problem of mp4 format issues. Wine 6.5 brings OpenCL 1.2 support, which is required for DR. Unfortunately, there was no success to start DR via wine. See test results here. In 17.4.1 DR cannot see the list of available gpus (wine 6.21). Probably, need some hack to make wine present gpus to applications.

Wrong OpenCL Version

If the application simply is not starting, even after showing installer and "tour" successfully your OpenCL Version may not match your NVIDIA driver. If you have installed nvidia-440xx make sure to install opencl-nvidia-440xx as well. A possible error message:

~/.local/share/DaVinciResolve/logs/LogArchive/ResolveDebug_C1.txt

...
OpenCL error -1001: 'Unspecified Error', GPUPropertiesUtilUnix.cpp:338
...

Get back to Onboarding screen

If you are experimenting with driver installation, you may want to start from the welcome tour and onboarding screen, which checks your system and graphics card. You can achieve that by removing configs directory:

rm -r $HOME/.local/share/DaVinciResolve/configs

Full screen preview function missing

This function is only available in the studio version. It is in menu Workspace > Video Clean Feed.

Audio recording in Fairlight not working

This article or section is out of date.

Reason: In the linked topic it is said that in 17.3 they fixed the problem. (Discuss in Talk:DaVinci Resolve)

Recording audio tracks with microphone (USB or jack) is currently not working in both Studio and free version. See [2].

No audio during video preview

DaVinci interfaces the ALSA directly, so you need to redirect it to use PulseAudio by creating asound.conf in /etc/ with the following content:

/etc/asound.conf

pcm.!default pulse
ctl.!default pulse

Silent crash related to libcrypto.so.1.0.0

Possible crash message:

~/.local/share/DaVinciResolve/logs/ResolveDebug.txt

...

==========[CRASH DUMP]==========

Please send this to support:

#TIME Sat Jan 23 19:42:20 2021 - Uptime 00:00:08 (hh:mm:ss)
#PROGRAM_NAME DaVinci Resolve v16.2.8.005 (Linux/Clang)

/opt/resolve/bin/resolve() [0x550e0a9]
/opt/resolve/bin/resolve() [0x550d89a]
/usr/lib/libpthread.so.0(+0x140f0) [0x7f80d90640f0]
/usr/lib/libc.so.6(+0x15df7e) [0x7f80d6af5f7e]
/opt/resolve/bin/../libs/libcrypto.so.1.0.0(lh_insert+0xad) [0x7f80d8aa2e4d]
/opt/resolve/bin/../libs/libcrypto.so.1.0.0(OBJ_NAME_add+0x65) [0x7f80d89f1855]
...

Replace /opt/resolve/libs/libcrypto.so.1.0.0 with /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1.0.0:

# cp /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1.0.0 /opt/resolve/libs/libcrypto.so.1.0.0