BeatEdit for DaVinci Resolve is a music beat-detection tool by mamoworld designed to identify beats accurately and help editors cut video and music directly inside DaVinci Resolve. Instead of relying on waveform inspection and manually guessing suitable edit points, BeatEdit analyzes the music, detects its main beats, and represents them through markers, beat-click audio, or subtitles. It can also assist with restructuring a music track to make it longer, shorter, or rearranged while keeping cuts aligned to musically appropriate beat positions.

KEY FEATURES

• Automatically analyzes music and detects the main beats, providing clear reference points for video and audio edits.

• Creates color-coded markers so editors can distinguish and select useful beats directly on the timeline.

• Offers four ways to work with detected beats in DaVinci Resolve: Timeline Markers, Clip Markers, Audio Beat Clicks, and Subtitles.

• Audio Beat Clicks work like a metronome and are recommended by mamoworld when editing the music itself. Resolve can place markers only on frames, while beat-click audio makes it possible to locate cuts with sub-frame accuracy.

• Supports beat-synchronized editing for music videos, trailers, promos, montages, highlights, social videos, and other projects where visual pacing is driven by a soundtrack.

• Helps make music tracks longer or shorter by cutting at appropriate beats, allowing transitions between sections to sound more seamless.

• Music sections can be rearranged so a beat drop or other important musical event occurs at the desired point in the edit.

• BeatEdit uses a professional beat-detection algorithm developed by researchers at the University of Porto and the University of Victoria.

COMPATIBILITY & TECHNICAL INFORMATION

• Compatibility listed by aescripts: DaVinci Resolve 17, 18, 19, 20, and 21.

• Through DaVinci Resolve 19.0.3, BeatEdit can work with both Resolve Free and Resolve Studio.

• Starting with DaVinci Resolve 19.1, BeatEdit is compatible only with Resolve Studio because Blackmagic Design introduced limitations in the Free version that prevent scripts such as BeatEdit from creating their user interfaces.

• Users who specifically need BeatEdit with Resolve Free can use DaVinci Resolve 19.0.3 or earlier according to the developer's current guidance.

• Operating systems: Windows, macOS, and Linux. Linux compatibility was introduced with BeatEdit 1.1.000.

• Native Apple Silicon support was added in version 1.2.000.

• Support for 96 kHz audio files was added in version 1.2.001.

• Version 1.2.004 added support for audio files containing more than two channels and addressed workflows where the current timeline frame rate differs from the project frame rate.

• The Mac App Store version of DaVinci Resolve does not properly support third-party tools such as BeatEdit. mamoworld recommends installing Resolve directly from Blackmagic Design instead.

• BeatEdit for DaVinci Resolve uses FFmpeg under the LGPLv2.1 license.

VERSION, PRICE & LICENSE

• The latest version currently listed on the product page is BeatEdit 1.2.007, released March 26, 2025, which fixes issues involving audio files containing an “&” character in their file path.

• Listed price when checked: $49.99 USD.

• A Free Trial is available.

• BeatEdit is licensed software rather than a royalty-free media asset. Its EULA states that the standard license permits installation and use of one copy, while multi-user or multi-computer use requires the appropriate number of licenses.

• mamoworld also offers separate BeatEdit versions for Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Audition; this edition is specifically designed for the DaVinci Resolve workflow.