Blackmagic Design today announced that The Associated Press (AP), the world’s leading news agency, has transitioned its global video editing platform to DaVinci Resolve Studio. The large-scale enterprise deployment includes several hundred licenses, supporting AP’s mission-critical, 24/7 global news operations and helping enable the creation of more than 1,500 video projects daily.

My take: DaVinci Resolve Studio is more than likely a one-time purchase for the AP. Whereas Adobe Premiere and Avid have subscription-based pay models. The cost savings are obvious to me. In the AP workflow, users worldwide typically select the videos they need and download them to use in the editor they’ve chosen. I believe this move is a good idea, and the savings, as I said earlier, are obvious.

“AP produces video from more than 100 countries, delivering content to thousands of broadcasters, publishers, and digital platforms every day,” said Derl McCrudden, AP vice president and head of global news production. “In support of that crucial journalism, we are working with DaVinci Resolve Studio to equip our journalists with state-of-the-art editing and production tools.”

The deployment included extensive integration with AP’s workflows and introduced several new capabilities in DaVinci Resolve Studio designed with breaking news in mind. Among the most important was Growing Transport Stream Editing, which allows journalists to begin working on live incoming video feeds directly from AP’s MAM without waiting for complete file transfers. This means video can be cut and distributed within seconds of footage arriving.

AP now uses DaVinci Resolve Studio’s cloud-based preset and graphics distribution system, including graphics templates, project settings, and export settings. This eliminates manual downloads and ensures branding and production standards are maintained across all locations.

Resolve has also been integrated with AP’s MAM to enable scalable cloud rendering. By distributing project rendering to cloud-based nodes, AP can automatically scale capacity during major news events and scale down when demand decreases. This reduces reliance on local rendering by journalists and editors, keeping workstations free for creative work and optimizing infrastructure costs.

Software management has also been simplified. With single sign-on license management, AP uses Blackmagic Cloud to monitor, assign, and redistribute Resolve licenses across its global user base.

The transition included a comprehensive training program designed for AP journalists and field operatives whose primary focus is storytelling rather than technical editing. AP super users collaborated with DaVinci Resolve Certified Trainers to develop an internal video-on-demand library, enabling staff to learn at their own pace and ensuring sustainable knowledge transfer.