They feel great… the best-feeling wheels and trackballs on a $3,000 panel I’ve used. Of course, because I am basically a kid, I had to press all the buttons and turn all the dials before I plugged it in. It’s solid enough to sit on a desk and not have to worry about it walking around while you are using it. Out of the box, the panel feels hefty but not too heavy. The Resolve Mini Panel is as close as you are going to get to professional-level color correction hardware panel without spending $30,000. In my opinion, using hardware panels eliminates almost 90 percent of the stumbling when using color correction software as opposed to using a keyboard and mouse.
If you’ve been lucky enough to use a high-end color correction panel like Blackmagic’s Advanced Panel, then you will understand just how great it feels to control Resolve with hardware. I received the Resolve Mini Panel to try out for a couple of weeks, and immediately loved it. They connect to your computer via USB 3 Type C or Ethernet. One important caveat to keep in mind is that you can only use these panels with Blackmagic’s Resolve, and Resolve must be updated to at least version 12.5.5 to function. The Micro is similar in size and functionality to the Avid Artist panel, and the Mini is similar to the center part of most high-end color correction panels. Beyond those two, you have the super high-end panels that I mentioned earlier they range from $12,000 to $29,999.īlackmagic recently added two new offerings to their pool of color correction panel hardware: the DaVinci Resolve Micro Panel and DaVinci Resolve Mini Panel. Avid offers the Artist Color panel, which also works with many apps, including Avid Media Composer, and costs about $1,300. In terms of affordable external color correction panels, Tangent makes the Ripple, Wave and Element panel sets that range from $350 to over $3,300, but work with pretty much every color correction app I can think of (even Avid if you use the Baselight plug-in). expensive) color correction/editing bay I knew that I was on the right career path.Ĭolor correction can be done without using color correction panels, but think of it like typing with one hand (maybe even one finger) - sure it can be done, but you are definitely missing out on the creative benefit of fluidity and efficiency. I’ve talked about it before, but the first time I sat in a “real” (a.k.a. If you can, reach out to someone at a post house and sit at a real color correction console it might change your career path.
If you’ve never used a color correction panel like the Tangent Element, Tangent Ripple, Avid Artist Color, or been fortunate enough to touch the super high-end FilmLight Blackboard 2, Blackmagic Advanced Panel or the Nucoda Precision Control Panel, then you don’t know what you are missing.
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