But it’s solidly built - most of it’s metal - and the controls feel really good to operate. Given the price, I honestly thought it would be about a quarter the size and would be primarily made of plastic. And even better, Blackmagic loaned me one for a couple of weeks to play with.įirst impressions Frankly, I was amazed at how large the Micro Panel is. When I read about the new Blackmagic Micro Panel - the cheaper of the pair - I was intrigued because a) it was affordable and b) I wondered if it would make color grading easier, or different. Now Blackmagic has released two small work panels (the Mini and the Micro) which give you three large trackballs that are almost exactly like those found in the full-size workstation, along with many other physical controls, at a fraction of the price. If you’re doing color correction all day long a workstation will save you time. A workstation, with its many physical controls, clearly allows you to quickly adjust several different options almost immediately, which would take a considerable amount of time when working with a software control panel. Now, I’ve never used a DaVinci workstation, so I never knew whether it makes color correction any easier (as opposed to faster).
You can even download a very full version of the program for free.īut you are stuck with using your mouse to adjust the color.
Then Blackmagic acquired the software and started selling it at a greatly reduced price and without the workstation. That’s why, after years of messing with color correction tools, I still only tell people I’m a video editor.ĭaVinci Resolve has been the dominant high-end coloring application for several years, and before its acquisition by Blackmagic it was an expensive piece of software that came with a custom workstation. It’s part art and part science, and it takes practice. It can be easy to know what you want, but very hard sometimes to get “there.” In short, color correction is hard. Small adjustments in color can look right at first, then look horribly wrong when compared to another scene. When you first start playing with a three-way color corrector it can be both fun and very disorienting. I’m a video editor, not a color grader, but for most projects I have to do my own color adjustments, and I’ve been using three-way color correction tools to manipulate video color since the days of Final Cut Pro 5. Blackmagic, Color Correct, DaVinci Resolve
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