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Earlier this year I had the opportunity to spend an extended amount of time with the DaVinci Resolve Advanced Panel. The name speaks for itself as it is the most advanced color grading panel Blackmagic Design has to offer. There are no manuals or tutorials for the panel, as it is designed to be taught in an apprenticeship setting, which is the environment I had the opportunity to learn it in. My mentor gave me free range to experiment with the panel and use it for projects, which enabled me to gain an understanding of how it works in a professional colorist’s workflow. By the end of my time in that program I had gotten down a lot of muscle memory for most major functions I would use every day on the board, but in honesty I’ve probably only scratched the surface. There is just so much to this panel, it amazes me, and it’s really hard now to grade with any other panel.

While I was in that program I also got to go hands on with the Mini Panel, which is what most freelance colorists use. That panel is really well built too and I’d maybe consider getting one at some point should my work call for it. It’s significantly cheaper at $2,500 as opposed to the $30K price tag of the Advanced Panel, but still has a ton of features. Currently I own the 2024 Micro Color Panel and it does nearly everything I need it to. Pairing it with a stream deck to navigate through the menus of the color tab gets me most of the way to where I can use my mouse and keyboard minimally.

Since I’ve had the opportunity to use pretty much every color panel with the exception of the original micro panel from 2017, I figured I’d make a video comparing all of them in case anyone would find it helpful. https://youtu.be/r9HGrCsrBvk

The conclusion I came to was that for most people the 2024 Micro Color Panel is by far the best value, there’s just so much you can do with it. But I’m curious to hear what other people think… What panel is your favorite?

Earlier this year I had the opportunity to spend an extended amount of time with the DaVinci Resolve Advanced Panel. The name speaks for itself as it is the most advanced color grading panel Blackmagic Design has to offer. There are no manuals or tutorials for the panel, as it is designed to be taught in an apprenticeship setting, which is the environment I had the opportunity to learn it in. My mentor gave me free range to experiment with the panel and use it for projects, which enabled me to gain an understanding of how it works in a professional colorist’s workflow. By the end of my time in that program I had gotten down a lot of muscle memory for most major functions I would use every day on the board, but in honesty I’ve probably only scratched the surface. There is just so much to this panel, it amazes me, and it’s really hard now to grade with any other panel.

While I was in that program I also got to go hands on with the Mini Panel, which is what most freelance colorists use. That panel is really well built too and I’d maybe consider getting one at some point should my work call for it. It’s significantly cheaper at $2,500 as opposed to the $30K price tag of the Advanced Panel, but still has a ton of features. Currently I own the 2024 Micro Color Panel and it does nearly everything I need it to. Pairing it with a stream deck to navigate through the menus of the color tab gets me most of the way to where I can use my mouse and keyboard minimally.

Since I’ve had the opportunity to use pretty much every color panel with the exception of the original micro panel from 2017, I figured I’d make a video comparing all of them in case anyone would find it helpful. https://youtu.be/r9HGrCsrBvk

The conclusion I came to was that for most people the 2024 Micro Color Panel is by far the best value, there’s just so much you can do with it. But I’m curious to hear what other people think… What panel is your favorite?

I’m trying to build a custom stream deck setup for editing in DaVinci Resolve with my new Stream Deck Plus, and I’m running into some hiccups with the knobs and mapping them to slidable controls in the software. What I’m really looking for is a way to emulate a click and drag in the numerical value boxes adjacent to the sliders for tools in resolve, but haven’t found a simple/straightforward way to do it. I’ve seen it done before but with no documentation as to how. In the video I’ve attached to this post I showcase what I’ve done so far, which is use keyboard maestro to program actions bound to key binds where it moves the mouse to an input box, double clicks, and then uses the shift+up arrow to essentially nudge the numbers up, executing those actions dozens of times in a row. It works pretty decent for certain controls that don’t have a wide range of numerical values, but there are times when I wish I could emulate a click and drag because it moves so slow for wider ranges… anyone have any insight/recommendations? I think another concern is that I’ll run out of keyboard shortcuts sooner or later too for keyboard maestro.