While Blackmagic Design announced its video editing software, DaVinci Resolve, would be available on the iPad in 2022, it does not support multitouch input and the Apple Pencil. There is still nothing like purpose-built hardware sometimes, however. Blackmagic announced Friday a $495 iPad-specific DaVinci Resolve Micro Color Panel that will be available worldwide in May.
The new Micro Color Panel connects to your iPad and gives you physical buttons and dials to edit video, rather than just using the touchscreen. It is about the size of a regular keyboard and has a slot to hold your iPad right in place. The panel connects to your iPad via Bluetooth or a USB-C cable.
With the Micro Color Panel, you get three roller balls and 12 knobs to easily adjust settings like brightness, colors, shadows and more without cluttering up the iPad screen. Settings that are usually only found on Blackmagic’s more expensive and larger panels are also included on the Micro for convenient editing on the go.
At just $495, the Micro Color Panel is much cheaper than Blackmagic’s other color panels too. The next smallest panel costs over $2,000. It allows video editors to have full control right at their fingertips while editing on their iPad anywhere. Blackmagic also said versions will be available in different languages so people worldwide can use it.
The new DaVinci Resolve Micro Color Panel seems like the perfect companion for the DaVinci Resolve software on iPad. Its affordability and portable design finally unlocks true professional video editing directly on the iPad.
