![]() Over the course of my career, I’ve used a variety of other portable colour grading control surfaces and they always seemed to have a bit of a plastic feel, with track balls that were more like ping pong balls and bodies that would slide around on desks as I graded. By the end of the first week, though, I felt that that extra weight was worth it. With the Micro Panel, I had an extra 5kg added to that, which certainly didn’t make mine the lightest of bags. As both an editor and a colourist, I frequently need to travel to work in-house at a variety of facilities, and my personal set up is normally literally just me and my laptop. My only question was, how did that translate into a real-life professional pipeline? I decided to use the Micro on freelance projects over the course of several weeks to find out.įor me, one of the most crucial features to put to the test was the panel’s portability. When it was first announced, Blackmagic emphasized the fact that it was portable, and on their website even mentioned how easy it would be to fit next to a keyboard for simultaneous editing and color grading work. I was also excited by the fact that unlike the larger Mini and the Advanced panel, the new Micro panel seemed to be quite obviously aimed at someone exactly like me. As a professional freelancer by trade, I’ve used Blackmagic Design’s large Advanced Panel to colour grade at several client facilities in the past, so when they came out with two new smaller, far cheaper panels earlier this year – the Mini Panel and the Micro Panel – I was excited about what I could expect in terms of Blackmagic build quality. First things first – as soon as I took my new Micro Panel out of its box, my initial thought was: wow, this thing is bullet proof. I incorporated the Micro panel aimed at indie professionals into my own workflow to see what all the excitement was about. Blackmagic have been on a bit of a roll lately with the announcement of a public beta for DaVinci Resolve 14 and two new small colour grading control panels.
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