But I am beginning to soften on that a bit. Yes, for the most part, I do and I even did a talk on the NAB show floor a few years ago that centered on using a generic keyboard. But don’t you advise against using color-coded and pre-printed “editing keyboards?” A few years ago PVC had an article about the Editors Keys backlit editing keyboards that go into detail about their keyboards so I won’t go into much of that here. The backlit version has keys that are weighted heavy enough and produce enough resistance that they make typing just enough work to make it satisfying.

They are well constructed and easy to type on. To make things easier to understand many of the tools are grouped by color.Įditors Keys keyboards are very high quality. The keyboard is backlit and has “over 200 keyboard shortcuts” that run across a lot of the Resolve application. This $128 keyboard is a full size extended keyboard with a dedicated keypad and all the F-keys you need. It wasn’t long after that review that I discovered there was another DaVinci Resolve editor keyboard when a package arrived on my doorstep containing a DaVinci Resolve 16 Keyboard from Editors Keys. I’m not doing enough dedicated craft editing in Resolve to justify the cost. Once I got my hands on one for a proper review I still really liked what I saw and what BMD created. I tried to explain why while we were all still at NAB 2019.

When the Blackmagic introduced the Resolve Editor Keyboard I was immediately intrigued by this unique tool purpose-built for editors.