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Resolve’s new Cut page obviously borrows some concepts from the likes of FCP X – which is not necessarily a bad thing for quick edits. The glory with Resolve, however, is that should you start to bang up against the limitations of this kind of editing, you can flip to the Edit page and continue with the traditional NLE paradigm: the best of both worlds with just the click of a button. NEW KEYBOARD To complement Resolve 16, Blackmagic has designed a new Editor Keyboard. The unit is connected to your computer, and powered by USB-C – there’s a USB hub built in, so you get a couple of USB-A connectors for your Resolve dongle and a mouse, for example. The Editor Keyboard is a well-made
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thing – not heavy but robust, with a metal body and a plastic palm rest. The plastic mounting on the rest had snapped on the review unit, but journalists are notoriously heavy- handed with other people’s property, and the damage didn’t prevent the unit from being used. What’s more, Blackmagic sells the key caps, switches and the rest as spare parts, so you can always repair any damage. The keys themselves are full travel, nicely weighted, and certified for over a million keystrokes. The body is a pretty close colour match to the iMac Pro – indeed the keyboard is somewhat Mac orientated (the Command key is the giveaway). There are a couple of
fold-down feet at the rear, to angle the keyboard, or you can sink it into a desk for that bespoke console look. The centre of the unit is a conventional QWERTY keyboard, with function keys and a numeric keypad. The key caps are labelled and coloured with the appropriate Resolve shortcuts – the keyboard works well with both Cut and Edit pages, though some of the keys are dedicated to the former. I have always had a slight issue with keyboards of this type; personally I don’t use the default keyboard mapping of any software – I have switched back and forth between so many NLEs over the years I have a mapping that
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