No matter how many times I’ve fiddled with settings or hoped to the Lord Above that it’d just work so I didn’t have to reload the program, it would never work that way. If you plug this in after you’ve started Resolve, it won’t detect it. However, on a negative front, we have to talk about the connectivity and actual point of the device. I think Resolve would overcompensate for how fast I was spinning the knob at times, as it would immediately assume 64 times speed and I’d miss my cue, but immediately swinging it the other way compensated for that.

The wheel is a joy to use, offering a tactile and easy way to just get through all this footage and even being surprisingly precise in doing so. Test edit with the Speed Editor, shot on Fujifilm X-T30, XC35mm – read more about that here It does raise an issue with the Cut page’s overall user interface design, as it’s a very weird software patch to put out an entire piece of hardware for it – which is what this feels like.īut it does feel good.

While it might seem counterintuitive to have an entire dedicated piece of hardware for a singular page, once you lay your hands on it and begin to actual edit, it makes total sense. It takes some getting used to, but why bother when you can just manhandle the project in the Edit page instead? Everything feels inverted, with the mouse wheel scrolling up to go down, etc. The main issue here is that the Cut page on a mouse and keyboard feels – notice the current tense – terrible. You can then re-edit to finesse the final product on the Edit page. The Cut page brought with it a whole new way to edit video in the program, stripping it back to the absolute basics and creating a virtualisation of the classic cutting room floor, complete with a ‘source tape’ button that would string all your footage together.

Blackmagic design speed editor