Blackmagic Design is taking 20% off DaVinci Resolve Studio and its editing keyboards and color panels until November 20. Studio drops from $295 to $236, but prices rise elsewhere across 36 of the company's products.
Blackmagic Design is getting well ahead of the annual Black Friday hoopla by offering 20% off DaVinci Resolve Studio and a range of DaVinci Resolve editing keyboards and color panels until Friday, November 20.
If the timing seems slightly odd, the company says it is tying it into the AI performance gains on the latest Apple M6 and NVIDIA RTX Spark processors.
DaVinci Resolve Studio 21 is now $236 (was $295). It adds several features over and above the free edition, namely the DaVinci Neural Engine for automatic AI region tracking, stereoscopic tools, more Resolve FX filters, more Fairlight FX audio plugins, and advanced HDR grading.
The company is also applying the same discount to grading and editing control surfaces, which can add up to some substantial savings as you move up through the pricing tiers.
On the color side, the Micro Color Panel is $449 (was $559), with controls for color grading including adding windows, and connects via Bluetooth or USB-C. The Mini Panel is $1855 (was $2319), a portable panel with three high-resolution trackballs, 12 primary corrector knobs, and LCDs with menus and buttons for switching tools, adding color nodes, and HDR and secondary grading. Then there is the top of the range Advanced Panel, which falls to $27,735 from $34,665. Designed in collaboration with professional Hollywood colorists, this provides direct access to every DaVinci color correction feature and is an object of peak desire for many who work with the software.
For editing, the Speed Editor is $349 (was $435), and promises exactly what it says on the tin with a large search dial and only the keys needed for the task in hand, plus Bluetooth with battery for wireless use. The Replay Editor, designed for multi-cam editing for news cutting and live sports replay, is $445 (was $559). And the Editor Keyboard falls to $535 from $669. It is a full-sized QWERTY keyboard in a metal design, with a metal search dial with clutch plus extra edit, trim, and timecode keys, and it can be installed inset for flush mounting.
All the hardware is available while stocks last. Some might run out fairly soon, but even at a $7k discount we’d be surprised if the Advanced Panel is facing an upcoming shortage. It is lovely though...
Sadly, RAMageddon has come for Blackmagic's product range elsewhere. Cameras aren't affected yet, but there are widespread price increases across 36 different products as the ocmpany is forced to pass on memory price increases.
The average rise is 30%. but some products increase way more than that. The Blackmagic 2110 IP SDI to HDMI 12G is up close to 80%, rising from $515 to $925.
"Our suppliers tell us memory consumption is now running 60% higher than it was at the peak of the COVID shortages, and even at that level they can’t keep up," says Grant Petty, Blackmagic Design CEO. "They tell us that demand is running another 30% above what they can deliver. Put together, that means demand for memory is now about double what it was at the COVID peak.
"For a few years now we have been able to hold our prices down because we had already purchased the parts and could build from that parts stock, but that stock is now being replaced with parts bought at today’s higher prices. On the products that use a lot of memory the increase is more than we can absorb. That really shows up on the new SMPTE 2110 products, which use a lot more memory.
"So we need to adjust prices on the products most affected, but only by the minimum we need to.
"I am still not happy about this though. We are going to keep searching the open market for memory and other parts at better prices, and if we can find lower cost parts we will make sure to pass the savings on through special deals, as we’ve been doing recently. Hopefully we will get back to lowering prices as soon as parts prices come back down. We think they will."
For now though, these are the rises. And while the DaVinci Resolve Studio price cut is limited to November 20, 2026, there is no indication when these will be reversed.