Benjamin F Rheaves Jr
High recommended Davinci Resolve keyboard
Just as described. Love it! Makes editing a lot easier and I don’t have to remember all of the key shortcuts
JCPAL
JCPAL Dash DaVinci Resolve Wireless Shortcut Keyboard
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From 5 customers
Lanna
One of the best keyboards I have owned!!
I ordered the DaVinci keyboard option, and when it arrived, I was absolutely thrilled. It offers tremendous value to my work life. They included everything needed to care for the keyboard, along with plenty of useful extras.
I appreciate its versatility and its ability to be customized to my liking. The tactile feel of the keys is fantastic, and the added colors significantly enhance my ability to locate keys quickly. I can confidently say that I love the quality, sound, and functionality of this keyboard.
EC Tsutsui
Advanced Keyboard
Coming from an intermediate user of DaVinci Resolve, this keyboard is clearly built for advanced users, not casual hobbyists. The learning curve is real—hotkeys take time to commit to muscle memory, but once you do, the speed difference is dramatic. Repeated tasks like trimming, cutting, or extending edits quickly become second nature when mapped to dedicated keys. Over time you start thinking less about menus and more about flow, which is exactly what a tool like this is designed for.
This isn’t meant for someone who just wants to cut together a family vacation slideshow with background music. It’s designed for granular editing workflows, with programmable functions, swappable keycaps, and profiles that work across both Mac and PC. It’s a professional-leaning tool that rewards time invested in mastering it.
The build quality is solid. Key swapping is smooth, the lights are about what you’d expect from a gaming keyboard—nothing distracting but plenty functional—and no extra software is required to get started. It’s truly plug and play. I’ve stuck with the wired USB connection for stability, but it also works wirelessly with the included dongle, which makes it versatile depending on your setup.
The only drawbacks are worth mentioning. There’s no wrist rest included, though the keyboard does have adjustable tilt feet to help with ergonomics. And with so many hotkeys, it’s not something you’ll master in a weekend. For me, it’s going to take weeks or even months before I can take advantage of every function without looking down. But every new shortcut I commit to memory makes editing faster and more enjoyable.
For advanced DaVinci Resolve users, this is a smart investment in efficiency. For beginners, it will likely feel overwhelming. As far as being a keyboard, it’s top tier and worthy of high APM gaming.
K C WIS
For the new Davinci Resolve user looking for help this is intimidating
Learning to use a video editor is dificult enough. I decided to start working on Davinci Resolve so that our church does not have to pay for a subscription. It is also one of the most recommended and capable editors out there. the learing is daunting and when I saw this keyboard I thought it would be a nice way to focus on the editing and less on the shortcut key combos. That may still be true but holy cow, this keyboard is crazy busy. I still hope to use this keyboard but I will have to learn a lot more.
What I have learned so far---I can use this keyboard simultaneously with my normal keyboard. When I am doing some editing I can pick this up and use it then go back to my regular keyboard for typing on. It works on bluetooth, 2.4ghz dongle, or USB wired connection. It can be further customized using a third party app called VIA to manage the key customization. And being an open source app, VIA is also going to be a challenge to learn. One of the first things apparently is changing some of the code to create a key map. Yikes. I just want to use the shortcuts already on the keyboard. I really like the keyboard feel and the plain typing is easy. As I learn more in Davinci Resolve I hope I can integrate this keyboard too. Big uphill climb. I just want it to work for DR, I will probably never use VIA. So far it appears that just using it, once I find the key with the right command is easy enough. But the user guide gives me few instructions and talks too much about making changes through VIA. Will push on and hopeffully I will update this review with additional stars.
Jim C.
Not for everyone wanting to do custom keys
This custom keyboard for DaVinci Resolve film editing is from the JCPAL Store. I set it up on Windows 10, running DaVinci Resolve version 20.1.
The keyboard is mechanical with decent feel. Unfortunately the key caps are solid and do not let the backlight show through them.
Other companies' keycap designs have transparent markings on top, and those allow the numbers, special characters and icons to glow in a darkened room. Dark editing rooms are common for film, and audio editing.
I could not read these JCPAL keycap symbols or letters in the evening in a dark room. All my other editing rooms have keyboards with through-the-key illumination, or extra large high contrast keys. For instance, my Stream Deck USB controllers have bright illumination that you can read in any lighting condition.
This keyboard is shortened with fewer than the standard 123 keys. I tested this JCPAL keyboard with a standard keyboard attached to the same computer because I am used to a full keyboard.
The included user guide is incomplete. One needs to find the JCPAL website and navigate to their Dash Guide page to find their User Guide as well as the VIA Definition File to download to your workstation.
JCPAL uses the "usevia app" from the GitHub community for downloading key definitions to their keyboard. But their shortcut macros are downloaded from their own website. So you have to constantly go back and forth between the usevia website and the JCPAL website to setup the initial DaVinci Resolve mappings, as well as all custom keys.
The choice of "usevia" Java script web service in specific browsers may not be allowed in a secure networked LAN environment or even on workstations that have high security enabled.
It took some time to figure these tools out as they do not follow typical installation conventions. I can now do keyboard mappings, but I don't think most creative people are willing to go through all the cryptic steps to do them.
The "usevia" utility on GitHub is primarily designed be used by developers / programmers – not necessarily end users.
What is missing is an installation package and a desktop version of "usevia" inside a shell program that has the JCPAL key definitions that can easily remap individual keys graphically. I would rate this product two stars higher if they had that. If they included keycaps that are illuminated through the top, I would rate it even higher.