THE BEST Post Production TOOLS of 2025
BEST Post-Production Gear for 2025
Whether you are looking to upgrade your home studio or streamline your editing workflow, having the right tools makes all the difference. Based on a rundown of top gear for 2025, here are 9 essential picks for post-production professionals. Some of the links below are affiliates, that means you help fund the channel at no extra cost to you when you use those.
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Blackmagic Video Assist 12G Monitor - https://geni.us/PrTKkej
DaVinci Resolve Editor Keyboard - https://geni.us/editorkeyboard
Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve Micro Color Panel
For colorists looking to improve efficiency, this hardware builds muscle memory and allows for faster, more precise work thanks to tactile controls.
Portability: It is lightweight, fits easily in a backpack, and works wirelessly over Bluetooth or via USB-C, making it perfect for on-site work.
Hidden Power: Two shift buttons in the lower left act as modifiers, essentially doubling the functionality of other buttons.
Workflow Example: You can add a power window, hold shift, and hit the window button again to track in both directions immediately.
Hidden Feature: In offset mode with HDR pallet open, the LGG wheels controls HDR exposure, temperature, and tint for photometric color space aware corrections.
JCPAL DaVinci Resolve Wireless Shortcut Keyboard
This mechanical keyboard is a versatile and budget-friendly alternative to official hardware.
Connectivity: It is Bluetooth enabled with three slots, plus a 2.4GHz dongle, allowing connection to four devices total.
Design: The keycaps are shallower than typical mechanical keyboards, making them comfortable for typing regular text and emails. It features large printed text and symbols for shortcuts.
Customization: It supports macro customization through the open-source application VIA, operating similarly to a Stream Deck.
Value: It costs one-fifth the price of Blackmagic Design’s full-sized editor keyboard.
OWC 1M2 Thunderbolt Enclosure
Described as the best external drive available, this silver metal enclosure serves as a USB 4/Thunderbolt case for NVMe SSDs.
Speed: It delivers over 3000 MB/s read and write speeds, which is more than four times faster than older Samsung T7 drives.
Performance: The speed improves timeline feel and makes working with high-resolution footage and large data rates much easier. This is the best cache drive setup you can use for DaVinci Resolve.
Western Digital Black 4TB SN850X
To populate the OWC enclosure, the recommended drive is the Western Digital Black 4TB SN850X.
Capacity: 4TB is considered a "sweet spot" regarding price versus available cache.
Usage: It functions excellently as a major cache drive or a main media drive.
NOBE Omniscope
Omniscope is dedicated video scope software that operates as an OFX plugin within DaVinci Resolve. It allows for objective evaluation of pixel color.
Key Features:
False Color: Helps adjust exposure similarly to an on-set monitor.
Skin Tone View: Assists in dialing in white balance to prioritize skin tones.
Twin Peaks: A scope that displays saturation and balance across the luminance range, described as if a waveform and vectorscope "made a baby".
Setup: It is highly customizable and ideally lives on a portable monitor next to your reference display. You can run it as an OFX plugin on a timeline node on the resolve color page.
Earthworks Ethos Microphone
Technology: Unlike dynamic microphones (like the SM7B), the Ethos is a small diaphragm condenser microphone.
Audio Quality: Because it is a condenser, it captures higher frequencies better, making spoken word easier to understand.
Connectivity: It is an XLR microphone but does not require significant gain, making it compatible with almost any USB interface.
Pro Tip: You can split the XLR signal to send audio to both a camera and screen recording software simultaneously for easy syncing. I use this ARTcessories Pro Split.
Blackmagic Design Video Assist 12G Recording Monitor
This monitor recently added a major feature for Sony Cinema Camera users.
VFX Capability: When attached to a Sony FX3 or FX30, it can record Blackmagic RAW 12 bit color, directly from the HDMI cable.
Fidelity: This allows for 12-bit recording (68 billion colors), eliminating internal noise reduction and compression artifacts, which is ideal for green screen work.
Utility: It can also be used as an external screen recorder (ProRes LT in 4K) to take the encoding load off your computer during tutorials.
Boris FX Mocha Pro
Mocha Pro is objectively considered the best planar tracker in the world.
Performance: It provides better solves on difficult real-world shots than the native tracking tools in Resolve.
Integration: It works as an OFX plugin in the Fusion page or as standalone software.
Collaboration: You can export tracking data as a standard point tracker or corner pin, allowing users who do not own Mocha Pro to utilize the data.
DaVinci Resolve Editor Keyboard
Dubbed the "Lamborghini of editing tools," this is a premium, full-sized mechanical keyboard.
Hardware: It is big, heavy, wired, and features a weighted jog search dial that is highly valuable for editors.
Layout: It combines a speed editor and a regular keyboard, featuring large source/timeline buttons and interactive trim controls.
Essential Keys: It includes useful keys like F2 (insert black) and F3 (freeze frame).
Bonus: Purchasing this keyboard includes a license for the studio version of DaVinci Resolve.
Support Me (Chadwick): If you want to geek out on DaVinci Resolve, you can check out "Creative Video Tips" shirts, including one that states "Nodes > Layers".
