DaVinci Resolve 8.2 support for Tangent Element Panels Menus and Controls

[Peter Chamberlain]

We have just posted on the BMD support site the 'Tangent Element Panels - Menus and Controls' details as applicable to the recently released DaVinci Resolve 8.2 for Mac and Windows.

http://www.blackmagic-design.com/sup...id=4448&os=mac

Peter

[M Most]

I sure would like to have seen the ability to map the offset controls to the trackball on the multifunction panel............. :-(

[Peter Chamberlain]

Thanks for feedback Mike. Always good.

[Timo Teravainen]

I didn't seem to find what the trackball and ring are for on the multifunction panel..

[Rob Ruffo]

I think I prefer the way the qualifiers were split on the Wave - you had all the Hue Controls and Luma on the same page, with Saturation separated. This way, with Luma on its own page, seems less fast to me - unless I am not understanding something.

Question: Can you mix and match a Tangent with just one extra Element panel?

[jake blackstone]

Question: Can you mix and match a Tangent with just one extra Element panel?

I can't see how, as there are separate panel choices in Resolve preferences.
Ha, Peter beat me to it

[M Most]

I think I prefer the way the qualifiers were split on the Wave - you had all the Hue Controls and Luma on the same page, with Saturation separated. This way, with Luma on its own page, seems less fast to me - unless I am not understanding something.

There are a few things I see in the mappings that seem a bit counterproductive. For instance, node tree navigation is in the "A" menus on the multifunction panel, but node operations (disable, delete, add serial, add parallel, etc.) are in the "B" menus. Also, I don't seem to see a single button operation for adding a power window enabled node (i.e., "Node +CPW), which is mapped on the Wave, for instance, as an "alt" operation. But the most obvious omission for me - also omitted on the Wave - is direct access to stored correction registers. In all honesty, though, this would probably require another panel to be really effective and available full time.

Not to mention that at some point, asking to have all of these things on a $3500 panel set is probably a bit unrealistic anyway. The DaVinci panels - where none of the things I've mentioned here and earlier are even issues - are looking better and better for those of us who value efficiency. You really do get what you pay for.

[Rob Ruffo]

There are a few things I see in the mappings that seem a bit counterproductive. For instance, node tree navigation is in the "A" menus on the multifunction panel, but node operations (disable, delete, add serial, add parallel, etc.) are in the "B" menus. Also, I don't seem to see a single button operation for adding a power window enabled node (i.e., "Node +CPW), which is mapped on the Wave, for instance, as an "alt" operation. But the most obvious omission for me - also omitted on the Wave - is direct access to stored correction registers. In all honesty, though, this would probably require another panel to be really effective and available full time.

Not to mention that at some point, asking to have all of these things on a $3500 panel set is probably a bit unrealistic anyway. The DaVinci panels - where none of the things I've mentioned here and earlier are even issues - are looking better and better for those of us who value efficiency. You really do get what you pay for.

Agreed, but just for fun I am going to write up what I would like as a config for all those buttons and knobs. The Wave Resolve mapping, though no full BM panel by any means, makes really efficient use of the available hardware. One might say "Gee, I wish there were more buttons/knobs" but one rarely says "I wish this were organized differently". One exception is that low sat high sat in qualifiers should be mapped to page 01 of qualifiers, in what are now two empty knob slots. With the ALT button, I could get to low sat soft, high sat soft with the same knobs. Page 02 of qualifiers could remain the same (with all the Sat qualifier controls on it together) - there's no problem having redundancy and sometimes it helps efficiency.

[M Most]

I don't know what kind of API Tangent may or may not be providing, but one good answer to a lot of this would be to have a default set of mappings, but provide for user remapping of all functions. Assimilate Scratch does this and while it starts everyone off with the same configuration (thus providing some degree of standardization), it also allows for customization by the user for things that they may use more often than other users (hence my previous mentioning of mapping offsets to a trackball). Custom remapping is, in theory, also available with the MC Color, but I've found that it introduces some problems when the custom remap conflicts with a programmed mapping, and the only way to resolve the conflict is to try various shift key combinations that are not always consistent - thus defeating the whole point of having the custom remapping in the first place.

Control panels are ultimately a pretty personal thing. Besides, if I were to give Peter and Rohit real feedback here, I'd probably want to talk about things like a contrast control, variable pivots, highlight mode for curve controls, edge windows, and a more flexible ACES implementation much more than mappings on cheap panels....

[Peter Chamberlain]

I think your question is, can you mix a wave with an element and the answer would be no. Different protocol.
Keep the feedback coming. The panel is new and field experience is still in its rapid growth stage.
Peter