i thinks that’s the Vectorscope (Monochrome) ;)

we still have one of them and someday i’m gonna put an Ipad as a Screen in there and stream my Broadcast on that one

Well spotted with it hiding there in the corner.  Nope not using as a licence server, but I am using the 20mb disk as a network framestore ;). Not that I have an olde computer graveyard, but I also have an Amiga 1200 tricked out with a 40mhz 68040 processor card with 16mb RAM and a 180mb hard disk. Really hoping that Autodesk release ‘Smoke on Amiga’ just after Newtek return with LightWave 11. Any news of a release?

Well spotted with it hiding there in the corner.  Nope not using as a licence server, but I am using the 20mb disk as a network framestore ;). Not that I have an olde computer graveyard, but I also have an Amiga 1200 tricked out with a 40mhz 68040 processor card with 16mb RAM and a 180mb hard disk. Really hoping that Autodesk release ‘Smoke on Amiga’ just after Newtek return with LightWave 11. Any news of a release?

@starscream4. Like this?!

http://dvice.com/archives/2010/06/macintosh-ipad.php

Hi CB_VanCity,

Many thanks for the headsup on the button assignments. I’ll defer to your experience with as a colourist and Lustre user and play about with reassigning the buttons!

Yes I love using these two panels (the transport and the Color). Just so much more ‘feely’ than using the mouse or pen. Love the immediacy of using just about four controls simultaneously (a ball in each hand and then quickly flipping to black and white levels) and being able to concentrate on the screen. Am not sure what I am missing with the control mapping so I wouldn’t mind hearing what you have remapped for better access. I know that I would rather flip between front and result instead of CC/CW to be able to compare the grade with original. Also in the Axis control I wish the ball and z-ring operated like a conventional DVE control. I’d love to be able to get them working as an XYZ move/rotation.

Not a great fan of the touch sensitive silver knobs. I find them really slippy and quite plasticy. I don’t feel safe with them. Apart from that I love the build quality of both controls is really impressive for the price and the displays are good and bright. Drivers are really quite flakey however (at least for me) as the computer looses connection with the panels relatively frequently.

Cheers
Tony

Heya Tony, I’m glad to hear you like the panels so much, I am a big fan as well.  I used to work on a Lustre and got used to having a panel interface for Colour Grading on that.  Those panels are much bigger, so there is just so much more you can do 100% from the panel and not have to touch the pen in a client session, except to draw custom shapes I suppose.  And I guess that’s what I was hoping for from the Euphonix setup on Smoke, but the layout is completely different.

The first thing I did was to change most of the controls for the CC soft effect because that’s where I need to work fastest.  The defaults use the big wheels for Contrast, Saturation and Hue.  Which is… unique.
I have changed them to be Offset, Gamma & Gain, and I’ve moved Cont, Sat & Hue to the knobs up top.
And now I can use F3 to F6 to bounce between Master, Shadows, Mids & Highlights and use the big wheels for Offset, Gamma & Gain for each of these.  The speed advantage of this is HUGE, I was immediately 15-20% faster.

Looking at the Transport control, I mapped the keys to include Prev/Next Transition on all tracks, and Goto In & Out, while keeping the Mark In & Out that were already there I believe.

I really hope many others are making use of these panels, I would hate to see development on them stop all together.  Grading on the Smoke may be a bit tedious at the moment, but I still prefer the quality over Resolve and want to stay on Smoke.

Although I wish I could afford a Luster, I don’t think many new companies are likely to spend that kind of money anymore.