Anybody using Avid Artist Control with Resolve?

[Ryan Holmes]

I use the Avid MC Color. At the price point it’s at I prefer it over the Tangent panel. The build quality is exceptional, response is pretty good via ethernet and the layout can be customized if necessary. There is no touch display on the MC Color. Every major function can be driven from the panel. It’s made me a more efficient colorist.

I’m not sure how you would use the Avid Artist Control with Resolve (as per your post). The Artist Control panel, from my understanding, is geared more towards the audio side of things (ProTools, Logic, Nuendo, Cubase, Maestro, etc.). I imagine you could bend it to fit Resolve but it’s not made for that. The MC Color obviously is. I would and do recommend the MC Color.

I thought about the Avid Artist Transport, but I didn’t get it. I don’t currently feel like it would give me much added benefit. Plus it would take up more space on my already cramped desk.

Ryan Holmes
http://www.ryanholmes.com
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[Paul Mitchell]

Hi Ryan

thanks for the response, I’m wondering of switching from wave to Avid Color

I think you can program the touch screen display on the MC Control with all the keyboard shortcuts for driving resolve, I was wondering if anyone had done that , but I realize also that having both surfaces would take too much space.

you mentioned that “the layout can be customized if necessary” how so? Do you use Eucon to remap controls?
what controls can be recustomised, can you change the way and order the menus are layed out?

from the 15 menus you can navigate I would love to have my most used 5 in the first level, can you do that?

thanks in advance

[Ryan Holmes]

You can program the MC Color in the EUCON control panel. Each button can be mapped for whatever you deem necessary. There are 9 “F” keys on the panel. Each one has a function. Then there are “Bank 1” and “Bank 2” keys which add additional functionality to the 9 “F” keys. So F1 may add a serial node, Bank 1 + F1 may add an outside node, and Bank 2 + F1 may delete the current node (if you wanted it set that way).

I imagine you could program the Control Panel for what you’re talking about, but I don’t see how you would actually drive Resolve with that surface. For example, you may be able to set a touch area to activate a power window, but you won’t have the ability to zoom, rotate, pan, tilt, soften, increase saturation, lift, gamma, gain, etc. within the vignette from the surface. Or you would have to map even more menus are and touch settings. At which point the control surface isn’t doing you any good. It’s slowing you down. The MC Color provides controls for activating a feature and then actually color grading using that feature (i.e. power window, outside node, parallel node, etc.). It seems like you’d be doing more work forcing the Avid Control Panel to “act” like a Color Panel.

Long story short if you already have a Wave I don’t think you’re gaining much by switching to Avid. They are very, very, very similar. But if you got money to burn….

Ryan Holmes
http://www.ryanholmes.com
vimeo.com/ryanholmes

[Paul Mitchell]

Hi Ryan

Thanks again for the information, great to know that there is some ability to remap some controls, unlike the wave

I think i wasn’t clear on my original post, My idea was to run both panels , Avid color and possibly avid control along side it, remapping some functions on the touch screen to avoid extra navigating on the Avid Color panel.

Also the Avid Control works great with final cut pro and media composer, Which is why I would want the avid Control panel,

I will wait until NAB comes and goes before I make a final decision, see what new things are announced

[Ryan Holmes]

Right on. Both panels makes more sense. I thought you were trying to run one instead of the other. You could probably gain some interesting functionality by combining them.

I don’t have the room for that many panels on my desktop. I would swing by their NAB booth and talk with some reps about it. See if it’s been used that way.

Ryan Holmes
http://www.ryanholmes.com
vimeo.com/ryanholmes

[Tim Tyler]

I have my Artist Transport mapped to most of the Resolve keyboard shortcuts available in Resolve’s “Control” menu.

I would imagine the Avid Control would map similarly.

Tim

[Jacob Fenn]

Paul,

Just wanted an update on your situation. Did you end up attempting Resolve with the Avid Artist Control panel?

I would assume the keyboard mapping software provided lets you control anything in Resolve that is mappable to a keyboard shortcut, but beyond that you have no further control. Would that be about the jist of it? Would you recommend any advantages in combining the two? If I could map rotary encoders to control lift/gamma/gain RGB values Etch-a-Sketch style I’d save desk space and use the Control and mouse/keyboard combo. Feel like I end up heading back to the mouse for a lot anyway. Maybe I’m just not as efficient as others with panels.

Another frustrating thing is how well the Artist Control panel interfaces with Final Cut Pro, but Adobe has left Premiere lacking in utilizing it. Audition supports EuCon from the looks of things.

Let us know if you have an update or if you really did hold out to NAB in which case you’ve likely gone the Element route 🙂

[Michael Wolf]

I am using a Euphonix MC Color with Resolve Lite 9.1.

Everything works except for the soft knobs. The only ones that work are the HSize and VSize on the Input Sizing Page. All the others do not adjust the parameter they are supposed to.

Michael Wolf
http://www.mikewolfpost.com

[Jason Osterday]

Michael,

Any further luck with this? I’m running 9.1.3 now so I’ll have to test and see. I feel with 9.1.1 I didn’t have control over some of the knobs even though the window was displaying a certain property to change.