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Please Support Element Remapping.
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There is more of them that are not logical in every day use i’d say.
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Margus
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+1 just got a element and yes i agree , i was faster on the wave, i feel like a the element was not mapped by a working colorist. remapping needs to be a option so we can work more efficient.
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My opinion (and I have no idea if this is true, just a hunch) is that the mapping is buried pretty deep within the software, and it would take far more effort than you might think to remap it. My suspicion is that if they were to allow complete customization of panel mapping, the commands would get slowed down having to go through sort of an “interpreter,” and there’d be a delay every time you hit one button and then got the desired response.
What I think BMD could do in the meantime is simply to map the existing panels better. No doubt, Tangent could assist with this and come up with better placement and menu order than currently exists.
I’ve used the daVinci panels, the Wave panels, the MC Color panel, and also tons of previous color panels (Topsy, Amigo, Arcas, old daVinci Classic, daVinci 2K, Pogle Platinum, etc.), and I can eventually get used to anything. What’s helped me with the MC Color is having the P.I. Engineering XKeys panel, which is just a macro-firing device that can store menu selections and key clicks. Having that has cut my mousing around down by half. I would say it saves me more than 20% in session time, as well as helping to avoid carpal tunnel syndrome. It takes a lot of time to program it, but once you’ve mastered it it’s pretty useful.
Not a solution — just a workaround, but a useful one. My biggest suggestion for Elements would be to have the most-often used menu/pot commands already at the top. I’ve found I have to jump 2 or 3 levels deep to get to the things I really need the most, but no doubt, everybody would have different ideas as to what these menus would be.
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YES for !@#! sake yes. Please, BMD folks that are monitoring this thread do not discount this as cranky colorists who will never be happy with a single layout. This is a HUGE issue.
Yes this subject has been brought up countless times before, and there’s a reason for that.
I would easily pay $10K for ability to remap the elements, or even better, just to have a decent default mapping. Its not just the price of the big panels thats unappealing, but the form factor.
Obviously everyone’s definition of “decent” is different, and everyone will always have their own 2 cents to add, BUT no one could possibly use the existing mapping for a job and think its good. Can you get used to it eventually? Of course.
SAT, HUE, CONTRAST, OFFSET, BLUR/SHARPEN should all without doubt be available without going into sub-menus… ideally so should HIGHLIGHT / SHADOW and maybe RGB lift/gamma/gain.
Really the main thing is to design the layout with the intention of absolutely minimizing the amount of shifting between pages and sub-menus. Seems obvious but…
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If you’re willing to pay $10K, then you should look into buying Nucoda. Yes, i know this is Resolve thread, but I’m tired of everyone whining about mapping, but no one is willing to do anything about it. Nucoda is $6700 and you can map anything you want. As far as Resolve goes, I got tired of waiting for MBD and now I’m using two panels at the same time- MC Color and Elements. With those two I too can map Resolve to whatever I want. Look into it…
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