The Color Wheels Mystery …

[Mike Bonner]

Well, looks like they quietly fixed it. Can we end the debate and call it a bug now?

Still no panel support, but CommandPost is working great.

[Robin S. kurz]

[Mike Bonner] “Can we end the debate and call it a bug now”

So you can say with certainty that it wasn’t an intended approach, they simply gave into complaints? We’ll probably never know for sure either way. But yeah, it can be ended.

And how do you know that panel support is Apple’s and not the OEM’s job in the form of drivers etc.? Have you spoken to e.g. Tangent?

– RK

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[Mike Bonner]

Hey Robin,

Yeah, I don’t know whose responsible for implementing the support, I just didn’t see any native options for communicating with a control surface in the latest FCPX update.

However, Tangent posted on their website their partnership with a 3rd party app to allow their surfaces to work in X:

“We’ll also be showing some new technology demonstrators in action:
CommandPost – a partner application which allows our panels to operate many controls in Apple Final Cut Pro X, including the new Color Wheels, via the Tangent Mapper.”

This post is what made me have a look at CommandPost. In addition to panel support, they also add a lot of other great added functionality to X.

I’m just very pleased that I can use these tools now in X. It will speed up my workflow, and I don’t need to look at idle balls on my desk while color correcting.

[Robin S. kurz]

[Mike Bonner] “CommandPost – a partner application which allows our panels to operate many controls in Apple Final Cut Pro X, including the new Color Wheels, via the Tangent Mapper.””

For one, CommandPost is NOT an “application”, it’s a HACK. A term Tangent won’t of course use. And from what I’ve been hearing, I would highly discourage you from installing it on 10.4.1. Or even in general. As enticing the few things it offers may be (mostly gimmicks imho). If issues come up, you’ll have no way of knowing what’s “real” and what might just be CP doing something it shouldn’t.

If I preferred a long list of shoddily implemented features (of which the vast majority I don’t even need) above stability… I’d be using PPro. ????

– RK

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