Why are the color wheels so sensitive?

[Laco Gaal]

what kind of footage are you working with?
what kind of panel do you use?

[Mike Halper]

The files are ProRes HQ. I believe originally shot with 5D for this particular project, but I notice the same thing with Red R3Ds. It’s not as pronounced, but it still seems the controls are overly sensitive. This issue is primarily with a mouse, but also with a surface. The cursor hardly moves on the screen and the color changes a lot. This doesn’t happen with Apple Color with the same footage.

[Joseph Owens]

[Mike Halper] “it still seems the controls are overly sensitive. This issue is primarily with a mouse, but also with a surface. “

Have you tried:

Control Panel
These controls set the sensitivity of the primary grading controls for Lift, Gamma and Gain balance
and master, the Cursor trackball offset and master, and also the Hue, Saturation, and Luminance
qualifiers.

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[Mike Halper]

Yes, but that’s not what I’m referring to. I’m talking about the fact that you move the cursor just a tiny bit to have a huge affect. I’ve never needed to move it more than a millimeter or two on the screen to get the desired change, yet there’s the huge 2-inch diameter color wheel. It’s too sensitive, unless I’m doing something completely wrong.

[Robert Houllahan]

Are you using a control surface like the Artist Color or Tangent Wave? Or are you just using a mouse? If you are just using a mouse what kind and how is the sensitivity set in the control panel?

-Rob-

Robert Houllahan
Director / Colorist
Cinelab Inc.
http://www.cinelab.com

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[Mike Halper]

I have a Tangent Element and an Apple Mighty Mouse. However, it’s not an issue with those. It’s the fact that you don’t have to move the cursor on the screen far before it makes a huge difference. Is it just me? Does everyone end up with the cursors in the color wheel in the middle or as far as near to the edge, or relatively almost centered no matter what?

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Mike

[Mike Halper]

I’m probably not being clear on describing my issue. I’ll re-explain.

I primarily use a control surface (Tangent Element), but also use the mouse in instances when the Element isn’t available or I’m off site without the Element.

With the Element everything is great. I can make very subtle adjustments.

With the mouse it’s very very difficult to make small changes. When you click on the crosshairs/cursor on the color wheel and drag, the slightest movement makes a huge change in the color of the image, but the crosshairs/cursor hardly moves.

The crosshairs/cursor hardly moves with the Element as well, but at least you need to make many spins of the rollers to make the same adjustments.

It was suggested to change the mouse sensitivity (actually tracking), but then the mouse would be almost unusable for the rest of the app or the OS.

In both cases it seems the crosshairs/cursor move too little for the change you get in the image, or the change in the color is too sensitive to the movement of the crosshairs/cursor. It’s like the scale of the color wheel is not designed or programmed very well.

So is there a way to adjust the scale of the color wheels so I can move the crosshairs/cursor further before a big change is made?

[Andi Winter]

hi!

i do understand your issue. sometimes it would really makes sense to scale the color wheels offset, just to understand quicker in what direction the colors were pushed. but on the other hand it’s not big deal for me as i seldom use the 3colortab.

but as i said, when opening older projects it would be easier to recognize what i was doing then, colorwheelwise…

regards
andy

[Peter Chamberlain]

Its a lot easier to adjust in Resolve v9. Available end July.

[Mike Halper]

That’s good to hear. Thanks for that bit of info. Definitely looking forward to version 9.