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Studio Daily Blog » Poor man’s control surface
4/13/2009 at 3:44 PM by Amy Allen
Studio Daily Blog » Poor man’s control surface.
Editors should take notice of the conversation happening over on the Studio Daily Blog. It's about DIY color correction, where little tricks make a big difference. From the experts at Studio Daily:
"If you do much color correcting and/or you have ever used or been around a high-end color correction system like any DaVinci or a Quantel Pablo then you’ve probably watched with envy as the colorist controls all the action by a dedicated control panel. There’s usually some combination of trackballs, rings and knobs that a good colorist can work like an extension of their own hands. They can take control of the three trackballs and quickly work magic. Now that Apple Color has come along there’s been some third party control surfaces for that application as well. You really can’t do extensive color grading in Color without a control surface. The software was not designed to be used primarily with a mouse. You can do it, but it isn’t easy or particularly fun. But this post isn’t about a fancy-schmancy control surface with glowing trackballs and perfectly weighted knobs and dials … it’s about using a lowly little Kensington Expert Mouse (which is really a trackball and not a mouse at all) to make using something like Colorista or the Final Cut Pro 3-way color corrector just a little bit easier..."
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