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Control surfaces and STORM

Chris Steele

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Hi guys,

Quick, unscientific, straw poll. What control surfaces do people have (or would like to have) to control STORM?
Euphonix MC Color is already supported, Tangent Wave appears to be the next obvious candidate. Let's hear who has which and would prefer to use which.
Any others?
I want to make sure we invest our development resources where they'll make the most difference to you guys.

Thanks!
 
How about keymapping for keyboards that can be toggled between normal and CC work?
The ability to use Q and W (or any two side by side keys) as 'plus' and 'minus' keys for any given parameter would be nice. Tie that in with a quick toggle step change ability (e.g. 0.1%, 1%, 5%).
 
Re control surfaces

Re control surfaces

Hi Chris,

Well we use a Tangent CP200 would love to see that. Do not really want to change to much... the surface is a nice layout and easy to use. I have wanted to use Storm especially long term... Also what I am seeing in FXPHD... I know a couple of other CP200 users who feel the same.

Here is hoping

Cheers
Brian
 
Hi Chris,

I think the wave should be your next supported option.

Many of us are currently stuck in the quandary of wanting to use Resolve, Storm, the RED tools and other software and right now Resolve doesn't support the Euphonix surface, Storm doesn't support the Tangent surface etc.

It's not practical for me to have dedicated stations for every task, and on set or in a mobile set up, it's a burden to have to manage multiple surfaces. Not to mention the additional cost.

While I like the feel of the Euphonix a bit better, I've held off purchase for as long a possible hoping that one of the panels would end up being supported across Storm / Smoke / Resolve.

I'm going to buy Storm either way, but if Foundry will commit to the Wave in the short term, I'll purchase the wave and call it all good.

Thanks again for the great communication and seeking user feedback.

All the best,

Steve
 
What do you think about mapping an track pad ? Just for people that don't have a dedicated surface panel ?
 
We have a terribly unfashionable (as of late) JL Cooper Eclipse lying around looking forlorn since we bought Resolve. Don't suppose there's any chance …
 
Have the Wave here, but find that I rarely use it -- the ergonomics are just terrible and I'm 10X faster with my keyboard and Wacom. It would be great to have support for the Wave as I know a lot of people own this unit.

Trackpad multi-touch gesture support would be handy. Lots of people are going to be mobile while using STORM.
 
An iPad app would be awesome.
 
From a facility owner POV, what I'd like to see is a developer who'd create a box or a software that would make them all compatible with all. If this is Something feasible I can imagine The Foundry doing it as software or BM as hardware.
Storm would be a nice addition to any existing suite, more if it can be used with the existing surface.

The control surfaces incompatibilities is starting to get annoying.
The cost of a grading suite is more in the colorist, the surface, the monitors, the projector, the scopes, the real estate..... than the grading software itself.

Typically a small/midsize facility would have one big suite and two smaller ones. The big one would have the high end surface and the smaller ones the smaller surfaces and depending on the stage of the project, the colorist preferred software, the budget, suites would become interchangeable.
 
The only control surfaces I use are Space Pilot Pro 3D mouse, Wacom pad and trackball mouse. Never really needed anything more. If I spend my day being a colourist I would probably invest. I do plan on it in the future though.

Of course for me it would be awesome to have the Space pilot as a control and transport device but I can imagine very few people own them so its obviously not worth while (sigh!). It would be cool I could use the spin for shuttling back and forth and the roll for frame by frame. I wish after effects would support it too. But not even Zbrush do, and that is the biggy for a device such like this. Ah well...back on topic.
 
Personally I'd prefer it if you guys just teamed with either Euphonix or Tangent and on designing either a MC Color v2 or a Wave v2 that combined the best of both worlds:

- is designed around working seamlessly with Storm (and Resolve for final color)
- has the high-quality wheels / trackballs and jog/shuttle wheel of the MC Color & MC Transport combo
- has the less cramped display, greater number of knobs, and the USB power / data connection of the Wave

That'd be lovely.

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com
 
Bruce Allen said:
Personally I'd prefer it if you guys just teamed with either Euphonix or Tangent and on designing either a MC Color v2 or a Wave v2 that combined the best of both worlds:

- is designed around working seamlessly with Storm (and Resolve for final color)
- has the high-quality wheels / trackballs and jog/shuttle wheel of the MC Color & MC Transport combo
- has the less cramped display, greater number of knobs, and the USB power / data connection of the Wave

That'd be lovely.

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com
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But would have to cross-platform...
 
Tim Hole said:
But would have to cross-platform...
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Tangent Wave already is. MC Color was designed specifically for Apple Color, so they probably saw no need for this. Since Avid now owns Euphonix I'd guess they'd want to move in the cross-platform direction too in the future.

At the moment both Resolve and Storm aren't cross-platform though (Storm soon, I hear?). I'd rather have a great control panel that works with Storm and Resolve and have to buy a Mac than have a control panel that is cross-platform but has issues and only works with Storm OR Resolve. That's just speaking personally though.

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com
 
Chris Steele said:
Hi guys,

Quick, unscientific, straw poll. What control surfaces do people have (or would like to have) to control STORM?
Euphonix MC Color is already supported, Tangent Wave appears to be the next obvious candidate. Let's hear who has which and would prefer to use which.
Any others?
I want to make sure we invest our development resources where they'll make the most difference to you guys.

Thanks!
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I just want to say I'm delighted that you are supporting Euphonix. Thank you.
 
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