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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

User Preset buttons - Build 16

I think Jay's on to something, that way we can all have exactly what we want. This option would also work if menu structures changed without too much change to the ways that button assignments work, all they would do was memorize your settings.

Brilliant.
 
Yes.. Jay has a pretty good idea there, but as he imagined, its a little more time consuming than we can handle right now.
 
bris-vegas said:
I think that way too many of these requests are getting to complicated. One push, two push, three clicks here and there....just go to the damn menu!
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You could be talking about a computer interface... but we all know how much faster someone gets around the computer with using both mouse buttons and double clicks vs. going to the menu...
 
Yes, I like Jay's idea. VERY SMART.
It would be really easy on the ACs if they could make 2 presets. Most often it would be a speed change. We bounce back and forth all the time.
Very common on the Arri cameras. (the norm/ps switch)
IMO, the 3 buttons on the EVF are perfect. They are all valuable tools that you'd want at your disposal when looking through the finder, and very intuitive, although I suppose being able to assign these as well would make the camera more flexible.
I put a Brother P-Touch label on each button on mine.
Jarred, do the boys in the lab coats think Jay's idea could be implemented?
Thanks for asking us all.
Cheers,
Harry
 
Thanks for noticing guys.. I needed a little ego boost right now (Client is beating me to death).

How about this as a temp solution Jarred (I'm SURE this has been suggested, but oh well)

How about side buttons 1 and 2 as a complete profile. Set up your camera in one fashion (4K regular speed) and press and hold button one to save it. Then set it up in another fashion (2K ovrcrank or something similar) and press and hold button two to save it.

This is a watered down version of my earlier idea which I still like more, but may be easier to implement for the time being.

As for the other buttons. We need a full screen menu with a complete list of all on screen features so we can just quicly scroll through them and highlite what we want for each button.

In fact, perhaps that's the idea to save the time.

A full screen list of all on screen functions to choose from
then a 2nd full screen list of all camera setup functions to choose from.

For the varispeed menu, I'd pick three frame rates for 2K and 3K so as to keep the list from getting too big. Beyond that, you have to do it yourself.

Just my opinion.

Jay
 
Shooting profiles. Save the ones you use the most.
All settings changeable with one click.
 
If on the camera were programmable I would choose:

1. The focus assist of my choice, (false color, edge highlight, etc)
2. zoom (1:1 crop if possible) to aid in focus.

If we could have the choice to leave #2 engaged while recording then that would also be pretty cool.

I'd leave the body buttons devoted to EXPOSURE and or FOCUS ASSIST and leave resolution changes and such on the back of the camera.

LIKE THIS:

BUTTON 1 menu choices
(pick one of these for button one and once you have selected ISO then the button will emulate what turning the joystick would do. It would just start at 100 and as you click go up 125, 25-, 320, 400, 640, etc) same for the others. Once you have selected then clicking the button is like turning through the menus with the joystick.

toggle ISO
toggle SHUTTER
toggle METERING
toggle FOCUS ASSIST TOOLS
toggle CROP level
toggle FRAME GUIDES (great for those commercial shoots)

BUTTON 2 Menu choices (pick one)
toggle ISO
toggle SHUTTER
toggle METERING
toggle FOCUS ASSIST TOOLS
toggle CROP level
toggle FRAME GUIDES (great for those commercial shoots)

This is pretty user configurable.

Right now if button two was a 32K to 56K toggle, that would be better.

David
 
Bump.

Jarred,

Have you guys decided which of the suggestions in this thread are doable for build 16?

David
 
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