How to Optimize Tangent Control Surfaces for Premiere Pro CC

Liked your mapping changes, some of which I’ve already done, great minds and all, right? Been trying to figure out how to combine secondaries into usable LUTs/Looks that can be applied without needing get to go through 5 instances of Lumetri. Like shadow & highlight desat to neutralize them a bit as I’m used to doing in SpeedGrade or Resolve. Thinking that then I can make a shadow neutralize cube, a highlight neutralize, then apply shadow neut in Input LUT slot, highlight in Creative Look slot, save as a LUT, and use say LUT Buddy to apply that after Lumetri in the effects panel. Rinkydink but doable. And other such secondary tasks I do often can also be turned into Looks/LUT’s and stored for later use.

One of the biggest issues for me with Lumetri is the lack of layers or nodes to stack effects which seems to require the above type workaround as … if you apply multiple Lumetri effects, neither Ripple nor Elements panels still are applied to earlier instances. Trying to puzzle out keeping up to speed.

Any ways you can come up with around these issues I’d love to see.

Neil – make that feature request RE: Switching instances on the Lumetri Panel. I’ve been saying since day one it’s a pain in the butt to switch between instances and playing effects control panel/Lumetri panel back and forth. I’d love to see a pulldown at the top of the Lumetri panel to swtich instances – and of course have that mapped as a toggle to your panel of choice.

One thing I will say that I do when in Premiere is name/label each instance of the Lumetri effect. Makes me slightly less confused. 🙂

Oh yeah, I’ve requested the ability to switch sections via keyboard shorts and/or controls, the ability to “stack” layers of Lumetri, and oh maybe 10 other Lumetri items. Never been shy with these bug/request forms. Ha. Since it first appeared I’ve angsted all over anyone who’d listen that as clearly it was meant to replace SpeedGrade there needed to be LAYERS. Nodes. Something like that.

The new secondary panel is pretty good. But how often do you do only one secondary per clip of a project? Not very often I’m guessing. They’re so fast a way in Sg to hit specific issues. Or stack primaries or nodes to handle things? I’ve seen your projects here and at NAB … plenty nodes on a goodly share of clips.

And as long as 1) we can’t quickly stack “layers” of Lumetri effects and 2) the controls are limited to data from 1 to 99 (we can’t pull things in past those or push things out past them except within tight limits) we are rather limited in what we can do.

Which is frustrating especially because what they’ve done in general is pretty dang cool. So close … but I want … more …. lol

I SUPPOSE you can map it with ableton live, i am right- ableton reads it like a surface control_

For those who already has the Tangent Elements, Tangent Ripple, Tangent Wave 1 and 2 or use the Tangent Elements VS, I would like to present the TWB 2.

A software that will transform your Tangent Panel in something way powerful, with even more control of the Davinci Resolve than Mini Panel. And even you can use it to control all the EDIT tab too, using it as a Speed Editor with more control than it.

And you can use TWB 2 with El Gato, Loopdeck and any other MIDI controller (like APC40 and much more) that has a Mapping software with OSC Support. And you can combine Tangent panels and other midi controllers too, and event Tablets and Ipads with Elements VS.

TWB 2