Using the Tangent Element with DaVinci Resolve 10

You spent so much time in just one panel and forgot the others, I was waiting to see how the other parts works as well. 🙂
Anyway, thanks for sharing

any news on if they updated any of the features you felt they were missing?

They added a few of the new features in Resolve 11 to the Element. But no, they’ve spent zero time implementing improvements for these panels. You just have to look at their own branded panels to realize Blackmagic has lost interest in the hardware interfaces.

Hello Patrick! I thought you did not have to use a mouse with the new element panel. Can’t I use the trackball on the transport panel in place of a mouse???

I’ve never been a fan of ‘mouse mode’ on any control surface. I find they’re almost universally clunky. Plus, right-, left- and middle-clicking is usually very awkward. It’s a cool feature to list on a website but is almost never a replacement for a real mouse controller. At least, not for me.

RE: Not using a mouse – I’ve certainly never felt any control surface for DaVinci Resolve mitigates the use the mouse. It certainly reduces reliance on it… and on the Blackmagic $30k panels you can nearly eliminate the need to reach for a mouse when in full color correction mode—but on the 3rd party panels? They just don’t have enough buttons to come close to mouse elimination.

What a surface like the Element does is pull your focus off the UI and on to the image you’re color correcting. And I can go quite a while without reaching for the mouse. But at some point, there’s functions that have not been mapped and can only be accessed with the mouse.

Hi Patrick: I just bought the Element panels, set Resolve 12 to use them, but I see no mappings on the panels by default (when I run Tangent mapper, it shows Resolve selected) – is there something else I have to do?

Thanks.

This is correct. Resolve maps the panel directly and bypasses the Mapper software. You should see the controls appear on the Element when Resolve is running (and if you’ve enabled the Elements in Resolve Preferences).

Thanks for the “switch timeline” tip. That alone made the video worth watching for me. I was hoping you’d include some details on the control panel sensitivity settings for this panel. Maybe you can include that if you ever refresh this video since it’s been a while now…

Working with the Tangent in Resolve 12.5 is really no different than in Resolve 10.

Question: What is it about the sensitivity settings you’re wondering about?