Color wheels sensitivity and shortcuts DR 17

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Color wheels sensitivity and shortcuts DR 17

PostMon May 17, 2021 1:13 pm

Hello,

1. Is there a way to adjust the sensitivity of the color wheels (perhaps by holding a key and dragging the mouse) ? After upgrading to ver 17, the wheels become very 'laggy' and not as fine tuned as previous versions, the smallest change becomes very visible.
2. Is there any useful keyboard shortcuts for the HDR tab? (particularly to enable/disable the highlight of a particular zone)?
3. I'm able to use mouse scroll wheel for exposure changes in primaries, but not in the HDR, any tips?

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Re: Color wheels sensitivity and shortcuts DR 17

PostMon May 17, 2021 1:49 pm

CTRL will go in smaller increments.
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Re: Color wheels sensitivity and shortcuts DR 17

PostMon May 17, 2021 3:21 pm

Unfortunately holding CTRL only affects exposure changes in Primaries, it locks the color wheel for any chroma changes . However, No changes in sensitivity of HDR wheels when holding CTRL. I'm using version 17.2
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Re: Color wheels sensitivity and shortcuts DR 17

PostMon May 17, 2021 7:00 pm

This doesn't answer any of your questions (sorry), but regarding #1, I use a mouse with "DPI shift" feature where one can adjust the sensitivity (speed) of the mouse movement via buttons on the mouse. So normally I'd keep it fairly fast for typical navigation (across 4 screens), but for more precise work I can shift the speed down to various levels when needed (or up, for that matter, useful for something like the on-screen shuttle control). And of course it works in any application or desktop, and the software can let one customize the DPI levels per application as well.

Mine's a Logitech "gaming mouse" (G700s), not sure if anyone else makes ones with this feature, or if trackballs with this also exist. I know controllers are a very personal choice, so switching could be a big deal. In theory this could be a software (mouse driver/controller) feature as well, but I haven't seen that personally. Basically something like DR's "hold CTRL for more precision" feature but independent of the current application being used. I do use the typical "mouse acceleration" feature of the OS, but it's nowhere near as useful for precision as an actual step-down/up mechanism.

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Re: Color wheels sensitivity and shortcuts DR 17

PostTue May 18, 2021 7:48 am

blue_cable wrote:Is there a way to adjust the sensitivity of the color wheels (perhaps by holding a key and dragging the mouse) ? After upgrading to ver 17, the wheels become very 'laggy' and not as fine tuned as previous versions, the smallest change becomes very visible...

My suggestion is you'll have much better control accuracy by using a hardware controller like a Micro Panel or a Mini Panel. If your budget is tight, look into an inexpensive panel like the Tangent Ripple, which is very cheap and actually is built pretty well. The advantage of using hardware knobs over a mouse is that you can adjust two different parameters at the same time, which I often do when trying to get through a project quickly.
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Re: Color wheels sensitivity and shortcuts DR 17

PostTue May 18, 2021 2:23 pm

blue_cable wrote:it locks the color wheel for any chroma changes
Oh, that's messed up.

I'm going to surmise this is a bug BMD is aware of.
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