Intuitive When it comes to having lots of controls, one of the problems can be "just what does each control do? Function and style Apart from the size, the first thing you will notice about Element is the stylish, ultra slim design.
Cost effective You would have thought that all this comes with a high price tag - not so with Element! Extensive support Most of our software partners have released versions of their applications which support the Element panels. Modular design. Choose whichever panels you want to start with and expand the set as required The layout is configurable to suit handedness, desk space and to place around other equipment Multiple panels of each model may be added to your layout; especially useful for some applications.
USB for communication and power. Trackerballs and knobs. Tk: Trackerball panel. Mf: Multifunction panel. Kb: Knob panel. Bt: Button panel. Controls can only be programmed if the host application supports the Tangent Mapper. To check if your application supports the Tangent Mapper please see the Application Support tab and select you application there.
All designs and features subject to change without notification. User Manual. The Element product User Manual to download in pdf format. Element User Manual downloads. The Element product Datasheet to download in pdf format Element Datasheet downloads.
Pre-Purchase FAQ. Firmware Updater Tool. There are no firmware updates for this panel. Looking for the Tangent Hub or application support? Look under Application Support and select your application. Can't find what you're looking for? Please raise a Support Ticket. Raise a Support Ticket.
Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe. By submitting the form you consent to this data being stored For more information please see our Privacy Policy. Kind of like a Shift key. That might sound slightly complicated but it gives you the maximum flexibility to customise things to your liking. I just wanted to add a quick update to this post for anyone using the full suite of Tangent Element panels and connecting them through a USB hub, to manage the 4 separate USB cables.
Chris Rose from Tangent commented on this thread on the Lift Gamma Gain forums in response to a user question about this exact problem. If you want a free video walk through of all of this , that will also educate you on a few crucial things to adjust for a better grading experience, then hop over to MixingLight.
This is well worth a watch and covers everything in detail. This is also where you can import my custom Edit mapping after downloading it. This will allow you to cycle through each section of the Lumetri panel without having to use the mouse. By default this change is only applied to the Current Mode, but you can set it to globally effect every mapping in every mode. You can just click on a different knob or button and it updates. The full list of possible mappings you see in the image above is only available for buttons.
When you click on a knob the range of controls you can assign is much more limited. This is because the Tangent Element is designed as a grading control surface and not an all-round editing controller. This is where you can adjust the global sensitivity of the response fine to coarse of each control. By default each knob, when lightly depressed, will reset the value.
This is because lots of these edit controls are assigned to the buttons on the other 3 panels. In particular the Button Bt and Multifunction panels Mf are doing the heavy lifting. Hopefully this might appear in a later version of the Tangent Hub. My inspiration for this post came from this excellent, older video from editor Rob Tinworth , in which he used the Element Kb and Keyboard Maestro to control Avid Media Composer.
I wondered if it was possible to do the same in Premiere Pro. The process became a lot easier for me, thanks for the You can download my custom editing mapping here.
Each knob can have two controls aside, one to the left turn and one to the right. Add Edit. There are a few limitations when it comes to only being able to use keyboard shortcuts in Premiere Pro. This would be a really helpful use-case if it somehow becomes possible in the future. But hopefully you get the idea!
Another request for a future update to the Tangent Mapper is the ability to control any slider in Premiere, whichever slider happens to be selected, with one knob. Here are a couple of general tips for creating a smoother experience when working with the Element Kb.
This will give you a fresh set of 16 knobs to customise. In this way you can quickly jump between banks and Alt functions. I forgot to include it in the video, but you can adjust as many attributes at the same time as you can physically manage. Probably only one per hand, as you only have two of those. The Element KB works really well with the Lumetri panel, even without the other parts of the Element set up i. This is because most of the controls in the Lumetri panel are sliders and these are ideal for knobs.
In this image you can see all of the controls available to the Element Kb in each section of the Lumetri panel. So just try to avoid being clumsy. As with anything the more you use this set up the faster and more intuitive it becomes. Scrolling through a selection of LUTS makes it much easier to navigate them quickly and find one that looks right.
I demonstrated this in the video above with the Input LUT which you should really set camera specifically but the same would go for the LUT section in the Creative mode. As a final thought when it comes to colour grading specifically, you could easily expand your grading control surface hardware by adding a Tangent Ripple for your Trackerballs and the Element-VS app on an iPad set to the Element Bt for a greater selection of buttons.
But it should all interact correctly. For a couple of reasons. Also the interaction is really smooth, making it a very pleasurable experience. As for my editing set up in the Element Kb?
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