That's one from the ICA. I just want to talk through the Pro Panel. Oxygen Tech
Pro Panel that's come down from from China. Here it is. USB connection. First
thing you notice it's quite heavy. A lot heavier than I thought. It's about just
off seven and a half kg so around 15 pounds something like that. It's very
solid. Very sturdy. Seems very well made. Obviously you've got your buttons along
the top. They're set as nine buttons and you have your control rings around
the outside of the track balls in here. USB plug that in. When that wakes up you
can see now there's little LED lights behind here that when you hit that
illuminate what these do. So let's get in and have a slightly closer look at how
it feels. Now I've used this on a job. I did a whole day using it. Moved out my
big panels. Moved these in and used this because I was forced to use it. I must
admit I like it. I always say the key things about any panel are these six
controls. The others if you use them great but this is really where the money
is. The balls are where the money is and this feel really solid. It's not a loose
spinny feel. There's a good resistance, good tactile feel about these. In both how
the ring works and how the... Let's reset these here. How the ball works to do my RGB
control. I actually backed off the sensitivities very slightly to start with
because I felt it was a little bit too sensitive. So obviously in using this
panel you are going to be a little bit more reliant on the mouse and keyboard.
Also you become fast with a combination of the tools you've got. So let's just
move in and I'll go through what some of these buttons do and some of the pros
and cons of the panel. So like a lot of other panels your outside ring is reset
by the big circle and your inner ball, your track ball, your joy ball, reset that
by the smaller one. Again as I said I feel has a good feel about it and using
over the ten hours on this job I really got to quite like it. Such a big
advantage over using the mouse. Obviously you've got to use a mouse for a lot of
things like there's no secondary, there's no pots here you can notice. You can't do
any secondary king, you can't change the aspects of a shape or anything. That's
all still done through your mouse. But what can you do? Up here there is left
and right arrows for undo, redo. You see here if I go really close up when you press
the button you can see they light up. So each control will light up. Take a
snapshot, so that is grab a steel into your gallery and then play that steel. So
for cutting up and off your steels you'd use this one just to keep cutting up
reference steels. This is to toggle between your nodes. So it toggles through
your node tree graph here. This will be start the dynamic keyframe and this will
be a mark or an end dynamic keyframe. And the last one here this is to base memory
just the node you're on. Not an overall base memory but just the one you're on.
So very simple, can't be customized, can't be changed, no shift key pushes. You
can't do anything like that. I'm missing, I would love to have seen a play in
transport control. Maybe just a top of this trackball here where I could have
nudged forward backwards and I also do a lot of go to the next shop, go to the
next shop. So but I understand in making this panel for around 700-800 US
surround that figure something's got to give and as I said at the beginning
definitely the most important six controls are these. These are where the
money are because they enable, this enables you to just look at your
monitor. You don't have to look at the GUI, if you're grading with these and
you're grading with your waveforms you just look into the monitor. So whether
you use these or not doesn't really come into it. Okay, in terms of your size, so
this is the size of the element center panel. You can see mine has had quite a
life, it's a bit a bit bashed around. It's a little bit smaller. Trackballs are
smaller, joyables smaller than on the pro panel. This can be customized so you
can add your secondary pot and your secondary or window button panel as well
plus a transport panel. This can be added to, the pro panel cannot, so that's
basically the difference there. So I would suggest if you are looking to get
in as a colorist using a panel at the first time, it's a really good option at
around the $7,800 US dollar mark. Well worth a look. Thanks for watching!
