so that's what i love about loot deck it's the more that you use this the more just becomes second nature and i love the portability of the loop deck live and that's why i've been showing you this unit because it's just so powerful what you're able to do i'll compare this a little bit with some stuff that you have on the ct that you don't have on live so i mentioned the big obvious feature on loop deck ct is this large dial that you've got on the unit so not only physically is it larger when you're dialing in settings but it also has a touch screen in the middle so i can basically set this up in a number of different configurations to simply tap to change what it is that i'm working on whatever slider i want to manipulate and you can also swipe on that touch screen to create additional workspaces in fact this is so nice that when i use this in my day-to-day work the way that i have this custom setup is that i can do probably almost all of my just general image editing so we're talking about levels and color correction things like that from the wheel and then i use pages and workspaces to do other things that get more specific when i'm creating layers or working like that but it's really handy to have and it does make this really worth the upgrade

so what's cool is there's different configurations that you can have in this setup so let me show you real quick i'm in my color balance workspace right now and if i just select the dial it brings up a contextual menu here and you can see here's my navigation that i have set up in here right now and i can go in here and i can see each one of these little pages that i can swipe between and if i want to add one i click on these three dots here say add new page and it's going to say what do you want to add and here's all the configurations that you have with that front dial you can set up to be a clock you can set it up to be a four up display diagonally i mean you have a number of options here that you can do then i can go ahead and start assigning functions to these things and so i think having that front dial is just a huge deal for this particular unit now does that make the loop deck live any less no i think i could actually work on both of them but this makes it just so you're all within one little thing and it's basically one tool and it's actually really handy to have

so one really cool thing about working with loop deck as an input device is you're gonna get a lot faster particularly in an application like capture one that has a fairly complicated and involved menu system in other words everything is set up on pallets and tabs and so you have to bounce back in between workspaces and actually tab something's on you have to remember where things are and what's really nice about using loop deck is when you get the muscle memory going of just knowing where my exposure is where my color balance is where my white balance is i can get into all those parameters very easily just at the tip of my fingers

the second thing that i really love about it is that it is a tactile experience and one of the problems that i've always had with computers in general is that the input devices that they come with by default are a keyboard and a mouse mice are good for nothing except maybe giving you carpal tunnel and making everything really slow it's like working with one finger all the time and i love the tactile experience that these give you you know back when i was growing up and back in my music days if you go into a recording studio you've ever seen a recording board and you've got you know all these sliders for levels and eq and all this stuff or if you've ever done color editing for video in a professional suite and they have these tools that are designed to make it a tactile experience so it's more organic and it's more personal this is something that we've been missing with computers

and i'd absolutely love these like i said the first time that i did a review with loop deck i bought one and i use it all the time so you should check these out too i will put links on where you can buy them and all the pricing information below and go ahead and let me know what you think in the comments if you'd like me to cover more of this stuff in my editing workflow please let me know

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwelcome back everyone in this video i want to look at a couple different input devices from loot deck that will do two things one they are going to speed up your editing process and the other thing is they're going to give you a much more tactile and creative experience that's going to improve your workflow so this is loop deck ct and when this came out a couple years ago i did a full review on it i actually love this unit i actually went out and bought one and made it part of my workflow i use it all the time when loop deck ct came out it had excellent support for adobe products so photoshop lightroom no problem capture one it had very limited support with and so most recently loop deck have done a lot of work with their configuration manager and we now have considerably extensive support for capture one so when they called me up and said we would like to sponsor a video and have you talk about capture one integration i was like absolutely so this is loop deck ct they also sent over loop deck live which is a smaller unit it's slightly more affordable the biggest difference is is this one it's it's all customizable but it doesn't have this main dial on the front which has its own dedicated touch pad the other big difference is that loop deck ct actually acts as a thumb drive there's a hard drive in here so when you plug it into your computer it will mount as a drive so if you need to move files back and forth no problem i actually want to start though with loop deck live because i want to show you just how powerful this is with a very minimal setup so everything is fairly intuitive we've got buttons we've got knobs so buttons represent something that just requires one function so for instance in capture one auto adjustments create new layer things like that there are other things that work more on a continuum like exposure white balance and we represent those in the software using sliders well we can assign those to various dials on here so when i turn one of these knobs you're going to actually see the slider move on the computer and it just makes it really fast to jump around to different things and so for instance if i want to bring my exposure up bring it down i can just turn that knob the other cool thing about each one of these is they are actually touch knobs as well so if i want to reset the function that i've been adjusting i just simply press it in and it resets it back to zero so very cool the buttons on the bottom represent navigation with different workspaces so for instance if i hit the number one i might have it set up for culling and rating images and then i go to number two and this is my basic edits i can go to number three that would be keystoning so on and so forth all of this is customizable i'm gonna show you how to do it in a second the only trick that you need to know about any of the loop deck devices are the color codes so we have two different colors that are going to be represented purple and green anytime you see green it is a menu item so for instance a workspace you can have those not only in the navigation down here but i'm going to show you ways you can actually do it on the touch pad as well if you want to get into like sharpening for instance the other color is purple anything that is purple represents a button or a function that's going to happen so by default the way they set this up is you've got the space bar you've got an arrow keys you know you can do things like that so you're not actually on the keyboard the whole time you can also set everything up as menus and you can use your keyboard for those basic functions so first thing you want to do when you get your loop deck and you're ready to go is you're going to go to their website which is loopdeck.com you're going to go under get started and you're going to download the drivers for your platform so either mac or pc and then you're going to go ahead and install that once you have loop deck installed we're going to open the configuration manager the way we do that on the mac is on the top of the screen you're going to see the loop deck logo over here i'm going to go ahead and click that and say open loop deck and what it's going to do is it's going to bring up a graphic ui which is a representation it's a drag and drop interface you can create custom pages on here and create multiple pages and it's really easy to use now it does give you the option of switching back to the classic ui i don't know why you would want to do that this one is much more intuitive and it's actually a huge upgrade than what we've had before so the first thing you're going to notice at the top we have three menus here here's a device menu if i want to select between devices the second menu is the application menu so i go in here to select which application i am creating a setup with loop deck for the third one is your workspace menu and so we can create workspaces and this allows us to basically create the navigation within loop deck and there's two places you can find these so first thing i want to show you if you have used capture one with loop deck before and even if you haven't i would recommend this so we can create a profile for an application we can also create multiple profiles for applications this is nice if you have two people using the same computer and they have two different setups let's say so what you want to do when you first go in here just to make sure that your square on here is go down to capture one next to capture one basic you're gonna see these three little dots open that up it's going to give you the profiles menu here what we're going to do is add profile and i'm going to say add a default profile i don't want this to be empty we're going to say default and i'm just going to give this a name i'm going to call this capture 1 default we'll say ok and i'm going to select that menu and say close now the difference is you're probably going to notice is over here on the right hand side of the screen we have capture one we've got the operating system we have navigation if i click on this third one which is custom i want to show you the difference here if i go back to my capture one basic and we're gonna go back in here by just selecting that let's go to capture one basic this is probably what you're gonna have here is not very much and so make sure you reinstall a default profile because it's gonna give you a lot more options of things that you can add into loop deck so we'll go in here and go back to capture one default and we have a lot more now another thing that you can do is select manage plugins and this allows you to toggle and turn off things you may not be using so for instance if you're not live streaming or you're not using a philips hue unit or spotify you can turn those off so they're not in the interface and they're going to give you less clutter now one thing i would recommend is that if you are new to loop deck i would start with the default profiles they do a really nice job of setting these up and giving you a feel of overall what you can do with the unit play around with those and you're going to start seeing really quickly that everybody likes things a certain way customized buttons might be out of order then you can go in and start modifying and create your own custom profile based on that but i do recommend that you start out with the defaults because i think it's going to give you a better sense of what the unit will actually do okay so let's go into capture one and i want to show you how easy it is just to get started with this so i'm gonna go ahead and select an image we'll do this one of the shadow of the chair and table here and you're going to notice that on loop deck it defaults into the culling page so this is where we're going to do things like radar images we can filter a lot of navigational tools and anytime we want to change the workspace we do that with these buttons on the bottom here so if i go to workspace number one i have this set up for basic edits and so you can see things like auto adjuster in there i can create masks number two is going to be color correction so we have the white balance tool for instance level picker tool we can do masking in here we can actually go in and start color grading if i go to page three you're gonna see that this is where we get into masking and keystoning which is very handy to have too so let's start working on this image i'm gonna go to page one here and i'm just going to hit auto adjust and it does a pretty good job of adjusting levels but my white balance is way off so if we go to the color page which is page 2 i'm going to simply hit the color picker this will give me my eyedropper tool and i can simply tap anywhere in the image and we can fix the white balance problem so we'll go back to page one here and i can bring my exposure up a little or down a little depending i can control my contrast i want to make it more contrasty bring my exposure down we can really go in here and start dialing in the look we can bring out the shadows a little bit we can bring the highlights up or down the other cool thing and this is really awesome about all the loop deck stuff is let's say that we are in one workspace so this is basic image editing you're going to notice that for my knobs i have on the left hand side temperature exposure contrast highlights shadows and structure but what if i want my white point black point or the tent slider well this is what's really cool about loop deck is you simply swipe the page and it gives you more options so if i swipe up on loop deck you're gonna see that now i have tent brightness saturation white point black point and clarity and so this is a really cool way of working so you can set up a workspace and if there's not enough room on there for all the stuff that you want you simply give it another page and you access that by just swiping up or down on the unit and it will round robin through so if you only have two pages you can swipe up or down you can create unlimited pages so just depends on where your threshold is i can already see here that i want to make some customizations on here though because one thing i don't like is having on the first page having my temperature at the top and then having tent a page away so i want to put those on the same thing so how do we do that we're going to go back into the configuration manager here so let's open up loop deck again top of the screen say open loop deck and we are going to be presented with this very page we were on so i'm going to hit one that's where it is and so if i want to let's say reassign exposure to be tent well the easiest thing to do is i go over here and i'm going to filter by searching and if i just type intent t-i-n-t you're going to see that there it is i can reset the tent or i can adjust the tint let's just grab the adjustment i'm going to click and drag and i'm going to drop it on that dial and you're going to see that that is updated now on loop deck as well on the unit so it just mirrors it over and then i would want to put exposure somewhere else so i can start to customize now i don't need to worry about reset tent because remember we can also push in the knob to reset it at any time so for instance let's go back to uh capture one here and i'm going to go ahead and let's go ahead and say let's adjust the tent i'm gonna make it really magenta let's say i've just gone too far i want to go back just push the button in and it resets it back to where it was now this did mess it up because i had a custom white balance but resets it to zero every time but that's looking pretty good right there so let's select another image and i want to show you how you can have menus under buttons and so i'm going to select this first one this is a portrait image here so remember earlier i mentioned that loop deck uses two different colors to represent things so anything green on the unit is going to represent a menu anything purple is going to represent an action or a function so if we're in the basic edit workspace here you're going to see that the top two buttons on the left are going to be layers and masking and details those are both green which means that they have menus underneath so this is way of creating a sub menu within a workspace so if i go into details let's say this is where all my sharpening tools are and i have complete control over this image and so i can adjust my sharpening let's just crank these all the way up this is going to be ridiculous but i just want you to see the fact that it gives and then i can go ahead and i can adjust my threshold uh i've got more options in here halo suppression and then if i want to reset any at any time i just press the dial and it resets each one of them or i can leave them with their settings and when i'm happy with that i have an up arrow which takes me back up to the top of that workspace so this is a way of having smaller workspaces within workspaces and it's really quite handy so sometimes there's some complex thing you're doing especially when we get into like layers and masking and things like that so another feature of capture one that is really powerful is the ability to use the color wheels to dial in different color tones or tents for either your mid-tones shadows or highlights or you can also do them on a global level this is where loop deck comes in really handy because this is something that just using a mouse is somewhat uninspiring but be able to just dial it in is really pretty cool so this is an image that i shot up in sag harbor it's in long island it was there about a month ago and what i want to do is i want to kind of bring out this image is a little cool to me and i want to bring out some yellow and the highlights and i want to warm that up a little bit and kind of bring some more movement into the reflection of those clouds and so what we're going to do is go to page number two which is going to be our color editing tools and on the bottom you can see that i can select between shadows mid-tone grading highlight grading and let's start with global so when i hit global you're going to see that our knobs change up and the first one is going to be the color balance master saturation so the easiest thing to do is start there because if you just move hue you're not going to see any change because you have to have some saturation involved so i'm going to go ahead and bring up my saturation you'll see that that's a little bit red because that's where it just starts sliding too so i'm going to use the next knob down which is the color balance master hue we're going to go ahead and turn that until i start going towards yellow here so that looks really good and i can bring up or down my exposure as well go ahead and bring that over and you're going to see that it actually dynamically changes the tools as i'm working in capture one here i can bring the saturation back down a little bit and that looks pretty good but we can do the same thing if we want to just target the shadows the mid-tones or the highlights so let's work with the shadows a little bit and maybe i want to make those more magenta let's say we'll experiment around so what i'm going to do is go ahead and hit shadow grading same thing so here's my color balance shadow i'm going to go ahead and increase the saturation it looks pretty good it's a little much but we'll deal with that in a minute i'm going to bring my hue down and circle that around to where it starts looking good i kind of like these almost purple tones in there let's bring that back a little bit so it's just subtle it's not so severe and now we start having a grade that we're working with and you can kind of just continue to do this until visually it's where you want it to be i just love this way of editing because i've never liked just using a mouse to do all these things i'm kind of more of a pen guy anyway but creative work is not pointing and clicking with a mouse creative work is actually being able to use your hands and what i love about loot deck is the more that you use this the more just becomes second nature and i love the portability of the loop deck live and that's why i've been showing you this unit because it's just so powerful what you're able to do i'll compare this a little bit with some stuff that you have on the ct that you don't have on live so i mentioned the big obvious feature on loop deck ct is this large dial that you've got on the unit so not only physically is it larger when you're dialing in settings but it also has a touch screen in the middle so i can basically set this up in a number of different configurations to simply tap to change what it is that i'm working on whatever slider i want to manipulate and you can also swipe on that touch screen to create additional workspaces in fact this is so nice that when i use this in my day-to-day work the way that i have this custom setup is that i can do probably almost all of my just general image editing so we're talking about levels and color correction things like that from the wheel and then i use pages and workspaces to do other things that get more specific when i'm creating layers or working like that but it's really handy to have and it does make this really worth the upgrade so what's cool is there's different configurations that you can have in this setup so let me show you real quick i'm in my color balance workspace right now and if i just select the dial it brings up a contextual menu here and you can see here's my navigation that i have set up in here right now and i can go in here and i can see each one of these little pages that i can swipe between and if i want to add one i click on these three dots here say add new page and it's going to say what do you want to add and here's all the configurations that you have with that front dial you can set up to be a clock you can set it up to be a four up display diagonally i mean you have a number of options here that you can do then i can go ahead and start assigning functions to these things and so i think having that front dial is just a huge deal for this particular unit now does that make the loop deck live any less no i think i could actually work on both of them but this makes it just so you're all within one little thing and it's basically one tool and it's actually really handy to have so one really cool thing about working with loop deck as an input device is you're gonna get a lot faster particularly in an application like capture one that has a fairly complicated and involved menu system in other words everything is set up on pallets and tabs and so you have to bounce back in between workspaces and actually tab something's on you have to remember where things are and what's really nice about using loop deck is when you get the muscle memory going of just knowing where my exposure is where my color balance is where my white balance is i can get into all those parameters very easily just at the tip of my fingers the second thing that i really love about it is that it is a tactile experience and one of the problems that i've always had with computers in general is that the input devices that they come with by default are a keyboard and a mouse mice are good for nothing except maybe giving you carpal tunnel and making everything really slow it's like working with one finger all the time and i love the tactile experience that these give you you know back when i was growing up and back in my music days if you go into a recording studio you've ever seen a recording board and you've got you know all these sliders for levels and eq and all this stuff or if you've ever done color editing for video in a professional suite and they have these tools that are designed to make it a tactile experience so it's more organic and it's more personal this is something that we've been missing with computers and i'd absolutely love these like i said the first time that i did a review with loop deck i bought one and i use it all the time so you should check these out too i will put links on where you can buy them and all the pricing information below and go ahead and let me know what you think in the comments if you'd like me to cover more of this stuff in my editing workflow please let me know and i will catch you guys in the next video until then laterwelcome back everyone in this video i want to look at a couple different input devices from loot deck that will do two things one they are going to speed up your editing process and the other thing is they're going to give you a much more tactile and creative experience that's going to improve your workflow so this is loop deck ct and when this came out a couple years ago i did a full review on it i actually love this unit i actually went out and bought one and made it part of my workflow i use it all the time when loop deck ct came out it had excellent support for adobe products so photoshop lightroom no problem capture one it had very limited support with and so most recently loop deck have done a lot of work with their configuration manager and we now have considerably extensive support for capture one so when they called me up and said we would like to sponsor a video and have you talk about capture one integration i was like absolutely so this is loop deck ct they also sent over loop deck live which is a smaller unit it's slightly more affordable the biggest difference is is this one it's it's all customizable but it doesn't have this main dial on the front which has its own dedicated touch pad the other big difference is that loop deck ct actually acts as a thumb drive there's a hard drive in here so when you plug it into your computer it will mount as a drive so if you need to move files back and forth no problem i actually want to start though with loop deck live because i want to show you just how powerful this is with a very minimal setup so everything is fairly intuitive we've got buttons we've got knobs so buttons represent something that just requires one function so for instance in capture one auto adjustments create new layer things like that there are other things that work more on a continuum like exposure white balance and we represent those in the software using sliders well we can assign those to various dials on here so when i turn one of these knobs you're going to actually see the slider move on the computer and it just makes it really fast to jump around to different things and so for instance if i want to bring my exposure up bring it down i can just turn that knob the other cool thing about each one of these is they are actually touch knobs as well so if i want to reset the function that i've been adjusting i just simply press it in and it resets it back to zero so very cool the buttons on the bottom represent navigation with different workspaces so for instance if i hit the number one i might have it set up for culling and rating images and then i go to number two and this is my basic edits i can go to number three that would be keystoning so on and so forth all of this is customizable i'm gonna show you how to do it in a second the only trick that you need to know about any of the loop deck devices are the color codes so we have two different colors that are going to be represented purple and green anytime you see green it is a menu item so for instance a workspace you can have those not only in the navigation down here but i'm going to show you ways you can actually do it on the touch pad as well if you want to get into like sharpening for instance the other color is purple anything that is purple represents a button or a function that's going to happen so by default the way they set this up is you've got the space bar you've got an arrow keys you know you can do things like that so you're not actually on the keyboard the whole time you can also set everything up as menus and you can use your keyboard for those basic functions so first thing you want to do when you get your loop deck and you're ready to go is you're going to go to their website which is loopdeck.com you're going to go under get started and you're going to download the drivers for your platform so either mac or pc and then you're going to go ahead and install that once you have loop deck installed we're going to open the configuration manager the way we do that on the mac is on the top of the screen you're going to see the loop deck logo over here i'm going to go ahead and click that and say open loop deck and what it's going to do is it's going to bring up a graphic ui which is a representation it's a drag and drop interface you can create custom pages on here and create multiple pages and it's really easy to use now it does give you the option of switching back to the classic ui i don't know why you would want to do that this one is much more intuitive and it's actually a huge upgrade than what we've had before so the first thing you're going to notice at the top we have three menus here here's a device menu if i want to select between devices the second menu is the application menu so i go in here to select which application i am creating a setup with loop deck for the third one is your workspace menu and so we can create workspaces and this allows us to basically create the navigation within loop deck and there's two places you can find these so first thing i want to show you if you have used capture one with loop deck before and even if you haven't i would recommend this so we can create a profile for an application we can also create multiple profiles for applications this is nice if you have two people using the same computer and they have two different setups let's say so what you want to do when you first go in here just to make sure that your square on here is go down to capture one next to capture one basic you're gonna see these three little dots open that up it's going to give you the profiles menu here what we're going to do is add profile and i'm going to say add a default profile i don't want this to be empty we're going to say default and i'm just going to give this a name i'm going to call this capture 1 default we'll say ok and i'm going to select that menu and say close now the difference is you're probably going to notice is over here on the right hand side of the screen we have capture one we've got the operating system we have navigation if i click on this third one which is custom i want to show you the difference here if i go back to my capture one basic and we're gonna go back in here by just selecting that let's go to capture one basic this is probably what you're gonna have here is not very much and so make sure you reinstall a default profile because it's gonna give you a lot more options of things that you can add into loop deck so we'll go in here and go back to capture one default and we have a lot more now another thing that you can do is select manage plugins and this allows you to toggle and turn off things you may not be using so for instance if you're not live streaming or you're not using a philips hue unit or spotify you can turn those off so they're not in the interface and they're going to give you less clutter now one thing i would recommend is that if you are new to loop deck i would start with the default profiles they do a really nice job of setting these up and giving you a feel of overall what you can do with the unit play around with those and you're going to start seeing really quickly that everybody likes things a certain way customized buttons might be out of order then you can go in and start modifying and create your own custom profile based on that but i do recommend that you start out with the defaults because i think it's going to give you a better sense of what the unit will actually do okay so let's go into capture one and i want to show you how easy it is just to get started with this so i'm gonna go ahead and select an image we'll do this one of the shadow of the chair and table here and you're going to notice that on loop deck it defaults into the culling page so this is where we're going to do things like radar images we can filter a lot of navigational tools and anytime we want to change the workspace we do that with these buttons on the bottom here so if i go to workspace number one i have this set up for basic edits and so you can see things like auto adjuster in there i can create masks number two is going to be color correction so we have the white balance tool for instance level picker tool we can do masking in here we can actually go in and start color grading if i go to page three you're gonna see that this is where we get into masking and keystoning which is very handy to have too so let's start working on this image i'm gonna go to page one here and i'm just going to hit auto adjust and it does a pretty good job of adjusting levels but my white balance is way off so if we go to the color page which is page 2 i'm going to simply hit the color picker this will give me my eyedropper tool and i can simply tap anywhere in the image and we can fix the white balance problem so we'll go back to page one here and i can bring my exposure up a little or down a little depending i can control my contrast i want to make it more contrasty bring my exposure down we can really go in here and start dialing in the look we can bring out the shadows a little bit we can bring the highlights up or down the other cool thing and this is really awesome about all the loop deck stuff is let's say that we are in one workspace so this is basic image editing you're going to notice that for my knobs i have on the left hand side temperature exposure contrast highlights shadows and structure but what if i want my white point black point or the tent slider well this is what's really cool about loop deck is you simply swipe the page and it gives you more options so if i swipe up on loop deck you're gonna see that now i have tent brightness saturation white point black point and clarity and so this is a really cool way of working so you can set up a workspace and if there's not enough room on there for all the stuff that you want you simply give it another page and you access that by just swiping up or down on the unit and it will round robin through so if you only have two pages you can swipe up or down you can create unlimited pages so just depends on where your threshold is i can already see here that i want to make some customizations on here though because one thing i don't like is having on the first page having my temperature at the top and then having tent a page away so i want to put those on the same thing so how do we do that we're going to go back into the configuration manager here so let's open up loop deck again top of the screen say open loop deck and we are going to be presented with this very page we were on so i'm going to hit one that's where it is and so if i want to let's say reassign exposure to be tent well the easiest thing to do is i go over here and i'm going to filter by searching and if i just type intent t-i-n-t you're going to see that there it is i can reset the tent or i can adjust the tint let's just grab the adjustment i'm going to click and drag and i'm going to drop it on that dial and you're going to see that that is updated now on loop deck as well on the unit so it just mirrors it over and then i would want to put exposure somewhere else so i can start to customize now i don't need to worry about reset tent because remember we can also push in the knob to reset it at any time so for instance let's go back to uh capture one here and i'm going to go ahead and let's go ahead and say let's adjust the tent i'm gonna make it really magenta let's say i've just gone too far i want to go back just push the button in and it resets it back to where it was now this did mess it up because i had a custom white balance but resets it to zero every time but that's looking pretty good right there so let's select another image and i want to show you how you can have menus under buttons and so i'm going to select this first one this is a portrait image here so remember earlier i mentioned that loop deck uses two different colors to represent things so anything green on the unit is going to represent a menu anything purple is going to represent an action or a function so if we're in the basic edit workspace here you're going to see that the top two buttons on the left are going to be layers and masking and details those are both green which means that they have menus underneath so this is way of creating a sub menu within a workspace so if i go into details let's say this is where all my sharpening tools are and i have complete control over this image and so i can adjust my sharpening let's just crank these all the way up this is going to be ridiculous but i just want you to see the fact that it gives and then i can go ahead and i can adjust my threshold uh i've got more options in here halo suppression and then if i want to reset any at any time i just press the dial and it resets each one of them or i can leave them with their settings and when i'm happy with that i have an up arrow which takes me back up to the top of that workspace so this is a way of having smaller workspaces within workspaces and it's really quite handy so sometimes there's some complex thing you're doing especially when we get into like layers and masking and things like that so another feature of capture one that is really powerful is the ability to use the color wheels to dial in different color tones or tents for either your mid-tones shadows or highlights or you can also do them on a global level this is where loop deck comes in really handy because this is something that just using a mouse is somewhat uninspiring but be able to just dial it in is really pretty cool so this is an image that i shot up in sag harbor it's in long island it was there about a month ago and what i want to do is i want to kind of bring out this image is a little cool to me and i want to bring out some yellow and the highlights and i want to warm that up a little bit and kind of bring some more movement into the reflection of those clouds and so what we're going to do is go to page number two which is going to be our color editing tools and on the bottom you can see that i can select between shadows mid-tone grading highlight grading and let's start with global so when i hit global you're going to see that our knobs change up and the first one is going to be the color balance master saturation so the easiest thing to do is start there because if you just move hue you're not going to see any change because you have to have some saturation involved so i'm going to go ahead and bring up my saturation you'll see that that's a little bit red because that's where it just starts sliding too so i'm going to use the next knob down which is the color balance master hue we're going to go ahead and turn that until i start going towards yellow here so that looks really good and i can bring up or down my exposure as well go ahead and bring that over and you're going to see that it actually dynamically changes the tools as i'm working in capture one here i can bring the saturation back down a little bit and that looks pretty good but we can do the same thing if we want to just target the shadows the mid-tones or the highlights so let's work with the shadows a little bit and maybe i want to make those more magenta let's say we'll experiment around so what i'm going to do is go ahead and hit shadow grading same thing so here's my color balance shadow i'm going to go ahead and increase the saturation it looks pretty good it's a little much but we'll deal with that in a minute i'm going to bring my hue down and circle that around to where it starts looking good i kind of like these almost purple tones in there let's bring that back a little bit so it's just subtle it's not so severe and now we start having a grade that we're working with and you can kind of just continue to do this until visually it's where you want it to be i just love this way of editing because i've never liked just using a mouse to do all these things i'm kind of more of a pen guy anyway but creative work is not pointing and clicking with a mouse creative work is actually being able to use your hands and what i love about loot deck is the more that you use this the more just becomes second nature and i love the portability of the loop deck live and that's why i've been showing you this unit because it's just so powerful what you're able to do i'll compare this a little bit with some stuff that you have on the ct that you don't have on live so i mentioned the big obvious feature on loop deck ct is this large dial that you've got on the unit so not only physically is it larger when you're dialing in settings but it also has a touch screen in the middle so i can basically set this up in a number of different configurations to simply tap to change what it is that i'm working on whatever slider i want to manipulate and you can also swipe on that touch screen to create additional workspaces in fact this is so nice that when i use this in my day-to-day work the way that i have this custom setup is that i can do probably almost all of my just general image editing so we're talking about levels and color correction things like that from the wheel and then i use pages and workspaces to do other things that get more specific when i'm creating layers or working like that but it's really handy to have and it does make this really worth the upgrade so what's cool is there's different configurations that you can have in this setup so let me show you real quick i'm in my color balance workspace right now and if i just select the dial it brings up a contextual menu here and you can see here's my navigation that i have set up in here right now and i can go in here and i can see each one of these little pages that i can swipe between and if i want to add one i click on these three dots here say add new page and it's going to say what do you want to add and here's all the configurations that you have with that front dial you can set up to be a clock you can set it up to be a four up display diagonally i mean you have a number of options here that you can do then i can go ahead and start assigning functions to these things and so i think having that front dial is just a huge deal for this particular unit now does that make the loop deck live any less no i think i could actually work on both of them but this makes it just so you're all within one little thing and it's basically one tool and it's actually really handy to have so one really cool thing about working with loop deck as an input device is you're gonna get a lot faster particularly in an application like capture one that has a fairly complicated and involved menu system in other words everything is set up on pallets and tabs and so you have to bounce back in between workspaces and actually tab something's on you have to remember where things are and what's really nice about using loop deck is when you get the muscle memory going of just knowing where my exposure is where my color balance is where my white balance is i can get into all those parameters very easily just at the tip of my fingers the second thing that i really love about it is that it is a tactile experience and one of the problems that i've always had with computers in general is that the input devices that they come with by default are a keyboard and a mouse mice are good for nothing except maybe giving you carpal tunnel and making everything really slow it's like working with one finger all the time and i love the tactile experience that these give you you know back when i was growing up and back in my music days if you go into a recording studio you've ever seen a recording board and you've got you know all these sliders for levels and eq and all this stuff or if you've ever done color editing for video in a professional suite and they have these tools that are designed to make it a tactile experience so it's more organic and it's more personal this is something that we've been missing with computers and i'd absolutely love these like i said the first time that i did a review with loop deck i bought one and i use it all the time so you should check these out too i will put links on where you can buy them and all the pricing information below and go ahead and let me know what you think in the comments if you'd like me to cover more of this stuff in my editing workflow please let me know and i will catch you guys in the next video until then later\n"