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Using a trackball - SpeedGrade Tutorial
From the course: Learning SpeedGrade CS6
Using a trackball
Well you can use regular old mouse with SpeedGrade. Most professional colorists choose to grade using a control surface. Now these are really expensive. They could be anywhere from $1500 to tens of thousands of dollars. But a cheap little substitute is just a little trackball mouse. And these can be $30. And what we could do with the trackball, is come in here, let's go to the gamma, for example. And I could click here, and with the trackball, I could just roll downwards here. Or I could upwards, left, or right. The benefit of this, is that if I know my color wheel, I could just look at the screen and I don't have to necessarily keep my eye on the ball as I would with a mouse. It's just a lot easier to get to the colors that I need with a trackball, than it would be with a mouse. And also the movements are a lot more subtle. There's it just feels like there's a lot more control. And most of these little trackballs, even this cheap $30 one that I'm using, has an outer ring. And with…
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