Looking for a mini panel in germany or neighbouring countries.

[Jadon Michael]

Yo! Im looking for a mini Panel in Germany or any neighburing country. Budget 2.5K

Edited June 26, 2021 by Sjors Krebbeks
Removed capslocks from the title

[ANNE]

https://www.thomann.de/fr/blackmagic_design_davinci_resolve_mini_panel.htm

[Schuyler Johnson]

I picked up a Avid Artist Color Surface on Ebay for $600.  It's actually pretty nice... if you can get it working.  The wheels have a very nice feel to them.  The driver software looks like something from the 80's and it's not supported by Avid anymore, although I do have it running on an M1 Big Sur with Resolve.  It's cool when it's working but can get frustrating to connect, and keep connected to the software sometimes.    It's so sad that it's really a fantastic panel for the money but Avid basically dumped it and there are so many of them out there.  I think the Blackmagic panels are grossly overpriced... and they only work with Resolve. My Avid Artist Color has been good to learn on but I have my eye on the Blackmagic Mini Panel if I wind up getting more serious or making money at it.  What a rip-off for 3K though....  Still it's the closest thing to the big one I see in pro color suites if you want to try to move up to professional level with Resolve. You could probably fake your way through the big panel if you know the Mini well enough.

[Bruno Mansi]

On 8/11/2021 at 7:19 AM, Schuyler Johnson said:

The driver software looks like something from the 80's and it's not supported by Avid anymore, although I do have it running on an M1 Big Sur with Resolve.

It's the Artist Color that is EOL. The Artist Mix panels and Eucon are still supported.

You're asking a lot for software that was never designed to run on a M1.  I'm assuming the Eucon software is using Rosetta to  function on your machine. This may well be introducing problems.

Since Avid are still supporting Artist Mix panels (especially with Protools), it's likely they'll get around to improving the Eucon software.

One thing I would do is give your panel a static IP address. It's set to DHCP by default, so could change it's IP address if switched off for a period.  Although Eucon should still identify the panel after an IP address change, it's one less thing to complicate matters.

The whole M1/Avid issue is constantly being discussed on the Avid forums. There's some info that Avid is publishing on the the current state of support for M1/Big Sur, which might be useful reading.

Link to article...

https://avid.secure.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/Compatibility/macOS-Big-Sur-Support

[Schuyler Johnson]

Thanks.  I was using the panel on an earlier Mac and it had the same behavior.  Maybe I'll try out giving it a static IP.  Even in their support documentation they talk about the order of turning things on to get it working, and once you figure that out do it that way.... I got it working more or less.  It's buggy. I'm just saying it's kind of sad that there is a pretty nice panel out there that is heading toward E-waste because I actually like using it.

I will say that the M1 was a combination of thrills and disappointments.  I mainly got it for using Resolve which supports it, so it's doing what I wanted, and it rocks with Resolve.  I am bummed that I found out BM  Intensity Extreme didn't work and After Effects  doesn't output to monitor or run natively due to lack of support from Adobe and BM.  And Avid....  I would have thought that they would have been moving a lot more quickly to get these things working.  But the M1 was so freaking cheap and working great with Resolve I really shouldn't complain. It definitely has it's limitations though.