WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:10.500 so today we're checking out the loop deck CT I'm quite excited for this one 00:00:06.980 --> 00:00:14.190 basically what this is is a control 00:00:10.500 --> 00:00:18.680 surface which is supposedly better than 00:00:14.190 --> 00:00:23.070 using a keyboard and mouse here we go oh 00:00:18.680 --> 00:00:24.900 nice is integrated with well let's find 00:00:23.070 --> 00:00:29.699 out I don't actually know Lightroom Photoshop Premiere Final Cut Illustrator 00:00:26.970 --> 00:00:33.360 stream Labs Ableton Live able Ableton Live after-effects audition and I guess 00:00:32.460 --> 00:00:39.780 Windows those are nice knobs let's appeal this 00:00:36.890 --> 00:00:45.930 and this really reminds me of just straight up a small stream deck but they 00:00:43.140 --> 00:00:49.110 have looks like little sliders on the side that you can probably yeah that's 00:00:47.520 --> 00:00:54.660 almost certainly touch sensitive over there so very cool apparently these you 00:00:52.230 --> 00:01:01.260 can use to change profiles these ones here not bad this this knob 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:07.439 is also a touchscreen which i think is super cool so looking forward to that in 00:01:03.750 --> 00:01:10.650 the box we've got also a little manual 00:01:07.439 --> 00:01:16.770 quick guide which is really boring 00:01:10.650 --> 00:01:20.369 looking frankly what is here cable USB 00:01:16.770 --> 00:01:24.390 see thank you thank you for that 00:01:20.369 --> 00:01:26.400 and I think we've hit rock bottom it's 00:01:24.390 --> 00:01:31.680 like a holographic Pokemon card up in here enhance how you create and edit Oh 00:01:29.210 --> 00:01:36.479 everything's going to be amazing we'll see all right welcome to my desk 00:01:34.680 --> 00:01:41.340 I've been using the loop deck for a few weeks now and I missed a couple of things about 00:01:39.420 --> 00:01:46.229 the hardware first of all these are not sliders I think they're literally just 00:01:43.439 --> 00:01:52.979 labels for whatever the dials are and also these dials have buttons also this 00:01:50.610 --> 00:01:56.759 one is pretty difficult to keep your finger on because you don't want to slip 00:01:55.470 --> 00:02:01.140 off onto the touchscreen and you don't want to slip off to this side it can be 00:01:58.649 --> 00:02:05.050 hard to use it's okay the little stops on here I think that's called like a 00:02:02.310 --> 00:02:08.890 ratcheted dial listen to that and then this one is not ratcheted 00:02:06.880 --> 00:02:11.800 that's just a smooth dial keep in mind I've only been using this thing for a 00:02:10.240 --> 00:02:16.000 premiere and Photoshop it does support other applications I don't know how good 00:02:13.960 --> 00:02:22.180 or bad it is in those I can only give you my experience and my experience is I 00:02:18.910 --> 00:02:25.060 don't like this thing I don't like it 00:02:22.180 --> 00:02:29.620 the software feels very unfinished I actually had to check to see if this was 00:02:27.460 --> 00:02:33.100 a Kickstarter project and I was on the beta software 00:02:30.610 --> 00:02:38.050 I'm not when I'm in Photoshop for example and I hit ctrl shift I it just 00:02:36.160 --> 00:02:42.070 automatically brings me to the loop deck and opens up this this inspect element 00:02:40.780 --> 00:02:48.430 thing because this is like chromium based or whatever it's like a debugging thing and it's also just like very slow 00:02:45.610 --> 00:02:53.080 to use and sometimes the actions will like appear and disappear seemingly at 00:02:50.920 --> 00:02:59.320 random because it's just it's so slow to update if you search for a command 00:02:56.110 --> 00:03:01.390 let's do audio keyframes see it's come 00:02:59.320 --> 00:03:07.420 on searching really slow and then once you drag the command on it clears your 00:03:04.960 --> 00:03:11.620 search I feel like every command that's in here at least for a premier needs to 00:03:09.700 --> 00:03:14.800 have a written explanation of what it does because like you're just looking 00:03:13.360 --> 00:03:19.840 through here and I'm trying to figure out like what is CMD window defense 00:03:17.110 --> 00:03:24.850 there's all sorts of stuff in here where I know that these are just the names 00:03:21.940 --> 00:03:28.239 from the default API and they didn't change them they don't seem to know what 00:03:26.350 --> 00:03:32.140 they're for or what they do you drag them on and try to use them and they 00:03:29.500 --> 00:03:38.290 don't seem to do anything open dot item click I don't know nothing happens like 00:03:35.410 --> 00:03:41.470 like yeah it's a lot of work to have a written explanation of what each thing 00:03:39.760 --> 00:03:46.720 does but that would ensure that it's something that even needs to be in there 00:03:43.510 --> 00:03:48.610 and also otherwise you're offloading all 00:03:46.720 --> 00:03:57.580 of that work figuring stuff out on to the user it's mmm come on guys you're better than 00:03:52.720 --> 00:04:00.760 this maybe you can only have one profile 00:03:57.580 --> 00:04:03.519 per application you can't make any more 00:04:00.760 --> 00:04:06.970 and it must it must be tied to an application which is bad because now I 00:04:05.950 --> 00:04:11.590 can't make backups I can't swap in and out two different 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:15.820 things a lot of the software is just it's hard to figure out even with the 00:04:13.360 --> 00:04:20.389 manual and by the way they don't tell you that there is actually a manual 00:04:18.530 --> 00:04:24.380 just for the loop tech software but also for like premier there's one for 00:04:22.400 --> 00:04:28.280 Photoshop like this is great but it's not in the QuickStart guide 00:04:26.030 --> 00:04:33.980 despite how confusing the software is to use it's also not nearly customizable 00:04:31.700 --> 00:04:39.020 enough you can't change the sensitivity of dials you can't change the direction 00:04:36.860 --> 00:04:43.669 of dials you know which way is going to increase the number versus decrease you 00:04:41.060 --> 00:04:48.290 cannot change an acceleration curve a small or the big dials you can't do it 00:04:45.470 --> 00:04:53.390 you can't change what icon or text appears next to the dials you can change 00:04:51.680 --> 00:04:57.740 what happens when you click the dials if you know that you have to click over 00:04:55.100 --> 00:05:06.680 here on the press which took me a while to figure out also you cannot change the 00:05:01.610 --> 00:05:09.260 icon or color or image or text on any of 00:05:06.680 --> 00:05:14.600 the touchscreen buttons or the touchscreen itself and the worst part is 00:05:11.330 --> 00:05:17.570 that for a lot of the functions that 00:05:14.600 --> 00:05:20.990 they have they don't have an icon or sometimes that names are all the same 00:05:19.100 --> 00:05:26.120 this is one of the biggest strikes against the loop dx/dt like i assumed 00:05:23.600 --> 00:05:30.020 that you'd be able to do it like you can for the stream deck with the stream deck 00:05:28.070 --> 00:05:34.940 you can put whatever text and whatever icon you want and here's another big 00:05:32.090 --> 00:05:39.680 strike against them you cannot open or activates any given application that you 00:05:37.580 --> 00:05:43.580 want you are stuck with the ones that they've pre-selected for you from the 00:05:42.140 --> 00:05:47.660 stream deck you can totally do it just open an app file and you can choose 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:51.380 whatever you want anywhere on your system including autohotkey scripts but 00:05:49.940 --> 00:05:56.360 it's like the main thing that i use to stream that for more stuff you can't do 00:05:53.210 --> 00:05:58.039 there are these 1 2 3 4 5 buttons that 00:05:56.360 --> 00:06:02.870 you cannot customize you cannot change them all so you can't change the RGB of 00:06:00.710 --> 00:06:06.289 any of the buttons at all the physical buttons know they're stuck with the 00:06:04.490 --> 00:06:09.350 default colors honestly for most of the stuff that this thing can do it's 00:06:07.910 --> 00:06:13.370 usually better to just use the keyboard honestly because your hand is already on 00:06:11.450 --> 00:06:18.169 the keyboard you already have all the muscle memory and like the physical 00:06:15.680 --> 00:06:23.180 feedback of pressing a key releasing a key and you know that an action has been 00:06:20.570 --> 00:06:27.540 sent that's better than the haptic feedback on the loop decks et cuz get 00:06:25.310 --> 00:06:34.140 this when you we need at all you just touch it listen it makes 00:06:32.010 --> 00:06:38.880 a vibration but that doesn't mean that it's done anything it's done nothing 00:06:36.350 --> 00:06:43.410 it always vibrates when you touch it even though the action only happens when 00:06:40.740 --> 00:06:46.140 you release so the vibration is doubly useless is telling you something that's 00:06:44.940 --> 00:06:49.170 happened when nothing's happened and then it tells me that something's happened when it has happened but I 00:06:48.390 --> 00:06:54.060 can't feel it it's even worse on this thing here I 00:06:52.560 --> 00:07:06.000 don't know what it's trying to tell me listen what is it doing at least when I 00:07:03.300 --> 00:07:11.430 double tap it I get back to normal but like when I move my finger here and then 00:07:08.250 --> 00:07:15.330 back I'm not back where I started 00:07:11.430 --> 00:07:17.430 so the shuttle command is garbage 00:07:15.330 --> 00:07:24.360 it's kind of ok when you're going slow if you go fast it whoa it teleports 00:07:20.600 --> 00:07:26.250 around seemingly at random I think what 00:07:24.360 --> 00:07:34.620 they did is they tried to get it to like skip over gaps the best one I've ever 00:07:29.430 --> 00:07:36.480 used is on the Logitech craft keyboard 00:07:34.620 --> 00:07:40.650 to the point where I just want to cut it off of that keyboard and just put it 00:07:38.520 --> 00:07:45.720 down here and use only the dial I feel like what they really should have done 00:07:41.700 --> 00:07:48.060 is just talk to the users people who 00:07:45.720 --> 00:07:53.270 actually use premiere go on user voice and find stuff that you can fix with the 00:07:50.850 --> 00:07:57.870 looped xct and here's a perfect example keyboard shortcuts for effects and 00:07:55.410 --> 00:08:01.470 presets they don't have it I have it because I did it without a hotkey nobody 00:07:59.580 --> 00:08:06.810 else has it and this would be perfect perfect for the loop deck you just press 00:08:04.890 --> 00:08:11.520 one key and all of a sudden you have access to whichever one of your presets 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:15.990 you want look at all these there is one command I found that works better on the 00:08:14.070 --> 00:08:18.740 loop Dex ET than it does on the keyboard select a clip 00:08:18.900 --> 00:08:25.230 if you click on a different row then 00:08:22.950 --> 00:08:28.980 it'll select on that row oh that's so cool look at that and then the other 00:08:27.000 --> 00:08:33.600 really good things to have on dials and sliders are color correction controls 00:08:31.050 --> 00:08:38.190 for which it's okay on the loop deck but honestly if you really want a color 00:08:35.820 --> 00:08:43.500 correction in premiere on a control surface use the ripple tangent it is 00:08:41.450 --> 00:08:47.160 magnificent I love this thing I use it every day increase and decrease the 00:08:45.540 --> 00:08:51.870 exposure I can change the saturation make it really high make it really low 00:08:49.140 --> 00:08:55.500 change the color temperature this is the kind of thing they should have tried to 00:08:53.070 --> 00:08:59.550 emulate with the loop deck and it just doesn't work nearly as well as a real 00:08:57.270 --> 00:09:04.590 physical ball the Photoshop integration is a little better they put more thought 00:09:01.650 --> 00:09:09.530 into it I think except that I can't always get it to work I'm in Photoshop 00:09:06.990 --> 00:09:14.490 I'm gonna click on the brush tool nothing's happened oh gosh 00:09:11.610 --> 00:09:20.280 type tool nope that's nothing nothing's happened I think I have to close out of 00:09:17.610 --> 00:09:24.290 Photoshop and reopen it there we go we got the brush tool okay and I can change 00:09:22.590 --> 00:09:29.850 my foreground and my background color except did you literally only have these 00:09:28.080 --> 00:09:34.890 ones to choose from what if you want brown or grey too bad there are not 00:09:32.730 --> 00:09:38.760 swatches for that and even if there were there would be no icons for them and 00:09:36.810 --> 00:09:44.310 then you can't make your own icons so whatever you don't even have i conce for 00:09:41.790 --> 00:09:49.680 white and black okay brush size opacity and hardness okay great brush to make 00:09:46.950 --> 00:09:54.990 the size smaller brush okay okay and I can also change the hardness this way 00:09:51.110 --> 00:09:57.030 come on here's the problem you can do 00:09:54.990 --> 00:10:01.620 that way faster with keyboard shortcuts if you don't know about this one it's 00:09:58.320 --> 00:10:04.230 great so brush tool just hit alt right 00:10:01.620 --> 00:10:08.640 click and then you have access to both hardness and diameter and then of course 00:10:07.050 --> 00:10:14.070 because I'm the macro King I bound this all to a single button so and then they 00:10:10.800 --> 00:10:15.240 also have for example zoom guys the zoom 00:10:14.070 --> 00:10:21.420 guess what look at how slow and laggy it is compare 00:10:18.750 --> 00:10:27.090 that to the built-in photoshop feature where you press control space left flick 00:10:24.510 --> 00:10:31.140 which is instantaneous work so much better I put it on single button because 00:10:29.280 --> 00:10:34.410 you know I can this thing is not worth the 500 something 00:10:32.700 --> 00:10:39.120 dollars that they're asking for they tried to do too many things they tried 00:10:37.140 --> 00:10:44.970 to support too many different pieces of software whereas a a focused approach 00:10:42.450 --> 00:10:48.990 like the stream deck where it's like we're gonna make this just for streaming 00:10:46.950 --> 00:10:53.250 to start with get it really good for that and then expand out from there or 00:10:51.390 --> 00:10:57.390 with the ripple tangent where they're like this is just for color correction 00:10:55.140 --> 00:11:00.960 that's so much of a better approach you know it's all beauty and and very little 00:10:59.190 --> 00:11:04.860 brains like this thing looks great it looks very impressive and the hardware 00:11:02.700 --> 00:11:08.430 is fine like if they had the integration working really well I could see myself 00:11:06.840 --> 00:11:14.760 using this but at the moment the only thing the only thing that I might use it 00:11:11.430 --> 00:11:15.450 for is Photoshop actions guys this is 00:11:14.760 --> 00:11:21.060 this is great mmm let me show you these are all my own 00:11:18.030 --> 00:11:22.920 custom actions that I have built and the 00:11:21.060 --> 00:11:29.490 problem with Photoshop is that you can only ever assign 44 actions to different 00:11:26.820 --> 00:11:34.650 shortcuts whereas because the loop Dex et has API access to photoshop they are 00:11:32.910 --> 00:11:38.130 directly integrated there's no need to go through a shortcut I can have 00:11:36.060 --> 00:11:42.570 unlimited actions on here check it out 50% smaller and here's neighbor 00:11:40.230 --> 00:11:45.420 oh is it not working oh there we go if there's just a delay cuz of course 00:11:43.710 --> 00:11:49.110 there's a delay it's a whole group of fish called delay fish like I can do it 00:11:47.550 --> 00:11:52.950 with that twelve or whatever but I only have so many keys and if they had only 00:11:50.910 --> 00:11:56.160 done that for premiere for prim your presets then that's another great reason 00:11:54.810 --> 00:12:03.360 to use this thing all right Oh some things that I do like about it it does have access to F 24 00:12:00.330 --> 00:12:05.190 through F 13 let me see here 00:12:03.360 --> 00:12:11.220 so I was experimenting with that here you can create macros of sorts they're 00:12:08.340 --> 00:12:16.260 called custom actions anything that's in here yet you can add to a custom action 00:12:13.440 --> 00:12:20.730 that's great that's perfect thank you and I like the consistent use of colors 00:12:18.780 --> 00:12:25.490 for workspaces versus pages versus of whatever and it does look cool and those 00:12:23.190 --> 00:12:30.030 are the only things that I like about it just from what I've seen so far look I'm 00:12:27.750 --> 00:12:33.330 just I'm so not impressed I want to encourage products like this I wanted 00:12:31.920 --> 00:12:37.770 this to be great I wanted to like this but I don't because we need more stuff 00:12:35.670 --> 00:12:42.900 like this we need more stuff like the ripple tangent Oh get one of these if 00:12:41.340 --> 00:12:46.949 you want to do color correction in Premiere get a stream deck this doesn't have 00:12:45.269 --> 00:12:50.970 integration with premier but watch my review they added all the features that 00:12:48.630 --> 00:12:56.279 I requested in my review but don't get a loop deck CT maybe maybe when they fix 00:12:53.970 --> 00:13:01.230 the software but oh I just I've been waiting I've been waiting for the power 00:12:58.680 --> 00:13:04.230 guys to fix their software and make it a lot better 00:13:01.709 --> 00:13:07.829 I've been waiting for years I don't use these things because it has a lot of 00:13:05.459 --> 00:13:09.449 similar problems to the loop deck CT they tried to bite off more than they 00:13:08.880 --> 00:13:15.569 can chew however they do have a brand new system 00:13:12.389 --> 00:13:18.380 coming out soon which maybe I will get 00:13:15.569 --> 00:13:21.920 to review on ShortCircuit we will see so make sure you subscribe