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thanks to San Heiser and Kingston for powering our NAB coverage this year

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check them both out at the links in the video description so we're here at NAB

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2016 and I stopped by the Adobe booth to check out some of the new upcoming

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features in Premiere Pro a few of which were requested by me and I noticed that

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they were using some very unusual peripherals for both audition and

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Premiere Pro this is called palette gear

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it's a modular system of buttons dials

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and sliders that can be physically rearranged any way you like and also

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custom configured in software to directly control various elements within

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several Adobe programs the cool thing about the palette gear is that it's

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actually communicating with these Adobe programs through the SDK which allows it

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to directly control certain values inside of the program this gives you

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extra functionality that a keyboard is simply not able to provide that's what

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makes this interesting to me so in Adobe Audition we were able to change the

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spectral resolution and spectral frequency with the turn of a knob then

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there's a lot of other stuff you can do as well in Premiere you can change the

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scale of a selected object the opacity the volume the panning the time index

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and a lot of other stuff that would otherwise require unfurling a few menus

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and using the mouse on all these tiny little controls which is you know

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annoying oh also you can change the color of the built-in LEDs on each

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individual module which allows you to more easily distinguish between them I'd

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say that this feature is actually not pointless unlike a lot of the RGB

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peripherals that we see on this channel I mean do you really need like several

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different RGB zones for your mouse no

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you don't my only criticism so far is

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that it looks like all the modules seem to be a bit larger than necessary if you

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compare this to pretty much any audio mixing board you can clearly see that

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the same functionality can be packed into a much smaller space I have plenty

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of room on my desk but not everyone does palette is still working out the bugs

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especially for Premiere and InDesign for

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which the support is still in beta but I'm glad to see that Adobe is actively

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working with palette to support these control surfaces if you've seen my DIY

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87 macro keyboard video you know that I

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appreciate peripherals like this which allow for extra functionality and

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control in the applications that I use in my daily work so hopefully we'll have

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a full review of the palette gear coming up on our channel at sometime in the

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future thanks again to San Heiser for sending us to nab this year make sure to

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