I also can't believe, that there is no help, no user guide/manual, just some stupid bla bla bla video from a woman ... ehmm... actually ... I found out in 2 minutes that it is a man ... soooooooooooorry ... and also the short workflow pure marketing videos are there, but ... just ... I can't zoom the timeline, because you changed the Iridas shortcuts !!!!!!!!! If you have time to shoot these videos, why have you NOT find the time to write some little help ??? You had 8 months for that !!! So ... back to the Iridas version ... or to another grading software ...

My only pet peave is zooming in on the timeline...

With selector in timeline on mode Master, control+scroll wheel in mouse.

Purchased SG and I'm excited about digging in. As said before there is no manual or help system. Manual please.....

Add me to the list.

Lack of user manual or help files on release of new application is incomprehensible to me.

Learning and using SpeedGrade has gone to the back burner for me because I can not resolve some basics issue. eg dual monitor set up in the application.

Some cool video tutorials do not do enough in regards to set up. They are fine for basic understanding of "how to..."

This is an Adobe fail as far as I am concerned and I would have to comment that my first impressions of SpeedGrade after a week of fiddling,

Dissapointing..."its got a clunky interface that defies intuition".  "Navigating and finding buttons, functions is dauntingly complex".

So... Thank you for your offer! Here are my questions. A few for the beginning :-)

1) How to move the timeline? By IRIDAS, it was possible to move it simple with left mouse drag (in Custom tab). Now it is a pain ... it jumps somehow ...

2) How to zoom the timeline? Only with scroll mouse over the timeline? By IRIDAS, it was possible to use left mouse + CMD.

It was so easy before: to move LEFT MOUSE to zoom CMD+LEFT MOUSE.

3) How to hide grading window - to temporary make more place for the picture? "K" doesn't work anymore, like it was by IRIDAS.

Next questions are also for older versions by Iridas / not fixed in CS6.

4) OK, I can check the look from a previous scene by pressing 1, two before - pressing 2 etc. If I don't like them and if I want to go back to my previous non-graded version??? Pressing 0 gives me an ungraded version only during I am pressing the button. So ... how to go back to ungraded version? Do I have to manually delete everything?

5) I can't find any info  about the grouping - for what are they there? Only for visual reference?

6) How can I copy/move more grading layers at the same time on the timeline? Do I have to do it one by one?

7) Now imagine this: I want to make the white balance. I can do it visualy, but usually it is better to know the RGB values of a white point on the picture. Yes, I can press LEFT MOUSE on the picture and I see the values in a value window. Nice! By pressing "0" I can also see the original values before grading. Very nice! So I want to modify the sliders. I move the mouse to the sliders and the value window goes away. So I don't know how far to move the sliders. Is there any way/workflow to have a value feedback of a selected area/point always visible on the screen?

Sorry for my english, it is not my native language ... and thank you for the answers in advance.

It believe Speedgrade is going to be a good application.

Thanks for your hints Lin, appreciate your work.

Lack of user manual or help files on release of new application is incomprehensible to me.

Learning and using SpeedGrade has gone to the back burner for me because I can not resolve some basics issue.

I second that! Want to integrate SpeedGrade in our workflow, but I'm extremely frustrated right now.

Dissapointing..."its got a clunky interface that defies intuition".  "Navigating and finding buttons, functions is dauntingly complex".

While I understand that Speedgrade has come from an hardware-interface-controll-environment, it now is integrated in CS6 which is widely used with common PC peripherals - so things have changed and Adobe has to bring along Speedgrade in a new era.

But right now, all I want is a proper manual.

1) choose "Timeline" , submenu "Setup" then drag the grading icon above the trackson the timeline.

OR  click on a clip in the timeline and then click on the

button to give you a grading clip for each clip in the timeline.

2) Can't  (as far as I know).  Just have to drag the central handle up to give yourself more space (makes preview smaller).

3)  Click on + to add another looks category, then  "..." to browse to the missing folder (e.g. \look examples\cinematic).  Do this for each missing folder.

4) Nope.    Actually, YES, there are, but not for everything.

Regarding customising the interface, it seems that there is little felxibility in the UI. It does seem like it's designed for 2 monitors, which is fine but I do think there needs to be a little more thought given to perhaps a way to hide looks or have them vertically on the right hand side. The grading interface dosen't span the whole of the horizontal so I think there would be room. In this way you can have a 50% 1280x720 preview rather than the very squished thumbnail you get when you pull the grading panel up. I might do a suggested layout in Photoshop which might expalin it better

Here's my suggestion for a look panel on the right hand side. It's got it's disadvantages but the other idea might be to have a window at the bottom that can open and close when you mouse near it.

Yeah, tablet is a mess, at least with my Intuos 3: can't operate the Look wheels in any meaningful way, can't create playheads, can't close SG reliably, etc. Hope Adobe fixes tablet support soon.

BTW, how do you pan across zoomed material for monitoring? I can do it with the numeric pad +, but it always zooms in the center. Is it possible to pan to a more important area? E.g., I was working on a dance video and wanted to see the face which in the upper 1/3.

Shift+cursor keys

Cool, thanks Manuel. BTW, for others struggling for shortcuts: looks like a lot of the old ones in the IRIDAS manual (http://iridas.com/doc/SGNX2011_UserGuide.pdf) are still valid, check those out.

I checked out CS6 as a trial, and I'm very excited about the new possibilities. I was particularly curious about Speedgrade and how it would work for us on a feature we're shooting with the Canon 5d. Sg has very good color control, and CS6 in general has a good workflow. Unfortunately, the color-correction workflow is not quite well established, and I think we'll need to stay with FCP and Color for one more project. I'm hoping Adobe has this ironed out by the winter, for my next feature, because I would really like to take adavantage of the Dynamic Link between PPro and AE. And the media encoder. And the native r3d support. LOL!

It looks promising, keep it up!