DaVinci Resolve: Using Joystick Part 2 - Pan and Scan

Make sure to first watch part 1 where we play a game of Miami Race in Resolve using a joystick. The concepts we learn in that tutorial are important for part 2.
In this tutorial we use the joystick to aid in creation of pan-and-scan for social videos. Pan-and-scan is an old process in which picture is panned left or right to fit a tighter aspect ratio like 1x1 or 9x16.
If you'd like to download the scripts in from these two tutorials use the GitHub links provided in the video.

[@hisroyalillness]

Your channel is gold. Great use and "Controll"of Python. Thanks fpr sharing.

[@fqcolour]

Incredbile work!

[@axelschmidt3340]

Great job. I am not familiar at all with scripting in DR but this looks really handy!

[@trekitytrekyoself]

Im going to try this to edit widescreen hd movies for vhs 4:3. Thanks

[@WilliamJusticeMedia]

Hey Igor. Great script. Looks pretty simple, but very interesting use of the joystick for controlling resolve. Really wish their API was a bit better. I always run into road blocks trying to figure things out. Something things just can be done. Thanks for the video!

[@Hdhead]

Yes, you have to tackle things in very creative ways to overcome the limitations.

[@dotmediahouse2538]

we can use smart reframe also

[@tomaskonvicka4135]

That's great!:) Is it possible to use the joystick to control the color page parameters in a similar way? Like staturation, contrast, pivot, etc.? I've done controls on PS4 in the past, but without using the API, just macros based on mouse position and clicks.

[@Hdhead]

Anything that can be adjusted using the mouse is possible to mal to the joystick but it's tricky because small UI misalignment will cause mouse emulation to click in the wrong place. I don't like this way of doing it but it's kind of the only option for things that don't exist as keyboard shortcuts.

[@tomaskonvicka4135]

@@Hdhead So there's no way to do this using the API, without mouse emulation like you did for panning?

[@Hdhead]

@@tomaskonvicka4135 no. The API is very limited when it comes to exposing the Color Page. The reason behind this is likely that it's not in BMD's best interest to open the Color Page to third party controllers.

[@tomaskonvicka4135]

@@Hdhead That's a shame. I was wondering if there was a way to capture the signals from the BM panel and mimic those signals. (Or data on a particular port from wifi, thanks to a virtual tablet variant from Tangent.)

[@Hdhead]

@@tomaskonvicka4135 Yes, there are several tools that can capture and analyze USB traffic. Wireshark can do this. I think this is generally a fool's errand to reverse engineer this kind of stuff. BMD panels are great quality and relatively inexpensive.