
When I make stuff, I inevitably wind up making things that help me make the stuff. French for “to put in place,” it means to have all your tools and ingredients prepped and ready to go before you begin the part that to the rest of the world looks like cooking.
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Professional chefs so celebrate the meta-work of their craft that they have a term for it: mise en place. Notice how brilliant creatives can’t help but build and share tools, like Andrew Kramer’s indispensable FX Console for After Effects, or Nick Campbell’s amazing Cinema 4D tools at Greyscalegorilla. And most of the work on a film set is before “action” and after “cut.” Much of the process of fine woodworking is creating jigs and rigs. Most of the work of painting a room in a house is prep and masking. But then I started watching how professionals in other fields work.

I considered my dalliances into tool-making to be a distraction, and I was impatient with tasks like balancing a gimbal or leveling dolly track. I used to think that the “work” of work was the creative mouse-moving or pencil-pushing or camera-clicking. Stream Deck on Amazon A Software-only Solution With this update, Stream Deck went from being a fun bonus to, I think, a must-have (and very affordable) add-on for power-users of any desktop software. I have begun porting my most-used Quadro macros to Stream Deck, and the results are great so far.

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But Elgato recently released Stream Deck software update 3.1, with support for Multi-actions. Without this ability, the Stream Deck was a nice-to-have, but not essential for me. (Those are Mac modifier keys - for Windows, replace Command ⌘ with Control, and Option ⌥ with Alt.)

