Controller Wheel for Avid Newscutter with Adrenaline

[Valerie Shoaps]

Hi,

I have the larger of the two models from Contour. It’s on my home setup. Initially, I used it a lot, but the novelty wore out after a while. Plus, I didn’t want to get used to it, because I’ve never worked in a suite that had one. My standard “mode” is one hand on the mouse and the other on the keyboard.

Valerie

[Oakmozart]

Hold off for the next release of Newscutter (likely a maintenance release). Scroll-wheel support is coming! Because of this, you won’t need a jog/shuttle wheel. I know this for a fact, since it was told to the users on the Avid Xpress Pro Forum on Avid’s website by one of the principal software engineers at Avid. If it’s coming for XPro, it’s coming for Adrenaline, Symphony Nitris, Newscutter, etc. Here’s an exact quote from the engineer:

“You’ve been asking for scroll wheel support for months now. It was also a popular request at NAB this year. A couple of us in engineering decided that we would spend some of our personal time and sneak this feature in sooner rather than later.

But we didn’t stop there. We decided that we would go a little further than what you asked for and added even more new mouse features.

Of course, you will be able to use the scroll wheel to scroll through any window that has a scroll bar. The speed of the scroll is also configurable.

But now you have access to extra capabilities while holding down the ctrl key and scrolling. Depending on which window you are in, and which gadget is highlighted, holding down the ctrl key will let you perform the following:
* Select items or columns from your bin
* Move the blue bar indicator (frame forward and back)
* Adjust the value of sliders
* Adjust your trims while in Trim Mode
* And more…
Many of these features have an