Good editing mouse

[Adam Taylor]

Good point Donal, I better qualify what i said…i hadn’t realised there was the Bamboo range. It might be great, in fact, why would they release a new product if it wasn’t better than the one it superceded…

anyway, i was meaning the Graphire range of cheap tablets. They work, but they feel cheap and uncomfortable to use….pen too light, surface too shiny and slippy.

The intuos have a very good pen with weight and substance in your hand, and a tablet surface that gives just the right amount of resistance.

adam

Adam Taylor
Video Editor/Audio Mixer/ Compositor/Motion GFX/Barista
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UK

[Walter Biscardi]

[Donal O Kane] “Anywho, if the more expensive wacom tablets are even better than the one I have then I have something to look forward to :)”

The big difference is in pressure sensitivity for using apps like Photoshop. If you don’t use photoshop a lot, you probably don’t need the more expensive ones. I also like the feel of the Intuos surface and pen more than the bamboo, but that’s just me.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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[Winston A. cely]

I’m loving the Mighty Mouse as well. The track ball is the best part for sure. I turned off the side buttons though. My biggest problem with it has been in Call of Duty and firing when I meant to aim down sight. Never have a miss-click in Final Cut though. 🙂

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[Jamie Pickell]

I’ve got a 12 yr. old Kensington Turbo Mouse trackball on my system and I love it. It’s a holdover from my desktop publishing days. I haven’t bothered programming all the buttons, but the fact that I don’t have to drag a mouse over two screens of real estate is great. I highly recommend looking into a trackball like the Kensington Turbo Mouse.

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[Joseph Moore]

Slightly off topic, but the two things I recently added to my new system that I simply love are:

1) The Contour Shuttle Pro. At only $100 there is no reason to not have a real/jog shuttle. Plus you get to put your most common tasks on buttons right next to it.

2) KB Covers FCP sleeve for the aluminum keyboard. Used to be, I would immediately trash whatever keyboard came with a Mac, but for editing it’s not so much typing as it is punching buttons, and having the color labeled keys is so nice.

Between these two items, I hardly touch my mouse! 😉

[Scott Thomas]

I used tablets in dedicated paint systems and never had a problem. I later used a tablet with a regular computer and had a bit of a learning curve. It was great for Photoshop, but I found myself going back to the mouse for Illustrator and desktop file management. After about a month, I was using the tablet for about everything. Then, when I had to use a mouse for something, I had a very negative reaction. Now I only use the mouse for some web browsing and sometimes in 3D apps where the scroll wheel and extra buttons are advantageous.

You’ve got to give it another try!

[Scott Thomas]

I use a Intuos 2 18″x12″ tablet for two 24″ widescreen LCD monitors. I’ll sell you the Intuos 2 so I can gat an Intous 3. 🙂