how to get shuttle control back in cs6

[James Corsolini]

I’m going to assume it’s not possible. Anyone know any different?

[David Ziegelheim]

I can’t believe they took out these two important controls. Shocked.

[Jon Barrie]

There is all the control you need in Jkl and shift modifier combos for gradual speed playback. Hold k and tap j or l for single step. Hold shift and hit j or l for 1/10 speed increment playback. Really no.need for them. Hasn’t been for long time IMHO. – JB

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[David Ziegelheim]

Strongly disagree. The controls offered easier, more varied, and more intuitive control.

Jon, you may not use them, but I want them back. I want them back enough that I’m inclined not to upgrade to CS6 Master Collection until the controls are back.

[Jon Barrie]

Hi Daniel,

I see you have been editing with Adobe software for many years, which is great!

Understandably every editor has their own way to work and Adobe is very open about creating options for editors to work their own way.

The Shuttle and Jog controls have been around for a long time. I have been editing for over 12 years and never used them once I found JKL control and using the playhead (CTI for many versions) was simply faster and less mousing.

If you really love a workflow with a shuttle and jog, I’m surprised you haven’t got your hands on a proper wheel. It is way quicker to use that than you pull and position and reposition with the mouse.

There are many varieties of the wheel, a simple wheel only or something with buttons across it which can be assigned with shortcuts, and again boost productivity once you get used to it.

It’s entirely upto you. I personally feel gaining more real estate for content is more important to me than buttons I don’t use and haven’t for years since I know the shortcut keys.

I doubt it will come back to the UI. One never knows but even if it does come back a wheel is still a great way to go.

Cheers JB

Jon Barrie
Adobe Video Solutions Consultant ANZ
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[James Corsolini]

I too have been editing on the Avid for 20 years and switched to PP.
so I am used to only using the JKL keys.
JKL gets you only so fine a control over playback. It’s easy to say that I should just buy a shuttle control – and perhaps I will have to now.
When you’re scanning through a lot of dialog, it was nice in PP with the shuttle because you could go at a speed and still be able to understand what they were saying. the first double tap on the L is too fast.
Perhaps they could program that speed for half that amount in the next release. That would be good.

[Ryan Patch]

You can use the SHIFT key as a modifier on your J and L keys to move in 1/10th increments of speed. So, if you’re looking to playback dialogue quickly, perhaps hit L once, then do a couple of SHIFT+Ls, then you’ll be lovin life.

[Steve Kallevik]

Sorry, but the Shuttle uses all of a few horizontal pixels so it doesn’t increase ANYONE’s screen real estate in any significant way. Yeah, Avid people are used to keys only because that was how Avid was programmed, BUT guess what, Avid finally came around and realized that people want to use their mouse to navigate the software like every other NLE out there. Here comes along Adobe thinking that they know whats best for their customers and they just lost my 7 CS6 upgrades.

FYI, when I use the shuttle, I have my fingers ready to hit Q, W, I & O so I don’t have any spare fingers to rest over and constantly tap JKL & Shift.

And with MC editing, I use the shuttle and have my fingers ready to tap numbers 1,2,3,4 to make cuts and spacebar to stop & start playback. NOW Adobe completely broke that process because numbers don’t make cuts anymore and there isn’t any shuttle.

[James Dearing]

Steve – I’ve built a free script that gives you shuttle/jog control using the middle mouse button, in Premiere/Prelude CS6.

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/3/926899

I’ve not had any downloads yet… dying to see if it’s useful to anyone!

JD.

[Patrick Fisher]

Your shuttle script works like a charm. I like it much lots!!! My only issue is how far I need to “mouse” to each side to get the faster/slower speeds. Is there anyway to shorten the distance? I have three monitors and it feels like I need to mouse 1.5 screens to go to either fast/slow extreme..
Anyway, NICE WORK THANK-YOU!!!