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Survey: Any hardware jog/shuttle users? (Contour/Avid/Euphonix/Mackie)
There were multiple discussions in the past about Adobe taking away the jog/shuttle controls in CS6. I personally agree that the on-screen controls were cumbersome and unneeded, but today I was doing sound editing and was sorely in need of better transport controls than the available keystrokes. I grabbed my old Contour ShuttleXpress, and was disappointed to see how choppy it felt. Worse, in audio-unit mode (where it’s most needed) two spins of the wheel would leave you waiting for 3 seconds while Premiere fulfills all these “right arrow” keystrokes. I don’t have CS5 around, but I believe that the GUI jog/shuttle was much smoother than any experience you can get from CC these days.
So, before I start any discussion or feature request I wanted to see how many people use any of the available hardware transport control panels:
1. If you use a Contour Shuttle or a Bella keyboard, how is the jog/shuttle responsiveness? Are you happy with it?
2. If you use Avid/Euphonix Artist Transport or Mackie MCU, does the jog/shuttle work? Can you tell if it feels like a series of keystrokes, or fluid vari-speed control? Are you happy with it?
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I have the Bella DV 3.0, now discontinued! It was great with VEgas pro, but now that I’m using Premiere, not so good, it is “choppy” whereas Vegas was very smooth. JKL keys work fine, why not the jog/shuttle? I was thinking of getting the Contour product, but if it’s not smooth, no point over the JKL keys for me.
Malcolm
http://www.malcolmproductions.com
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