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What do you edit with?
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Have used them all over time. Had a Wacom tablet for years.
Now I use the Apple keyboard… the new Magic mouse, because having trackpad functionality on the top of the mouse really speeds up timeline operations in FCP X. As a result the trackpad is now in the cabinet.
Then I use the iPad mini with CTRL+Console Final Cut Pro Editor…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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On Mac always Apple extended and a MS (older red bottom) Optical.
I havent had to same feel with newer MS but I think Im due to try other brands.
I used an old SGI mouse from my O2/Octane days on my PCs for as long as they clicked.
I miss the original three button mouse.
I spend a lifetime in Maya/Softimage got so used to it.
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Avid Artist Control
Avis Artist TransportNote that I don’t use these for productivity gains over a keyboard per se. I just have really bad wrists, and letting me mash buttons, audio levers, and jog wheels for 10 hours/day is physically easier than locking them into a keyboard position.
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Wacom for me. I have the touch enabled one and use that feature often. I can’t use much more than the pen as anything else starts to hurt pretty bad after a while. The gaming controller looks good, though!
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I use color encoded NLE specific keyboards and any old 2 button mouse – left hand on the keyboard, right hand on the mouse because of a bad digit on my right hand. I like the idea of dedicated hardware, never found anything that worked well for me. I’ve just ordered the gaming pad though, thanks for the tip.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “I remember an editor saying that what he loved was you could really hammer the hell out of them – yank the transport, hammer the buttons.”
Cool. I’ve never used one before but always wondered how it felt.
[Mitch Ives] ” the new Magic mouse, because having trackpad functionality on the top of the mouse really speeds up timeline operations in FCP X. As a result the trackpad is now in the cabinet.”
I tried the Magic Mouse for a bit but for me trackpad is too sensitive. I keep accidentally triggering it or overshooting my target. I wish there was a setting in System Preferences to adjust the sensitivity.
[Daniel Frome] “Note that I don’t use these for productivity gains over a keyboard per se. I just have really bad wrists, and letting me mash buttons, audio levers, and jog wheels for 10 hours/day is physically easier than locking them into a keyboard position.”
Physical health is nothing to scoff at. That’s a big reason I moved away from the mouse. I don’t have wrist problems and I’m trying to keep it that way.
[Herb Sevush] ” I’ve just ordered the gaming pad though, thanks for the tip.”
After you’ve had time to play around with it I’d be curious to hear what you think.
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Keyboard, mouse in PP, Audition
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Tangent Wave with Resolve. I slightly preferred the way Color mapped on Wave. Because Fairlight has its own keyboard with dedicated jog, I hate using a keyboard for transport control so the Tangent is my NLE friend. A mouse to grade – yuck.
The Fairlight approach is interesting as it allows a controller with automatic key mapping based on the mode you are in including switching to a standard keyboard. Fairlight have an arrangement with Adobe, Sony & Edius to have custom layouts.
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I use a backlit CODE keyboard from WASD, with mechanical switches. For anyone who remembers the old IBM Model M keyboards — this one clicks like a keyboard should.
I use both a medium-sized Wacom tablet and a Kensington Slimblade Trackball. I bounce back and forth from the tablet to the trackball throughout the day, depending on what I’m doing.
I have a couple of all these doodads, so I travel with this setup, too (though I have the quieter CODE keyboard for the road).
On wrist health: I’m not a doctor and this isn’t medical advice, but here’s my story.
A while back, when I was using a mouse full time, I started suffering from some nasty tendonitis — pain and reduced grip strength. At first, I just tried immobilization and ice. (Because, you know, rest and elevation are not compatible with deadliens.) When that stopped working, I switched full-time to a trackball.
The trackball was great for a while, but then the tendonitis returned, so I switched full-time to a tablet. The tablet was great for a while, then the tendonitis returned.
That’s when it dawned on me that the cause of repetitive stress injuries is, well, repetitive stress. And it can happen from any input device. Now I mix my use of tablet and trackball, to help reduce the daily occurrence of repetitive motions.
I have also found that the problems that I thought were in my wrists, and which I tried to treat as inflammation with RICE, were in fact muscular problems in my forearms. My forearm muscle was tightening up, and that’s what causing the problem with my tendons — so a lot of that inflammation treatment was only addressing a symptom, not the cause.
Acupressure applied to my forearm muscle, and occasionally wearing a Cho-Pat strap while working, has helped me recover and stay healthy better than ice or immobilization ever did.
Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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what about contour shuttle i use it with a keyboard and/ot mouse. but i will check the gamepd.
ricardo marty
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