Just in case anyone was interested, ShuttleXpress is working perfectly with PD 10, thanks to a ZIP file of preference settings downloaded from the Contour forums. Pretty dang slick, if I may say so!

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Quote: Might you explain what the ShuttleExpress is, then I'll Google it with your post in mind.

My apologies!

The ShuttleXpress is a jog wheel/shuttle control with additional programmable buttons:



Once properly configured, the Jog knob (center) lets you scroll forward or back frame by frame, and the shuttle (wheel around the knob) scrubs back and forth at higher speeds. The five buttons around the top are configured for Beginning of Clip/Project, Previous Frame, Play/Pause, Next Frame, and End of Clip/Project (though they can be re-configured to just about anything your mouse or keyboard can do).

This thing really seems to make scrubbing through projects much more convenient than mousing around. Shop around and they can be had for about $40 shipped, which seems well worth it.

Hi Vapian

Does the ShuttleXpress replace the mouse or do you have both installed
and functional at the same time?

Sure looks interesting and another FUN boys toy.

Patrick

Quote: Does the ShuttleXpress replace the mouse or do you have both installed and functional at the same time?

The keyboard, mouse and ShuttleXpress are all connected and usable at the same time. The SX doesn't really replace the mouse or the keyboard, but rather augments them as a dedicated transport control with Jog & Shuttle controls.

So far I haven't done any extensive editing but did open up a recent project and play around. Where I see this being a potential time-saver is using the Jog and Shuttle for messing about in the timeline for splits.

In my projects so far I've spent quite a bit of time expanding and contracting the timeline to find exactly the right place to make splits to cut things out. In playing around last night I found I could leave the timeline at pretty much any zoom setting, use the scrub wheel to rapidly find any section and then the jog wheel to fine-tune the displayed frame.

I may be wrong but think that if one of the five buttons is programmed for splitting that should allow performing about three-quarters or more of my timeline-based editing with one hand.

I had been looking at this for a while, but since I wasn't doing much editing at the time I held off getting one. I'm gearing up to do a lot more editing in the near future, so I purchased one last week. I just used it on my first small project.

I must say it works very well. I used to do a lot of analog tape editing years ago, and was very comfortable using the shuttle/jog wheel to move around videos on the old editing consoles. This device give PowerDirector the same kind of feel as I was used to.

I found 2 different scripts on their website forum. I don't remember which one I used, but I quickly reconfigured it to give a greater range of speeds on the wheel. Now that I've tried it, I would probably consider getting the larger one with more buttons to handle more editing tasks so I could use the keyboard and mouse even less.
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Looks good, did not know this tool, I'm using PDSpeed.exe, add keyboard shortcuts for editing works well in PD8, 9 and 10
In the forum there is a topic on PDSpeed.exe, link to the program

Quote: Looks good, did not know this tool, I'm using PDSpeed.exe, add keyboard shortcuts for editing works well in PD8, 9 and 10
In the forum there is a topic on PDSpeed.exe, link to the program

I saw that, and considered using it. But I've never been good about remembering keyboard shortcuts. I am considering getting a programmable keypad where I can map the keys (which I could label) to specific keystrokes, and use it in conjunction with PDSpeed. Between that and the shuttle wheel it would basically replicate the old tape editing consoles that I was used to years ago.