Buy CONTOUR DESIGN ShuttlePRO V.2CONTOUR DESIGN ShuttlePRO V.2 Product Description:
- Nine of the programmable buttons have removable keycaps for easy labeling
- Inner Ring (jog) - rotates through 360 degrees and provides frame by frame control
- Outer Ring (shuttle) - rubberized and spring-loaded for fast forward & rewind functions
- Jog & Shuttle can also be used for scrolling, volume control, sequencing & more!
- Macintosh Requirements - PowerBook, iBook, iMac
Product Description
Contour Design Shuttle Pro 2 Multimedia ControllerMulti-button Jog & Shuttle Multimedia Control Surface.... Sleek innovative design, pre-configured for many of today's popular applications, advanced programmability, and ease of use... in short, the perfect marriage of form and function.Short Description:The ShuttlePRO V.2 is a powerful productivity enhancement tool for video and audio editors. The ShuttlePRO V.2 even comes pre-configured for many of the leading Audio and Video applications. You can also easily customize the ShuttlePRO V.2 for virtually any application.The ShuttlePRO V.2 is designed for ergonomic integrity and maximizing productivity, allowing one-hand access to the fully programmable buttons and jog/shuttle knob. Nine (9) of the buttons have removable keycaps for easy labeling and referencing. The inner ring or 'jog' rotates through 360 degrees and provides precision frame by frame control. The outer black ring or 'shuttle' is rubberized and spring-loaded. It facilitates fast forward and rewind. You can also use the jog and shuttle for many other purposes such as scrolling, volume control, and sequencing.Features:Software:* Pre-configured for dozens ofapplications * Monitors the application you are in and automatically switches settings * Multiple settings per application. * Easily add/edit your own custom settings Hardware Features* Fifteen (15) fully programmable buttons on ShuttlePRO V.2 * Super smooth jog knob for frame by frame navigation and control - * ShuttlePRO V.2 features new alloy knob for professional feel * Spring-loaded and rubberized shuttle knob * Comfortable, ergonomic shape and design System Requirements :Macintosh Apple Powerbook, iBook, iMac, G3 or G4 running Mac OS 8.6 through 9.x or OS 10.1 or later Available USB port 10 Mb of free hard disk space PC PC Compatible running Windows 98, 98SE, Me, 2000 or XP AvailableUSB port 10 Mb of free hard disk space
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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful.
Great Interface Device Even If Construction Quality isn't Perfect
By Alec Kercso
Easy to set up, and intuitive to use, the Contour Design ShuttlePRO V.2 is a must have for video editors, digital music composers, or others who need to do a lot of shuttle and jog work. The driver software provides application-sensitive control that switches input functions depending on the program in use (Photoshop, Excel, etc.) as well as allowing global control settings. Reconfiguring the buttons and dials is both straightforward and simple to do: launch the configuration program, and click or move the control that you want to reassign; the ShuttlePRO configuration program automatically selects the right input, and you enter the keystroke and modifiers (shift, control, alt).The hardware is generally well-designed, having a low profile that fits comfortably under an average sized hand. With a jog dial constructed of aluminum, the action feels smooth and certain. Several of the button-tops snap off and on easily for adding custom labels.On the negative side, and the one reason I couldn't give the product 5 stars, is the construction of the housing. For a device needs to lie solidly on the desktop, my unit had a slight convex warp (about 1/16" over the length of the footprint). It may not sound like much, but this was enough to cause an annoying rockiness under my hand. The problem was easy enough to solve by peeling off the middle two rubber foot-pads and sticking them to the bottom of the front two pads (see my customer-submitted picture above).Final verdict: A nice unit with software that performs well even if the hardware construction quality isn't perfect. I'd buy another if I needed one.
18 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
Awesome Shuttle Pro
By M. Miskill
If you are a Photoshop "power user" and thinking about buying the Shuttle Pro, don't even think twice about it. This is an awesome addition to a graphics tablet. The two center wheels are worth the price of admission alone. Don't use their PS defaults, though. I set the inner wheel to adjust my brush size. Being able to do this on the fly is wonderful. Set the outer incremental ring to zoom in and out. Remember, in PS you should be viewing at 100% or even increments thereof. The built-in stops on the ring really facilitate this. I set the four bottom keys up as my modifier keys with the fourth one being space bar with hold down activated so I can move around in my zoomed photo. If you're a PS professional you'll find that this device really speeds up a digital workflow and will easily pay for itself in a short amount of time.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
Potentially great, but...
By Taylor Bryant
It may be unfair to dock the hardware for what is essentially a software problem, but...On the mac, at least, this acts as a keyboard wedge (is this the term I'm looking for?), meaning it sends a keystroke, a combination of keystrokes (through a nifty macro writer) or a few mouse functions (scroll wheel, click). So if you can do it on the keyboard, you can do it on the ShuttlePro.This works great for the buttons, but can be problematic in the shuttle and jog functionality. I was hoping for a driver that would treat the shuttle ring as a unique piece of hardware; instead I need to assign keystrokes to 15 shuttle positions (-7 to 0 to 7) and potentially 28 transitions (-7 to -6, -6 to -5, ... 6 to 7, 7 to 6, ... -6 to -7). To be fair, I'm not certain how or if the transitions are ever used, the documentation is super vague on this.You then assign the frequency of keypresses per position - from "hold down" to "ten times a second" to "once every thirty seconds". (Or, if simulating a mouse scroll, assign the frequency AND the number of lines/pages you want to scroll.)Problem is, the effect of sending these keystrokes can overwhelm the software and make it unresponsive - you release the shuttle wheel, the ring snaps crisply back to zero, and the video keeps zooming forward or backward, making accuracy (in some software, at least) impossible.The laborious nature of tweaking the settings (14 or more tweaks to, say, see what happens if I change the frequency from "Hold down" to "As fast as possible"). Thankfully, these tweaks do take effect instantly, no restarting.This is likely an unfair gripe for something like final cut pro, which has well implemented keyboard equivalents for shuttling (which the shuttlepro can utilize) and so doesn't suffer from this bogging down. But in my case, it made me still need the mouse... It would be a five star product darn it all!If I figure a way around this, I'll definitely update my review and give it the deserved bump.
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