editing keyboards

Farlo · Post by **Farlo** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 8:27 am

Selection of Editing Keyboards

for those of us lazy, or forgetful of our hotkeys.

dokool · Post by **dokool** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 8:56 am

Cheap $20 keyboard + a highlighter = ?

I dunno, these do seem neat on principle (My teacher has one for Final Cut Pro at school), but it's a bit too expensive for color-coded keys.

TaranT · Post by **TaranT** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 1:14 pm

I looked at these a while back, then settled on a $10 mini-keyboard and a middle-grade mouse.

PI Engineering makes a line of programmable keypads that look more interesting. The cost of these is high and they do take up deskspace - except for the foot pedal thing.

AMVfreak · Post by **AMVfreak** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 1:21 pm

Hahaha
Pretty neat.
The things they come up with nowadays.

Yeah it feels too expensive for a customized keyboard, but it'll be really cool to have... and a wee bit awkward to use o.0

X-keys Foot Pedal
* 3 pedals keep your hands free while you click, shift, enter, or perform any operation from the keyboard.

*chuckle*
It's like driving!

DrngdKreationz · Post by **DrngdKreationz** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 2:27 pm

OMG!!! Colorcoded keys like increase your artistic talent by 15 horsepower!!!

pen-pen2002 · Post by **pen-pen2002** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 2:59 pm

A Jog and Shuttle would be an interesting thing to try, but do people here really have that much need to speed up the editing process?

Personally my actual editing time is dwarfed by the time I spend planing preping and tweaking. The only thing I could see using it for is for seizure type videos with lots of quick, frustrating timing.

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 3:07 pm

pen-pen2002 wrote:A Jog and Shuttle would be an interesting thing to try, but do people here really have that much need to speed up the editing process?

I used a jog wheel at Anime Central's AMV Iron Chef competition to scan through footage quickly and precisely. It's very difficult to get the same effect using a keyboard or mouse: a mouse, while allowing you to scan quickly through footage, will often skip over frames unless you have excellent hand control, and keyboard control in most programs will only go one frame at a time -- you can't speed it up or slow it down at whim. You can, however, do all that with a jog wheel.