Near the top, two rows of four and five clear buttons respectively, are arrayed in a curved fashion not quite parallel to the top end of the body and arcing around the jog/shuttle control. The jog/shuttle is surrounded in an almost circular arrangement by 15 programmable buttons.

Both these circular controls work in forward and reverse. (The ShuttleXpress has only one of these fingertip hollows and that is not as convenient.) Around this is the shuttle ring, for larger movements through the timeline. The middle alloy dial is the jog wheel and it has three indentations on its surface for easy manipulation and fine control by a fingertip. At 30 mm above the desk, and at the highest point on the back of the Shuttle, is the two-part jog/shuttle controller. The wider end faces away from the user and the USB cord extends out from its centre. The V2 is a low-profile, almost flat, desk-hugging accessory with a blunt egg-shaped, footprint that narrows (waist-like) towards the sharper end. If enough is great, then surely a whole lot more of the same must be exquisite? Features I love my ShuttleXpress, but when the idea arose that I might review its much more sophisticated relative, the ShuttlePro V2, I jumped at the chance. Among other things in the out-of-the-box configuration, they make it a breeze to move through the timeline either one frame at a time, or at various speeds in both forward and reverse directions. These units concentrate detailed editing control in one device by allocating button or dial controls to selectable keyboard shortcuts. Soon after sampling the delights of video editing, I found out about jog/shuttle devices via my five button/twin rotary Contour Design ShuttleXpress. The other thing I'd like to change would be having it set up for left hand use, so mirroring the functions of thumb buttons, I can see it works well as you've demonstrated it.Frank McLeod loves his ShuttleXpress, so we found him a bigger brother to play with, the ShuttlePro V2. Have you found a good increase in speed with the Shuttle controlling exposure & other settings over mouse and slider? If so, is there any difference in finesse?

I would use Shuttle differently from you, but that's part of its appeal! For instance, I prefer pick & reject, only rarely using star ratings of picture. I haven't done any computer coding since FORTRAN at University in early 1980s! Though I did think I could follow what you showed in the video & could amend once, I'd got better appreciation of what is going on and how to edit. You mention development of a UI to help change things round, that'd would be really useful for me. I'm a Mac user, so will not be able to install and test/use at the moment. Sorry for late response, I've been on other tasks and until now have not found time to read what you've done and watch the video. Thanks for doing all of this work for the Shuttle Pro.

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