CONTOUR DESIGN ShuttlePRO V.2 | 
 enlarge | Brand: Contour Design
Category: CE
List Price: $109.95
Buy New: $76.76
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 10283
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 8.6 x 2.8
Warranty: 2 years warranty
MPN: S-PROV2
Model: ShuttlePRO 2
UPC: 743870005057
EAN: 0743870005057
ASIN: B00027X2YM
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 9 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, G3, G4, or G5 running Mac OS 8.6 through 9.x or OS 10.1 or later, available USB port, and 10MB of free hard disk space |
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Product Description
Contour Design ShuttlePRO V.2 - This unique controller is a must-have device for serious video & graphic editing. It's ergonomically designed with a jog/shuttle dial and 15 fully programmable buttons. Together in this device, those tools will increase your productivity. No longer will you have to tediously switch from the mouse to the keyboard again! PC Requirements - PC compatible running Windows 98, 98SE, Me, 2000 or XP, available USB port, & 10MB of free hard disk space
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
 Shuttle Pro January 7, 2009
I seems to be a great product but it only works with earlier versions of Sony Vegas software. It doesn't work in Ver. 8.1
 Potentially great, but... December 3, 2008
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.
 Not just for video editing October 12, 2008
I've owned one of these for years and recently bought another one (to use with a laptop). While the "shuttle" part of the unit is definitely useful, to me the best aspect of these is the ability to assign functionality to any of the 15 keys on the unit.
There's hardly a program out there that won't benefit from the assignment of hot keys. Often a program will have hotkeys that require you to use your right hand and thus you need to take your hand off the mouse (assuming you're right-handed -- reverse this for you lefties). With the Shuttle Pro you can move all hot keys so that your left hand can stay on the Pro and your right hand can stay on the mouse. This alone can make you so much more productive it's incredible.
I use it for animation (2D as well as 3D) and am able to create about 300% faster this way. It's also great for sound editing (it comes with a great keyset for Sony's Sound Forge) and, of course, video editing. Unless the program you are using requires a lot of typing (like Word) I can't think of anything that wouldn't benefit from the use of the Shuttle Pro.
(And as for the gentleman who got two "bad" units -- I can only say that mine are practically indestructable. I've banged around one of my units for over a decade now and aside from losing one keytop it still works perfectly -- and even *that* key works).
Not just for video and sound June 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The ShuttlePRO has made a great improvement in my productivity using Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. Although not specifically designed for this, the programmable buttons make it perfect for dispensing with most non-typing keyboard work while designing images and pages, allowing me to keep one hand on the mouse, and one on the ShuttlePRO. Since each button can be programmed individually for different applications or globally, it allows for excellent flexibility.
The ShuttlePRO comes preprogrammed for many video and sound editing programs, as well as Illustrator 10 and Photoshop 7, necessitating individual programming if you use Adobe's Creative Suite 3. I haven't been using it long, but I can already tell I'll be using it for a long time to come.
My reason for not giving it 5 stars was that, unlike my Wacom pen tablet, it doesn't automatically sense my open programs for programming the buttons. Otherwise, I enjoy it a lot, and I'm glad I bought it.
Good - but problem with IMovie 8 April 26, 2008
Great Jog/Shuttle. Firm under the hand. Very responsive controls. One current (and hopefully they resolve this soon) limitation is that the Shuttle Pro does not automatically recognize IMovie 8.
Manual says: "The software automatically detects the program you are using and automatically switches to the correct application settings associated with the application."
Well not on my system (brand new iMac) which came with iMovie 8 installed. There is an iMovie setting in the Shuttle Pro Application settings - but it must be for an earlier version of iMovie as it's not recognized. I had to add the settings myself. That's not a big deal - but I'd expect that something as popular as iMovie 8 would be supported out of the box. I did go to the Contour web site to look for config files/drivers that would support iMovie 8 -- I'm still waiting for my registration e-mail to give me download access...
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