eon5
05-23-2003, 10:17 AM
The hardware
The ShuttleXpress is a very simple USB-based shuttle/jog device. Like its predecessor, the ShuttlePro, ShuttleXpress offers an inner jog wheel and an outer shuttle ring. The 360-degree wheel allows you to jog at a desired number of frames per increment. And the spring-loaded shuttle ring allows you to fast forward and reverse video at varying speeds. (The outer ring is rubberized for a comfortable grip, exactly the same as the ShuttlePro.) Also like its predecessor, it includes several additional buttons that can be programmed to the user's needs. The ShuttlePro has 13 such buttons; the new ShuttleXpress has five.
Now, at no point in the last couple of years or so since I've owned a ShuttlePro have I ever used more than four of the programmable buttons. Furthermore, I was never really happy with the layout of these buttons. The ShuttleXpress, however, has a more natural button layout and doesn't waste desktop space with additional buttons that I don't need or want. And so it's also (thankfully) smaller than the original. (This is not at all to disparage the ShuttlePro; I just happen to like everything about the ShuttleXpress better.)
http://images.digitalmedianet.com/2003/05_may/reviews/shuttlexpress030522/1-shuttlecompare.jpg
The ShuttleXpress is a very simple USB-based shuttle/jog device. Like its predecessor, the ShuttlePro, ShuttleXpress offers an inner jog wheel and an outer shuttle ring. The 360-degree wheel allows you to jog at a desired number of frames per increment. And the spring-loaded shuttle ring allows you to fast forward and reverse video at varying speeds. (The outer ring is rubberized for a comfortable grip, exactly the same as the ShuttlePro.) Also like its predecessor, it includes several additional buttons that can be programmed to the user's needs. The ShuttlePro has 13 such buttons; the new ShuttleXpress has five.
Now, at no point in the last couple of years or so since I've owned a ShuttlePro have I ever used more than four of the programmable buttons. Furthermore, I was never really happy with the layout of these buttons. The ShuttleXpress, however, has a more natural button layout and doesn't waste desktop space with additional buttons that I don't need or want. And so it's also (thankfully) smaller than the original. (This is not at all to disparage the ShuttlePro; I just happen to like everything about the ShuttleXpress better.)
http://images.digitalmedianet.com/2003/05_may/reviews/shuttlexpress030522/1-shuttlecompare.jpg