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Contour ShuttleXpress
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Question about Contour ShuttleXpress
Hello I have a question about the above product: Can I select the button assignment so that I can control playback in the VLC media player (fast forward and rewind using the rotary wheel), press a button to skip forwards and backwards in a scene or between navigating marked points in the video? Can the key assignment be changed using an app or something similar under Windows? The configuration should work under Windows 11. There may also be alternatives, which I have not found on the site. Kind regards
Hi, the accompanying app from ShuttleXpress is pretty good (on the Mac at least); you can programme what the controllers do for any app to suit your needs. Note, however, that the input device is nothing more than a keyboard. You can therefore only assign keyboard shortcuts or key combinations to the buttons and the rotary knob. The outer rotary knob can also be set so that the harder you turn it, either a different shortcut is triggered or it is repeated in a certain rhythm. Although this works great, it is not as powerful as scrubbing in the timeline with the mouse (e.g. in AfterEffects).
I have never used it with a VLC so I can't answer that question. It works fine with Windows 11. You program it in its settings screen by assigning appropriate "keyboard shortcuts" to buttons. For that, you need to find a video playback app that has the shortcuts you need. I use SMCplayer and can do everything I want such as frame-by-frame, back and forth. I don't think navigating between marked points is possible is SMPlayer but I'm not sure.