![]() I’m not too sure that a similar keyboard for an NLE is the most efficient way of editing.īy offering a jog/shuttle knob, you are inviting the editor to use an NLE exactly like an old tape suite, shuttling to stuff. Those keyboards came from a time when we edited with tape. So you can now see where the new Blackmagic keyboard designers got their inspiration from.īut. This example on the ‘edit keyboard wall of fame’ was rescued out of a skip, hence the rather poor condition. This has the keys spread out into different groups. ![]() So Sony designed a special dedicated keyboard for them. The BBC didn’t like the qwerty keyboard as it was hard for editors to transition from the 900 or 910 to the 9100. Apart from EVS, nobody up until now has been able to recreate the ‘feel’ of that jog knob.Ī few years later when Sony kit went from being shiny to a more modern dark matte, the edit controller followed with an update and was called the 9100. The keyboard is a modified qwerty with added buttons on the left for list management and setup and of course the famous Sony jog/shuttle wheel on the right. The crate in the rack in the air conditioned equipment room was controlled by the 9000 keyboard as you can see from the picture below. A beast of a machine being able to control many multiple VT machines (My record was 9), drive the largest vision mixer you can find and set of as many GPIs (relay contacts) as you could program. Most famous of all editing controllers was the Sony BVE 9000. Let’s indulge in a minute of rose-tinted joy of linear editing with tape machines when the phrase ‘Don’t worry about that, we’ll fix it later’ didn’t exist. ![]() More than just coloured keycaps, the new keyboard has more keys and a jog/shuttle wheel. It certainly looks very familiar to a lot of us older editors. ![]() One of the biggest news items from the recent NAB show was the first outing of Blackmagic’s new dedicated editing keyboard for DaVinci Resolve. Now I'm not too sure, what would the ideal dedicated NLE keyboard look like? When Blackmagic displayed their dedicated Resolve keyboard at NAB, I thought it was a winner, a product thought I had had in my head for many years. ![]()
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