Frame by Frame

Today another editor on my course came into my room sounding rather excited about Microsoft’s latest announcement for user interfacing - the Windows 7 multi-touch:

Video: Multi-Touch in Windows 7
This of course is a subject we’ve all discussed before - what if editing could have the user interface of Minority Report?

In the film, Tom Cruise reviews [...]

This is my latest toy.  It’s a Contour ShuttlePRO v.2, USB interface, 15 customisable buttons (plus jog/shuttle), a shed load of application pre-loads, plus import/export on your custom settings whenever you take it anywhere else.
In Avid, the inner dial will move your playhead along one frame at a time (at just the right sensitivity), and the outer will play your video [...]