[Avid-L2] Re: Wacom Bamboo Multitouch

You do have to rethink things a bit with the touchpad. But not that much.

Ian makes a good point with relative positioning versus absolute. If the touch portion worked more like the pen does, that would be a serious first step improvement.

At present you can't put a second finger down to drag like you can on MacBook. But they could add that I assume.

As far as scrolling on the timeline, YES you can. But once you get to a point you want to edit, it becomes challenging. I think this will evolve into a more Minority Report type functionality in the future. That's what i'm looking for. A more tactile approach to editing.

Wacom....are you listening?

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, George Loch <george@...> wrote:
>
> I bought one here to try out for the multi-touch (another MBP touchpad
> fan). My initial impression is it requires rewiring my brain to really
> integrate into my work but, it may end up being more productive and
> more comfortable. I have yet to put it through it's paces though so, I
> will report on it in a few days.
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> -gl>
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> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 9:50 AM, conolan <ijohnson2@...> wrote:
> > The trouble with the tablet is the multi-touch mode only uses relative positioning like a mouse, rather than absolute like a pen.  If the touch worked like the pen, then the click wouldn't be an issue- a tap would do it.  Maybe putting a second finger down would be a solution for a click, but that would probably conflict with other multi-touch gestures.
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> > Will the touch scroll the timeline?  I was thinking it might still be worth getting if while using the pen I could drop a couple fingers down and swipe the timeline.  It would be really cool if you could pinch to zoom it too, but that's probably asking too much.  Zoom on the timeline isn't the same thing as zooming Photoshop.
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> > I've told the Wacom people at Facebook how cool using fingers in pen mode would be.  Hopefully it would only take a software update, and they will consider it worth doing.  I think using a tablet in pen mode with fingers would almost feel like a Minority Report interface.  Add a little haptic feedback and it would be like handling physical clips.
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