I'm very critical of many products when they are below decent standards, even when some parts of their design are superb but they are ruined by other flaws in design or poor quality control, which is why when I see something that has so much care put into its design, I want to praise it, and I want to start by posting about it here because I feel many Vegas editors will benefit and speed up their workflow if they try this product, which I'm definitely not selling myself, nor I'm asssociated with the manufacturer.
I few days ago I purchased a Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse 6000 which I ended up hating because the tracking was horrible, it stalled, and while the wheel was great for web scrolling, for Vegas it sucked, since it totally annulled one of Vegas' greatest features, the ability to zoom in and out of the timeline with the mouse wheel. For details you can probably still find my post and discussion on this forum.
Today I finally got the perfect mouse, the Logitech MX™620 Cordless Laser Mouse. It's ergonomic (the comfortable way, not just the weird looking way), with all the extra buttons in the right places where they don't bother and they don't get pressed accidentally, it has excellent tracking (like all the Logitech mice I tried, and no, I don't work for that company), but above all, the wheel is heaven.
It's my favorite type of wheel, without the clacking, absolutely smooth movement back and forth, but it goes further in the “free flow” type of wheel in the sense that it's the only mouse I have seen so far with a wheel that has inertia. Sometimes I have seen this artificially implemented in the drivers of some mice with some degree of success, but I haven't seen it before in the physical design of the mouse itself. Basically if you want to scroll down or up a web page you keep your finger on the wheel and it scrolls as fast or as slow as you move your finger, in a very smooth way, but if you want to scroll way faster you roll the wheel fast in the direction you want and the wheel keeps moving, and the page scrolls as fast as you roll the wheel, unlike the artificial driver solutions that keep the page scrolling like a speeding bullet and reach either the top or bottom in a split second. Which you still can achieve with this wheel if you want that, but if you want to achieve a faster scrolling while still being able to tell some details in the web page you can achieve that, it's all in the strength you apply to the rolling.
And I know I'm really sounding like a Logitech sales person, but man!, with so many pathetic products on the market, when I find one that was designed so well, I just want to praise it the way it deserves. So here's another brilliant feature in it. If you don't like the wheel flowing so free, the wheel inertia is adjustable on the bottom of the mouse with a slider, and if you move it all the way to the other side, it turns pretty much into the classic dented wheel, but still of the rather smooth kind. So for those who don't like a free flow wheel, they still have a great mouse with a normal wheel.
Best of all for us Vegas editors? Unlike the Microsoft free flow wheel, this one zooms in and out of the timeline like a charm. Not only that, but because of the inertia in the wheel, press Shift and start moving the wheel back or forth over the timeline and let it roll to quickly reach a point that you want in it.
Besides the wheel, there are these excellent extra buttons that save you a lot of time, since they are customizable with the Logitech driver. Two side buttons, one small button on the top at the left of the normal left button, and the wheel itself which can be clicked but also moved sideways, all programmable. I never had much use for horizontal scrolling, so I started by asigning the left side click in the wheel to the keystroke Ctrl+S. Working on the crash prone Vegas this is a time savior, since you don't even have to move your fingers much, but rather barely move your index finger to the left (or right, if you prefer that keystroke assignment) and it's done.
One of my biggest beefs with the Microsoft mouse was that tracking was not only ackward, the pointer stalled quite a lot, far more than my previous wired Logitech mouse. The MX 620 doesn't stall at all, and the tracking is perfect, once you adjust it to your liking with the SetPoint software. There was a time that I was a fan of Microsoft hardware products, but at least when it comes to wireless mice, they suck. Every time I buy one I return it, usually because of the pointer hickups.
Right now Tiger Direct is selling the MX620 for $45, but with a rebate for $15. This mouse is worth even more than $45 for what it brings, but at $30 it's a steal.
Not anyone may like it, but those who have it or try it, feel free to post if it actually made better your editing in Vegas, and in general.
I few days ago I purchased a Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse 6000 which I ended up hating because the tracking was horrible, it stalled, and while the wheel was great for web scrolling, for Vegas it sucked, since it totally annulled one of Vegas' greatest features, the ability to zoom in and out of the timeline with the mouse wheel. For details you can probably still find my post and discussion on this forum.
Today I finally got the perfect mouse, the Logitech MX™620 Cordless Laser Mouse. It's ergonomic (the comfortable way, not just the weird looking way), with all the extra buttons in the right places where they don't bother and they don't get pressed accidentally, it has excellent tracking (like all the Logitech mice I tried, and no, I don't work for that company), but above all, the wheel is heaven.
It's my favorite type of wheel, without the clacking, absolutely smooth movement back and forth, but it goes further in the “free flow” type of wheel in the sense that it's the only mouse I have seen so far with a wheel that has inertia. Sometimes I have seen this artificially implemented in the drivers of some mice with some degree of success, but I haven't seen it before in the physical design of the mouse itself. Basically if you want to scroll down or up a web page you keep your finger on the wheel and it scrolls as fast or as slow as you move your finger, in a very smooth way, but if you want to scroll way faster you roll the wheel fast in the direction you want and the wheel keeps moving, and the page scrolls as fast as you roll the wheel, unlike the artificial driver solutions that keep the page scrolling like a speeding bullet and reach either the top or bottom in a split second. Which you still can achieve with this wheel if you want that, but if you want to achieve a faster scrolling while still being able to tell some details in the web page you can achieve that, it's all in the strength you apply to the rolling.
And I know I'm really sounding like a Logitech sales person, but man!, with so many pathetic products on the market, when I find one that was designed so well, I just want to praise it the way it deserves. So here's another brilliant feature in it. If you don't like the wheel flowing so free, the wheel inertia is adjustable on the bottom of the mouse with a slider, and if you move it all the way to the other side, it turns pretty much into the classic dented wheel, but still of the rather smooth kind. So for those who don't like a free flow wheel, they still have a great mouse with a normal wheel.
Best of all for us Vegas editors? Unlike the Microsoft free flow wheel, this one zooms in and out of the timeline like a charm. Not only that, but because of the inertia in the wheel, press Shift and start moving the wheel back or forth over the timeline and let it roll to quickly reach a point that you want in it.
Besides the wheel, there are these excellent extra buttons that save you a lot of time, since they are customizable with the Logitech driver. Two side buttons, one small button on the top at the left of the normal left button, and the wheel itself which can be clicked but also moved sideways, all programmable. I never had much use for horizontal scrolling, so I started by asigning the left side click in the wheel to the keystroke Ctrl+S. Working on the crash prone Vegas this is a time savior, since you don't even have to move your fingers much, but rather barely move your index finger to the left (or right, if you prefer that keystroke assignment) and it's done.
One of my biggest beefs with the Microsoft mouse was that tracking was not only ackward, the pointer stalled quite a lot, far more than my previous wired Logitech mouse. The MX 620 doesn't stall at all, and the tracking is perfect, once you adjust it to your liking with the SetPoint software. There was a time that I was a fan of Microsoft hardware products, but at least when it comes to wireless mice, they suck. Every time I buy one I return it, usually because of the pointer hickups.
Right now Tiger Direct is selling the MX620 for $45, but with a rebate for $15. This mouse is worth even more than $45 for what it brings, but at $30 it's a steal.
Not anyone may like it, but those who have it or try it, feel free to post if it actually made better your editing in Vegas, and in general.