#Contour shuttle pro v2 and mac pro driver
#Contour shuttle pro v2 and mac pro software
#Contour shuttle pro v2 and mac pro plus

Once you’ve performed these steps you can use your ShuttleXpress to control Power Prompter. The screenshot below shows how the setup should look like in Power Prompter.

#Contour shuttle pro v2 and mac pro software

If you don’t get a response quit and restart Power Prompter to notify the Contour software to change the profile). (Click a “not assigned” button and once it lights up just press the button you want to map to this action on your Shuttle. Now switch to Power Prompter and go to the preferences panel (Power Prompter -> Preferences… menu item) and select the “Shortcuts” tab.

See the screenshot below for a sample configuration which turns out to work pretty well.Ĥ. You can freely assign the buttons like you want but we found that assigning the buttons to + doesn’t conflict with any system shortcuts and allows Power Prompter to react to control events even when the teleprompter window doesn’t have keyboard focus. Now we need to assign key strokes to the Shuttle’s physical buttons. Configuring the ShuttleXpress Power Prompter profileīack in the Contour app find the Power Prompter entry in the side bar and select it.

#Contour shuttle pro v2 and mac pro plus

Now go to the lower left corner of the control app and click the Plus (+) button and select Power Prompter.app from your Applications list. In the Contour app select the “ShuttleXpress” tab from the toolbar (if you’re using a different USB controller select the tab for your model here). To do this first start the control software from the Applications folder (/Applications/Contour Shuttle.app). Now we’re going to create a Power Prompter profile in the Contour software. Adding Power Prompter to the ShuttleXpress software

#Contour shuttle pro v2 and mac pro driver

Once the download finishes run the driver installation and reboot your Mac. Please also read through Contour’s macOS notes as they are important fro the driver installation under macOS 10.13 and up. On the page click on the “Shuttle Drivers” tab and click on the macOS download link. Otherwise go to Contour’s driver download page and download the macOS driver package. If you have set up the ShuttleXPress to work with macOS you can skip this part. The setup process is simple and once performed the controller will work with Power Prompter requiring no additional steps.įirst we need to download the macOS driver package for the ShuttleXpress. It makes it so much easier than having to use another bit of hardware, after a while you don't even notice you are using just the keys.This short blog post is going to show you how you can use your Contour ShuttleXpress controller to control and operate Power Prompter. Space Bar = Play/Stop ( we all know this one )Įven keys to jump to your next/last edit, and so on. That was in the early 90's ( I think!) Since then, every non-linear software designer has used the basic key structure. Avid came out with the first non-linear edit suite to with a layout for using the existing keys on your keyboard, even offering replacement colour coded keys ( and that was on a Mac ). it should be possible to implement the keys on your existing querty keyboard to replicate the controls of a hardware Jog Shuttle control. Quote: Does anyone know of a good Shuttle and Jog that is compatioble with PD13?