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Super Shuttle We’ve saved the keyboard’s best and, in all honesty, most expensive feature for last: the jog/shuttle knob. Unlike the free-wheeling Speed Editor knob, this one full electromechanical haptics in shuttle mode. You’ll feel resistance as you shuttle faster forward or back and there is a virtual indent in the center for the stopping point. (The lack of these abilities is the one major drawback with the Speed Editor, which has a tendency to run away in shuttle mode if you’re not gentle enough with it. The feel when shuttling is so realistic, you almost expect to hear the whir and clank of a VTR in the room. The knob is well-weighted with the requisite finger-indent for jogging and the easy-grip rubber padding around its circumference. For a dwindling number of us, it’s a reminder of what video editing used to be like and for the rest, it will introduce you to what it should be. Just above the knob are lighted keys to select shuttle, jog, or scroll modes for the knob and above them are two large keys to assign control to either the Timeline or the Source windows. Beyond those controls, there’s nothing else going on in that quadrant of the keyboard nor, do we think, there should be. To help master the ins and outs (so to speak) of both its editing devices, the latest release of the extensive Davinci Resolve Manual has conveniently combined all the editing control surface documentation conveniently into its own section.