Bella announced new keyboards designed especially for video editors with an integrated jog/shuttle wheel. The Bella DV keyboard 3.0 is your basic keyboard that comes with stickers for marking up those oh-so-important keyboard shortcuts in a variety of NLE applications. But if you will be using this thing day in and day out then consider the Bella Professional series keyboard (pictured) which replaces those stickers with custom key caps, well worth the extra $60. Both keyboards are Mac/PC compatible and feature 2 USB ports as well as power ports for the optional Bella NeoLite, a flexible keyboard lamp that juts out from the back of your typing apparatus.
Major NLE support includes Final Cut Pro, Avid Xpress, Avid Media Composer, Sony Vegas, Adobe Premiere Pro, and Pinnacle Edition. The DV version even supports Microsoft's Movie Maker which puzzles me as to why anyone would buy a $100+ keyboard for use with a free editing app?
1. It looks really funny. I want it!
Posted at 6:59PM on Nov 14th 2006 by Alligator