Media Player & Techsmith Camtasia Support

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briankb
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Media Player & Techsmith Camtasia Support

Post by briankb »

Are there any plugins for Media Player or TechSmith's Camtasia Studio?

I would like to use the SpaceNavigator to handle going foward and back and making the cut in out marks.
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We encourage you to contact the software developers, Microsoft, and share with them your thoughts and desires for them to incorporate use of our 3D Mice with their applications. We provide a free API, Application Programmer's Interface, on our web site, to make it easy for them to incorporate input signals from our devices into their software applications.

There are over a hundred software developers that have incorporated our device into their applications
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Post by briankb »

It would benefit 3DConnexion/Logitech more than Microsoft to build a plug in for, at least, Camtasia Studio. Techsmith has a large Camtasia user base and tons of people like me who would probably buy your hardware if it helped to make editing video's a little easier.

I'm a programmer and will download the SDK and give it a shot.
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briankb wrote:I'm a programmer and will download the SDK and give it a shot.
Good stuff. We have a forum to help out developers. Be sure to drop us a note when you can.
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briankb wrote:
I'm a programmer and will download the SDK and give it a shot.
Isn't it sad that you have to do this?

We have one of the most innovative pieces of hardware, crying out to have a driver which lets us, the users use it in all sorts of innovative ways yet it is left to those very users to come up with the wherewithall.

I bought my Spacepilot specifically for use in Solidworks and it revolutionised the way I could interact with the model. There is nothing else on the market that I know of (at an affordable price) that comes close to it. After only a short while I began to think how cool it would be to be able to use the SP in Premiere or Vegas video, as a jog/zoom control, or why not in MS flightsim as a 6DOF viewer in the new virtual cockpits or even HalfLife2..... It is so frustrating to have such a useful, innovative piece of hardware sitting there gagged, blindfolded, one arm and two legs tied behind its back when it could be doing so much more. I don't want to just be able to program the keys, I could go out and buy a keyboard for
Regards, Jeff.
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Post by briankb »

I second Jeff's rant.
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I third the rant :)
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