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I really wanted to like the Touch Bar for scrubbing, but then I hooked up the external monitor and the Bluetooth magic keyboard and...

To this day I can not figure out why Apple doesn’t sell an external Touch Bar of some kind, for use by the actual professional video editors out there.




Have you tried a trackball?


Not recently. Is that commonly used for video?

To be clear, I’m an amateur at video and I do know there are lots of dedicated tools from scrubber dials to keyboards.

The part I can’t figure out is why Apple has this “pro” tech for which the most obvious and most hyped use-case is video editing, but they don’t sell any version of it a professional video editor could actually use.


Supposedly they are. I don't do any video editing, but it's something that came up a lot when I was looking at trackballs.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/video/hands-review/how-...




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