Ahoj! What have I been up to for the past 3 weeks? One of my ongoing goals always, is to
speed up video editing and I don't mind speeding up my photography editing as well. There is a tool
for that. This is what I've been testing past 3 weeks. Does it really work? Is it really worth it?
If you are new here, welcome. My name is Zdenka Darula. If you are all about photography and
video, consider subscribing to this channel. TourBox reached out to me if I would be interested
in trying out their new generation of deeply customizable creative software controller. I'm not
being paid by TourBox. I've been doing photography for 15 years and I've been doing video for 3 and
a half years, so many years of editing and I'm one of the most stubborn people. I love my mouse.
I bought even a graphic pen with a tablet about 7 years ago. I gave myself 10 days to test it,
to try, to really see if I can do this instead. After 10 days I put it on a shelf and ever since
it's been on that shelf until today. I don't like it. I like the mouse. It's just mouse for me,
that's it. Simple way. Well, TourBox sent me 3 emails. Just try it, just try it, just try it.
After the last one I said OK. I'll try it but good luck because I know how I am. This is gonna
be very difficult. Let's see if it really makes a difference. So what is TourBox exactly? It is
for editing photos, painting, graphic design, video editing, audio editing and color mixing.
What programs can we use with this? Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrator, Final Cut
Pro X, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Capture One, Clip Studio Paint, Painter, Sai and more. ToolBox
is for your left hand. You can use it with the graphic pen or you can use it with mouse. For me,
it is mouse for sure. Not just because I don't like the graphic pen but I'm left-handed
and I can't even work the graphic pen in the right hand so keep it in mind if you're left-handed. You
will be using it with the mouse... unless you teach yourself how to use the graphic pen in your right
hand. Dimensions are 116 x 101 x 44 mm, weight is 370 grams, material is quite comfortable actually
for the hand, it's ABS plus PC. You will connect it via USB cable 2.0. It works with operating
system MAC 1010 or higher and Windows 7 or higher. How does it work? It is pretty straightforward to
get going. You will install ToolBox console on your computer and you will put this on the left
to hook it up via USB cable and you are set to go. Once you open up the ToolBox console,
you will see that they have already built in tons of controls to start with. However each control,
each button can be fully customized to your own preferred setup, to your own workflow.
Here on the left you have a preset list. As you can see, there's already Photoshop,
Lightroom, Premiere edit and premium, Premiere color. So I just select the program I'm going
to be working with and I'm set, I'm ready to go. Now if I don't want to set it up always manually,
I can also use the auto switch to turn it on and I can link all the programs I'm going to be using
here. Here's where you can create another preset to select which program you want to use. Let's go
to Photoshop for example. So when I touch any of those buttons, it will show me on the right
what it can do, what is assigned to those buttons. Now, if I'm going to be using the
knob for example here at the top here, I can decrease brush size or I can increase
brush size by turning it. If I click the arrows here, it will show me even more
combination buttons which are already assigned. Some of them are not set. For example if I press
this one, this knob or if I do this combination of those two buttons, this is not assigned
so in this case I can click, go to settings and I can choose any shortcut I want and I can assign
that particular button. This is how you can also change them. You can
change any already assigned button, you can change it to something else. If you edit in Lightroom,
it's very precise as well. Here with the knob you can add just selected slider, you can scroll.That
means you will select HSL color. With the dial you can adjust the slider so let me go to Lightroom
and show for example here, I'm gonna be moving the big wheel, here I can change the temperature
very precisely and it goes just one by one. I can really adjust exactly where I want it.
I edit in Premiere Pro so let's go to Premiere edit and the knob will move
selection page up or down. Then we have a whole bunch of combinations here. Go
to previous edit point, go to the next point, you have slide, you have slip,
then we'll go to scroll, you have zoom in zoom out, zoom to sequence. Again, you have a lot of
different presets already built in and yes you can create up to 50 presets and combinations.
I personally really like two buttons here in Adobe Premiere pro and then one is actually zoom in and
zoom out the timeline. See how quickly I can work it? And then also step by step
framing so I can really go precisely step by step from frame to frame. That I really like. How is
the learning process? Is it really that easy as they claim? Anybody can do this very quickly?
If you're someone like me who's got literally baked in their brain that is using just the
right hand, using the mouse and the shortcuts, it will take some time. I've been always using the
right hand so I have to reprogram and now try to use my left hand which is quite different.
First day I was just using literally only one button. It's like you're learning how to play
piano and the next day I added another button. After 3 weeks I'm still only using two to three
buttons at the most. I'm not using more than that. It's really taking me a while to get used to this
but on the other hand when I'm not using it and I'm only using the mouse, I caught myself that I
was actually missing the precise control. It did help me to speed up a little bit the work but I
like the precise control more. Especially going frame by frame so I got to say it is working but
it's not gonna be overnight. You will need to learn how to use it. You will have to get used
to it. There is one more thing I would like to mention. I wasn't sure if I should talk
about it but I feel like it's important so I'm gonna mention it as well. This console is great,
it makes your work faster and precise but when you're sitting like this for a few hours
and you are not moving your arms anymore, there is no more movement, you just are sitting and
you're only literally using your fingers. I find myself that I want to get up away from
the computer more often. I get stiff and sitting in a long position like this for a long time.
It's a trouble so I got to be honest about that. You will get that feeling that you want to move
more often. For those interested a link to this product can be found below the video in the video
description, it will show you pricing in your currency and I can tell you that it is cheaper
than other brands out there. Hit the thumbs up if you found this video informative and subscribe to
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in the comment section below and I'll see you my friends in the next video. Cau... Ahoj..