Pro Series 3.0 Keyboard for Premiere Pro CS6 & Creative Cloud

I bought the keyboard for Premiere Pro CS6 and I'm finding it really useful. It works flawlessly, it's built ruggedly and looks professional. Very happy with it. A couple of small things, not at all deal-breakers: there's a little lamp that comes with it (see picture) but the lamp has no on/off switch. You have to unplug it from the back of the keyboard to turn it off, plug it back in to turn it on. A bit annoying, since there's actually a power button in the upper left that does nothing. However, on the positive side, you can plug the lamp in behind the keyboard on the right, the left, or in the middle, and it's a goose-neck. Also on the positive side are the USB ports on the back of the keyboard. I use one for the dongle (transceiver) for my wireless mouse -- works great. The shuttle knob has worked fine for me (inside for fast forward and reverse, and outside knob for forward and backward frame by frame -- as is standard), and some of the keys are programmable, such as the function keys. I was concerned that it might be hard to use it as a standard keyboard, but it has the standard letters and numbers and I got used to using it as a standard keyboard almost immediately.

It's a great idea in theory, but the keyboard is designed so that the palms can't comfortably rest while typing. The palm doesn't fit on the plastic, nor is it close enough to the keys to rest on the desk. I found it unusable and returned it.

Do not expect any customer service from bella; they do not answer trouble tickets (I've written three, all about the same issue). With imac/yosemite, using Premiere CC, the jog/shuttle causes the keyboard to freeze up, requiring it to be unplugged/replugged into USB before it will work again. The support downloads are wonky and don't fix the problem. When not using premiere, it still will freeze up occasionally, and will spawn rogue characters, making typing an adventure. Also, it is mushy...a very low-grade keyboard for typing, no click and inconsistent keying.The keyboard shortcuts are nice; the little LED light is nice; but I bought this for the jog/shuttle, which doesn't work. So...I can't recommend it.**UPATE 12/15/2014- received an update from Brad at Bella: "The problem is actually with the Apple iMac 2013's USB 3.0 ports. If you were using this keyboard on any other iMac, or a MacPro, or a MacBook (or even any Windows system), you would see no issue. The problem is that for the 2013 iMac we've discovered they used a USB 3.0 port that does not properly read our Jog/Shuttle commands. The known problem is that it will completely freeze the keyboard after short use of the Jog/Shuttle, which is exactly what you're describing here. We've reached out to Apple for comment and support on fixing this issue, but they have failed to respond. We did actually come up with a fix of our own after a few months, which was built into the 3.6 driver. However, as luck would have it, with Yosemite Apple broke our 3.6 driver and users need to use the 3.5 version."TL;DR: Does not work with iMac, and that is official.

Seems to be great. Still learning about all this can do. Easier to learn than Adobe Premier!!!!!!