Since I started at GeniusDV, I’ve noticed that I’m one of the only people here who swears by a graphics tablet.  Although I acquired my tablet for the same reasons most people do – to work in Photoshop and Painter – I’ve found it useful in the video editing process as well.

Basically, a graphics tablet hooks up to your computer and does the same thing that your mouse does – except that you’re holding a pen instead of squeezing on a mouse, and you’re “drawing” on a rectangular pad that matches directly to the pen’s position on your screen.  So if you need to move back and forth between, say, your footage bins and your toolset on the other corner of the screen, there’s no longer any need to drag the mouse over and over again – you just point directly at what you need.