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Paul wrote: However, the interface was obviously designed by people who really don't know what editors need. Don't get me wrong–it's not unusable, and it's better than the Flyer (for control) but it still is awful imo. V-Lab Motion is intended to be a consumer product. Therefore it is not designed for a profesional editor. And ofcause, like all other editing systems, one has to get familiar with it. But once You got it, it offers You a very powerful system which does nearly all what You want. I did already a few projects with V-Lab Motion and I love the user interface. Especially after I compared some features of VLM with other DNL-Systems on other platforms like the ProMotion System on Windows-PC's. Only one example: If Your Harddisk offers You 45minutes video capacity, with VLM You can record easily 35-40 minutes without running out of space during editing. Most other DNL-Systems will need twice the Space during assembling the Movie because they copy the whole movie with all scenes and dissolves in another file. VLM doesn't do this, and You can work fully nondestructive. But ofcause, You have to get into it and this takes some time, especially for the fact that the manual (though not bad) doesn't discover all the tricks 🙁 Paul wrote: For example: You can't do a master-shot style edit, like just dropping an insert into a long take. Rather, you have to make a copy of the master shot (not the actual video footage on the drive, just the tag that you deal with in the editor) and trim off the end of the first one and the beginning of the second and then put the three resulting shots (Master-1, insert, Master-2) in order. Not directly, but due to the fact that You can work nondestructive, place the master scene twice or three times in the timeline, with trimming the end or the beginning of the copies with the mouse (this feature is AFAIK not mentioned in the manual). Place the inserts and the FX and You have done it for the Video. Now drag the master scene into the audio window, drag the appearing auio track from the audio window to the timeline below the Video tracks, switch off the audio tracks in the original scenes and You done it also with the Audio. And Now, any corrections are easily made with dragging the beginnings and ends or the inserts. No audio has to be rendered, only Video if You have dissolves and fades. If there are only hard cuts, no rendering time at all. Not so bad, I think… Paul wrote: And you can't set in/out points for shots, which is one of the few good things about the Flyer interface. So if you decide that you need to start 2 seconds earlier in a shot that you've already trimmed, you need to go back to the original tag (it's best to make a copy of everything at the beginning, so that you only edit copies of the original tags, at least after you trim out the real garbage, before slating and the like) and re-trim it from the start. If I didn't understand You totally wrong, it seems that You aren't very skilled with movieshop. As I wrote above, You can trim scenes placed in the timeline with the mouse. One Klick, one drag. regards, Dirk Taggesell