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Dirk- >>V-Lab Motion is intended to be a consumer product. Therefore it is not designed for a profesional editor.<< As far as the video quality, you're right. But there's nothing stopping the interface from being good. In fact, from my discussions with NoahJi's, MS has started heading in this direction more and more, so maybe it's just a matter of time. >>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).<< It's implemented in a very problematic manner. For example, since you can't set in and out points for a scene (misnamed, btw) that stick with that scene, that mousing trick you mention than has to be duplicated with actual alterations in another window, instead of just being able to drag the mouse-trimmed scene over to the scenes window and have the trimmed footage still available but not played. The only way around this is to group the footage on the timeline, but that's no good either, because it makes future changes much more difficult. >>You can trim scenes placed in the timeline with the mouse. One Klick, one drag.<< Only while they're on the timeline. Go to work on another section of the project, and bye-bye. Also, this is not as good a feature as being able to set an in point to a specific frame, as you can on the timeline control window, which is how you should be able to do it everywhere, along with the mouse method, which is more approximate, and, for now, temporary. Paul