CompuServe Messages

I wrote: >>V-Lab Motion is intended to be a consumer product. Therefore it is not designed for a profesional editor.<< Paul wrote: 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. May be I understand You wrong (my english is not that good), but the term "good" is naturally a bit subjective. One loves it, another hates it. I, as a computer guy, not an editor, like the concept of Movieshop, especially the RPN Timeline mode. Other people may find this irritating because it doesn't follow the two-input-one-output analogy. I wrote: >>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).<< Paul wrote: 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. Yes, there's no way to set in and out points for trimming in the scene window, which is a small disadvantage. regards, Dirk Taggesell