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Paul wrote: I guess it all boils down to a matter of opinion, but some things in MS are very inconvenient, imo. In a film cutting room, if you're well organized, you always have your trims right at hand. In MS, you don't. I'd hope for at least the flexibility of a film cutting room on my computer. Yes ofcause it is highly subjective. And there's always any thing to improve. But as I wrote, I didn't ever worked in a cutting room and therefore I started from scratch with Movieshop. And remember: the people which VLM is designed for are mostly like me. And for the cutting-room-biased people I must state, that a DNL system like VLM works completely different from an analog editing suite. And the software has to follow this very different concept which Movieshop IMHO does in a very convenient way. But You are right, the trimming should be possible in the scene window, not only in the timeline. But if You would send a suggestion report to MS, may be they will implement this in further versions if demanded by many people. I work with VLM for a long time. I started in the last weeks of the last Year with the Version 1.2 of MS which didn't had audio synchronizing and tended to crash. In January I got Version 2.1 which was the first full featured and stable MS-release. While fiddling around and producing the first videos with VLM, I discovered some bugs and inconveniences and I sent them per fax to MS along with a few suggestions and I did also some telephone calls. And as I've been told by some of our clients who brought a VLM system by us (from us?), MS offers a very good hotline and support, At least in germany. They dont't have an official email address by now altough one of the programmers has a private account. But this will hopefully change in the next future… 🙂 Sent them Your suggestions, they want to know what the people want. If it is worth considering they will probably implement it one day. Remember: Lightwave has become what it is (should I write: "became what it is" or how? I should consider strongly to spend my next holidays in US or at least in britain to raise my skills in english 🙂 in this days only because the animators send their suggestions to NewTek and so the programmers did know which problems occur when people do a real work with the product, not only playing with it as most beta testers do (it is also a question of time). But unfortunately there are still some bad concepts, esp. the file handling/requesters and some. But that is another story…