On Saturday 04 May 2002 3:29 pm, Christian Berger wrote: > > Drag and drop is going to be one of the main ways for editing (at least > > to begin with). If you want to preview a clip, you can drag it to the > > monitor, if you want to put a clip on the timeline, you drag it to the > > timeline. If you want move a clip around on the timeline, you'll drag it > > around. If you want to preview a clip in an external movie viewer, you > > drag the clip to that viewer. > > Well I'd put a drop "button" in the preview window, with which you can > append the current selection in the previewer at the current position. > For effitcient usage we have to have the basic functionality accessible > over single-key commands. People from the editing world aren't used to > drag and drop. However dragging and dropping might be good for many > other users. However I don't think people will drag video files into the > previewer.
Agreed. The basic point is to make sure that every intuitive action that might do something is covered, and I'm starting with drag 'n' drop. I recall that there was another video editor (but I can't remember it's name) that boasted that you could edit everything vi-style without using the mouse. That might be interesting for power users :-) Cheers, Jason -- Jason Wood I knew I needed a break when I typed <Esc>:q! to close konqueror
