There is too much clutter in the interface, especially after the last major upgrade 5.3.2 in August 2024.
I wish the ‘Unprocessed’/ ‘Processing’ banner signs on the video screen were off to the side (or in the top right or left corner) where they’re not covering the workspace of the actual video that is being worked on. They are super annoying! I would like to see both screens with no interference, at all times.
I am a new user (as of a couple of months ago and I bought the software when the right panel was very simplified. Now, with the new upgrade, it is pretty confusing and less convenient and everything that was easily lined up on the right panel has been scattered all over the place and I especially don’t understand why the ‘frame rate’ buttons were placed all the way at the bottom of the panel now. I think it should be directly under the ‘Output Resolution’ on that panel.
Also, the ‘Render’ button is now hidden and has to be uncovered by moving the right panel every time you prefer to use it, and that is almost always. I think it would make more sense and simplify this even more if the ‘Render’ and ‘Live Render’ buttons were directly to the right of the ‘Seek’ buttons in place of the ‘window size buttons’ which are virtually rarely used compared to the ‘Render’ and ‘Live Render’.
It would be awesome to have a button to shut down the computer when all of the videos are done rendering. I notice that many users are asking for this and it should be a priority in an upcoming update. (Almost all of the video software that I have gives the user that option to shut down. Very important, in my opinion.
I understand how much the ‘Before’ and ‘After’ filter bars on each of the video screens are, but I think there should be an option to have a default button to turn them off when firing up the program and then, if needed, you can turn on bars when needed (similar to the new option in settings for turning off the Help Prompts). I actually consider these ‘Before’ and ‘After’ bars a Help Prompt (and they also are interfering with full visibility of the screens). I personally don’t use it much at this time, but when it is needed, the user would be able to turn them on and off when needed. Right clicking on them is just another step that you have to do every time you sign in to the software. The bottom line is, the video windows should be fully visible all of the time. It seems to defeat the whole purpose of editing the videos when you can’t even see what you’re working with when these obstacles are in the way.
That’s my 2 cents. Thanks for reading and hopefully agreeing.
A number of apps I use give the user the option of turning off labels, because after someone uses them long enough they don’t really need to have everything labeled.
Or at least, they wouldn’t if the UI would just stop changing every month.
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