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by YesterdaysNews 2004 days ago
it's been a while since i've done video editing

- Maybe you can look at (linear) music DAW's (reaper, cubase, logic,studio one) for inspiration on UI; track grouping/labeling, fades

- what I longed for years ago was an easy way to; (non destructive) editing on low quality copies of source material, and using their HQ originals for rendering.

- the use of VST plugins for the audio part

- A while ago i read about software to cut video files without rerendering / converting(dunno if thats common, or useful, but sounds interesting)

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Thanks!

> Maybe you can look at (linear) music DAW's (reaper, cubase, logic,studio one) for inspiration on UI; track grouping/labeling, fades

Great idea! I have a friend that is an expert when it comes to music, and I will ask him more about this. He did give me some advice, based on Logic's app ;) I will dig deeper into this.

> what I longed for years ago was an easy way to; (non destructive) editing on low quality copies of source material, and using their HQ originals for rendering.

Hehe, that's what I do now, behind the scenes ;) It took me quite a while to develop, but I'm quite happy with the results :P

> the use of VST plugins for the audio part

This is a highly complex issue, but I will dig deeper into it. I am pretty happy with how I handle the audio now (that doesn't mean it couldn't use an improvement :D), and depending on what people will want, I can slowly implement them as well ;)

> A while ago i read about software to cut video files without rerendering / converting(dunno if thats common, or useful, but sounds interesting)

It is possible, I did a few tests, but not really worth it. In other words, I'm not sure of a scenario when that would truly make sense.