I'm liking VideoPad overall but find some of its features inconvenient, or counterintuitive to what I'm used to with video editors. So I'm making the following recommendations that would make VideoPad the *perfect* freeware editor.
1.) Do not reencode video for cuts-only editing.
2.) Allow 3GP, FLV, MOV and MP4 formats to be saved to the hard drive.
3.) New footage clips should be added to the right of the previous clip in the sequencer instead of to the left, which is counterintuitive to most video editors.
4.) Allow dragging and dropping of footage clips to the sequencer timeline.
5.) Replace the sequencer timeline with a storyboard timeline like Photostage, which would make rearranging clips and adding transitions and effects more intuitive. There is no need to have what looks like two editing timelines.
6.) Display the timecode and frame number in the preview window while scrubbing the clips when using the timeline cursor or the mark-in or mark-out cursors.
7.) Do *all* splitting and mark-in/mark-out editing on the editing timeline, replacing the display of each footage clip with the one selected.
8.) Add the Slice button to the editing clip timeline instead of the sequencer timeline.
9.) Add an inverted triangle to the bottom of the timeline cursor to make it easier to grab, just like the mark-in and mark-out cursors.
10.) Lock the original clips in the footage section, and only add new clips after the "Add file(s) to footage" button is clicked.
11.) Allow the clips in the footage section to be rearranged via dragging and dropping, or with up/down buttons.
Thanks for listening :-)
