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I agree about the auto-ripple. That should not simply be the default behavior--the user should be allowed to CHOOSE whether it's the default behavior. "Grouping" does not work properly--I keep finding audio clips in v13.08 getting out of alignment with the clips they were "grouped" with because of this "ripple" behavior, apparently on the video track. As far as I can tell, it seems to happen anytime an audio clip I'm moving overlaps a video clip in the timeline--suddenly everything "ripples" and everything afterward on one of the tracks is no longer correctly aligned, in spite of its clips being "Grouped" with the corresponding ones from the other track(s). So then I have to manually fix each one of the later clips as I go, which is a real nuisance and waste of time. If I remember to use "Alt" every time, maybe that will stop it, though I'm not entirely confident after I've seen some other weird behavior while moving clips that I had to undo, but more to the point, why do I have to remember to press another key? In Reaper, I can easily turn "ripple editing" off or on as I please. In other words, the developer thought about the user experience and gave us a way to choose our own workflow, rather than imposing what they thought "better" on the user. And it can edit video, too, even if it's limited and clunky for effects, so now I'm wondering if I should just make my cuts there.

I am also having problems with this in version 13.08. Every time I rolled over the timeline in a project I made the other day I got a "building preview" pop-up prompt, making me wonder if previews ever finish getting built. In my project I have a mix of 4k and 1080 video in mp4 format from a Panasonic DC-G9 camera. I assumed it was probably the 4k clips that were slowing things down but I did not look into it deeply enough to determine that for sure. Borate, is the release you linked the same as version 10.43 Dangerfreak said was stable and fast?

Thanks. I've tried that one and can't get the same results with it, either.

The default Old Film effect in Videopad does not give the same results as the Photostage Old Film effect. Photostage's seems a bit more extreme--which is sometimes desirable. What do you need to do in Videopad to get the same look and feel--movement and otherwise?

Can anyone explain this? Windows is telling me the soundcache folder for Photostage is taking up nearly 60GB of space on my hard drive. What in the world is up with that? What is this folder for? Why such a storage hog? C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\NCH Software\PhotoStage\soundcache Size: 58.8 GB (63,198,167,040 bytes)

The photostage approach to zoom, with just a selection box that can be sized however you like height and width-wise for start and end, is super easy. But there are problems with other aspects of the software, like occasionally having to reinstall to get exports to work, or the perpetual upselling/cross-selling/upgrading sales tactics that annoy me enough to want to go elsewhere. Anyone know an alternative that can pull this style of zoom off as easily? https://www.dropbox.com/s/0yjalxudngi5rxc/Photostage-Crop-and-Zoom-Out-example.mp4?dl=0