Thank you for all this Nat and Borate. I will go through all these and try them out.
The timeline middle bar is working also and I can now enlarge the preview area so they definitely changed something.
Thank you NCH for being so responsive, appreciate it.
What doesn't appear to be fixed, though, is the ability to backward scroll (other than slooooooowllly frame by frame) in the clip viewer. That is really important. Is there an arrow equivalent in the clip viewer?
The way I would work would be to view my footage in the clip viewer (hence the need for backward/forward fast scroll), set clip markers (which VP can't do), set in and out points, then to drop those clips one by one into the timeline. (Then save those to the bin). Prefer that to direct timeline editing.