Looks fairly interesting for some of my more casual use, I might give it a download.
Any big gotchas that you have come across or any tricks using it (special plugins, etc)?
Any big gotchas that you have come across or any tricks using it (special plugins, etc)?
You can version control your edits and do text operations since it's a MLT file so that helps.
Not really my thing but you can insert HTML5 overlays and animations. There's a demo on the youtube channel but it's quite "verbose" for most users.
GPU accelerated filters are really fast and I have no problems working with 1080p 15GB+ files. But that's nothing compared to what professionals use so I can't really comment on that.
I don't get this. Why is this true for the genre? I've been trying various video editors for 10 years, and they all crash. Every last one of them. I recently gave up on Windows Moviemaker because it crashes rendering anything over 30 minutes long. (Not only does it crash, it freezes Windows so bad you have to powercycle.)