I started in PrPro about five years ago, just before the "end" of CS6 and beginning of the first CC release. I'd had some background with Pr Elements (even to making video tutorials in it) and I found PrPro bewildering at first. And like you, didn't understand why it didn't do some of the "automatic" things that the prosumer movie-making programs do. I also had a 35 year background as a portrait studio photographer/owner, besides having been a "hot" color & b/w printer as we ran our own lab and did specialty printing for other pros. So I did have a long-time pro experience in techniques, gear, and knowledge expectations. What I found in the difference between Pro/prosumer video software was the same difference that existed between the full-pro level cameras (like my D3) versus the prosumer cameras: a ​lot​ of the 'standard' and default features/functions of the prosumer cameras are simply not there in the pro models, or if something like them is, it behaves very differently. A single-digit level Nikon camera (D2, D3, D4, D5) will have a ton of settings to "manually" control the features in use, and ​how​ they work, with a few auto-features in the manner that pros need ... but even the "auto" features are bewilderingly complex. Auto-focus ... a complete explanation of how to setup AF for what you need in X situation can take five to fifteen written pages to explain the settings you need, which one does exactly what, and how it interacts with the other settings. For a different type work, you need to change ... a ton of settings. The prosumer cameras ... especially when 'down' to the thousand-series, like D5200 or so, have quite a number of mostly automated features that you can (if you take time) learn to go into the menus and make ​slight​ changes to, plus a few manual settings. It's a completely different mind-set. It just is. Take the transitions you're talking about ... what would have to happen to get the behavior you want, is you would edit the clips and place them on the sequence, apply a transition, which would then work by blending through say the last fifteen frames of the fist clip and first fifteen clips of second clip. Time-wise, it ​slips​ the first clip over say fifteen frames of the last clip. Shortening your sequence by half the length of the transition. PrPro assumes when you cut a clip, you want the full "clip" to end or begin in a very specific time-place, and that when you cut a clip to go on a sequence, you're cutting a clip to the ​frame​ you want that clip to start ... and to end. Because that's how professional NLE's work. If you then want a cross-fade or dip to black/white or such, you will "naturally" have had the first part of the clip that you cut off, and the last part that you also cut off, for PrPro to use as "handles". It will then start into a clip those 15 frames or so before the end of the preceeding clip, and play the tail-handle of the preceeding clip 15 frames into the next clip. There's no difference in the timeline duration, or the location of any clip. It's why an NLE like PrPro doesn't have a lot of the "features" that prosumer movie-makers do, for flippy transitions, auto-this & that. All sorts of things. At the pro level, you buy plugins & third party apps that are specialty tools for those things. It's how it's done. Colorists I know will have a couple thousand or more dollars invested in LUT, filter, and other "packs" of specialty effects. Many editors & special-effects people also have a number of specialty add-on packs they've purchased and use. A full NLE is a huge, complicated and complex beast just to handle the 'major' functions that it does. It doesn't have a lot of the options that a prosumer movie-maker has, but ... it has capabilities those apps don't even dream of doing. All this to say that I think a lot of what you have "felt" as condescension was just people who use this full NLE trying to explain the difference between a program ​like​ PrPro, and the prosumer apps. Neil
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