If you want to improve the VSE defaults, here's a collection of suggestions: https://devtalk.blender.org/t/suggestions-for-vse-ui-cleanup-and-default-settings-in-2-8/2210

On the topic of left click mode and alterations, it feels counter-intuitive to right click in 'Timeline' and 'Sequencer' to drag the time cursor. Could this be the left click instead?

For inspiration a discussion on StackExchange on the topic of this papercut:
https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/23159/how-to-make-the-file-manager-default-to-sorting-by-modification-date

A gif illustrating the problem when swapping the position of the panel:

Wow! On the official 2.79b I get 5 fps.
On your patch I get a clean 25 fps in the cached areas.

Would love to test it, if you can share a build?

I would suggest that the word "Movie" (ex. Movie Clip Editor) in Blender was changed to ex. "Video" or just "Clip".

Strange. It crashes here on 2.8 too.

Thanks for the test-build. I had to run it in compatibility mode for Windows 7 to get it to run on Windows 8.

In T53615#481265, @Philipp Oeser (lichtwerk) wrote:

• cannot confirm the Refresh Reels File Not Found message if I saved your example EDL and browsed to that

Oh, so integrating the sequencer with the 3D Viewport like this, will no more be possible? Previz Camera Tools

Great project! Are you aware of the Movit-lib which generates video effects on the GPU? https://git.sesse.net/?p=movit;a=summary