Ive seen videos and screen shots of VMS where the timeline is down at the bottom and the preview is at the top right corner. I think this might work more intuitively for me. Can you configure it this way in VMS 7?
I don't recall if version 7 allowed this, but you can check. Go to Options / Properties / Display. There may be an option there for "Display timeline at bottom of main window".
No, can't be done in version 7. I still have it loaded on my computer and don't see an option for it. That was one of the first things I changed after upgrading to version 8. Sorry noah.