If you could find a different way to preview video position of my edit actions without involving the cursor would be great.
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what you mean?
Iāll upload a video so soon as I canā¦
If you have the āregularā mode on and click in empty space (if enabled) at exactly 01:05:00:00 then thatās where audio will play from when you press play, and if you select an event that doesnāt change.
But if you enable āedit modeā and select an event that starts at 01:04:50:00 playback will begin there instead of at 01:05:00:00. The ācursorā/āstart of playbackā will move to the beginning of whatever event you have selected in that mode.
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But what is meant by preview video position?
Iām guessing they mean when you grab an event and move it video will scrub according to the beginning of the selected event. So āpreview video positionā = the position in the video where the beginning of the event is (as you move the event which will also scrub video)ā¦
Iām guessing thatās what they mean.
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Fantastic Mattias, you translated what I meant very well. There is no longer a need to upload a video
My main problem with this feature is that i canāt keep it on all the time as i would like.
If it werenāt for those annoying cursor jumps it wouldnāt make sense to turn off the āvideo follow editā mode. In fact, it is precisely those cursor jumps that remind me that that mode is active and that I have to deactivate it. In my opinion it is boring.
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I suppose a feature request would be to change the behavior to have it both ways:
When new behavior is activated playback switches to edit mode when one starts moving an event, and returns to ānormalā when one releases the event. This way when moving it video scrubs, yet when one lets go play back will start from the last position before initially grabbing the event.
Something like that. Iād think that would be a reasonable feature request.
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I would add one more voice wishing for the video follow edit cursor jump to be transient.
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So much ! It mess me up too much ! Only when MOVING an event should the playhead move to that event!
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Yes !
I support this request too! I want āvideo follows editā to aid me visually when moving a video clip, but the Playhead jumping to the start of an event when selecting it, is not what I want.
There are specific occations when I do want the playhead to jump to the start of an event, but then I simply press āLā. To me this action has little to do with āvideo follows editā mode. Although I sort of get it from a technical point of view ā it still feels unnatural that one should require the other. 
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The whole reason why initially there wasnāt any visible cursor in Edit Mode.
Fredo
But you agree though Fredo that the āvisible cursorā and āplayheadā doesnāt necessarily need to be the same thing?
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When Edit mode was created it was decided by popular demand to not display the cursor.
Simply because a location cursor is useless at that point.
A black -smaller- cursor appears whenever you move an event to the place where it needs to be placed.
That is your (new) playhead
But most importantly, you donāt sync the event according to something or a place on the timeline, but you sync it with the video.
Edit mode wasnāt designed to work in āEdit Modeā permanently, Edit mode was designed to be activated only when events needed to be placed in sync with video, thereby skipping the process of first locating to the right spot/placing the event at that point/verify. Not every SFX has itās sync point at the first frame of the event, thatās why Edit Mode is meant to place SFX visually in the correct spot in the timeline. When switching between the two modes, you can work very quick. Edit Mode never was designed to be used permanently.
We can consider an āimprovementā of the original āEdit Modeā, or having different flavors of āEdit Modeā to accomodate other workflows. But it was a mistake in the first place to make the cursor visible.
(Thatās my opinion)
Fredo
I understand. I donāt really care about the cursor being visible or not, I just meant that making it visible should have nothing to do with the playback head.
I do think an addition (āimprovementā) as an alternative would be nice.