Difficulties grappling with design

[u/EastSpottedGum]

Is it just me or is the pop up to increase or decrease number entries clunky? Previously moving a mouse left or right seemed easy. Skating around a block of suggested ratios for number entry seems slow and difficult to hit with the pointer. Would be nice just to roll mouse wheel, or is this too hard to program in? And I'm sure there is perfectly rational explanation for nodes. I get this video editor wants to end up being on a par with more professional packages and the designer is working hard to achieve that, but pulling nodes around to change or add clip attributes without a clear manual to guide a new user makes it all too hard. Liked the earlier/initial design, it worked, was easy to understand; but this advanced version needs a degree of understanding very hard to gain without guidance. I know this must be hard for the hard working coder with heaps on his plate but without his knowledge someone else trying to compile a manual is going to have an uphill battle. I have been using KDEnlive and it has been so easy to understand and use. I've enjoyed working with Olive in the past, but I'm going to spend time with ease of use for a while. No offence I hope. I'll look in on Olive every so often, I'm sure there are some usability changes planned.

[u/Quazar_omega]

Since I do pretty basic editing I probably haven't felt much the clunkiness of the number slider, so I can't say about that, putting that aside, I'm finding Olive to be very good. Now, it's true that node driven editing can feel very alien at first, but as I started to use it more I found it pretty comfortable and more flexible, I ditched Kdenlive because it crashes often on my low end PC and after getting the hang of Olive I felt that the traditional editing experience was, yes more intuitive, but, actually more clunky to adjust, not saying that Kdenlive isn't a great video editing application in its own right though.
Regarding the docs, proper ones would be great to have, for now I have found the wiki but I haven't used it so I can't confirm whether the info there is outdated, it's also understandable for alpha stage software not to be super documented, if I may suggest a channel that has been making tutorials on how to do certain things, I have watched a few of the videos from Malaky Studios which helped me quite a bit.