I may be in the wrong place but…
If I buy v1 Windows now I understand I get v3 when ready, however to do that in advance I need to know whether two items will be equivalent.
Thank you.
While you’re waiting for someone from L&L to reply, you could always download the Win beta and check for yourself if those features currently work–if they work now then you’re question’s answered. 
Best,
Jim
As mentioned earlier, you could install the Beta and find out (which I highly recommend), but yes to both questions.
File → Import → “Research Files as Shortcuts”
It pastes the import as a separate document, containing (near as I can tell) the video file. I did this with an MP4 on my local drive.
And Scriv itself played it. The Desktop Window Manager went to nearly 1% of CPU in Task Manager, and System Interrupts were significant, but the video played fine.
So go ahead and buy v1.9. You don’t lose; 1.9 is still a great writing tool, and the current Beta is better in many ways (although a bit buggy at the moment).
Thank you for the replies and suggestions.
I did do the obvious and try the beta a few months ago, but could not get it to work as on the Mac, hence my question.
I would have expected a beta to contain all features but maybe ‘buggy’. Playing a video did show the ‘video controls’ on an internal window but they appeared to do nothing but play the video in an external player (VLC). I did not select external player.
Perhaps there is a hidden setting I missed?
Probably not. The only media setting in Options is the rewind option.
The Beta does have issues with some media files at the current time.
Thank you RWFRANZ