[Stephen Bakopanos] “- Thumbnailed Timeline: Don’t like it. Perhaps I’ll warm to it in time, but for now I’d like to be able to switch it off. It makes it so much harder to see edit points.”
You can. At the bottom of the timeline on the right is the Clip Appearance Window which you can switch to a variety of settings; one has no thumbnails for the video.
Best,
Geoff