I like to view films from the pilots point of view, using the recorded views. I go thru it 5-6 times, getting a feel for how the pilot goes about his fight.
Then I'll run the film and watch it from "fixed" view with the "trails turned on. From this view its easyer for me to "visualize" the manuvers. I watch the film a bunch more in this view. Using the sliders you can view the fight from every angle.
My films, the ones I film, I like to do the same, but I'll spend almost as much time in the enemies plane viewing what he did to get me, or where my mistake was.
The film viewer is only as good as you make it. If you just wacth the fight from one view, you'll get bored and most likely not learn much. Using many views, zoomed in, or out, from one plane or the other, from the chase view to fixed. The more you can spot, and remember

the more you can learn from them.