I've just been collecting this list for a few weeks.  Most of these things are just simple little changes.  Nothing major, but I feel it would really help my workflow and speed up my editing.  If any of these things are already features and I'm just using the software wrong I would love to know.

Thank you,

Sam

More Mappable Keys

There are a lot of commands in the menus that I wish I could map to a key.  Clip Color for instance, or everything in the dropdown menus in the Audio Mixer and Audio EQ tools.  I would also love to have the Audio Mixer Mode mappable.  Also, it would be really cool to assign and map favorite fx the way you can with Color Correction.  It also might not be a bad idea to add in a shift+alt level to the keyboard.  The old skool people won't use it, but the younger kids love those keyboard shortcuts.

Segment Mode

It would be great to hold down a modifier and select everything to the right on all enabled tracks.  It would make it super simple to open up a whole or close a gap.  Also, (and this may be the case in MC3.0) being able to select 2 non-sequential clips and move them (i.e. up to a track above).  While were at it a keystroke to move the selected clip up or down one track would also help speed things up.  I would also love the ability to scrub the timecode track without dropping out of Segment mode.  This could be an issue for some users, but I think if you made it a user setting that would be sweet.

Media Drives

I would love, love, love it if the Avid would warn me not only when my renders won't fit on the target drive, but before I go and fill up my last 10%.  It would also be nice if the Audio Suite drive would be controlled by the Media Creation Tool.

FX

Could we be allowed to change the size of the Effect Editor.  My Boris effects have long parameter names and I can't always read them.  I would also like to be able to Match Frame PreComputes.  Sometimes I have to cut in revised graphics and especially if they are in a submaster it's kind of a pain to figure out what I used as the first frame in the old version.  I love the Paint effect, could we get it with Advanced Keyframing?  I also love the way that you can rearrange the order of nested effects in Advanced Keyframing mode, it would be sweet even if the effects didn't have advanced keyframing.  How come you can't just drop the BCC Safe Color effect on top of a clip that has color correction?  Maybe I just don't understand something about the way the Avid is thinking, but it seems some effects don't like to be nested with others it some orders but not others.

Audio Mixer

Could we gang only certain tracks to each other.  I often have work with multiple stereo pairs, but the gangs are universal.  It would be really helpful to gang the the tracks where I am working with stereo pairs together.  I also with that if I was in Auto mode, and the enabled track did not have a keyframe and I moved the fader that the Avid would add a keyframe for me.  Just a little thing but it would make things quicker.

Interface

I would like to have the bin windows not resize when switching from Brief to Text view.  I know some people would hate this, but maybe you could make it a behavior option in the settings that people could turn on or off.  I just think it would all me to keep my bin monitor a little tidier.

Color Correct Mode

I really hope the MC DX can Color Correct DNxHD clips on the fly.  Otherwise I would love to see some better keyboard navigation of the Color Correct mode.  I would love to be able to tab (or something) through all the controls and reach for the mouse less.  Maybe this is already there, but last I tried it really wasn't working for me.

Sam Z:

There are a lot of commands in the menus that I wish I could map to a key.

Using the menu to key setting in command pallate will allow you to map anything from the menus to the keyboard. I have audio suite set for F11 and autosync set to shift+F5 for example.

What would be nice is more combinations than just keys and shift keys. I find the Avid keyboard much easier and faster to modify than the final cut keyboard, but the final cut keyboard does allow using command, control, option, shift, or any combination of these which allows much more to go on the keyboard.

Sam Z:

It would be great to hold down a modifier and select everything to the right on all enabled tracks.

I can see the use for this, but single roller trim mode does this a lot easier and faster. Just make sure all the tracks which you're using downstream have an edit point in them. If not, you can easily add one using "add edit" even if there is no audio or video track at that point.

The non-sequtial segment stuff would be nice. You can select them with shift but as far as I can tell cannot move them now.

Overal some good suggestions in here, hope to see them implemented.

Thanks for the friendly response.  In my experience the 'Menu to Button' Reassignment in the Command Palette should allow you to map anything, but it doesn't.  Example: in the Audio Mixer pulldown menu there is a Set Level on Track - In/Out that can not be mapped, also setting is the Timeline's view menu are not mappable.  

I know in the ad material Avid always touts there custom user interface and it really is nice in a lot of ways, I just thought this was a little change that could really speed up people's workflows.  We all know the less you have to mouse around the faster you can edit.  I also know Avid is worried about offending there long standing client base (i.e.  the new MS Word & Photoshop CS3 confused a lot of people), but I feel some of these little changes or options that the user can choose to use or not to use.

They say the New Thinking starts with listening to people and there workflows, so I hope I have been detailed enough about how these changes can affect day to day workflow.

Thanks,

Sam