Re: What are you thinking about CS6?

> I may be misunderstanding, but from what I've seen, individual clip volume can be adjusted--just not from the mixer.

Yes, but I haven't yet found a way of doing this through the keyboard with a single command, as in FCP. Maybe this has changed with 6.

> So a combination is the most powerful and the important issue is that the trackbased automation can easily stick and move with clips. The ease of moving track based automation with a clip is the key.

Agreed. Could an alternative be that the clips have more than one layer of audio modification? So layer one is flat (but with volume edits for peaks or whatever), then layer two is the same, but also adds dips for a language version etc... then these audio layers are assigned to the sub mixes that require them. The sub-mixes then become stems, or English version, French version etc. The programme tracks remain to handle plug-ins, like compression (although sometimes it's useful to be able to apply plugins on a clip basis as well). I too greatly miss the flexibility of sub-mixes from my M100 days.

Best, Ken.