With 17 -5.1 sound tracks and the controls set to automation when I hit the play button its lights, sounds, levers moving, text changing creating glorious euphoria. I just about crapped my pants.
. . .and yes JJ . .the AC stuff is amazing .. I was doing a small bit of Demo-ing at our IoV SHow here in Coventry near Brimingham, these last 2 days, and when I got the panning and vol. sliders working with the timeline, the onlookers gasped! THEN it goes and "filters" out all the interim points too! Neat . . .
Filtering out the interim points is so obvious you have to wonder why Adobe didn't do that in Premier. First time I tried automation in Premier I could see why it wasn't a good idea. Thankfully Sony saw what was needed to make the idea workable.