been there and done that here, but this is a list of essentials -

Weve asked for these or variations of these for a number of years, and to be honest, Im abotu a breath away from leavin vegas and spending 2 months (at the risk of lost productivity) simply because Vegas is yetto have teh ability to do this..

- Auto Levels. Ie scope analysise and auto adjustment of levels. Using ONE selected frame as a reference, vegas analysises the scope and stretches and crushes using levels as required

- Auto WB ie, using a dropper or intelligent WB to even out discrepancies. Camera Match function to shift RGBs repsectively. Auto level option as a tag on element to this

- PROGRESSIVE SCAN SLOWMOTION. How many times do we have to mention this?

- Proper field order detection.
Have u ever captured downconverted HDV from an A1... as DV... thrown it on your timeline... ??
What field order is it? Upper... WHY??
All clips need to be manually shifted (or using a script) back to lower field
if u dont... try run this footage as slowmotion and render out to progressive scan... look at the results... what do u see...

I am sick to death of Vegas inability to recognise field orders, progressive scan files rendered FROM vegas (be it uncompressed, sony YUV or Huffy YUV... (go figure) and i could go on...

ok thats my rant for the day...