The basic step selecting which i do not like to do. I have a 30 inch screen, in my top left corner my effects would be. In the down side of mu screen the time will be there. Let say as it works in avid of fcp i press play bar, or JKL, or key board shortcut next clip, then in the vieuwer the next clip will be updated and i will be ready to make changes. It is a matter of working with keyboard and mouse. Moving back from the viewer to the timeline to select the clip and then moving back to the viewer to make the scale change is a lot more work. I wish when my time line indicator is above a new clip this will be automatically loaded in the viewer
As a said, both Avid an fcp have this possibility.