> > there are a few steps to make it usable in Video Sequence mode.

> What steps do you recommend?

Here is a good video about it: https://vimeo.com/76661940 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uy_nh0ysVk

You have to customize a lot of little things here and there in the UI to make it work "by default" as a video editor when you start the software.