Hey I have the same problem here… 8.2 adds automation events to the front and back of your selection.
This behaviour was present in 8.1 when using the range tool, but not with selecting points.
@Fredo: While this works to ‘move’ sections of automation vertically, sadly it doesn’t work with scaling your automation, changing the skew or compression options which I loved so much comming to Nuendo 8! I notice I keep having to delete the extra added automation events manually which is a pretty time consuming thing…
I hope it’s a bug and not a feature and treated as such… It might be nice to have a setting so you can choose wether you want to have the extra points added or not (or add a modifier! Like Are74 suggested…!)