Vegas is really wonderful. You can get the vegas studio version which is less complex, but honestly, Vegas is so intuitive - that people can use it immediately. One of the best things about Vegas besides that it is an absolute rock solid program is that you can "drag and drop" pretty much everything. You can load in HDV and SD - 24p, or 30i, and edit them all together on the same time line - it just doesn't really care.
It's fast and it's easy. Most video editors come from a couple of different lines - AVID - to Premiere - to Final Cut - which accounts for why they all work pretty much the same and have the same look. Vegas came from a sound program - Sound Forge, so it didn't really think like what most people were familiar with. But if you work on it for an hour or two, it becomes clear why it's so much fun. Of course, your mileage may vary. Milt Lee http://realrez.com
