Personally don't like Vegas the videos seems to encode poorly and turn out really bad.
I use movie edit 15 and it has smart render so when I edit the mpeg2 files they turn out really well. Movie edit 16 is only $49.99 when I saw it in the store....
When I used to design textures and graphic design work hated the
Adobe program it was a pain to use.
Corel Paint Shop Pro for me was so much better and easier to use.....
Adobe Premiere? $750 is a lot for software....Don't know maybe you need all the special effects...Neat Video to me is the best thing in the world for cleaning video..Oh my goodness.....
Back to Movie Edit:
You have to get used to some of the quirks in the program but once u do it is really easy to use. For example your audio + video are out of sync you create a new frame table...If the program crashes it save backs ups so u normally don't lose that much work.
I am so in to details that I find things wrong all the time, basically kind of figured out this program and know what settings to use, it took time, but the program itself can do a lot....It is just a tool...
It is great for mixing sound, cutting clips, don't filter anything in the program but u can load in all the virtual dub filters....