I've invested every paid gig over the past three months into learning Premiere on existing projects. Actually, my investment was a long weekend in April, since then it's been billable hours after billable hours, and profit too. It has taken me very little time to get up to speed on Premiere, actually.

As an example, I just transcribed hours of footage using the automated dialogue transcription feature (in both english and Quebecois french) and it saved me probably 8 hours on the job. Each transcription took about 3 minutes per reel, and a couple of hours of cleanup.

I had to drop back into Vegas today to clean up a project we shot a year ago and I was shocked with how cumbersome and quirky it is compared to Premiere.

The fact that Vegas only supports one timeline at a time still is a mystery, and I've submitted several feedback forms to this point. I used to do a lot of weddings, and I make extensive use of the 'set timecode at cursor to zero', and use ranges, and markers... but really my timeline is like 2 hours long with dozens of little 'ranges'. Too much overhead.

Something as simple as a right click>import menu is something I would use all day, but it's never made it into any build of Vegas.

Unsortable bins (they are sorted by date created) is a media management mystery.

Although my system is a rock-solid crash-free joy compared to plenty of people on the forums, it's just not working for me anymore.

Today was strange in that I couldn't change any settings in that sluggish new Render As panel. Every time I needed to make a change I quit then relaunched the application.

The dagger in the heart was when my copy of Veggie Tools stopped working. Now, it seems I can't launch the MultiRender app, a plugin I've been using for years. Premiere's 'add to render queue' is superior anyway.

I also just worked on a project involving XDCAM (the disc) footage. I was hired because I had the Sony Vaio laptop and Sony Vegas... but at the end of the day it was the director's son's copy of iMovie that saved the day. I could not recognize the deck or the media. He injested it all. I was the laughing stock of the set.

I've been a Vegas evangelist since version 4. Today has been nothing but frustrating, so I decided to call it quits and move on to Premiere. I'll be starting a new project next week on Premiere exclusively.

Thanks Sony for hosting this valuable forum and best of luck with future developments. Thanks also to the scores of professionals who have helped me out over the years.