[CooL_RunningS]

I was watching a tutorial the other day and the guy finished up the editing in Vegas. This program looks interesting.

Can anyone tell me the good features about it?

I'm having difficulty getting timing down for music video and picture. I do it all in after effects...any thoughts on other programs in CS4 that would be helpful here?

Thanks!

 

[zuluclayman]

Timing can be difficult depending on a couple of things:

* your method - are you just sliding the clips around to match the sound? are you timing clips (both audio and video) then matching them precisely? do you expand the audio track so it is big enough to see the spikes/volume and/or pitch changes to allow you to align video with changes?

* your audio clips - are there dramatic enough changes in your audio tracks to be able to align video clips with or in wave form does it all look the same?

As for Vegas - it is like asking which car do you prefer to drive, comes down to personal preference - both have good features, both have annoying features, both lack some features the other has.
Similarly to cars - take them for a test drive - download the trial version of Vegas and test it out and see if it is better for you than Premiere.
The only advice I can give on this is that if you have the Adobe Creative Suite with AE etc Premiere gives you a seamless transition into the other apps so you can be working in your Premiere timeline, take something to AE or Soundbooth or Photoshop and bring it back in without having to export it etc.