Jan Ozer has written a series of 4 articles for EventDV magazine that compare five leading tools--Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, Avid Xpress Pro, Pinnacle Liquid Edition, and Sony Vegas. If you are considering one of these programs for your video editing it's a good article to check out. Here are the links to the articles:

http://www.eventdv.net/Articles/Rea...ArticleID=10486
http://www.eventdv.net/Articles/Rea...ArticleID=10446
http://www.eventdv.net/Articles/Rea...ArticleID=10629
http://www.eventdv.net/Articles/Rea...ArticleID=10771

EventDV is a free magazine and has some good articles even if you aren't an event videographer.

Good luck.

Dennis