I was reminded today of the free online Vegas 6 training videos that Sony has on their site. There's a dozen short videos that should be enough to get you doing some basic (and not so basic) editing with Vegas in a fairly short time.

http://www.sonymediasoftware.com/su...asp?prod=vegas5

Download the trial version of Vegas and work through these videos and you should have a pretty good idea if Vegas fits your needs.

Good luck.

Dennis

PS: There's also similar training videos for Sound Forge, Acid and more at this site: http://www.sonymediasoftware.com/pr...ningsupport.asp.