[Chris Hiles]

This is a fascinating thread, but I, like a few other posters am surprised at the animosity!
I think the analogy of the hammer and the screwdriver suits this issue very well.
If I knew that a new program was coming out that had all the functions of say Adobe Premiere, FCP and Vegas Pro, I would drop Sony Vegas like a shot. I simply want the most efficient tool to do the job.
My problem is it seems that most people just generalise too much. I would love to know some specific, real-world differences that people have experienced.
I am an experienced Vegas user, now on 11 on a pc. I am searching for info on the efficiency of running Vegas under Bootcamp, because I just love my Macbook Pro (bought my 1st Mac last year after being a committed pc user)
This week I had to render a short film, and my laptop pc decided it didn´t want to play. I imported the footage into Adobe Premiere on my Mac and got down to some urgent “learning by doing”. It didn´t take me long to achieve what I needed by using help files and lots of Youtube tutorials, but I can safely say, it was in no way as intuitive and instant as Vegas.
Real world example:
I can simply drag the end of a clip with my mouse and it will add a fade automatically.
With Adobe Prem, you have to add the fade as a transition. (I know this is about FCP, which I would love to use if it can do what I need, but maybe there are some similarities?)
Real world example number 2:
Placing a clip (audio or video) over the end of another clip adds an automatic fade. That is such a time-saving function and works flawlessly. You can then easily (with one click) decided the type of fade and obviously move it around until it “fits”.
Can FCP do simple things like this?
Also, I don´t just take it for granted that FCP “may have some functions that Vegas does´t have”. Can anyone give me some real examples? I have already read that collaborating with others is easier because FCP seems to be “industry standard” (whatever that means) but this is not really important to me.
Thanks for any input.