Personally, I like Vegas better than Premiere because it’s more intuitive to me – it works more the way I think than Premiere does.
Probably the number 1 reason for me to stick with Vegas – SCRIPTING. I don’t know of any other NLE that allows you to extend the abilities of the editor like Vegas can with scripting. I would be lost without the tools I use in Excalibur. I also wrote a script that we use at church so that “non-editors” can actually edit a church service without having to know the “nuts and bolts” of editing.
But other simple things – like overlapping two clips to create a crossfade (not having to worry about “heads” and “tails”) may not seem like much but greatly improves my workflow.
Edward Troxel