I'm primarily an audio guy and I started to learn video editing at a recording studio I worked at, and started to learn on Premiere. Vegas is a video editor and it kicks Premiere's ass. For your type of work you're doing, it is also ideal. You might want to check that out also, to see what best suits your needs.ДЄlso, while you are downloading you should really try Vegas 4.0. I believe Studio doesn't support DX plugins, and Time sync functions.I believe there's a comparison between the 2 under the 'products section'. I'm not so familiar with the differences between Sound Forge Studio vs. You might even be able to get 'Sound Forge Studio 6.0' version to fit your needs. It's more in the $300-$350 dollar category. Then after you save the changes in Sound Forge, these changes automatically get updated in ACID.Д«TW: Sound Forge is not 'several hundred dollars'. In other words, you can make an arrangement in ACID, and if you find there's an offensive extraneous noise, you can select that waveform, and do an 'open in soundforge' from within ACID. Sound Forge integrates nicely with ACID, so instead of using one over the other, you can actually use them in conjunction with one another. Getting Sound Forge is a good idea for what you're looking for. Acid is more of an arrangement/multi-track type application for mixing multiple files together. Thus you can disect and edit the waveform. Acid and Sound Forge differ, that sound forge is a stereo editor/recorder. Sound Forge is ideal for the use you are looking for.

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