Oh and let me make another suggestion to you, if you're planning to enter the professional level someday, try Avid. It's the industry standard. Way more professional than Premiere and Vegas and anything else. Pretty much everything you see on TV (and in the movie theaters) is edited either in Avid or Final Cut Pro (for Macs).
So check out Avid's website and grab their free, streamlined version of their most popular editor, Avid Xpress DV. www.avid.com/freedv/