Everyone has their own personal preference and what works for one person may not for someone else. Again, you need to download a few trials and try them out on your computer and see which one works best for you. I like the Adobe stuff such as Premiere Pro and Premiere Elements (the two editors), they also have Photoshop, After Effects and Audition plus a lot of other programs. This makes integration and transferring files between these programs much easier. On a scale of 1 to 10 in your poll I would give them the following...

Usability 8

Functionality 9

Performance 9

These are all personal preferences and as they do have quite a steep learning curve you really need to stick with these programs for some time.

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