Hey a Mac fanedit guide would be a great step forward!
Don't be surprised if you're the guy to write it. :lol:
Actually, I don't know why there isn't one already. There are folks editing on Macs.
[un-called-for, and downright untrue PC-biased joke]
But, to continue the thread, for the benefit of [another totally unwarranted biased joke]
Vegas has video compositing, complex cropping, and loads of other stuff (I don't have it). Dunno which versions do what. You can do multitrack audio (and video, I think). And you can encode your super-fancy sound edits to ac3, with an extra plugin you pay for.
You can force Vegas to edit mpeg. But then you have to recompress the result back to mpeg. That gives you a quality loss. (No problem if you're working on avi's - like stuff captured, to huffyuv, from tv, vhs, or laserdisc).
Both Wombles give you fast, frame-accurate mpeg editing, without re-encoding. That's unique in Non-Linear Editors (AFAIK). (VideoRedoPlus does, but it's not an NLE). Warning: Womble has a truly horrible mpeg encoder. And I haven't heard of anyone coming up with a frameserving method. If you have to do transitions, or other effects, then put that section into something like Avisynth, encode with a good mpeg encoder, and pop that mpeg back into Womble.
WombleDVD is
very preferrable to regular Womble.
With regular Womble, every audio edit gives you a click - so you have to crossfade. But when you crossfade, you have to export to mpeg2 audio, because regular Womble doesn't do ac3 encoding.
WombleDVD adds ac3 encoding, so that problem is solved. And you can mix 2.0 ac3 sources, with 5.1 sources. It'll upconvert 2.0 to 5.1, if you tell it to. It also takes stereo wav's, converts them to ac3 2.0 or 5.1. (I've tested the basic function, and it does ok. But I didn't dig deep. For instance, they might have to be Dolby 2.0 WAVs to get anything on the rear channels, I don't know).