I use Vegas Video. I was exposed to it as a total novice and thought it was easy to learn and extremely powerful. In contrast, I found Premiere unintuitive: Too much legacy interface problems.
An afternoon playing with mazaika and screen capture. Go here.
Winmorph must be the greatest free tool on the Internet. Yeah, Satish! Here is a morph of my friend Kevin and his Dad.
A Vegas project for implementing the "film-strip" DVD menu, as described in DVD-lab.
I'll show you mine if you show me yours, Zippy. Here you go.