I have tried Premiere, Ulead, and Pinnacle and none of them compare to Sony Vegas. Yes, it's a Sony product I actually like and recommend.
It's amazing how horribly bloated Adobe software has become. It was just sad, so slow and bloated.
The Vegas 30 day trial is 100% fully functional:
It doesn't even leave a watermark on the video.
I've been playing around with it...