I use Premiere for my editing at home, if for no reason other than that it came bundled with my computer. But it is very powerful. At work I hop between Premiere and Media 100. Both are able to do pretty much anything I need to get done. Premiere 6.0 is pretty amazing; it has lots of the features of early versions of AfterEffects, so you're right -- it's getting really complex. If you're looking for an editing solution that's affordable and flexible, Premiere is great. If you're already familiar with Adobe products -- Photoshop, Illustrator, AfterEffects, PageMaker -- you'll find it pretty easy to jump into the Premiere interface. It's pretty straight forward. If you get the LE version of Premiere you pretty much can just jump in without reading the manual. There's lots to learn that you won't catch on your own, but you'll do pretty well.