Being a  keyboard editor in Avid Liquid, learning Vegas required a shift to using the mouse a bit more (Vegas does have keyboard shortcuts - but they work a bit better coordinated with the mouse), learning some new terms,  and even some new ways of doing the same tasks.  What I could almost do blindfolded in Liquid  left me shaking my head in Vegas at times - sometimes saying "cool" and sometimes asking "why?".

In a way, learning Vegas was like a side-step forward.  Dockable windows. track envelopes, takes of clips residing on top or each other, opening  multiple instances of Vegas as opposed to using containers and sequences (multiple timelines within the same program instance), scripting (a very cool feature which leads you to the almost required purchase of some very functional plug-ins to allow you to accomplish some standard editing routines that I felt should have been included in the Vegas interface in the first place.   

For me most the "learning curve" had to do with learning the interface and track header controls.  Workflow came from knowing how the control's worked.  Also paying attention to the cursor tool(s) is important.  The cursor can be used as four different tools  as well as changes into different functions as it hovers in various areas of the windows, all toggled from the keyboard by the "D" key. (Tiny) icons in the track header can change to let you know settings have been applied. So there are a lot of icons to pay attention to to help shortcut your edit time.   <read more>