Having started with Sony Vegas years ago, I'd say that it's pretty straightforward and more user friendly than something you'd find in the Adobe suite, but if you're willing to learn Premiere/After Effects, then I'd recommend them since they're so much more powerful. I think the major turn off that people had toward the Adobe suite back in the day was that you had to drop thousands of dollars for access to the entire package, or, at the very least, several hundred per program if you wanted to pick and choose, but Adobe has moved to a monthly subscription based model now, and CC 2016 is $50/month which gives you unrestricted access to everything on up to two machines.
Now, even though you aren't supposed to, I tend to work in After Effects for a lot of my videos that require more than just basic splicing and syncing, because I actually despise Premiere since, in my opinion, it feels so incredibly clunky compared to AE (keyboard shortcuts, interface, etc). They both have their pros and cons in several areas, but I'd say that AE's cons, when it comes to larger projects, are worth dealing with for the majority of my projects.
As for what you're looking for, Adobe clearly has all of it, but it might depend on which types of video you want it to be compatible with. I certainly don't deal with a lot of things other than your standard AVI, MP4, or MTS file extensions, so if you've got some files with exotic file extensions, then I'd probably look them up to see if they're compatible.
On the other hand, you might also check out TMPEnc's Video Mastering Works. I honestly don't know how well it works, or if it'd do what you need, but I found their rendering settings to be quite robust whenever I was looking around at different software while trying to figure out rendering settings for YouTube, so I imagine that some of their other features might be nice, as well.
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