Sound Forge and acid do audio, yes, but they are sony products and can work well with Vegas, like Adobe has a suite of products...sony does the best with sound over all the suites and can do 5.1 soundfields,etc. Which is why I chose and it rated on par or above premiere as an NLE. As far as ripping an mpeg2 and and audio seperately is there not a way to rip both at the same time? Would it be better to use .VOB files. I have never done a rip to edit before so I don't know. I've done amateur films, thats it. Thanks for your help.