Zaap
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- Jun 12, 2008
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Avid only remains because it's so entrenched that many vets who are schooled in it simply won't give it up, and still wield the power to keep it around. I use FCP for a living- but talking FCP or AVID or anything else is merely talking about ONE aspect of post production: editing.While I do agree with you on the zealot point I think FCP is taking a lot of market share from avid. Now on the 3d render side yes lots of pc stuff but on the audio/film editorial side there is a majority of mac usage. I would dare say that in the audio world the mac usage is damn near 100%.
Now i think avid has made some great moves in the last year and they could regain some market share from fcp but they also have a mac install so I dont think they would be pc only.
Before you can even get to that you have to PRODUCE content to edit. That's done using every kind of serious workstation in existence. Filmed shots and FX shots are generated/telecined/ composited/cleaned up/color-corrected, etc. using all manner of different computers and applications, many of them OF COURSE, PC-based. Plenty of audio production is PC-based as well, or the applications and workstations wouldn't even exist and all pro audio hardware/software would be Mac-only.
My point was, only someone who's never set foot in any kind of real professional environment making these stupid "PCs suck! Just for gaming! Blah! Blah" or "Macs suck! No apps! Blargh! Blargh!" typical fanboi nonsense has no clue what they are talking about and are just spouting biases borne of their own lack of knowledge. It gets old and annoying.
Of course, FCP is great- I listed it as the #1 reason I use OSX.
But modern productions don't get made by lameass fanbois sitting around admiring their damn plastic computer cases that aren't really anything special anyway, they get made by professionals that know their shit using using pretty much any kind of machine/OS you put in front of them.
