In the early 2000s, people were still cutting on Avid ABVBs (based on PCI Power Mac 9600s running Mac OS 8.6, usually). They'd even cut HD by treating it as fil

In the early 2000s, people were still cutting on Avid ABVBs (based on PCI Power Mac 9600s running Mac OS 8.6, usually). They'd even cut HD by treating it as film and generating film cutlists. All the way through the 2010s, Avid Meridiens (based on Power Mac G4s running Mac OS X 10.2.x) were used with Avid Unity shared storage for features, and it wasn't about money - it was because every new generation of Avid anything really, really sucked and had tons of new bugs, and people cared more about being able to work reliably and with consistency than they cared about new features. One of the first feature length documentaries shot on RED was transcoded to ProRes and edited on a Power Mac G5 running Final Cut Pro 6. Sometimes it's about money, but more often it's about an editor's ease and comfort sitting down in front of a machine and simply getting to work with the least distractions possible. "It's not about the tools" isn't a great way to put it. It's more like, "Don't choose tools that slow down the editor".