It's hard for me to remember, as I didn't do much video back then and I'm not sure when Cocoa version of Premiere came out (or when the Final Cuts did either -

It's hard for me to remember, as I didn't do much video back then and I'm not sure when Cocoa version of Premiere came out (or when the Final Cuts did either - which seemed far more popular - how things change!). I did a lot of work in PS and it was certainly better in every way on the G4, but running on OS X was a bit hit/miss as plugins and filters lagged behind. It was real messy for a few years. Not being able to get a fastish G4 in a laptop and never a G5 certainly didn't help. Who would have guessed the jump to Intel would be such a saving grace. Man video was so weird back then. Remember needing to go to like, a special render farm to output your completed Final Cut project? Or local racks of XServes? Or just a weirdo mishmash local network?