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For movies (not sound) most macs are/were used for video editing or matte painting. Something that either needed final cut (and the rather good final cut studi

For movies (not sound) most macs are/were used for video editing or matte painting. Something that either needed final cut (and the rather good final cut studio) or photoshop. But final cut has been somewhat overtaken by adobe (or was when I was leaving the industry) and blackmagic fucking with the entire software stack by making resolve and fusion free(ish) There are some niche bits like cinesync that allows remote viewing of footage securely and colour accurately that might still need a mac. Apart from laptops, apple have lost the VFX market pretty well.

SSLy 4y ago
And for indie filmmakers, Adobe's AE is still the VFX king.
dmitriid 4y ago
It amazes me how Apple completely screwed over Final Cut Pro. They went from ostensibly 60% market share in video editing to low double digits, maybe?
- windowsrookie 4y ago
  They did make a huge mistake with Final Cut Pro X. Professionals continued to use Final Cut Pro 7 until just a few years ago. That said, everyone I hear who uses Final Cut Pro today seems to prefer it over any other editor. You can flawlessly edit multiple 4k color corrected video streams on an $800 fanless MacBook Air with 8GB RAM, and get 10+ hours of battery life while doing it. Nobody else can touch that.
  - geerlingguy 4y ago
    Yeah, FCPX had massive growing pains but after a few years, it has matured to be eons better for a modern editing workflow than FCP7. It's sad they had to take so long to get there, a number of people switched to Premiere during that time, but there are still a huge number of individuals and studios who edit on FCPX today.
    - dmitriid 4y ago
      The main criminal thing they did IMO is offering no upgrade path, at all until very late. IIRC you couldn't even import FCP7 projects for two years or so after FCPX release.
Maursault 4y ago
> But final cut has been somewhat overtaken by adobe (or was when I was leaving the industry) I'm pretty certain the industry standard has always been Avid Media Composer, even if today and for years nearly all of the market share is Final Cut Pro X with the minority remainder split between Premier Pro and Da Vinci. Most of the choices being made out there are, "do I want Media Composer or FCPX?" And FCPX is a lot less expensive, so that's how it goes.
- KaiserPro 4y ago
  Its funny, I knew that a lot of people used avid, and we had a number of them at the various companies I worked at. We even used to make plugins for it. But I never really saw them used that much. (thats very much not to say they were never used!)

SSLy 4y ago

And for indie filmmakers, Adobe's AE is still the VFX king.

dmitriid 4y ago

It amazes me how Apple completely screwed over Final Cut Pro. They went from ostensibly 60% market share in video editing to low double digits, maybe?

windowsrookie 4y ago
They did make a huge mistake with Final Cut Pro X. Professionals continued to use Final Cut Pro 7 until just a few years ago. That said, everyone I hear who uses Final Cut Pro today seems to prefer it over any other editor. You can flawlessly edit multiple 4k color corrected video streams on an $800 fanless MacBook Air with 8GB RAM, and get 10+ hours of battery life while doing it. Nobody else can touch that.
- geerlingguy 4y ago
  Yeah, FCPX had massive growing pains but after a few years, it has matured to be eons better for a modern editing workflow than FCP7. It's sad they had to take so long to get there, a number of people switched to Premiere during that time, but there are still a huge number of individuals and studios who edit on FCPX today.
  - dmitriid 4y ago
    The main criminal thing they did IMO is offering no upgrade path, at all until very late. IIRC you couldn't even import FCP7 projects for two years or so after FCPX release.

Maursault 4y ago

> But final cut has been somewhat overtaken by adobe (or was when I was leaving the industry) I'm pretty certain the industry standard has always been Avid Media Composer, even if today and for years nearly all of the market share is Final Cut Pro X with the minority remainder split between Premier Pro and Da Vinci. Most of the choices being made out there are, "do I want Media Composer or FCPX?" And FCPX is a lot less expensive, so that's how it goes.

KaiserPro 4y ago
Its funny, I knew that a lot of people used avid, and we had a number of them at the various companies I worked at. We even used to make plugins for it. But I never really saw them used that much. (thats very much not to say they were never used!)