Well, the last 6 years I worked I purchased a large Avid workstation, 2 huge monitors, 14 chained DVD writers, 3 commercial Sony video cameras, tripods, lighting gear, all to shoot, make, and edit video. We explored "apple" but for commercial video they had no 'end to end' solution, nor could we render our finished product to enough dvd's to distribute them. There were 3 systems purchased by the same corporation, and we took 14 months with a 3 person committee to meet with all the players.

The local TV stations were using Avid. The University was using Avid.

I found out a couple of Mom and Pop outfits were using Macs, beyond that...not much.

As to looking down on people with artistic blah blah, you are just a bit off base there. Despite the fact I am now retired, and I owned several companies, I play 5 instruments, play in a Brass Band, a 'horn' band, 2 trios, and with my wife who has several degrees in music so she can keep me 'grounded', though I dislike too much ground bass. (see...Pachbel's canon ground bass)

If you happen to be in France the 1st week in May I will be working on a retrospective of 1750 to 1770 the French Artistic community, though I am hoping to have completed the same retrospective of England during the same period. I expect to be in the archives at the Musee d'Orsay, perchance you might like to assist, unless you don't speak any foreign languages. I admit the ability to quickly photograph documents and show them on a screen during a presentation will make my new Playbook with the HDMI port a very viable teaching tool.

I would note the following from the Final Cut Pro wiki, and note there is a huge difference between Bob and Doug making home made videos of weddings and people making Documentaries for the Nature Channel....

Quote Wiki:

A published Survey in 2008 by the American Cinema Editors Guild placed their users at 21% FCP (and growing from previous surveys of this group), while all others are still on an Avid system of some kind.

It's a tad premature to say that Apple has the market cornered at less than 7% of the 'PC' market and about 20 some percent of the video editing market. They also have about zero percent of the news, sports market etc., which from my experience is just straight Avid. Familiarize yourself with their products, maybe someday you can 'graduate.'

Gotta run, the wife and I are getting ready a duet for horn and flute based on "In the Bleak MidWinter and I'm sketching out the harmonies for horn and need a few minutes to transpose it for a Bb instrument. I'll look down on the wife, I think she's a closet artist, especially if she plays the bassoon.

John Conley
Musica est vita