Posted by nappy on 05/20/06 17:55

"Mr. Tapeguy" <mr.tapeguy@pro-tape.com> wrote in message
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>
> doc wrote:
>> do a google. that's how we found it. i think the search was something
>> like
>> this, "avid software usage" or "avid reliability" or "avid industry
>> users"
>> my son did the search (he was dead set against avid - - wanted to switch
>> to
>> Premier Pro when we were dumping the deadbeat g5's) i'm with him all day
>> tomorrow at a shoot and i'll try to remember where he found it. then
>> when
>> we went to NAB post in NYC and met Thelma Schaunmaker (sp) who edited
>> "The
>> Aviator" for Marty (as she put it), she confirmed what my son had found
>> indicating that everyone she knew used avid.
>
>
> That was the case for many years but is no longer the case. Last time
> I checked the Mac had around 50% market share as a PLATFORM (which
> could include Final Cut, Avid and Media 100 primarily) and PC's were
> around 70% since many facilities use both. That was mid-to-late 2005.


Oh.. this is so unprovable.. Come on. man. No one ever really does surveys
on this stuff.. it is all exaggeration and guessing. You vaselate between
logic and hype.

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