Ozair wrote:Finally a real good point of view of an editor. I wasn't expecting it to be so rough I always was planning to keep editing as a side job but seeing that editors barely get enough time for themselves changed my mind. Btw I'm just wondering, you said that Avid and Final Cut Pro are the most common used programs in editing industries. Do you have any idea why do they choose these software's over Premiere and Vegas? (I'm guessing they have more capabilities) and what about After Effects?! (I haven't used either Avid nor Final cut pro so I wouldn't know.)
Avid came out in 1989 and was the first "real" digital video editing program. Premiere came out in the early 90's but lacked many of the important features that Avid had like nested sequence editing, EDL support, proper color correction, etc. Because of this, Avid dominated the market until Final Cut Pro was released in 1999-2000 and by 2003, it literally took away most of Avid's market. It took until 2003's release of Premiere Pro to finally have premiere catch up, but Final Cut Pro was already making strides with independent productions and smaller studios.
I don't know anything about Vegas' history, but I do know it's catching on.
Since Avid dominated the market for so long, most studios refuse to let go of it since they've made investments in their million dollar editing bays. It's time to finally let them go.


















