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I thought video people used OSX due to the apps available?



I meet an increasingly large number who use Windows now. They're often people who used to use Mac Pros and switched to PC towers when that fell behind in price/performance.

The new Mac Pro is very expensive compared to what you can assemble in a PC tower, and the tower gives you a lot more flexibility.

As others have said, there's plenty of video editing software for PCs. The main one that's missing is Apple's Final Cut Pro (which Apple bought from Macromedia, though it's changed a lot since then).

See http://ppbm7.com/index.php/tweakers-page/87-what-pc-to-use/9...


For the parts of the industry who run Apple's Final Cut, yes - but Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premiere Pro, etc also exist and are used by many video pros without the same platform restrictions as Final Cut.


The Adobe suite works on both platforms, OSX and Windows. The files can be shared. I have not seen performance or workflow improvements on either. If anything, Photoshop on the Surface hardware is great for sketching and painting.




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