NBC Olympics And FINAL CUT PRO

(From The Yahoo Avid User's Group)

The mainstream AVID user base is eroding fast, and new editors are exclusively skilled on FINAL CUT PRO (FCP).

A few major deals will work for a while, but the pool of available freelancers to work them will decline as this list grows old and gives up/retires.

So both cost and availability of talent will drive the broadcasters to FCP, unless a new editing paradigm comes along which will overturn both.

Final Cut Pro Training for employees in the large corporate broadcast companies has to come from somewhere.

If schools, and smaller production companies are not using Avid -- then where does that training come from?

When broadcasters need to quickly add a few dozen freelancers for events such as the Olympics, and the talent base ONLY knows FCP, what happens?
[Or Quantel?]

NBC didn't buy ANY Final Cut Pro systems for the Olympics.