Greetings and questions from a newby

Hi everybody,

I'm new to the forum, which I found while researching Apple Color. I'm a colorist with a 15 year background of long and short form work on DaVinci and a little bit of Pogle. I've been considering career options recently and am intrigued by how powerful Apple Color seems to be. I searched the forum but didn't find answers to the questions I'm mulling at the moment, which revolve around whether it would be feasible to build a home based color correction bay using AC as my platform, with the idea of marketing my services to anyone whose content may already be digitized (or maybe renting a tape deck when needed. I have the ability to farm out film scanning if I need it, but I don't know yet whether that's a level of work that I could offer in this platform). I apologize if I've missed a thread that covers these questions.

My disadvantage going into this would be having no real world editing experience (and no experience with Final Cut Pro) so I would need to learn the platform well enough to know what specs would be needed I/O, but I think my advantage would be (hopefully) a trained eye and an understanding of what makes a good looking picture.

I'm trying to educate myself regarding what I would need to get started, what costs would be, what level of work I could realistically hope to achieve (I wouldn't expect to be competing with EFilm)...

I've read a ton of posts around the net over the last month comparing and contrasting Apple Color to Scratch, Lustre, Baselight, etc., but it seems a little bit apples and oranges with costs being so divergent.

So I guess my questions are; where do you see Apple Color in the realm of serious color correction applications (or do you see it there at all)? Are you getting results that you and your clients are thrilled with or just satisfied by?

Where work is concerned, I'm at my happiest when I'm sitting in front of a monitor or screen, making pretty pictures. The only way I can see improving on that is if I could figure out a way to do it on my own. Would Apple Color allow me to do just that?

Thanks for any thoughts or ideas you may have!