@Andrew Richards

Edit was tired, long in the tooth and was losing Autodesk money. It would have needed a complete rewrite from the ground-up. Hell, it didn't even support DV or any of the then-popular formats that crawled out of the low-end and pushed their way into the market. Autodesk had a tough decision to make on Edit and I think they made the right one. It's what I would have done had I been at the helm of the company. Sales and monies did not justify keeping it alive.

Was it a cool program in its day? By all means. But beyond that it would have been just plain bad business to keep it on life support. Pulling the plug is what it needed and what it got.

The one that really surprised me was Apple closing the door on FCP Legacy. It was profitable and it had a huge audience. Killing it made absolutely no sense to me.

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