Re: FCP X internationally

Avid wasn't dominant in Russia in the nineties, mostly because of being Mac. Linear suits though expensive fulfilled the demand well. Big film studios like Mosfilm and Gorky went Lightworks. Fast, DPS and d/Vision were around too. Adobe Premiere, cursed by everybody was still widely used because it came bundled with Targa and other I/O hardware. When FCP came out it captured extremes of the market — people who wanted to lay out masters to Digibeta and HDCAM tapes at the high end and people who wanted to cut on a laptop at the low end. When enough editors got familiar with FCP it became omnipresent.

Reaction to FCP is mixed and very similar to what you can see here on the COW. Those who besides FCP cut in Premier, MC or Vegas point that most innovative features of FCPX is something they had in their NLE's for a considerable while. Those who are strict FCP like me are split along one-man-band/conveyor-belt-hand line. It is safe bet that for facilities here Apple is dead. How many facilities are left around in a couple of years is another story.