It's impossible to judge things like workflow when comparing applications like these without knowing the specific task. How much effects work do you do? What kind? How complex are your audio needs? Do you need to animate masks? Are you mostly cuts only and need the fasted mouse-free interface you can get? There are people for whom imovie is overkill. There are people who find all of FCP Studio together or an entire suite of Avid products to be less than what they need, and dream of a laptop Smoke/Flame app that works in real time (c'mon Autodesk, put some resources into Combustion!) There are people who do everything in After Effects and are perfectly happy without a more targeted editing application. There are sound designers who can do most of their work within FCP or Avid, others who wouldn't dream of anything but Protools, others who can't imagine mixing without Logic's plugins. Among editing pros its an Avid and FCP world, period. (that doesn't include FCP express). But on the PC side, Vegas does get some serious respect, and at this point that's a unique niche.
In the end, its the editor, not the app, that matters - unless the app crashes every five minutes. Brook _______________________________________________________ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
