I guess this is a major part of my reasoning to upgrade my own, ageing Edius 4.6 editing system up to the latest version (Edius Pro 6.52 to be precise) housed in a shiny new and beefy PC. It does happen – as per Apple and their introduction of FCPX (more on which later) – but once you have your head around the way an NLE works it’s hard to switch. Whilst NLE-choice doesn’t exactly follow this there is undoubtedly a certain amount of loyalty amongst users and it takes a fair bit of crappy development and bad PR for an NLE manufacturer to lose users to another manufacturer.
Once you pick a team as a child (more often picked for you!) it’s is virtually impossible to switch allegiance later in life. It is true to some extent that editing systems are like football teams. However, sitting behind these are some amazing NLEs – and in my view none more so than Grass Valley’s Edius. My guess is that the professional market share today would probably place Adobe Premier at the top of the pile closely followed by Apple’s Final Cut.
There’s plenty of choice these days in professional NLEs (nonlinear editing systems) and pretty much all of them will do the job at hand.
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