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Originally Posted by TVPostSound  Unbelievably, Magical Elves, (the company that does Top Chef, and others I mix) doing all reality, has 25 Avid offline bays, and 2 Avid online bays.
7 more offline bays coming soon (all Avid).
They are aware of all the FCP pitfalls. |
Here in Australia it's the same way. The big facilities like Fremantle and Granada etc have 30+ Avid suites per site. The smaller operators go the FCP route as it's easier to get into to start with. I went FCP when I went out on my own purely because of it's affordability. As soon as I could I got back to Avid. Haven't touched my FCP rig since and it's been about 2 years now.
One thing FCP just didn't do well at all was shared/SAN storage. Avid and the Unity system nailed this long ago. I'd say that's the key reason Avid is so widely used in large facilities. I believe that there are FCP solutions now that work well for shared storage and Avid has also qualified their Unity system for use with FCP so that must help.