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From my experience, it tends to be Avid for long-form stuff and FCP for short-form stuff nowadays - the delineation has occurred over the past 5 years or so, partly in response to the fact that FCP just isn't very good at longer edits - all sorts of flaky behaviour, weird bugs, etc. Avid is far more stable when things get into the 42 minutes-and-up length.
That said, there are exceptions to that all the time. The odd Hollywood feature (or pseudo-Hollywood, in the case of Tetro, for example) is cut on FCP (and boy does Apple ever shout from the mountains when that happens - see Eat Pray Love press as an example...)
Of course lots of commercials and music promos are still done on Avid as well... but whereas 5 years ago there was some degree of embarrassment in only running FCP, it's definitely not looked down upon, especially if you're a very small operation. You're no longer expected to have Avid - if you can cut with Avid you can get work in big rooms with Symphony systems. If you are a whiz with FCP you can cut music videos and virals on your own rig... at least that's how it kind of works in London. I often get commissioned by small boutique productions companies to do various levels of things and more and more they are *expecting* me to have FCP because that's what they've got, and in two years' time when they need to repurpose something they want to be able to open the project. In cases where I offer edit as well as audio post, they generally do not care what I use for audio post, whereas they make a sticky point of making sure that our edit software is the same (FCP!)
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