Apple Announces over 1 million installs of FCPX

[Oliver Peters]

” but there’s no support for the claim of “a larger percentage” than other sources or “the majority of revenue”.”

If you say so. Admittedly, I’m lumping ISIS, Unity, Airplay, Airspeed and Interplay all into one category. Let’s just say that if these products were dumped, the company probably wouldn’t survive on just Media Composer and Pro Tools.

Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Oliver Peters]

FWIW – re-reading the 2011 Avid Annual Report (a bit dated now, of course) – here’s the breakdown of consolidated net revenue:

Pro video editing 11% (includes all editing software, but also hardware, like Nitris DX and turnkey Avid DS stations)
Storage/workflow products 21% (note that’s about twice the above number)
Pro audio 14% (Pro Tools and other associated audio, like HD cards)
Control surfaces and live sound 11% (hardware consoles)

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Scott Witthaus]

Hey Oliver –

One can only think, with Avid’s current emphasis on Avid Everywhere, those percentages will change even more towards hardware and away from software.

Of course, without balanced books, it’s all speculation.

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Dom London]

Hi Guys

I can see a lot of numbers on this page. As we have to provide a decision on whether to add FCPX or FCP7 to our existing expert courses (in Avid MC6 and Premiere CS6) for 259,000 UK school students I would be very grateful of getting the sources of these numbers being mentioned.

the numbers I can see shown here are..

– Adobe Premiere Pro, 2.5 million (Fall 2012)
– FCP 1-7, 2 million (NAB 2011)
– FCP X, 1 million (NAB 2014)

Can anyone add the name of the source (ideally a person and at least a company – or a weblink?)

Thanks a million, if you can help?

Dom
dom AT uk film net DOT org

[Franz Bieberkopf]

[Dom London] “I would be very grateful of getting the sources of these numbers being mentioned.”

– Adobe Premiere Pro, 2.5 million (Fall 2012)
https://www.beet.tv/2012/09/adobepremiere.html
(video, and I believe the language he uses is “2.5 million Premiere Pro users”)
(… further, current subscription numbers for Creative Cloud are above 1.8 million – search here or on the net, you should have no problem finding sources.)

– FCP 1-7, 2 million (NAB 2011)
(This number was widely reported at the launch of X, thus reflects versions 1-7, and should not be hard to find – one source below.)
“Apple said it currently had more than 2 million licensed Final Cut Pro users…”
https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-announces-final-cut-pro-x/

– FCP X, 1 million (NAB 2014)
“Apple announced today that they had more than one million separate installations of Final Cut Pro X.” (No official announcement from Apple that I can find to verify, that’s just the way Apple does it.)
https://www.larryjordan.biz/app_bin/wordpress/archives/2482

– Avid, 3 million (NAB 2014)
(This number is from Oliver Peters and he also doesn’t have sources that can be verified but claims his “sources are straight from Apple and Avid”, but you could write him on his site for further clarification.)
“The 3 million Avid users number was stated numerous times by Avid at the Connect event.”
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/335/67876
“Also to clarify, the Avid number of 3 million users is a total for all of Avid’s products, whether Media Composer, Pro Tools, ISIS or an old copy of Avid Xpress. At least that’s the answer given at Avid Connect.”
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/335/68835

Franz.

[Dom London]

Thats fantastic Franz, Many thanks Sir

Dom

[Franz Bieberkopf]

Dom,

I’d certainly recommend other considerations outside these numbers if you are putting together decisions for curriculum.

Different pockets of filmmaking and video editing tend to favour certain kinds of workflows and thus certain kinds of software. It might be worth polling some local labs and industry references, for example. Also, while FCP 7 still seems to be in wide use (and I’m using it), it’s life is pretty limited at this point. (On the other hand, I would have said the same thing 2 years ago, and here we are.)

I don’t think there are easy answers.

Franz.