Thankyou – a lot of food for thought. All very interesting.
I will learn all of the packages to a basic extent – BUT I want to be an expert in one, because as an offline editor, my editor is as good as my fingers – I don’t want to think for that nth of a second longer, I want to be able to think and react seamlessly. Probably just a kink in me, but I do get hired on my creative abilities rather than technical in the sort of work I specialize in.
Most of my clients expect me to work on their systems so their people can do versioning and adaptations long after I’m gone. So it will be interesting to see what happens, where I am – it seems like everything has frozen in time.