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I can add a little to the FC film/video talk. . .
The only area I know anything about is post-production of individual shows/movies NOT the business end of a post production facility. Still, AVID, the gorilla of the non-linear editing world, has had an FC system available for more than a year now. Hub based, the product is viewed by my editor friends as "buggy." That said, competing FC product (company name escapes me) is less buggy and has shown that FC will be the way to go. This way, each editor on, say, a TV series (three on an hour drama) can share the same footage, and work can be done faster. Switches would make this process easier for the reason mentioned in the article -- who can write/read at what time. (This is also, I believe, the reason Avid's machine crashes -- there's some sort of conflict in the file sharing).
Anyway, what I've seen is that FC is remarkably helpful for any big production, and it's appearing more and more often. The amount of storage needed for a full feature is massive, and Hollywood has always been a good adopter of high tech. It's not an inconsequential market, either -- a typical post facility could have as many as 6-10 different shows/movies working at a time.
Wish I knew more,
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