<<Is it too grainy for television production? Where will it be used?>>
I'll admit to not having seeing Final Cut in person yet, but from what I understand of it, its main competition comes from Adobe Premiere and Radius (now Digital Origin) EditDV.
The program also has some compositing/layering features that make it look like a cross between Premiere and After Effects.
Now, if you're talking about television broadcasting editing or offline editing for film, the Premiere/EditDV level of program typically is not used. There you get the Avid systems, Media 100, and other proprietary turnkey systems.
Premiere/EditDV, beyond hobbyists, are also popular with lower-end professional video producers (corporate video, wedding videographers, etc.)
The difference between the high end and the middle has little to do with quality issues ("graininess" as you say). It has more to do with the application's feature set and speed in rendering. Avid and Media 100 systems are not just software, either. They have multiple PCI cards that handle the uploading of the video and its acceleration in the rendering process.
I hope I made things a little bit clearer,
Andrew |
