As it happens, the man who helped me originally edit my movie at a Boston post-production house in the late 1980s, George Mauro, worked at Pixar.

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"It's staggering how many people we see switching to Final Cut Pro, " says David Tecson , president of the TV and film post-production house EdgeWorx .

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Final Cut's biggest advantage is price, says Jake Abraham , post-production director at digital filmmaking house InDigEnt .

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