Film people are very VERY particular about 4 basic things
- Legacy with 32 bit programs and files (killed with Catalina)
- 3rd party app compatibility (despite rosetta 2, stuff like Avid and Final Draft are notoriously unstable and putting them on Arm sounds like a recipe for disaster)
- The ability to install apps and transfer licenses without being stuck to an App store (which a lot of indications seems like this is happening, which makes shit sooo much harder)
- Cost to performance (basically you need at least 128 gb ram to work with 8k footage and when the lowest cost mac pro that actually is useful to a filmmaker costs 25k when you can build the same for under 10 on windows)
Apple has pissed so many filmmakers off since Jobs died its incredible. Especially when the biggest oscar winning film of 2019 was edited in final cut pro 7 an NLE platform that hasnt been supported or working on mac since 2011