And then when I saw on some site a blogger write that "Linux is the best platform for high end video editing", I was just astonished at the insolence of the claim. I mean, such nerve...
Whenever I've seen this claim made with any credibility, it refers to in-house custom editing tools that are not distributed, but happen to run on Linux because it is easy to throw huge amounts of compute power at the problem very cheaply. I've never seen it credibly made about the sort of Linux video tools that you or I could get out hands on.