Smoke is traded on the professionals like when the egg-laying Wollmichsau among video-editing applications. It combines Echtezeit HD editing, compositing and grading in addition to many other functions in one interface. This is also reflected in the price. From about 15,000 U.S. dollars off it goes. That the program while previously ran only on Linux / Unix, bothered most users in this price league. But now, Autodesk seems to want to publish a version for OSX. Not just less competitor for the Final Cut Suite, Autodesk if anything turns on the price spiral ...
