[schainks]

Some, yes. Adobe products also widely used.

Fun story from a friend who worked on Dune 1:

Big films like Dune can push these products to their limits in unexpected ways. Avid product support apparently can dispatch live humans to your workstation same day if the software is not working as expected.

I have never heard of a support person being helicoptered in, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it has happened on a big budget production that was blocked by a software issue.

[FirmwareBurner]

Do you know what computers do they use to edit Hollywood movies like Dune for the final cut?

Do they use MacPros, workstation PCs or do they have some local sever farm?