Research firm TrendWatch found in a recent survey that 46 percent of visual effects firms surveyed selected Mac OS 9 or earlier as their primary, most essential operating platform, according to MacCentral. The survey also found that Apple’s Final Cut Pro was used most often by 17 perent of respondents, which ranked fourth in popularity behind Adobe After Effects (44 percent), Avid Media Composer (31 percent), and Digi Design’s Pro Tools (23 percent).