I suspect that video production, both amateur and professional, was one of the few things keeping Commodore going in the early nineties. (Anyone who's read the various hindsight views of Commodore, please chime in.) I recall telling Wil Wheaton circa 1994 that I no longer used my Amiga and didn't have a Video Toaster, and his reponse being that an Amiga wasn't good for much without one. He was pushing the VT4000, LightWave 3D, and the Screamer (R.I.P.) at the time, but his answer was true nonetheless. (I really wanted to talk to Kiki, but my girlfriend at the time had a crush on Wil, so Wil it was. He had a nose ring then, which I suspect was code for, "See! I'm not Wesley Crusher. Really.")
EDIT: Have to append this funny annecdote. The girlfriend had had a crush on Wil since Stand By Me. She and I were both pretty goth in those days, and Wil had goth tendencies. She was standing in a corner watching a Toaster-based Terminator 2 demo of some sort when Wil walked over to chat her up. She brushed him off and gave me the "oh, please" look, not recognizing him, and started turning away. Someone then approached Wil with another fellow saying, "Let me introduce you to Wil." I have never seen a more vivid transition from shock to disbelief to grief in my life. Classic. Things settled once she realized that Wil was just as much of a geek as the rest of us. It's fifteen year later, she and I are still friends, and we still laugh over that incident.