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A Comprehensive List of NLE Systems
My brother and I were talking over the holiday season about NLE systems, and we were discussing the many that have come and gone. Has anyone kept a list?
I started at the tail end of the linear editing era:
Sony RM440
CMX Edge
GVG VPE-251
Sony BVE-900These are the systems I used before I worked on an Avid Media Composer 1000 in 1996. That was not the only system then, but it was probably the most popular. I could have had a Media 100 or Immix Video Cube if I asked. So, how many other systems have gone be the wayside? Here’s my very incomplete list, and not in any order. Perhaps we can refine and sort it later?
Immix Video Cube
Immix Turbo CubeICE had a compositing engine that tied into a Video Cube and added more compositing layers… I think. Saw it in 1994 and the same time I saw After Effects. In the long-run, software seems to trump hardware.
Sytex Stratosphere
Accom AffinityAvid Media Composer
I’ve lost track of the versions after FCP came out.EMC2
PC architecture NLE systemsDiscrete Edit*
Wasn’t this EMC?Speed Razor
Casablanca
Amiga based H/WFast Video Machine
Video Toaster Flyer
Amiga H/WPlay Trinity (Didn’t it have an NLE part?)
Media 100
NuBus Card
Vincent Card
944/X PC based systemPixel Power
Don’t remember the model, but Cambridge England based company had a NLE in late 1990’sQuantel
Harry (NLE style effects composting based on Paintbox H/W I believe)
Harry (Fuller featured NLE)
EditBox
QEditEidos
Judgement
Justice…And many many more. Please add to the list. I’m tired of typing right now.
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IMC Incite
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There was Fast Blue/Purple/Silver after the Video Machine and then it became Liquid, got bought by Pinnacle then by Avid. It was also rebadged by Sony as ES-7 or at least ES-7 looked like Fast. Panasonic had a clone too.
Lightworks/Heavyworks.
Sony XPRI
DPS Reality/Velocity
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In 1984, EditDroid was one of the first NLEs (PDF brochure):
typewritten.org/Articles/DroidWorks/ed-485.pdf
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The first NLE was CMX’s computer disk pack system. It begat the linear CMX systems. I think only a few were ever made.
There are also the tape-based NLEs, including Cinesco Ediflex, Montage and TouchVision. Also laser disc NLEs, including CMX6000 and EditDroid.
Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
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[Scott Thomas] “Discrete Edit*
Wasn’t this EMC?”No, edit* was Discrete’s cutesy re-name for the windows version of D/Vision after they bought it. There was also an earlier DOS version of D/Vision as well.
You also left out the “Montage” which was one of the earliest, most widely available NLEs in use. it was not digital, it used banks of up to 17 betamax or laser disc copies of the same material to allow for instant access.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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You might be interested in John Buck’s book Timeline: A History of Editing.
Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
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Adobe Premiere
Sony Vegas
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[Herb Sevush] “There was also an earlier DOS version of D/Vision as well.”
I did quite a few projects on this version, rock solid edls and very easy to use.
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Scott Witthaus
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[Steve Connor] “I did quite a few projects on this version, rock solid edls and very easy to use.”
When I was buying my first NLE it was down to EMC vs D/Vision. At that time EMC was being bought up by some larger company, which I thought was a good thing, and I bought the EMC. Time has shown me that it is rarely if ever a good sign when a fully formed product is bought up by a larger company. When it was time to upgrade again I bought D/Vision Windows 3.0 just before it was bought by Discreet. Oh well.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin\’ attached to nothin\’
\”Deciding the spine is the process of editing\” F. Bieberkopf
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