How many M100 users are we?

[Gerry Condez]

There are few popular companies listed in their website. In 16 years using M100, I have not met anyone here in NJ yet. Final Cut or Vegas are some of the popular options. Media 100 is never heard among plenty of my acquaintances. Most weekends, we use Media100 to do same day edited presentations on locations for events. People asked what we use after presentations, most thought its a new system. How many users? Not so many, I guess.

[Larry Evey]

I was the first in the state of Michigan back in 1993 to edit with Media100. Several schools, both High School’s and the University’s here in West Michigan were M100. Most all switched to FC when M100 was mismanaged by it’s new owners in the late 90’s.

Now twenty years later, I think I’m the only one left??? Met Boris Yamnitsky at NAB 2011 and decided to stay with M100 and upgrade -not switching to FC. Best decision ever to stay with M100! (thanks Boris & Matt) All my older pgms imported wonderfully into the new software. My new MacPro 8core/8gb ram w/2 apple cinema displays running Media100 is a big money maker, having paid for itself within the first edited project!

Just purchased a Sony PMW-F3 with the new zoom lens. That amazing digital cinema camera, combined with the M100 editing system, puts West Coast MEDiA in a very good position for the next several years!

Larry Evey
West Coast MEDiA, Inc.
MEDIA100 Since 1993
616-874-8400
https://www.WestCoastMEDiA.com
https://www.OnCameraCoaching.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/larryevey

[Michael Slowe]

Over here in Europe there is the much respected Floh Peters in Munich Germany and he would probably have some idea of numbers. In London, when I started using Media 100 around 1996, there used to be a users group meeting in a pub in Soho, I don’t know whether they still do but I doubt it.

I know two companies selling Media 100 in the UK so there must be users but they are rare. Terrible damage was done to the brand by Optibase during their ownership when many users went over to FCP, and of course that has been the considerable marketing support of Apple. As I’m constantly pointing out to anyone who listens, Media 100 for me is the perfect editing tool. It suits me perfectly with my limited computer skills (I used to edit film!), and does all I need for my documentary film making. It is far more user friendly than the over complicated FCP.

Boris has done wonders and all time lost has been made up, possibly too late to tempt back the deserters, but who knows?

Michael Slowe

[Ken Boyer]

I’ll chime in…

We are a two person corporate video team in Seattle, WA, and have been using M100 since 1995. But I couldn’t tell you who else in town uses M100. If I had to guess, I’d say not many.

We love editing with M100. It’s a first-class NLE, and we don’t want to leave. But have plenty of issues we wish they would address. We have “Platinum Support”, but since Wick left, they haven’t been as responsive as we would hope.

The bottom line is, M100 doesn’t promote and market themselves very well. I frequent several other forums here on the COW, and whenever M100 is mentioned (rarely), the response is always, “They’re still around???” With the demise of FCP, I thought this was M100’s opportunity. But so far, I can’t even use the latest AJA drivers (which the Adobe Suite requires).

ken

[Melodie Myers]

–HA!

Soooo, to sum up all of those responses not many, someone asked me what editor I used last week and when I said Media 100 a look of bewilderment was returned… that’s kind of cool in some respects(that no one uses this cool application and worrisome in others) —

I’m new to Media100, although my college had Media100 work stations back in the mid90s, which is partly what brought me back here almost 20 years later when I went looking for an editor last year and FCP just wasn’t appealing to me — the other bit was/is I got Boris RED and an editor for 600 bucks, sounded like a deal to me. Needless to say, the first few weeks of owning Media 100 were somewhat painful — and I was concerned I had made a 600.00 mistake, as evidenced by my first post on this forum– I find the documentation lacking at times(fortunately, the application is fairly intuitive) and the fact that their aren’t many users makes finding someone that has experienced a similar issue difficult–

That said, I’m finishing my second project on Media 100, I still have loads to learn, but I’m liking it more and more every time I use it — I watched my editor friend fumble around with syncing audio for 45 minutes in FCP last Saturday — and I did the same sync in Media 100 last night in about 3 minutes and I have no idea what I’m doing, so there’s something to be said for that —

I hope more folks come to know Media 100(again)– that can only helps matters…

m-L

[Michael Slowe]

I suppose even if Media 100 ceased as from today (heaven forbid), we could still carry on with the systems we operate now. Nothing to go wrong, there will always be AJA boards, the only worry for ALL editors, worldwide, is the possibility that Apple will be so keen on their consumer rubbish (i this and i that) that they will cease production of their Pro computers. Then where will we be?

Michael Slowe

[Gerry Condez]

Hi Michael

[Michael Slowe] “I suppose even if Media 100 ceased as from today (heaven forbid), we could still carry on with the systems we operate now. Nothing to go wrong,”

Funny, I still have my G3/OS9.2-Media100 XR running every day for 10 hours driving a 52″ LCD above it on my store front looping all video we shot on HD. hahaha! Nice piece of hardware. With all the aluminum you see around, this beige turns yellower each day. Just cant kill the beast!
But if this thing dies, the 9500 is waiting in the storage. haha
Five, six, seven years from now, kids will think that this is a new cool computer. LOL

[Andrew Mehta]

Haha. That’s fantastic, ^_^ [the pic above].

I still have my G4 Gigabit Ethernet with P6000 card + DV Option, running Media100i 7.5 or whatever the version was, in OS9. ^_^

I also have Media 100 Suite v1 on OSX Leopard.

I’m still around, but I got Media100 for a DVD project which ran from 2004-2007, and I only use it occasionally now, for the odd Youtube short. I’m no longer a full time editor like I was 2004-2007, so it only sees occasional use.

That said, I found at least x2 professional users besides me here in the UK back in the day. Michael in this thread, and Kieran Matthew who used to post here too. Then when appealing for freelancers on mandy.com I came across another two or so students, who knew Media100 – one of whom had done some work for another Media100 based company based elsewhere in the UK.

Outside of the UK, I get the impression John Buck / Velocite still uses Media100, and I did find a bunch of people in LA that used it still also – although again, that was 2004-2007, when I was actively looking for Media100 people, to help with projects, etc.

[Andrew Mehta]

There’s also this link as well of course:
https://www.borisfx.com/media100/Customers.php

[Jaeson Koszarsky]

“I suppose even if Media 100 ceased as from today (heaven forbid), we could still carry on with the systems we operate now.”

I still have and use my MacroSystems DraCo from the mid-90s. It runs on a 50MHz Motorola 68060 processor with 128MB of RAM, SCSI-II drives, FireWire I/O, excellent SD image quality. The NLE has unlimited a/v tracks. It will play all straight cuts in realtime, any fx or layering need rendering and that’s where things get slow. It even has a multicam feature with support for up to 6 cameras.

Just because something is old, that doesn’t mean that it’s lost usefulness.

I don’t expect M100 to pass in the night any time soon. Thanks for BorisFX’s continued support!