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Media 100 is making a Come back!
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That interface totally like screams the 90s, and the fact that it has tracks, oh my. Tracks are like so totally last century. A loony mushroom be those tracks. They bark clutter. Much prefer disorganized keyframe graph, something to look at.
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Maybe solitary storyline.
I tell you, Adobe After Effects owes much of it’s early success to Media100 editors who had no choice but to use After Effects if they wanted to do anything but a cut, dissolve or a wipe. Oh, wait, there was a second graphic track where you could fade still titles in and out.
But man was it organized!
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[Bret Williams] “I tell you, Adobe After Effects owes much of it’s early success to Media100 editors who had no choice but to use After Effects if they wanted to do anything but a cut, dissolve or a wipe. Oh, wait, there was a second graphic track where you could fade still titles in and out.”
Who cares. As long as the nomenclature is correct. 😉
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Media 100 has multiple video and audio tracks (up to 100 audio, I believe, the tutorial shows 20 being used) that can be bussed. Effects and filters are available for easy application to the audio to remove noise, and other types of processing you would expect in a professional system such as full EQ, Dynamics including compression, gating,de-essing,hum removal at various frequencies and reverb effects. Live voice-over recording is supported. Transitions happen between the A and B Video tracks, the primaries. Their is also a graphics track overlay for titles. It has a simple DVE built in, and multiple wipes. Media 100 also supports multi cam editing. It exports and imports easily to After Effects and supports FC7 XML.
See the new Media 100 website for details. Be aware that Media 100 has been in development for as long as Avid practically speaking. Some of the tutorials you see are from when that particular feature was introduced. Audio is from Version 13, a while back. But I would love to see those audio capabilities in FCPX. This is a labor of love by people who know what this system can do. Don’t judge it by what you might expect from a rollout by a billion dollar company. But there are many of us who are happy to see it still moving into the future with OS and AJA updates. At this point it will still be running as long as Premiere CS6 even if development stopped now!
Jim Wiseman
Sony PMW-EX1, Pana AJ-D810 DVCPro, DVX-100, Nikon D7000, Final Cut Pro X 10.2.1, Final Cut Studio 2 and 3, Media 100 Suite 2.1.6, Premiere Pro CS 5.5 and 6.0, AJA ioHD, AJA Kona LHi, Blackmagic Ultrastudio 4K, Blackmagic Teranex, Avid MC, 2013 Mac Pro Hexacore, 1 TB SSD, 64GB RAM, 2-D500: 2012 Hexacore MacPro 3.33 Ghz 24Gb RAM GTX-680 960GB SSD: Macbook Pro 17″ 2011 2.2 Ghz Quadcore i7 16GB RAM 250GB SSD -
Looking at that interface brings back so many memories:
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[Jim Wiseman] “Effects and filters are available for easy application to the audio to remove noise, and other types of processing you would expect in a professional system such as full EQ, Dynamics including compression, gating,de-essing,hum removal at various frequencies and reverb effects”
Media100 has had kickass real time audio effects back around 99. I forget which release it was, but it was a revolution.
Media100i where the i stood for Internet and it came with Cleaner where you could make Soresnen 3 videos at a blistering 320×240 for dial up web reviews from a self hosted Rumpus based ftp server.
They also had some kick ass hardware that did real time up down cross convert before anyone knew what the hell that was. Then DV came and soon after DVCPro HD and fcp 4.5 and things got crazy quickly.
Have a walk down memory lane when the Internet was still friendly:
https://forums.creativecow.net/directory/media100media100hd/2001-04-01_to_2001-07-01.php
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Thanks for that, Jeremy. I do believe that Media 100 is older than the COW. There is still a Media 100 Forum, BTW. Much happiness there right now. Also a Facebook group. I remember meeting Ron and Kathlyn Lindeboom at NAB in the ’90’s when I was the Avid dealer for Hawaii and one of two Media 100 dealers. Guess which system I still use? And which one I preferred then? Online quality in the mid ’90’s from an NLE.
Jim Wiseman
Sony PMW-EX1, Pana AJ-D810 DVCPro, DVX-100, Nikon D7000, Final Cut Pro X 10.2.1, Final Cut Studio 2 and 3, Media 100 Suite 2.1.6, Premiere Pro CS 5.5 and 6.0, AJA ioHD, AJA Kona LHi, Blackmagic Ultrastudio 4K, Blackmagic Teranex, Avid MC, 2013 Mac Pro Hexacore, 1 TB SSD, 64GB RAM, 2-D500: 2012 Hexacore MacPro 3.33 Ghz 24Gb RAM GTX-680 960GB SSD: Macbook Pro 17″ 2011 2.2 Ghz Quadcore i7 16GB RAM 250GB SSD -
[Jeremy Garchow] “They also had some kick ass hardware that did real time up down cross convert before anyone knew what the hell that was. Then DV came and soon after DVCPro HD and fcp 4.5 and things got crazy quickly. “
Yeah, I wanted an 844/x. Real-time blur! Think of the possibilities!
Media 100 were about 15 years ahead of their time with the ICE boards, too. Now we call such co-processors “GPUs.”
I have to confess I don’t understand the current positioning of Media 100. What niche in the market do you think they hope to occupy?
Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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[Walter Soyka] “I have to confess I don’t understand the current positioning of Media 100. What niche in the market do you think they hope to occupy?”
One that wants Boris Red for $99? 😉
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My niche?
Jim Wiseman
Sony PMW-EX1, Pana AJ-D810 DVCPro, DVX-100, Nikon D7000, Final Cut Pro X 10.2.1, Final Cut Studio 2 and 3, Media 100 Suite 2.1.6, Premiere Pro CS 5.5 and 6.0, AJA ioHD, AJA Kona LHi, Blackmagic Ultrastudio 4K, Blackmagic Teranex, Avid MC, 2013 Mac Pro Hexacore, 1 TB SSD, 64GB RAM, 2-D500: 2012 Hexacore MacPro 3.33 Ghz 24Gb RAM GTX-680 960GB SSD: Macbook Pro 17″ 2011 2.2 Ghz Quadcore i7 16GB RAM 250GB SSD
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