Media 100 is making a Come back!

[Lance Bachelder]

My favorite feature of the new Media 100 was the uninstall button….

It was at a Vegas premiere that I resolved to become an avid FCPX user.

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1680680/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

[Jim Wiseman]

I preferred the “Buy” button for $99, no rental. After that the “Install” in Yosemite.

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

[Greg Jones]

This is very interesting. Definitely worth $99 to give BorisFX Red a go with Premiere.

I started editing on the Media 100 around 1998, I believe. Got to be pretty efficient and fast with it. I remember around 2000 or 2001 starting to play around with Final Cut pro and going to NAB that year. At NAB I went to the Media 100 booth and talked with someone there about Final Cut Pro. I remember telling them the interface was much more intuitive than the Media100 interface and that they should try working on tweaking the interface. Their response was ‘Final Cut Pro is a toy.’ After that I edited on Final Cut Pro for about 10 years and made a lot of money using it, before switching to Premiere.

I could see a college student or someone starting out paying the $99 to start editing. I can’t see myself using it, except for maybe checking it out for nostalgia sake and using BorisFX with Premiere. I wish Media100 luck. Maybe if enough people download and buy it, they’ll actually put some time into the interface and they could make a comeback. Regardless it’s nice to think back to when Media100 was at the top of the game.

Greg Jones
D7,Inc.
Orlando,FL.

[Jim Wiseman]

To tell you the truth, it is the simplicity of the interface that I really like. Don’t need it to change. I can cut faster with it than anything else I have used, Avid, FCP7 and X. I can come back to it after months away, and it all comes back in a day or two. Easy audio control no matter how many tracks with real time effects and bussing. Maybe when I am proficient with FCPX I will use it more, but for cutting the documentaries I will probably be working on for the next few years, I’m in no rush. Cuts, dissolves and titles. Voiceover and music. Pro Res, all flavors in and out. H264 export. Mavericks, Yosemite and my 2013 and 2012 Mac Pros will be around much longer than these projects. Many hours of archival tape and HD files that need to be formed into coherent programs.

Will ease into FCPX in that time, perhaps. Have the software and the Ripple Training, but want to get to work now. Yosemite support is a major M100 development. One thing for sure, there is NO rental in my future. I already own two licenses to the 2.1.6 Yosemite version for 4 computers from free upgrades. I own the licenses outright to everything I need including FCPX. I’m at the point where I am doing my own work. Long term access is more important than effects flash or competing for clients. Rental is the opposite of my needs. At $99, others should be looking at M100 with Boris Red. I have limited use plugins for which I have paid more.

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

[Tim Wilson]

[Jim Wiseman] “To tell you the truth, it is the simplicity of the interface that I really like.”

The phrase that many of us used at the time was “Media 100’s greatest feature is its lack of features,” and it wasn’t at all facetious. That approach obviously works better for some jobs than others, but it was entirely intentional on Media 100’s part, and heartily embraced by customers (including me). The happy contrast with more “powerful” ie, more complicated, cluttered applications was made every day in forums like this one.

This actually connects to another thread just started here, where Stu Maschowitz pokes at the irony of the freedom that comes from fewer features vs. the burden of having more features. I almost didn’t add that summary, because I’d much rather have folks talking about on that actual thread…

…but my point for this discussion is to emphasize that Media 100’s — let’s call it — streamlined approach was invigorating. Software that doesn’t force you to bend to its will. A rarity then, perhaps rarer now.

[Jim Wiseman]

+1 !

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, 1TB SSD, 64GB RAM, 2-D500, Helios 2 w 2-960GB SSDs: 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

[James Culbertson]

SheepShaver would allow you to run older versions of Media100 on OS8 or OS9!

https://sheepshaver.cebix.net/

One night I installed it and was able to play with HyperCard. again.

[James Ewart]

Thanks for this. I downloaded out of curiosity having worked with it a little many years ago.

Bit of a shock getting used to the interface and that would take some acclimatisation for sure. But it does the job.

However my first 1 minute clip I imported into my bin took over a minute to ‘render’ in. I would have a tough time getting used to that I think.

[Jim Wiseman]

ProRes comes in quickly. What was your codec?

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, 1TB SSD, 64GB RAM, 2-D500, Helios 2 w 2-960GB SSDs: 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

[James Ewart]

[Jim Wiseman] “ProRes comes in quickly. What was your codec?”

H264 was slow. Compressed QuickTime movie was slow.

I do a lot of web content. Mixed codecs. Never know what I’m going to get.

I know in FCPX the same stuff is going on in the background. I’ve just become impatient.