Media 100 Suite v1 Released

[Colin Grimshaw]

I agree totally with the comments by Michael Slowe. I get the same comments but including the mention (of course) of Avid! I have always found FCP full of menus and sub menus which confuse me at times (and many others too). M100 has always been very easy and powerful to use and few seem to know it’s out there – that’s a shame.

Colin Grimshaw
Imperial College London

[Andrew Golden]

I’d also like to add a congratulations to the Media 100 team for a wonderful job keeping my favorite editing system going. The first system I learned editing on was a Media 100 3.5 system in high school. I’ve been using Media 100 for the last 12 years as much as I can since I haven’t found a more streamlined editing atmosphere. Bought my first lowest end Media 100 system while in college in 2002. Now with the multicam features, I can stop using FCP for my projects that call for it and continue to use my favorite interface.

If you are a Media 100 user, you all know how intuitive the editing interface is and how it makes you look at things different than most editing systems. I wish they would get the word out there about this product more since so many people should be using it. If people actually spent some time thinking in the Media 100 style, they’ll realize what they’ve been missing.

Andrew

Andrew S. Golden
President
Illusion Media LLC

[Andrew Mehta]

I think getting it back into the Universities would help raise awareness.
[Uni of Westmin switched over to FCP one year before I left – I was the last year to learn/use Media100, subsequent years learnt/used FCP instead – I should point out I was a journalism student, not video].

Only trouble is, since Avid and FCP are more widely used, students arguably need to know them moreso. That said, Media100 is a professional piece of kit.