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This popped up on Twitter today. The Avid 1 Media Composer from 23 years ago.
Pretty fascinating.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzy94vWUitE
Good luck to us all.
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Could that BE more boring? Lordy…they needed an editor to edit that.
Shane
Little Frog Post
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Talk to me, Goose.
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Note the “magnetic timeline” (3:24). 😉
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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Besides, there were no editors to edit it yet because they hadn’t actually released Media Composer.
Showing yet again that the egg always comes before the chicken. This video lays the egg. Chickens followed, eventually coming home to roost.
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And Oliver, re: the magnetic timeline, the happiest day of my Avid newbie editing life was when I figured out how to turn that damn thing off! LOL
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Totally trackless. Should Avid call “first!”?
I found it far from boring (although it’s the second time today I posted something that Shane said was boring. Maybe I should take the hint).
23 years ago, I’m sure that was magic.
I was too young to work legally.
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A couple of years ago Matt Feury (Avid) dug one of these up and showed it at the NAB Avid user party. It actually booted and launched faster than most modern software.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
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Sorry. I had to work with the Muppet bloopers, and while some were fun, findin ones that were good enough for a promo was challenging, to say the least.
And Tim, they edited this on another edit system no doubt, with people skillled in how to use it. But I think stale demos were a “thing” back then. We spice them up a bit lately. Well, some of us anyway.
Shane
Little Frog Post
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[Oliver Peters] ” It actually booted and launched faster than most modern software.”
Talking to more experienced software managers, I find this is always the case. They were extremely self sufficient and tight pieces of code instead of tacked on module after module. Also, had to run on a few bits of ram.
My mom’s 9600 baud modem was a screaming good time on AOL, though. 🙂
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I was kidding about computers and editing. Plenty of us are old enough to STILL have spent more of our careers editing NOT on computers than on computers. That’s me for sure.
It’s interesting to see how the values of these kinds of things change. Look at trailers for classic films. They’re 4 and 5 minutes long, and often had entire scenes. Nothing very edit-y about them…..
Tim Wilson
Associate Publisher, Editor-in-Chief
Creative COW Magazine
Twitter: timdoubleyou
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