Re: Quick Poll. So what's your decision?

[TImothy Auld] "Montage! Yikes. Wasn't that the one that operated off a ton of u-matic decks rolling together?

bigpine"

That was the first Montage. And I believe it was VHS decks with tape loops. I saw one in action once. It was a beast.

The Montage I had was the Montage3, which was disk based NLE. It ran off of a PC with an Intel Action Media II card. It was a wild thing. Instead of the television's Source/Record model borrowed by most NLEs of the time, it used a rotating timeline model, where you basically treated the nine available timelines as both bins and timelines. It was funky, but in the day it was a revelation! That was back, of course, when all NLE's were offline. I think Sidney Lumet used to use it all the time, and I know that Star Trek: Next Generation used to use it. In fact, I was just having a conversation last week with the post super from that show--our kids go to the same school--and we were laughing about the weird bin-less wonder of the thing.