Re: This popped up on Twitter today. The Avid 1 Media Composer from 23 years ago.

Am I the only one that remembers the first thing we did when we started a project? Insert 30 minutes of black! You had to put a frame of something on the timeline, then insert a buttload of slug. THEN, and only then was the thing useable.

My first baby was the video cube in 1993. We were taking it to a satellite feed once a week and nobody ever questioned the quality. 12:1 Wavelet compression! Looked about like AVR75/77 though. No rendering required either. When I started using Media 100 and then the Avid 3 years later, I thought I was in the stone age by comparison.