I was inspired by the first comment to the blog last week when I thought about the Amiga Video Toaster.
I've been editing for a long time now and have come across some interesting edit systems.
I began cutting film on a Steenbeck flatbed editor. When cutting 16mm film negative I used the nightmarish gang sync, a guillotine splicer, and viewed the footage through a Moviscop which looked like a miniature Mac SE.
Some of my first video projects were shot on 3/4" machines and transferred to VHS. Then I'd use two decks and an edit controller to piece the videos together.
Pinnacle had a piece of software that could edit videos at a 320x240 resolution and I was hooked on non-linear editing.
In Los Angeles, I worked with Avids, Media 100's and a couple of Lightwaves. I did a lot of work on Adobe Premiere as well.
And then came FInal Cut Pro. I jumped on that about a year after it was released because I talked to so many people who needed a Final Cut Pro editor and I really began liking it.
What kinds of systems have you worked with?
