The Moving Picture: the APPLE house rules Posted Jul 1, 2003
Well more than a decade ago, Adobe premiered a new application
for editing those then-silly little Apple QuickTime movies. For
video professionals, it was easy to dismiss the first versions
of Premiere as a desktop novelty with little serious practical
application. After all, like printing Snoopy from a dot-matrix
printer, editing postage stamp-sized movies was a cool display
of technology, but hardly true art. Nonetheless, Apple's AV Mac
configurations, with composite and S-Video I/O built-in,
provided the platform for early enthusiasts to try their hand at
editing personal videos.  But soon, leveraging Apple's robust
and open QuickTime architecture, hardware makers like Radius
(VideoVision) and SuperMac (Digital Film) offered expansion
cards and placed Premiere at the core of a very affordable
desktop video-editing studio, given contemporary expectations.
With SCSI RAID arrayed hard drives pumping and praying, Premiere
edited full-motion, 30 fram