Randy Ubillos… Premiere… FCP… and iMovie 08? v2

When I got into digital video, Radius was one of the big names (in the sub-$50,000 realm). They had their VideoVision Studio and Telecast. This was back in early Windows 3.1 days. When Macs has NuBus, ADB and special Mac Monitor jacks. We used LocalTalk to push files back and forth across AppleTalk networks.

It was then that Randy Ubillos was heavy involved in writing a little video program for Mac called Adobe Premiere. It was the called the Swiss Army knife of video and it really was. It handled most anything and did things that but $100,000 systems (cough- Avid) to shame. Premiere loved the Radius hardware and with them, I was able to push the fastest NuBus Mac to the limits in making my Wilderness Adventures.

Time passed, and Premiere 4 no longer had Randy’s name first. Rumor was he was working on a new video editor. Key Grip was supposedly shown in a back room at one NAB and quickly snapped up my Apple. Add heat, stir and serve as Final Cut Pro. That program has grown and grown, as well as picked up a lot of other smaller (and bigger) apps in its coat tails. But it turns out that Randy Ubilos has been busy coding something new…