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When I started at SuperMac at the beginning of 1990 it was to work on the firmware for their accelerated video cards. About a year later work began on the first digital video capture and a playback card for the Mac and I saw an opportunity.

Drawing on my experience in high school editing with 3/4” tape decks I started working on an application for assembling digital video clips together. Even though the movies were tiny by today’s standards, the potential for non-linear editing on computers was clear.

The subsequent 20 years were filled with continuous leaps in processing speed, storage capacities, and computer size. It’s hard to grasp the orders of magnitude in capabilities between a Macintosh IIfx with a 40Mhz processor, 128MB of RAM, and a 160MB hard drive and an iPhone X with 6 processors at 2.4GHz, 3GB of RAM, and 256GB of flash storage (and a stabilized 4k camera at 60Hz).

Dozens of feature films have been produced using “consumer” grade camcorders and phones. Millions of professional quality videos have been published and watched online via YouTube.

The transformation of video editing from tape and film to digital has been revolutionary. Not just in the technology that makes it possible, but in what it enables.

Today’s young storytellers are growing up in a world where the tools to take an idea from concept to reality now fit in their pockets. The breadth and variety of the stories that we get to experience have been forever changed.

I feel lucky to have been able to play a part.

Randy Ubillos, January 2018