How did you do video editing in the 1990's?
With an $80k Panasonic WJ-MX1200 NLE video editing box, that's how. Dave takes a look inside.
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28 thoughts on “Eevblog #969 – vintage $80k nle video editor teardown”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Light Science says:

    Crap, I forgot about firewire!
    And now, Dave edits his next video on this

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Dirk Simons says:

    We had one at school. Coming from video tape editing to this marvel was a big step forwards. It almost never crashed and the speed of working with it was great. Price back then (around 2000) was around €25000

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars kruppin says:

    You should dump all roms and the hard drive for this, if you still have it

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars いろいろ says:

    Typical 90's Japanese futuristic design language lol

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Jada says:

    Send it to mr Carlson's lab, he would probably fix it👍

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars S Bayko says:

    Its not pentium5 its socket 5 pentium 1 166mhz cpu

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars M C says:

    I worked in high-end post through to the end of the 90s, and Panasonic had a pretty small presence. We would have been very keen to play with this around 95, but had some fantastic tools from Sony, Quantel, Ampex and a range of really high end gear.

    That control panel looks really cheesy prosumer. If you get the chance, dig into the really high end worksurfaces.

    Absolutely have to agree the mechanical serviceability of these units was usually near perfect…
    If you ever get the chance look for an Ampex technical manual of the early 90s

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars BNL says:

    Id love to use one of those controllers on my pc

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Alex Schmitt says:

    Vintage electronic is priceless, don't trash it!

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars ZTech says:

    All replaced by single general purpose CPU 🙂 (ignoring the GPUs and integrated hardware acceleration parts inside cpus and gpus that do certain encode decode etc in hardware)

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Adam McG says:

    Do people really think you find this junk?

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars samysaar says:

    First time i went: Noooooooooo! Turn that f*cker on, before taking it apart 😀

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Jon'sWoodCraftUK says:

    Interesting, but why not try it out before stripping it down, now that would have been really interesting….

  14. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars UFOandAlienChannel says:

    Good video, but geez your voice is annoying as hell and I’m an Aussie also, your over excitement comes across as fake and annoying, just speak normally will you.

  15. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars stereomike111 says:

    I don't think anyone thought the vibra 16 was the duck's guts

  16. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars frother says:

    WHAT A BOBBY DEZZLER

  17. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars joecrx1 says:

    You make a tare
    down like a r coerce meal luv it onto my steak great stuff

  18. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Michael Berthelsen says:

    Ewww… Prager U ad…🤢🤢🤢

  19. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Yuriy Malinin says:

    HDD interesting

  20. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Dustin Smous says:

    I actually used one of these during my 10th grade video production class. In the mid 1990s, if you didn't have a massive budget, the system was absolutely amazing.

  21. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars dan b says:

    the analogue thingy in the top corner is very likely a YUV/NTSC/Y/C encoder and decoder matrix……….

  22. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars dan b says:

    likely motion jpeg 2000

  23. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars dan b says:

    Windows NT3.51 pre windows NT4.0

  24. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars dan b says:

    There were lots of other standalone NLE systems out there during this time frame… Editdroid, Lightworks, Avid, Quantel Henry, Hal, paintbox, and Editbox, media 100, Amiga video toaster, DPS, Softimage, and many others!

  25. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Robbie Strike says:

    my school had a Fast Av master running on windows 3.1

  26. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars changedNikiWin says:

    challenge: make 1 month just videos with this thing XD

  27. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars urugulu says:

    at the moment you show the genuine bug you can See a loose SMD resistor… dont know if this can cause a Boot failing but yeah it might be an idea

  28. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars WaterWhite Tuber says:

    my guess is that you may want a network card in the expansion slot to be used for network storage of videos.
    or possibly a scsi expansion card.

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