Media 100 Opens 844/X Facility in London

Media 100 will open a facility for its 844/X NLE platform in the Soho, the home of London's broadcast and production community. According to Media 100, it has built a strong user base in Soho, with over 100 editing installations in the district. The new office will feature the company's speedy 844/X real-time vertica

Author:: TVTechnology
Updated:: Feb 23, 2018
Original:: Aug 6, 2003

Media 100 will open a facility for its 844/X NLE platform in the Soho, the home of London's broadcast and production community.

According to Media 100, it has built a strong user base in Soho, with over 100 editing installations in the district. The new office will feature the company's speedy 844/X real-time vertical editing system. In addition, the Soho facility will provide a free, one-day 844/X certified training program to its employees. Media 100 plans to open similarly equipped facilities in the Burbank/Hollywood area of Los Angeles, New York City, and Paris.

Media 100's Soho location will be open by the end of the month to showcase its 844/X editing system for the local production community.

Media 100’s 844/X promo image

Today’s editors need to quickly turn around high-quality video content that consists of highly complex and compute-intensive imagery. The challenge then is to maintain high levels of creativity, while minimizing render downtimes and breaks in the creative flow. Media 100’s 844/X content design system enables a new way of processing layer-intensive designs.

Media 100’s 844/X promo image

Media 100’s 844/X content design system enables a new way of processing layer-intensive designs.

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