This feature focuses on two other guys, the ones I know the least.

Adobe’s Premiere

Premiere dates as far back in the early 1990s, as the GUI train was at this point accelerating with no stoppage. Premiere developed by SuperMac in 1991, and was acquired by Adobe (the Not Invented or Not Innovated Here is Adobe’s informal tagline.) Trigger warning, I am no fan of Adobe, I find them to be extremely complex, shoplifting the competition and not getting properly accounted in the legal sense (look at the whole brohaha of Photoshop vs. Quantel’s Paintbox in the 90s.) . It’s not to say I use some of their products, because there really isn’t that many other choices. I am not a Creative Cloud customer either.

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