What is Media100 CineStream 3.1?

CineStream was originally called EditDV from Digital Origin before Media 100 acquired it.  It would capture video through the FireWire port from a DV source.  The last version was 3.1.  That version was also available for Windows.  The slowest known Mac to be able to run CineStream was in the category of a Power Macintosh 5500 with a FireWire Orange Micro card installed.  EditDV and CineStream were OS 9 functional but not OS X.  Other complimentary programs were also availible Roto DV and Photo DV was among them.  All in all it was a pretty good video editing program for being one of the first more professional types.  MacJedi :)

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Addicted to digital video but feeling artistically repressed by iMovie? Media 100’s CineStream 3 is a big leap over Apple’s DV editor and offers a laundry list of high-end features at half the cost of Apple’s Final Cut Pro ($999, www.apple.com). Though this version does have its weak spots, it's certainly a far cry from the program’s humble beginnings.

CineStream started life as EditDV from Digital Origin. In those days Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere surpassed it. Now under Media 100’s watchful eye, the newly named CineStream does a great job of playing catch-up, transforming itself from a once barely functional product into a serious video editor.

CineStream features many major improvements over EditDV. For one, it can handle more than 2GB of data at a time (a limit set by the Mac OS), making it possible to capture data from an entire DVtape in one pass. You can also automatically capture discrete shots as clips in the bin, using built-in scene detection if you prefer to capture data scene by scene. Other improvements include the new history palette, which makes it easy to jump back and forth between different editing stages, and an astounding 1,000 levels of undo.

The new composition features are a great addition. In a nutshell, a composition is just an edited sequence — slap three clips together and you have a composition. The new features give you the ability to use an existing composition within another. For example, you can edit complex sequences one at a time, save them as compositions, and then assemble them all to create a final project, making it easy to work with alternate sequences for, say, three different endings to a movie.

The Event Stream technology is the most Interesting new feature. It allows you to create clickable hot spots within a video sequence or clip by simply dragging and dropping filters. A hot spot can linktoa URL or another movie, and you can size It so it covers only part of the screen. Most important, you can set up hot spots as keyframes to track a moving object.

CineStream also includes the fundamentals, such as batch capture, time-code capture, three-point editing, unlimited video layers, alpha channels, rubber-band audio-level settings, 100 layers of audio, audio panning, sllp-and-slide editing, and the ability to export your movies as QuickTime, Windows Media, or RealMedia or output them directly to tape. In our testing, CineStream was extremely stable, and its features worked as advertised.

There are a few drawbacks. CineStream doesn’t support analog-video capture, and offers barely any audio filters for sound sweetening. Rollover-tool help — a standard feature in most applications that displays the tool name — would have been very helpful, but is conspicuously absent.

If you need more DV-editing power than iMovie offers, you don’t want to spend a fortune, and you don’t need analog-capture or compositing features, CineStream is a rock-solid DV editor at a very reasonable price.

Sanchez, Rick. (August 2001). CineStream 3. MacAddict. (pg. 54).

Download Media100 CineStream 3.1 for Mac

Architecture

IBM PowerPC

System Requirements

From Mac OS 8.6 up to Mac OS 9.2

Compatibility notes

PPC systems from about a 5500 to G4, Maybe even G5(untested)  A version for Windows was also created.

Emulating this? It could probably run under: SheepShaver