The main features were paint, compositing, image manipulation and special effects.
The software was discontinued on December 6, 2001, officially due to lack of resources to support it any further.
Media Illusion was targeted at the high-end SGI post production market, which was at the time dominated by Discreet Flame.
The product offers and augments many of the essential image compositing features of Media Illusion on Windows and Linux, but does not offer the video digitizing and playback support, and the OMFI media integration and editing which helped Media Illusion make its place in high end broadcast.
Media Illusion featured distributed rendering using multiple CPUs.