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Computer Basics

Before starting to edit on the Avid, let’s take a look at the two computer systems users will encounter: Apple computers with the Mac operating system and IBM computers running the Windows NT operating system. Not all the versions of Avid software run on the same hardware; Appendix 1 lists the recent history of Avid software and the matching hardware. The following information is designed to help Avid editors who are new to Mac or Windows; it is not a definitive run-down of every feature on each operating system! Editors shouldn’t need to be computer experts but some basic knowledge is very useful.

Apple Mac

Avid Media Composer (Mac) software versions 7, 8 and 10 and Xpress v2–v4 run on the Apple Macintosh computer. Media ...

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