Avid Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Avid Studio takes iPad video editing to the next level (Updated)

by Mel Martin (Feb 2nd, 2012)

Updated to clarify that Avid Media Composer is cross-platform. Avid Studio on the desktop is a Windows-only product. Take that, Apple! Avid has just released an iPad iMovie competitor called Avid Studio. The US$4.99 app is a scaled-down version of Avid's pro video editing tools. Avid Studio ...

Pro Tools beta adds Lion support

by Michael Grothaus (Aug 18th, 2011)

Pro Tools is the industry-standard audio creation and production software used in the music and entertainment industries. Traditionally, Pro Tools takes its sweet time to be updated to work on newer OSs, but today Avid has released a Pro Tools 9.0.5 beta, which adds support for OS X 10.7 Lion. ...

Avid offers $995 crossgrade to Media Composer for Final Cut users

by Chris White (Apr 12th, 2011)

Are you a Final Cut Studio user? Have you looked at Avid Media Composer and wished you could afford it? Regardless of whether you feel Media Composer is better or worse than Final Cut Pro, it's still a popular editing platform that brings not only prestige but also the potential to pick up more ...

Avid2FCP: making the switch to Apple's Final Cut Pro

by Brian Liloia (Mar 15th, 2007)

Avid has been the standard, and long-established, non-linear editing software of choice in the film industry until Apple's Final Cut Pro began to challenge its dominance, and now many Avid editors are making "the switch" to FCP as it has picked up the pace. With that, the "Avid versus Final Cut Pro" ...

Macs join the fight in '300'

by Michael Rose (Mar 13th, 2007)

With a shocking and awesome $70+ million in weekend box office, the film adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novel 300 has shot (and hacked, and stabbed) its way to the 3rd best R-rated opening and the all-time best March opening in US film history. Way to go, Spartans. As noted on ballergoods.com ...

Video editing: Mac or PC?

by David Chartier (Jun 12th, 2006)

Our pals over at DV Guru (a sister blog) have posed one of the endearing questions in the video editing industry to their readers, which I thought might be fitting for TUAW as well: video editing - Mac or PC? For the longest time, video editing on a PC with Avid software has been the reigning king, ...

Digidesign Releases ProTools HD Update for Tiger

by C.K. Sample, III (May 27th, 2005)

Digidesign has released Pro Tools TDM 6.9.2 update, which brings Tiger support to the Pro Tools 6.9 feature set. Unfortunately, this update is "for Pro Tools|HD systems only. Future Pro Tools software releases will support Pro Tools LE systems and Pro Tools M-Powered systems on Mac OS X ...

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