Avid was available only for Macs for many years. The PC version is more recent. Paul On Sep 30, 2006, at 10:02 PM, Ivan Shukster wrote:
> My friend and co-worker finally convinced the powers to be that he > needed a > Mac to run AVID as that would be better than the Windows XP/ > Premiere Pro set > up he had. > > After the hassle of getting permission and then the first person > refused to > buy it so he needed another department head to pay for it on > Thursday he got > AVID and the Mac. And AVID will not work on the mac. Apparently it > will be > another month until the bugs are worked out and it will work on the > mac. In > the meantime he installed it on the XP computer. I laughed and > laughed cause > he is always telling me how easy Macs are to install software and > hardware > and now the reason for buying it does not work. Of course once I > realized > that it just means it is that much longer that I have to wait to > get the XP > and have to keep using the computer I am using I stopped laughing. > Using a > 2000 machine with about a 1/2 bit harddrive or so it seems cause > there is > nothing on the computer and no place to put any files but at least > I am > seldom in the office using it. > > I sent him the link to the free Avid program as maybe that will > work in the > meantime and also downloaded it at home. Thanks for the link as > will give it > a spin here at home as probably be using it at work sometimes as well. > > Am not a Mac user for three reasons a)they were way too expensive > when we > got our first computer and b) several programs I need to use Idrisi > and > ArcGIS are Windows only and c) whenever I do use a Mac I can never > figure > out how to turn them off. I will defend Windows over Macs to > people that I > know and also know it will bug them. That includes my friend and > only cause > he is always bragging them up. Plus it is my understanding that > buying > Windows will keep the Gates family from living a life of poverty. > In other > words I use a Windows machine as it is just a computer and so what :) > > The college here teaches Final Cut to the Visual Comunications > Program , the > cable company used to use Premiere when my friend worked there and > the local > production house uses Premiere. Think the local TV station uses > whatever > program can give them the most ugly transitions to cover up the > lack of > writing on local commericals :) > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
