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The system has been used by other top editors such as Walter Murch on The English Patient, the first digitally edited film to receive a Best Editing Oscar. Steven Cohen was the first editor to use Film Composer for a major motion picture, on Lost in Yonkers (1993).

Film Composer was the first non-linear digital editing system to capture and edit natively at 24fps.

August 1992: The Avid Film Composer was introduced.

The Avid engineering team, however, managed to get 1,200 kBytes per second, which allowed them to do offline video on the Macs. I'm being paid by Apple to come here and port your applications from Apollo to Macintosh.' He worked for us for several weeks, and actually taught us how to program the Macs.' At the time, Macs were not considered to be fast enough for video purposes. That afternoon, a consultant knocked on our door saying, 'Hi. Each computer was loaded with full memory (probably 4 megs at the time), and a full complement of Apple software (pre-Claris). Also there were four large multisync monitors. They were from Apple, and they contained two of their prototype Mac II machines (so early they didn't even have cases, just open chassis).

When we got back to our office (actually a converted machine shop) after the show, there was a pile of FedEx packages on our doorstep.

Wrong platform!' It turned out they were evangelists for the then new Mac II (with *six* slots!). Says Peters: 'Some Apple people saw that demo at the show and said, 'Nice demo. At some point, Avid demoed one of their products at SIGGRAPH. Since the 1990s, Media Composer has been the dominant non-linear editing system in the film and television industry.Īccording to Eric Peters, one of the company's founders, most prototypes of 'the Avid' were built on Apollo workstations.

Initially released in 1989 as an offline editing system on the Macintosh II, the application has since evolved to allow offline and online editing workflows, including up to 16K editing and finishing.

Windows 10 64-bit 20H2, 21H1 or later (Professional and Enterprise)Īvid Media Composer is a video editing application or non-linear editing system (NLE) developed by Avid Technology.

Windows 11 64-bit 21H2, 22H2 or later (Professional and Enterprise).

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