Bottom line, Avid MC7 does not work well with Firewire 800! I ran an FW400 to FW800 cable from my fApogee Ensemble which is connected to Mackie monitors and Avid began making a really bad motor boating sound when I routed the audio signal to the Apogee interface. It will work fine if you use the iMac's internal sound card, but if you are planning to use an external audio interface connected to studio monitors, then it will have problems when you connect an inteface via the Firewire 800 port on the back of the iMac. Well, I thought the exact same thing in buying a maxed out iMac to run Avid. Other winners created with Avid solutions include Zero Dark Thirty and Skyfall for Sound Editing, Les Misérables for Sound Mixing, Life of Pi for Original Score, and Skyfall.' 🙂 Just a side note: 'This year, all of the nominated films in the Best Editing category were cut by Avid customers, while one or more of Avid’s audio and video solutions were also used in the creation of all of this year’s Best Picture nominees.

You chose a great computer as well as NLE. Mike makes a great point as well, purchase your RAM through Crucial or OWC. Internal hard drive: Minimum 80 GB 7200 rpm hard disk.Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce family 3 (recommended) or ATI Radeon family (as supported by Apple).Memory: 4 GB of RAM (6+ GB recommended) 16+ GB of RAM recommended for Stereoscopic and other high performance workflows.Processor: Intel Dual or Intel Dual Core 2.66 GHz Xeon processor or faster, or Intel Core 2 Duo 2.33 GHz processor or faster (laptops).OS: Mac OS X Lion and Mountain Lion (64-bit) (Still need 32-bit? Learn more about Media Composer 5.5).Computer: Avid-qualified Mac-based computer 2.

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