Avid Media Composer on Macbook Air M2

I am on a limited budget and plan to buy a Macbook Air M2 with 16 GB unified RAM and 512 GB hard disk space. Is it enough to run Avid Media Composer for video editing? I am a student so mostly for practice and occasional freelance projects.

Posted on Jan 11, 2024 3:55 AM

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WheelieNick

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Jan 11, 2024 3:57 AM in response to patrick2410

depends on what kind of video editing you want to do. The MacBook Air does not feature active cooling, so when rendering long, professional 4K projects it can take a while longer, because the performance of the MacBook Air when performing long, heavy tasks will go down a bit to prevent it from overheating

But most of the times with not very huge projects the MacBook Air will do just fine.Just remember that the lack of active cooling (a fan) can be an issue with heavier workloads. But I have to say: I have a MacBook Pro and I never heard the fans kicking in. So the passive cooling must be rather good.

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