Our Avid Media Composer 4 System 1 for MAC, consists of a MacBook Pro, 2.8GHz, Sonnet Fusion F2 - 1TB Portable SATA RAID storage system, a FireWire 800 - 400 adaptor and a copy of Avid's new Media Composer 4 software.

Apple 17-inch MacBook Pro
The Avid qualified 17-inch MacBook Pro, has a faster 500Gb Serial ATA drive running at 7,200 rpm, 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 4GB of 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM memory, a 17-inch Hi-resolution glossy widescreen display and backlit keyboard (British).

The new 17-inch MacBook Pro, is carved from a single block of aluminium and is slim, light, and durable enough to take anywhere. It's high-performance NVIDIA graphics combine with a vivid LED-backlit display to give you a stunning viewing experience. The MacBook Pro features an advanced built-in battery that lasts up to 8 hours on a single charge, is highly recyclable and energy efficient and designed with the environment in mind.

Full details of the MacBook Pro can be found here

Fusion F2 - Portable Storage Solution
The Sonnet Fusion™ F2 portable SATA RAID storage system, provides 1TB of storage in a small enclosure. The Fusion F2 uses eSATA connections to deliver the fastest performance yet from a 2-drive portable storage system, with data transfer rates up to twice as fast as FireWire®.

It is Field Video Certified: With its SATA data interface, the Fusion F2 is the perfect storage companion for a portable video capture system that may saturate a notebook’s FireWire bus.

Full details of the Sonnet Fusion™ F2 portable SATA RAID storage system can be found here

Sonnet FireWire 800 - 400 adaptor
Sonnet's FireWire 800-to-400 adapter makes it easy to connect your FireWire 400 (1394a) peripherals to the MacBook Pro, or any other computer with FireWire 800 (1394b) ports, without the trouble of purchasing yet another cable.

Full details of the Sonnet FireWire 800 - 400 adaptor can be found here

Avid Media Composer 4
Avid's new Media Composer 4, goes where other editors leave off, giving you the strongest editorial tools, the most dependable media management, and innovative features that let you do the unimaginable, so you can deliver projects on time and on budget. Whether you’re a producer, director, or editor, in the studio or on the road, Media Composer lets you edit the way you want, wherever you want. And now that it’s more affordable than ever, Media Composer is also the best value around.

Media Composer 4 consists of:

* Media Composer - Edit SD and HD video
* EDL Manager - Export timecode metadata
* FilmScribe - Export film metadata
* Interplay Transfer (standalone version) - Transfer media and metadata to Interplay
* Log Exchange - Convert shot logs into ALE files
* MediaLog - Manage logging and metadata
* MetaSync Manager - Create objects for interactive programming

Also included is Avid's Production Suite, which comprises of:

* Avid DVD by Sonic
* Avid FX
* Boris Continuum Complete
* SmartSound Sonicfire Pro
* Sorenson Squeeze