BACK WHEN EDITORS HAD TO WALK 5 MILES UPHILL IN THE SNOW JUST TO GET TO A SESSION... Cutting video was sort of a pain in the butt. Then, like a scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey, a mysterious obelisk-shaped bundle of software called AVID appeared. The evolution of non-linear editing had begun. Open the pod bay doors to our Avid Media Composer, Final Cut Pro, and Autodesk Smoke HD suites for an out of this world experience.