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Click Agree on all the prompts and

Click Continue here

Leave the Enterprise Scripts unchecked

You will click through the rest of the prompts till you are required to put an admin password in

enter your admin password to begin installation.

Open AVID Link - It's in the menu bar in the upper right side of the

mac top menu bar

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First you need to make a free ILok Accounthttps://ilok.com/#!home
Choose to Create a Free Account

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Fill in all the account information needed to create your ILok account

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Go to your email and there will be an email from ILok to finish setting up your account

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In the email click on the link and it'll send you to a web page to sign into your new account you just made

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Click Continue here

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Sign In To Your Accounnt

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Go to this web address to access avid.com free trial


https://my.avid.com/get/pro-tools-ultimate-trial


Most of you don't have an avid.com account


So Create a New Account or if you have an account sign in


You can read the minimum system requirements but you can get by with 8 gigs of RAM and an i5 processor for coursework

Just an FYI!!

Put the info required to create an account

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Email me my download link

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Check your email

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The email from AVID will have you opt in for emails

Please click "Yes" below to confirm your email opt-in, and then stick around to set up your email preferences. You must confirm your email address to continue future communications.

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put your ILOK ID that you made in the earlier steps in the lower box circled here

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Put in your Ilok ID password and choose Authorize

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Answer the questions here and choose 

"Email my download links"

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Confirmation that your trial was approved


Check your email

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You will also get a separate email that will have the download links to download the Windows or Mac Versions of the software


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Choose the one you want to download for your particular Operating System

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Double click on the downloaded .dmg for mac

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Double click on the .zip file for windows
Mac choose the Install Media Composer

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Next is how to activate AVID

These are options that you can choose

Just hit Yes and OK or No and Cancel it's up to you

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You need to sign in

Click on the Profile Icon

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Put in your AVID master account info that you entered in earlier in this wiki when you signed up for your AVID account.

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Go to >Products>Media Composer

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Choose Open

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Choose you want to run in Trial Mode

Thats it Media Composer will open.

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Install the software