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1 Head to Avid.com and click sign in
![Head to Avid .com](https://colum.teamdynamix.com/TDPortal/Images/Viewer?fileName=da4170d6-662d-489e-a319-90e85ee2d074.png)
2 Create an avid account with your colum.edu email
![Create an avid account with your colum.edu email](https://colum.teamdynamix.com/TDPortal/Images/Viewer?fileName=1869d0a1-e4c4-4460-ba65-3ddafcf5ea47.png)
You will end up on the products page after you create the account. Don't get to excited there aren't any products yet. Now you need to go get a free trial of Protools so you can download the software
![](https://colum.teamdynamix.com/TDPortal/Images/Viewer?fileName=c482f93f-f946-4228-9cfe-addc18ab673f.png)
3. Got to Protools Page https://www.avid.com/pro-tools and Click Free Trial for ProTools
![Pro tools free trial](https://colum.teamdynamix.com/TDPortal/Images/Viewer?fileName=9016c1a2-5e63-4948-bdad-05a9062e992a.png)
4 Avid makes you make an iLok account if you don't already have one. THis account will license the software for the trial after that you can use the iLok Key server see ???
![Create iLok Account](https://colum.teamdynamix.com/TDPortal/Images/Viewer?fileName=9e14084e-4231-4406-b906-b0be620ef490.png)
5. Answer the iLok account questions
![Answer the ilok account questions](https://colum.teamdynamix.com/TDPortal/Images/Viewer?fileName=de977e2e-59ec-46e0-94d0-f818e6dd1f95.png)
6 Confirm your email address
7 You should now have an email with a download link to the protools installer. You can also now see the installer in My Products on you avid account page https://my.avid.com/account
![](https://colum.teamdynamix.com/TDPortal/Images/Viewer?fileName=c8bcf844-7c52-49ab-9b67-77fac8eea2f5.png)