UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

SCHEDULE 13G

(Name of Issuer)
	Avid Technology Inc.

(Title of Class of Securities)
Common Stock

(CUSIP Number)
	05367P100

Rule 13d-1(b)

(Date of Event Which Requires Filing of This Statement)
December 31, 2006


NAME OF REPORTING PERSON
Private Capital Management, L.P.

I.R.S. IDENTIFICATION NO.
59-3654603

MEMBER OF A GROUP?
(b) X

PLACE OF ORGANIZATION
Delaware

NUMBER OF SHARES BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH REPORTING PERSON WITH:
SOLE VOTING POWER 	97,400
SHARED VOTING POWER	 	4,793,550*
SOLE DISPOSITIVE POWER 	97,400
SHARED DISPOSITIVE POWER 	4,793,550

AGGREGATE AMOUNT BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH REPORTING PERSON
	4,890,950**

PERCENT OF CLASS REPRESENTED BY AGGREGATE AMOUNT BENEFICIALLY
OWNED
	11.9%


TYPE OF REPORTING PERSON
IA


ITEMS 1 - 10 OF GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS

Item 1.
(a)Name of Issuer: 	Avid Technology Inc.
(b)Address of Issuer: 	METROPOLITAN TECHNOLOGY PARK, ONE PARK WEST
			TEWKSBURY MA 01876

Item 2.
(a) Name of Person Filing:  Private Capital Management, L.P.
(b)Address of Person Filing: 8889 Pelican Bay Blvd., Naples, FL  34108
(c) Citizenship: Delaware
(d) Title of Class of Securities:  Common Stock

Item 3.
The reporting person is filing as an Investment Adviser registered
under section 203 of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.

Item 4.  Ownership
(a) Amount Beneficially Owned
	4,890,950**
(b) Percent of Class
	11.9%
(c) Number of shares as to which such person has:
   (i)   sole power to vote or to direct the vote
	97,400
   (ii)  shared power to vote or to direct the vote
	4,793,550*
   (iii) sole power to dispose or to direct the disposition of
	97,400
   (iv)  shared power to dispose or to direct the disposition of
	4,793,550

Item 5. Ownership of Five Percent or Less of Class:
N/A

Item 6. Ownership of More than Five Percent on Behalf of Another
Person:
N/A

Item 7. Identification and Classification of the Subsidiary Which
Acquired the Security Being Reported on By the Parent Holding
Company:
N/A

Item 8. Identification and Classification of Members of the Group:
N/A

Item 9. Notice of Dissolution of Group:
N/A

Item 10. Certification:
By signing below I certify that, to the best of my
knowledge and belief, the securities referred to above were
acquired in the ordinary course of business and were not acquired
for the purpose of and do not have the effect of changing or
influencing the control of the issuer of such securities and were
not acquired in connection with or as a participant in any
transaction having such purposes or effect.


* PCM exercises shared voting authority with respect to shares held
by those PCM clients that have delegated proxy voting authority to
PCM.  Such delegation may be granted or revoked at any time at the
client's discretion.

** PCM disclaims beneficial ownership of shares over which it has
dispositive power and disclaims the existence of a group.



Signature:

After reasonable inquiry and to the best of my knowledge and
belief, I certify that the information set forth in this statement
is true, complete and correct.

Date: January 5, 2007

Executed Pursuant to the Power of Attorney dated January 3, 2007
attached hereto as Exhibit 1.

/s/ David G. Joyce
    C.O.O.

EXHIBIT A

POWER OF ATTORNEY

The undersigned, being each of the executive officers and members
of the Management Committee of PRIVATE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, L.P.,
a limited partnership duly organized under the laws of the State
of Delaware (the "Company"), do hereby make, constitute and appoint
each of Chad D. Atkins and David G. Joyce acting severally, as the
Company's true and lawful attorney-in-fact, for the purpose of, from
time to time, executing in its name and on its behalf, whether the
Company is acting individually or as representative of others, any
and all documents, certificates, instruments, statements, other
filings and amendments to the foregoing (collectively, "documents")
determined by such person to be necessary or appropriate to comply
with ownership or control-person reporting requirements imposed by
any United States or non-United States governmental or regulatory
authority, including without limitation Forms 13D, 13F and 13G and
any amendments to any of the foregoing as may be required to be filed
with the Securities and Exchange Commission; delivering, furnishing
or filing any such documents with the appropriate governmental,
regulatory authority or other person; and giving and granting to each
such attorney-in-fact power and authority to act in such premises as
fully and to all intents and purposes as the Company might or could
do if personally present by one or more of its authorized signatories.
The Company further hereby ratifies and confirms all that said
attorney-in-fact shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Any such determination by an attorney-in-fact named herein shall be
conclusively evidenced by such person's execution, delivery, furnishing
or filing of the applicable document.

This power of attorney shall be valid from the date hereof and remain
in full force and effect until either revoked in writing by the
Company, or, in respect of any attorney-in-fact named herein, until
such person ceases to serve as an officer of the Company.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this power of attorney
to be executed as of this 3rd day of January, 2007.

PRIVATE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, L.P.

By: /s/ Bruce S. Sherman
Name: Bruce S. Sherman
Title: CEO

By: /s/ Gregg J. Powers
Name: Gregg J. Powers
Title: President