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$1500 for RCA connections? Say it aint so…..
So Ive set up my Express Pro at home to work on a movie that Im editing at the office on an Adrenaline system….for the most part the Express seems ok, of course ignoring the already beaten to death subject of interface differences from Media Composer……I wont go there…..but what is really bothering me now is that in order to see my cuts on an NTSC monitor, they want me to spend $1500 on the Mojo…..which has RCA??!!! connections….are you kidding me…..I can buy an HD card for less money for FCP….what is Avid thinking? I am having a really hard time justifying paying that much for a plastic, unprofessional converter box just because it has the Avid name on it, is this not price gouging compared to the rest of the market? Am I alone here? Anyone feel like they are getting taken advantage of yet?
Paul
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You could always hook your NTSC monitor to your deck (DSR-11/20/25/40/45…any DV deck will do, really) and enable digital video out. This will put all your effects in a must-render state, then output through the firewire to your deck which will transcode and display on your NTSC. I usually set my desktop play delay to 4 frames to keep the sound in sync. By the way, any number of dv transcoders will do this for you as well.
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With XPro 5.2, you can get real-time effects out over firewire, which means that if you don’t have Mojo, you can hook up to a deck or camera and still see your FX in RT.
Mojo is in many ways a joke. In others, it rocks. Avid is well-aware of the users requesting something more powerful than Mojo that would fit between Mojo and Adrenaline. You’ll pay out the nose for it, though, if it ever comes to fruition.
One thing Mojo does that so many people forget about is act as a hardware accelerator. Not only is it an i/o device (with crappy connectors), but also a dedicated piece of video processing hardware to take the RT capabilities of your host computer and multiply it by something like 3. The problem with that is that Avid didn’t design it to support HD, so it’s worthless if you’re using HD material. It’s also 8-bit hardware.
For SD, it’s great. For HD, it’s worthless.
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