? for those of you that use FCP and Avid

[Shane Ross]

[carlos castro] “What didn’t dawn on me is that I would need to buy a Mojo right?”

NO it is additional OPTIONAL hardware, like a Kona or Matrox or Decklink card is for FCP.

[carlos castro] ”
I’m in the middle of picking an IO card or box for FCP and I was hoping that I didn’t need to get a Mojo just to run Media Composer.”

Avid works fine without a card, like FCP works fine without one.

Shane

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[Carlos Castro]

Thanks Shane.

I thought in order to use it, for example an SDI input to ingest materials I had to use the mojo so Avid would be able to import or export the materials. If I were to opt to use Media composer.

Thanks, I’m glad to hear that with a regular IO box this can be accomplished. It wouldn’t make sense for me right now to have to buy two different IO boxes or cards.

Looking forward to the flexibility of having two choices, both of these software’s have their strengths and weaknesses. I saw an old post were you mentioned a software called automatic duck, have you used it and do you recommend it for transferring a FCP to avid project and vice-versa?

[Michael Hancock]

[carlos castro] “I thought in order to use it, for example an SDI input to ingest materials I had to use the mojo so Avid would be able to import or export the materials. If I were to opt to use Media composer.”

If you want to capture anything besides over firewire into Media Composer you will need a Mojo, MojoSDI, Adrenaline, MojoDX, or NitrisDX. Avid only talks to Avid hardware, so you can’t hook a Kona up to your system and use it to capture into Avid.

However, like Shane said, Media Composer is now software only so you can definitely use it without hardware–you’ll just be limited to working with P2, XDCam, or any firewire captured media (like DV). Anything analogue and you’ll need to make a hardware purchase.

Also, if you decide to install both FCP and Avid, I highly suggest a dual boot. They typically have different OS and Quicktime requirements. Upgrade an Avid system too far, or not far enough for FCP, and you’ll have instability or possibly a completely broken system.

Michael

[Carlos Castro]

Thanks Michael.

“If you want to capture anything besides over firewire into Media Composer you will need a Mojo, MojoSDI, Adrenaline, MojoDX, or NitrisDX. Avid only talks to Avid hardware, so you can’t hook a Kona up to your system and use it to capture into Avid.”

I got that part.

“However, like Shane said, Media Composer is now software only so you can definitely use it without hardware–you’ll just be limited to working with P2, XDCam, or any firewire captured media (like DV). Anything analogue and you’ll need to make a hardware purchase.”

I would be using P2, I’m assuming that you cant make p2 uncompressed?
Every source I’ve ever used for transferring from a p2 card was connected by firewire. I don’t know for sure but I’ve been told that firewire compresses the original material.

Also, if you decide to install both FCP and Avid, I highly suggest a dual boot. They typically have different OS and Quicktime requirements. Upgrade an Avid system too far, or not far enough for FCP, and you’ll have instability or possibly a completely broken system.

You lost me at dual boot, I haven’t a clue what you are talking about. It sounds like I should forget about using it on the same CPU. LOL.

[Michael Hancock]

[carlos castro] “I would be using P2, I’m assuming that you cant make p2 uncompressed?
Every source I’ve ever used for transferring from a p2 card was connected by firewire. I don’t know for sure but I’ve been told that firewire compresses the original material.”

Firewire is a digital transfer, which is just 1s and 0s. It should be an exacty copy of your P2 media. Nothing will change if you’re coming in over firewire, whether you use FCP, Avid, Premiere, Edius, etc… It’s basically a file transfer, so you shouldn’t have any worries there.

[carlos castro] “You lost me at dual boot, I haven’t a clue what you are talking about. It sounds like I should forget about using it on the same CPU. LOL.”

Dual boot is just having two hard drives in your system (or partitioning one drive into two parts) with your operating system installed on both.

When you boot up you choose whether to boot into your OS which has FCP installed (which you can keep up-to-date with FCP’s quicktime and OS requirements) or the OS with Avid installed (typically requires earlier OS versions and quicktime).

Here’s an explanation of it. It’s not really hard to do, but it’s worth it to keep your editing software stable.

Example of Dual Boot/

Michael

[Carlos Castro]

OK Michael, now I’ve got it. Thank you for taking the time to explain it.

[Michael Hancock]

No problem Carlos. Have fun editing!

Michael