Avid Could Have a Home Run

[Alex Alexzander]

I think that MC 2.5 with Mojo SDI might be a hit. $7,500 for that, about. And an SDI based Mojo for Xpress Pro. I have a Mojo now and I would love to have HD monitor out, and capture to DNxHD. It sounds like it all is happening. I think the lower end, just got a nice healthy boost.

-Alex

[Oakmozart]

One thing to consider, however: Mojo SDI offers nothing but professional i/o’s. Mojo (standard) offers consumer-grade i/o’s (including analog connector’s). Users must choose between one or the other. That leaves users who require both the connector’s on Mojo as well as Mojo SDI out in the cold. We must purchase both. NOT COOL. I was hoping that Mojo SDI would feature all the connectors of Mojo, only with an SDI and AES/EBU audio i/o’s as well.

Bummed on that. Also, still no proper HD support with Mojo either, Mojo SDI included. There was supposed to be a Mojo HDV announced, but it appears as though it’s either been delayed or cancelled. I’m a bit dismayed there, too.

I’m torn on the Media Composer software-only product, too. On one hand, Media Composer can now be had for a measly 5 grand. On the other hand, XPro 6 has now been greatly limited by this new “competitor.”

Regardless, Avid has made some nice strides forward, especially for the lower-end products. There is great promise here, and I hope Avid will have even better news for us next year!

Oh, and the new updates to Studio Toolkit and DS Nitris 8 are good news too. Still no PT LE 7 in Xpress Studio, but I would assume that’s only a temporary thing. If it’s not, I am going to be extremely frustrated with Avid!

XPro 5.5 is promising. Finally Mac users have HD!

[Jandings]

Guys, I was reading that Xpress now supports HD monitoring via internal graphics card/DVI. Isn’t that the long-awaited HD monitoring capability? I mean thats much better that a Mojo supporting HD (via HD-SDI or component) because we could use a “low-cost” 1920×1200 hires LCD. Maybe by using two graphic cards with THREE DVI outputs total, two for desktop, one for monitoring???

Am I wrong??

[Alex Alexzander]

Interesting. My Dual XEON does have two PCIe slots in it. I wonder how viable that would be.

-Alex

[Alex Alexzander]

Oak,

I agree on all the issues. It looks as if we got much of what we asked for, but not as an update for existing Xpress Pro users. Instead as a paid upgrade to MC 2.5. Which I can do if the value is there. I already own an existing Mojo, and I could buy another for SDI, but for $2,500 it should come with both. New customers will likely not care too much I think. They will likely use either BetaSP or some consumer grade something, or DigiBeta. I guess and either or won’t be too bad for most. I don’t so much care if I have to buy a new Mojo and just own two of them.

Call me a nut, but I even go for the new MC with Mojo SDI as a second cutting station depending on the formats, since XPRO could likely edit whatever Mojo SDI ingests.

I think both you, and I, and Jeron on the Avid forum have been hot for ProTools integration. I don’t hear anything about that.

Videoguys had a sale on the toolkit last week for just $499, and it shocked me so much I knew a new version would be out. I’d like to review the Blu-Ray and 16:9 formats they say Avid DVD handles. No mention as to which Sonic product Avid DVD is now based on since DVDit 6 in its current form doesn’t handle 16:9 for menus, or support Blu-Ray.

No mention of ProTools integration, which is a huge issue with me. It’s like the most important thing for me at this time.

Did anyone say if MC2.5 with Mojo SDI was 8 bit or 10 bit for SD?

Are there any details on AXP 5.5 at this time?

Thanks,

Alex

[Alex Alexzander]

Actually Oak, take a look at the press release for Mojo SDI. It says it does all the same analog as the existing Mojo. Likely an adapter of some kind.

https://www.avid.com/company/releases/2006/060423_xpresspro_avid.html

-Alex

[Oakmozart]

Sweet…thanks for the clarification, Alex!