[John Wong]

hi there. forgive me for asking this, but i intend to start learning Da Vinci Resolve and was wondering if this is the hardware you are using to monitor your grades: https://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/ultrastudiosdi/software/

would really appreciate it if you could help me out. i live in the philippines and will be ordering the unit from the states. i don’t want to spend on something i wont be able to use.

thanks in advance. good day.

[John Wong]

In my opinion, the Mojo allows you to output in FULL QUALITY resolution. if you would notice on the lower left area of your timeline, a button that controls resolution would be present. a full green colored symbol indicates FULL QUALITY, a divided GREEN and YELLOW symbol for BEST and a yellow symbol for PERFORMANCE. Therefore, I believe you still need the mojo for better output capabilities.

An After Effects plug-in may even allow you to use the Mojo to output to a TV while compositing.

[John Wong]

ive been using the AVID Adrenaline and Xpress Pro for almost a year now and i must say that i work alot faster in terms of cutting and splicing individual segments. i came from a seven-year straight use of premiere and mediastudio pro. i use the keyboard shortcuts quite often; i even taught my students to specialize using their left hand as a keyboard tool.

recently, i tried learning and editing my network plugs in an fcp system; honestly, it took me two hours to do a thirty minute task on an avid. the mouse is completely overused. i dont appreciate the fact that you have to drag the clips into the timeline without pushing it down to hard/quickly or else you’ll get the clips you initially laid down pushed to the right when you insert new edits. one thing i’ve noticed in an avid is the fact that you can completely cut, cue and place the clip into the timeline using only the keyboard. hey, i even tried editing an mtv WITH transitions (dissolves and dips) using only the keyboard.

admittedly, fcp’s color correction is a bit better than the avid. but with proper tweaking, it’ll come out just the same.

i love the avid and i like the fcp; but i’d rather take the bread than the butter. 🙂

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[John Wong]

so will it be a fair deal if i sell my ATI card and get a Geforce 5500 instead? also, will my xpress pro run faster with an opengl recognized nvidia card? thanks in advance.

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[John Wong]

me too. im using an adrenaline HD and i cant seem to paste to another track without actually moving my clip onto the track i wanna paste too. i think the guy who posted the technique should re-post again with further instructions on how to do it. im not saying its not possible and he’s wrong, it’s just that most of us who tried the procedure he indicated aren’t able to do just that. 🙂

john

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