I've been hearing differernt things about the mojo in regards to displaying HD material on a SD client monitor.

Does the Mojo downconver the material or does the Avid? Is it an automatic downconvert or would I have to manually downconvert it in order to view it on the client monitor.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! P.S. is the Mojo DX really going to sell for 10K?

PlayaDelRey:

P.S. is the Mojo DX really going to sell for 10K? 

The Mojo DX is at $7500 by itself, 10k for it and Media Composer together. It's still more expensive then it should be, they really should rename it Adrenaline DX and add a few more ports to it; and come up with something else for Mojo DX.

 $7500 is still way to much especially with their "new thinking" campaign. Anyway thanks for the info. Do you know anything about my original question?

 Sorry, no... I don't have a Mojo SDI. So I don't really know all that much about it.

PlayaDelRey:

Does the Mojo downconver the material or does the Avid? Is it an automatic downconvert or would I have to manually downconvert it in order to view it on the client monitor.

Both the original Mojo and the Mojo SDI behave the same way (regarding HD material):

It will automatically downconvert some HD formats - provided you switch the project's "Format Tab" to the standard SD video rate.

The details are:

• 1080i/59.94 can convert to NTSC 30i (720 and all flavors of 24 are not supported, and I think PAL has problems)
• You only get a single field on your video display through the Mojo.
• You have to remember to switch your project Format Tab back to 1080i when you are finished viewing your stuff on the display or all of your titles, effects, imports and digitizing will be at 30i from that point on.

Its not really very useful - it basically sucks for any kind of HD work. You are far better off looking into a Decklink card or an MXO box and using Avid's "Fullscreen" option - which allows for both SD and HD realtime screening without having to switch your Format. Fullscreen is limited by your computer's processing and graphics card - so your milage may vary using Fullscreen.