I know this question has been asked in various ways but I can't find my specific scenario...

I'm on an Avid Xpress Pro (5.8.3) with a Mojo SDI.  I am getting errors every time I try to make a digital cut of my 90 minute sequence.  Somewhere along the way it invariably stops and gives me some sort of video error (sorry I don't have it in front of me now to write exactly the error I'm getting.)

The material is digitized at DV25.  I'm going out to my Sony HVR-1500 deck to a DVCam tape and I'm bringing both the audio and video out over SDI.

My question is - would a black burst generator help with this problem?  I currently do not have one but am happy to buy one if it would help.  If so - any recs on brand to buy?  And do I just feed one output from the generator into my deck ref in and connect another to the Mojo's black "REF world clock" cable?

Thanks!

You are correct.  Either a black burst generator connected to both the Avid and the deck or using Firewire to feed the deck (if possible) will address your problem.  If you do connect a black generator, make sure the Video Output Tool in the Avid is set to External Reference.