Re: [Avid-L2] MXO2 LE

I spent some time at the Matrox booth to learn this. To get the
skinny. And I know the product manager.

Shane

Sent from my iPad mini

On Apr 17, 2010, at 7:57 AM, Dennis Kutchera
<dennis.kutchera@gmail.com> wrote:

> Avid would have to go out of their way to make MC5 not work with the
> other flavours of MXO2. From what I can determine, they all use the
> same driver and software. This makes it far less attractive because
> I have to continue to work in Final Cut Pro for some projects, but
> where I have the choice, I would opt for Avid.
>
> And this is not about the money. It's less than $500 to have a Mini
> in addition to an LE. You can always unhook the Mini and plug in the
> LE, but what a pain in the butt workaround; AND FOR WHAT?? TO BE
> CLEAR - I am not asking for input through the other MXO2 variants;
> we just want to be able to monitor output as will be possible with
> the Mini. I'm sorry, but if this is true that an MXO 2 LE will not
> work, this is just typical Avid MO; nothing has changed - Welcome to
> XpressPro II.
>
> Maybe I'll just stick with Final Cut Pro. There are no neutered
> flavours of FCP or Premiere for that matter.
>
> Dennis
>
> PS, It just came to me; I think I know their game - SDI output on
> the MXO2 LE would mean you could do finishing work without a MOJO
> BS, There is only HDMI on the Mini. THIS IS PATHETIC AVID. Once
> again, WELCOME TO AVID XPRESSPRO II. This will not sell one more
> Mojo BS or Nitris DX. It just means Matrox will sell two boxes
> because you can always export a QT from MC and lay it to tape from
> FCP. I have already done that and may just write the definitive
> tutorial on how to do this.
>
> And don't some Avid fanboy chime in with how much Avid boxes used to
> cost. That was then and this is now. Now, hardware is cheap. We have
> choices.
>
> On 17 Apr 2010, at 02:49, Shane Ross wrote:
>
> > The Mini is the only box that will work with Avid MC 5.0. Yeah, I'm
> > irked too.
> >
> > Shane
> >
> > Sent from my iPad mini
> >
> > On Apr 16, 2010, at 10:40 PM, Dennis Shelby <dennis@twohatcat.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Anybody have any insight into whether or not the MXO2 mini is
> the only
> > > flavor that will work with MC5? I have a good line on a MXO2 LE,
> and
> > > don't
> > > know about risking the money if there is a prohibitive
> > > incompatibility.
> > > (The really significant advantage for me is HD SDI.)
> > >
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