High-performance digital I/O and monitoring

You're always balancing quality, cost, and the next deadline. Pair Mojo DX with the power of Media Composer, Symphony, or NewsCutter, and you gain a high-performance digital video solution that gives you a head start on all three.

Thanks to Avid Intelligent Architecture, your Avid video software tightly integrates the Avid hardware with your host computer's CPU and GPU, delivering a single high-bandwidth effects engine that delivers without compromise—no matter what formats and codecs you use. Whether you’re capturing tape or going tapeless, experience a faster workflow with Mojo DX.

System Requirements

For optimal performance and reliability, be sure that your computer or laptop meets the following minimum system requirements.

Important: Avid dedicates a significant amount of engineering resources and time to test and qualify specific platform configurations. Please note that we cannot provide support should you choose to use a non-qualified system.

Windows

** Only NVIDIA cards are supported; full-screen playback requires a minimum of 128 MB of graphics memory.

Mac

• Computer: Avid-qualified Mac-based computer or laptop* (see details)
• OS: Mac OS X 10.6.3 (Snow Leopard)
• Processor: Intel Dual or Intel Dual Core 2.66 GHz Xeon processor or faster, or Intel Core 2 Duo 2.33 GHz processor or faster (laptops)
• Memory: 2 GB of RAM (4 GB of RAM recommended)
• Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce family**
• Internal Hard Drive: Minimum 80 GB 7200 rpm hard disk
• Optical Drive: DVD drive for disc-based software installation

*NewsCutter is available for Windows only.
**Full-screen playback requires a minimum of 128 MB of graphics memory.

Nitris DX and Mojo DX Interfaces*
The following are additional requirements for using Nitris DX or Mojo DX editing systems:

Mojo DX: Avid-qualified Windows- or Mac-based computer with a PCIe x4 card slot, or ExpressCard slot (laptops) with optional Avid ExpressCard Hardware Interface Board

Additional Information

• Laptop users:
  • Please note that support of uncompressed video on laptops is limited to one stream of uncompressed SD video
  • DNxHD capture with Mojo DX  is only supported with the new generation of Windows based Intel I7 laptops (Quad Core with Hyper-Threading). Additionally, these laptops can play multiple streams of 1:1 uncompressed SD with eSata external storage.
• QuickTime: Avid has tested and qualified Apple QuickTime X for Mac users and QuickTime 7.6.4 for Windows users
• Windows Media Player: Microsoft Windows Media Player 11 is required to export certain formats and to work with VC-1 material

Mojo DX Specs
Rack Dimensions: 19” rack, 1U, 10.23” deep
Desktop Dimensions: 14.56” x 10.65” x 2.26”
Weight - 6lbs 15oz
Power: 30W - 45W
(rack option is included with all systems)

Videoguys Top 10 Products of 2008

Avid also introduced new MojoDX and Nitris DX hardware for Media Composer. The MojoDX was initially priced a bit too expensively to make our Videoguys' Top 10 list, but we now have a limited time promotion in the US that brought the cost of the hardware down below $5,000 for Media Composer owners. MojoDX an honorable mention on this years list. (Sorry - the MojoDX trade-in program for Avid Mojo/MojoSDI owners has expired)

As a result we are giving Avid Mojo DX gives you HD & SD in and output via SDI connection. You also get HDMI output for HD monitoring with 5.1 surround sound. While MojoDX does not offer any kind of real-time acceleration, adding it to Media Composer does make your editing more powerful. Avid redesigned the way Avid Media Composer 3 utilizes the power in your computer. By tapping into both CPU and GPU processing MC3 is more stable and more powerful than any other NLE on the market. By offloading some of the computer cycles needed for video display to the MojoDX, it frees up both CPU and GPU power for MC3 to tap into. So the end result is a pick up in performance by adding MojoDX.

Mojo DX makes Media Composer  more powerful!
With Media Composer 3 Avid redesigned the way the software utilizes the power in your computer. By tapping into both CPU and GPU processing Media Composer is more stable and more powerful then any other NLE on the market. By offloading some of the computer cycles needed for video display to the Mojo DX, it frees up both CPU and GPU power for MC3 to tap into. So the end result is a pick up in performance by adding Mojo DX.

You've been using the same editing software that producers and editors have relied on for more than 20 years but now, with the emergence of new technologies like HD and Tapeless Workflows, it's time to upgrade to Avid's complete hardware & software system designed for today! Avid Media Composer Mojo DX bundle includes the software upgrade from Avid Xpress Pro or Media Composer to the latest Media Composer 3 with third-party software plus the Avid Mojo DX hardware.