So I recently bought AEPAcademic. I cannot afford Mojo right now. After talking with a very unhelpful man at videoguys.com, it is my understanding that only Mojo will work with AEP, to digitize analog footage? Any input would be accepted. I installed the software and tried to import some digital footage already on my computer and it told me that the format was not supported. Can anyone help? One last question, I am looking to buy a digital video camera that will work with Avid and Final Cut Pro, any suggestions? Thanks much.

I'm not sure what Mojo does exactly, but I'm pretty sure you don't need it. Do you already have an analog camera? If you do, why spend $1000 just to capture outdated footage? There's a few other solutions to capture analog footage. Pinnacle has some reasonably priced ones (about $100) I think, but I'm not really sure on the quality. If I were you I would just buy a new digital camcorder. You can get some pretty impressive cameras for not that much. Kind Mr. Kegan just made a pretty thorough thread with a list of affordable cameras that can be found here

Hope this helps, if you have anymore questions feel free to ask.

The avid mojo is an offboard processing solution for DV and Standard Def, it allows you to play back most simple effects without needing to render at all, it allows an active client monitor. It allows capture via Firewire, Composite, S-Video and Component at both DV and uncompressed SD.

If you have a good Analog to Firewire converter, you should be able to play into the avid. You could also throughput using a DV camera.

Avid is one of the most fastidious systems in terms of hardware specifications and drivers(its no more fastidious than FCP on a mac, but macs have fairly consistent hardware system to system). Take the time to set it up, and get it working. Once Avid is stable on a system it pretty much stays that way.

The problem that you are probably facing is that avid does not support directly importing MPEG files into its database. The only workaround is to convert to avi or quicktime.