Potential footage capture issues?

Aneurysm

Aneurysm

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I got a DVX-100B last week and while going through the manual, I noticed a little warning that said if I have the camera too close to a computer when I'm importing footage, that the magnetic field generated by the computer will distort the image and sound on the tape. If this is true, then how can you capture your footage direct to and NLE without messing it up?

As a side note, I'm leaning towards getting Adobe Premiere Pro for editing (as it seems to be a good PC equivalent of FCP) and am wondering what opinion you all have on the program.

Thanks

--Aneurysm
 
Not sure about the warning about the magnetic field distorting your footage, but if they bothered to put it in I'd probably keep the camera a few feet from your computer.

Premiere Pro may look and act more like FCP than other NLE's, but if you want the best software for working with 24P footage I'd go with Vegas. I got Vegas when I got my DVX100A and I've never looked back. Vegas' workflow is much easier/better than Premiere's, and you won't have problems with 24pA footage either. Premiere is rather buggy with it, and it's not worth the hassle. You can even download trials of each and try them out. That's probably the best route to go, but my personal opinion is Vegas.
 
Not sure about the warning about the magnetic field distorting your footage, but if they bothered to put it in I'd probably keep the camera a few feet from your computer.

Premiere Pro may look and act more like FCP than other NLE's, but if you want the best software for working with 24P footage I'd go with Vegas. I got Vegas when I got my DVX100A and I've never looked back. Vegas' workflow is much easier/better than Premiere's, and you won't have problems with 24pA footage either. Premiere is rather buggy with it, and it's not worth the hassle. You can even download trials of each and try them out. That's probably the best route to go, but my personal opinion is Vegas.
 
On the subject of Premiere pro. If you do get it make sure you get Premiere Pro 2.0. The 1.5 version has a bug that imports all 24p footage as 23.976. So if you wanted to shoot 24p and edit in a 29.97 timeline it would be all messed up. This would mean no mixing 60i and 24p footage. 2.0 has fixed this issue. I'm assuming that if you are buying it then you'd be getting the latest version, but I'm sharing just in case you were getting a used copy or something.
 
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