i cant find any definitive advice on how to set up my adobe project settings.

i realise that the equipment i have and the nature of my project determines the settings, but i'd appreciate any insights at all.

i am working with premiere 6. i have 1.5 processing speed, 40GB master drive with premier, 120GB slave drive, terratec cameo 600 dv firewire card. i'm capturing with a panasonic ag-ez30 camcorder.

i have a fairly large project to do. essentially i want to capture a few hours footage and then assemble them into a rough edit.

i'd like the images to be good quality while i work on them but it's not essential. i only need to output an EDL which i'll bring to a pro editing suite but it would be an added bonus if i could play out to dv from the pc.

i'm confused about a few things:

AUDIO SAMPLE in the settings viwer, the audio sample row is red, there is an inconsistancy, i cant seem to change the audio sample though, and when i change the rate it has no effect. what should i do to avoid this next time round?

FRAME RATE i am working with pal dv. should i set the frame rate at 25 or 30?

FRAME SIZE what frame size should i use? if i use smaller sizes now, can i increase them later during the same project to view/export etc?

COMPRESSOR i ca only choose microsoft dv i think, is that ok

TIME BASE how should i set this

TIME DISPLAY how should i set this

PIXEL ASPECT RATIO what should this be at?


thanks for the help, and if you think of anything else i might need to know then great!


michael