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Paste attributes works exactly as designed.
If you have many clips which need a modified effect select these clips in the timeline, right click and Remove Effect.

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Drop your footage in a 50i timeline.

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HDV split has preview during capture and saves as m2t as Premiere has no preview and saves as .mpeg.
Its not avchd it’s hdv. Windows explorer reads it as such.

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If you highlight/focus the Program Window and hit page up/down it will stop at every edit point regardless which track in highlighted or not.

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You can only capture with firewire into Premiere.
You need a device like a Grass Vally converter to get you footage into Premiere.
https://www.grassvalley.com/products/converters

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Import the footage with the Media Browser.

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Select all the clips in the Project Window and set them to widescreen in the Interprete Footage.

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Using the Flip in Premiere:
https://blogs.adobe.com/VideoRoad/2009/12/using_a_flip_minohd_camera_wit.html

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Premiere Pro and Elements wont let you edit mpeg based footage in their trialversion, alas. They do have a 30 day money-back garantee.

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If its wise is another matter.