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A quick way to add many transitions at ones is to select several clips on the timeline then go to Sequence and select Add default transition to Selection.

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Converting from pal to ntsc and then to mpeg is quite a long process.

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TRied coping and pasting the HD content of the old sequence into a new HD sequence?

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The only way to get the Surcode back is to buy it.
Encore will handle 5.1. just fine.

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Just put the footage on a dvd.
Dvd players can handle interlaced footage just fine.

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Encore might do the trick for you.

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You cannot capture from this camera into Premiere because its a Hard disk camera. Only tape cameras will let you capture footage.
Copie the footage from your camera onto the hard disk of your pc(read the manual of your camera how to do that) and then import footage into Premiere.

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Try Cineform it edits very well in CS4.
https://www.cineform.com/neoscene/requirements.php

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These bars are due to the pixel aspect ratio.
Only way to get rid of them is to crop in the Export Settings.
By the way no need to make the dvd progressive, most dvd players can handle interlaced footage just fine.

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If you own the Production Suite you can use Mocha.
Otherwise have a look at Mercalli.
https://www.prodad.com/home/products/videostabilizing/300391667,l-us.xhtml.
There is always a quality loss, depending how good the programm is.