[Nemesis] “But premiere won’t let me set up a project with 44100Hz and 16 bit audio. (which I find strange)”
Premiere is a DV editor, DV audio is 48khz,16bit or 32khz, 12bit, 44.1khz is a CD standard, you can convert it to 48khz,16bit but trying to sync video to a external source sometimes can be problematical as a slight freq difference in the recorders clock can make a time difference in long files, usually what I do is have one cam record a feed from the sound system so the audio is synced to the video from the start.