[Tom Krauska]

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[Tom Krauska]

I’d do a little experimentation.

Make a video of only 5 pictures and see if you have the same problem.

I’d also consider downsizing your pictures so that Premiere doesn’t have to work so hard. If you’re working with 8 megapixel pictures, Premiere might be having trouble.

You can use Photoshop to reduce all their size to 720×480.

Another option is to just use Encore to make the video.
You don’t need Premiere unless you want greater control.

[Tom Krauska]

1. It’s correct in the sense that your picture will fill the entire frame, but it will look lousy.

You can’t take 320×240 footage and blow it up to 1920×1080 and expect it to look decent.

I don’t know about #2.

[Tom Krauska]

I use a Mobile PreUSB which I’m pretty sure does the same thing.
What I do is capture the audio first with Audition, do some editing and then import it into Premiere.

You can record directly into Premiere with the audio Mixer, but then editing would be very tough.

If you put two channels into your USB device, they will be mixed together into one channel.

You can buy a Mackie firewire mixer and it will give you discreet channels of audio, but it’s about $600.

[Tom Krauska]

One of the easy ways I do this is to open “Sound Recorder” – one of Windows basic sound recording programs – and go to Edit – Audio Properties. I’d then do a reboot and your problems should be fixed.

[Tom Krauska]

Im not sure how much you’re spending, but I just bought a Vostro 410 from Dell – $900.
I did add a 1 TB hard drive – total cost $1100.

How much are you spending and is it worth the extra cost?

[Tom Krauska]

You can do a batch export in After Effects to different formats, but not in Premiere. That is certainly a nice feature to look forward to in CS4

[Tom Krauska]

In CS3
File – Export – Export to Tape.

You may have to go to Preferences – Device Control if Premiere is having trouble connecting to your camera.

I’m not sure what you mean by anchor points.

[Tom Krauska]

Audition was taken out of Premiere CS3, so I’d first try some of the Audio Effects in Premiere.

Audition is a very sophisticated and complicated program.

You could also try and learn SoundBooth which is part of CS3.

[Tom Krauska]

Photoshop can easily resize any number of photos to your desired size. Try:
File – Automate – Web Photo Gallery

Then bring the smaller pictures back into Premiere and see if that helps.