I am using premiere pro 1.5. Here are two more pieces of the puzzle.
1) If I plug the camera into the pana dv2000 via firewire and record on that deck there is no audio problem when I play back the tape. so in theory if I was to use a disk recorder like FireStore I could work-around the problem albeit expensively.
2) I mentioned that if I capture from the tape with premiere that the flawed audio is corrected but if I capture for 30 seconds or more premiere stops the capture with this error message the record has stopped because the audio format has changed in the media being captured.
Thanks
Paul Bolden
