Yes, Premiere CS3

sorry i should have been more clear, what do you use to capture? do you use a capture card, firestore/ firewire to computer, or just firewire to computer because your a1 footage always looks superb, like it hasn't lost any quality.

Just FireWire to computer...nothing special.

I often wonder if the quality loss is less because of the 35mm adapter. What I suspect is that because of the DOF of the adapters, more of the image is out of focus and softer. This is a lot easier for the algorithms in the compression to calculate so therefore the overall quality is more accurate.

Nice video thanks steve

Montauk, if you capture and edit native HDV (meaning you don´t convert it into an intermediate codec) you don´t lose any quality. It´s digital information, that´s being copied to the harddrive, the quality of the capture-device doesn´t influence that at all.

When you add effects like a color correction and render, you lose a generation. For that it is better to have a good lossless codec like DNXHD (Avid) or ProRes422 (Final Cut Studio 2). I´m don´t know about Premiere.

But as long as you are just editing the original HDV, you are working with exactly the same information, that´s on the tape.

No, I used primes...100mm & 200mm Nikons. Thanks.

Not a single shot was outside. It was all shot from various windows in my house.

That would be the Letus Ultimate ;)