Any Adobe Premiere bods about?

[tonyvid]

I wonder if anyone can help?

I digitised 9hrs of audio only from a shoot from DVCAM into Premiere 6.5 and have chopped it down to about 10mins on the timeline. This was some interviews and now I want to go back and get the video to go with it. Easy, I thought, just batch redigitise from the timeline and Bob's you uncle. Except that it doesn't seem that easy after all. If I redigitise the source material it just replaces the clip in the bin and removes the edited clips in the timeline which is not good!! There must be a way of doing this, all the footage is timecoded and reeled so how do you do it?

I wish I had done this on my usual system, would have been a piece of tiddle and I can do it with my eyes closed - doh!

[Simpo Two]

If the audio has video with it, why not just capture the parts that you want, allowing a few seconds either side of each clip for any effects, then edit from there? You'll save shitloads of HD space as well.

[tonyvid]

It was disc space that made me do it this way in the first place as it was 9 hrs - we did the interviews for a museum and they wanted oral historys initially with some video as well. I said we'll do the lot on video, I'll give you WAVs of the audio and you can tell me which bits you want as video for a latter prog - thinking I'll just cut the audio up on the timeline as a sort of offline and then simply batch redigitise with the video as well this time, all nice and simple. Except it isn't as I think I am being daft somewhere. Any ideas?