On Mon, 30 Oct 2000 17:49:52 GMT, babylon wrote:

>1) Is there an intelligent mixer on Premiere that would allow for
>background music to go down in volume when the audio track from the
>shoot pick up (people speak for instance).

It's not automatic, but it's easy.
Use the audio "rubber bands" to fade in/out to/from a lower
sound level for the music...