On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 08:38:10 -0600, Jody Gregg wrote:

>Gurus! Help please..
>
>I've been using Premiere with a TRV720 for a couple of weeks now and
>have a question.
>When using a simple cross dissolve transition I see a loss of luminance
>during the transition.
>The final frame of the "A" clip and the first frame of the "B" clip
>after the transition look fine
>but the entire transition regardless of length has a slightly reduced
>brightness level. This happens
>regardless of scene brightness. Have tried the lower/upper and no field
>selected as render
>options but no change. I'm probably missing something basic but have
>looked through the
>help files and haven't run across it yet. Titles as transparent
>overlays do the same thing. -
>reduced brightness.

This is not a Premiere problem but a DV-codec problem - some
codecs are better than others (Canopus and MainConcept are
particularly good for both render quality and render time).
MS DV-codec is not bad, though, if you have the current version...