Film guys: Sample Rates?

Do people work at 48khz in Logic, or work in 44.1 then change rates later?
I'm working in 48khz just now, but it means that importing 44.1khz files is a drag, seems they need to be converted to playback properly. Working at 48 also seems to mean that my 828MkII is 'stuck' in 48khz, so that neither iTunes or Waveburner will playback as long as Logic is running.
Is there a more elegant solution, or just "shut-up and get on with it"? ;o)

Irv,
I'm surprised to hear that you can't get iTunes to playback while Logic is running @ 48KHz. I never have a problem with this. Perhaps it's got something to do with my audio system, tho I'm not sure. One thing I could swear I remember reading is that CoreAudio will do real-time sample rate conversion, which (I guess) explains why I can play an audio CD while my session is @ 48K.
I just did a project where most of the music was originally recorded at 44.1, the mixes and stems ultimately bumped up to 48K. Personally, I'll never do that again if I can help it, for a variety of reasons. One, because it generated too many files with similar names (strings stem 44, strings stem 48, etc.), and Two, because when we had to do tweaks, we had to go back to the 44.1 session, re-print stuff, then redo the sample rate conversions. Real PITA.

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