Video passthrough?

Hi,
I know I should know how to do this ...
A client sent me a video about their company that they got from a local news station. All they want to do is make it louder. I pulled it into Premiere and added gain to the audio. Now I want to export the clip. However, I don't want to re-encode the video and worsen the image quality. Is there a way to do video passthrough in AME. All I want to do is have the louder audio replace the old audio, but do absolutely nothing to the video.
Thanks in advance,
Tom

Select Easy Setup>DV Converter before capture. NTSC or PAL depending on your video standard.
You will not have device control so start the DSR manually.
Al

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    3) Some camcorders have "passthrough" capability, meaning they can take the RCA Red, White, and Yellow in and output digital DV through Firewire. You can import directly into iMovie with this option.
    Once converted, iMovie is a great way to edit your movies.
    Personally, I use the EyeTV Hybrid. It also lets me view and record over the air HDTV on my Mac.
    Here is a sample of my results with the EyeTV Hybrid.

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