Just got this from Creative Cow:
Just my personal preference, but I've always preferred to render my MPEG-2 files out of Premiere, so that after creating my DVD menus and such, there's not such a long wait for all the encoding. I can see the finished DVD in minutes rather than hours.
I got a formula from the Adobe site that works well, which is 560/minutes to determine the encoding bitrate. I just use CBR to encode and end up with an .m2v video clip and a .wav audio file. Import these to Encore, make sure audio is set to Dolby, and Encore only has to transcode the audio and not the video.
Using above formula, a 90 minute video would be encoded at 6.0, and 120 minutes at 4.5. Note that I round-down a little to allow for menu overhead, etc.
Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers
1st question: What is CBR?
2nd question: Am I gonna have to go back into Premier, take out the audio files and do a separate video without the audio trak in order to get the job done?