I've done a couple projects in Vegas 4.0 (from a miniDV) and frameserved them over to TmpgEnc for encoding to mpg2.

My question is: What is a reasonable bitrate for my projects (considering a DV source)?

I've been encoding at CQ90 with bitrates between 6k-8k. Needless to say, the 5-minute encodes come out to ~300mb...is this normal?

What do you think my optimal BR should be without unnecessary padding?