AVI's or MPG's for rendering??

[jeffgrooves]

Hello my fellow video junkies,
I have a question that you may be able to answer...
I have edited several scenes using Adobe Premiere 7.0 and now I'm getting ready to render them so that I can reimport all the scenes into a new project file and put all the edited scenes next to each other. My question is: Should I render tham as AVI's or MPG's? Or does it not matter? The only additional editing I have to do on them is apply dissolves or takes from one scene to another...and then I'll render the entire movie to burn on a DVD.
Any input would help greatly. Thank you!

[jeffgrooves]

...also, if you render out a scene and then use that rendedred scene in another project, will the quality stay exactly the same?

[guns1inger]

A secobd or third generation DV avi file usually shows less degradation than the same generation of Mpeg2, simply because of the way it compresses.

I don't know if Premiere 7 can do it, although I thought it had been introduced, but with Vegas you can load projects onto the time line just like a video clip. As there is no intermediate rendering, quality remains the same as the original, with all transitions/effects etc intact. Premiere 7 might be able to do the same.

If not, I would render to DV avi, rather than mpeg2.

[jeffgrooves]

Thank you for the info. I'll definitely have to look into that to see if I can load projects into the timeline like video clips.
How about the audio? Do you notice a difference in the audio in a .mpg or .avi after a few renders? Or does that generally stay the same even if you render it 3 or 4 times?
Thanks again!