I just received my Pioneer A05 yesterday, which comes with MyDVD v.4, and I have not yet had a chance to install any of it. I wish to create DVDs using my home movies, edited within Premiere v. 6.01.

From reading various posts on this forum, I understand that a weakness of MyDVD is its insistence on PCM audio, as opposed to MPEG audio, resulting in significantly larger file sizes. It appears that the MPEG-2 encoder is sub-par also, at least as compared to TMPGEnc.

Given this, if I am willing to live with the space limitations of PCM audio but desire the improved video of MPEG-2 encoding using TMPGEnc:

1) Is there any reason why I cannot frameserve from Premiere to TMPGEnc and use the resulting MPEG-2 as source files for MyDVD?

2) If I do so, is there a setting within TMPGEnc to leave the audio in PCM, thereby avoiding the PCM -> MPEG -> PCM roundtrip?

3) Given my willingness to accept PCM and the desire for MPEG-2 encoding superior to that which MyDVD is apparently able to offer, is there some other solution that makes more sense than the sequence I am asking about?

Any input on this subject would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Eric J