In Premier Pro, can I save encoded file before burning?

[Schoolbus]

I have an hour long movie that I am trying to make. I have it all edited in Premier Pro the way I want it, however it takes about 12 hours for the encoding and then it burns (using "Export to DVD"). Twice now the burning process has failed and it seems the entire 12 hours of processing has gone to waste as nothing was saved where I could just burn again.

This file must be somewhere - Is there a way I can recover it and just redo the burn part, and avoid the lengthy processing time?

Or, is there a way that I can set up Premier Pro to just do encoding to a certain file type, such that I can then import it back into Premier Pro (or Nero, etc) to burn? I tried this by outputting to .m2v (MPEG-2), but then I couldn't find a way to get either Premier Pro or Nero to accept these files to burn as a DVD. Did I miss something, or is there a different way to do this?

It's getting very frustrating to keep repeating the lengthy processing time only to have it all lost due to a failure during the burning process.

Thanks for any advice,
Mark

[daamon]

Hi Schoolbus,

I pnly have Premiere 6.0, but I would imagine you'd be able to save to MPEG. You already mention you saved to an m2v file - this is video only. Try saving to an .mpg file that has both video and audio in - Nero should accept that.

Check out www.wrigleyvideo.com - A great site for Premiere related stuff, and there's forums too...

[schunn99]

hello schoolbus,

if you cannot find the file, you can also frameserve the file from premiere into tmpgenc. I use debug frameserver for amv's I make, instead of having to wait for premiere to export it, which takes ages. if you don't have tmpgenc, you can find the link to their website though this this site, under tools, the demo version allows for 30 days of encoding into mpeg 2. I think the pay version is like 30 bucks. Also made sure rendered the file that should speed up the encoding too.
good luck to you,

schunn99,
intermediate encoder

[TOMMO]

You can Export> Adobe Media Encoder> then select the template you want. TO majke matters easy select MPG2 file template, when it has finished encoding, you can then use Nero Vison to make a menu fr and then buen.