Premiere or TMPGenc for editing? HELP!!

[mojo]

Hi

I saw some of your posting on the VCD forum so I thought I'd write...

I have captured and edited a TV show and edited out the commercials in Premiere. It runs 45 minutes, but to export the time line will take 5 HOURS!! That's using either Huffy or DV.

Is this the only option? Before this, what I did was cap the show to DV, then load that file into TMPGenc. I would then encode the original file as SVCD in several segements, leaving out the commericals. Then I'd mux them together and presto - 1 SVCD file without commercials.

I thought I would try edititng first in Premiere since it's easier, I can avoid the dreaded "BEEP" between segments and I can do a few fancy things, but if it means waiting 5 hours to output the edited AVI, I'm not sure it's worth it. Also, if I encode the original file in TMPGenc and edit that way, I avoid recompressing it into DV again when I export from Premiere.

My questions is, am I doing it right with Premiere or is there a way to avoid the long export procedure? It seems like an huge waste of 5 hours after taking 5 minutes to edit out commercials!

Any advice is welcome...

[rion]

uncompressed AVI format will make it faster encodes with premier right? though it takes huge disk capacity....

if only TmPGenc has an SVCD export in the cut and merge tools, it would have been faster to you.

I hope I'm making any sense