Hello,
this is my first question in the Adobe Forums, I sincerely hope someone can 'point me' in the right direction as I am somewhat lost right now.
We have filmed around 20 hours of instructional videos - each take from 5-45 minutes.
The material was shot at 1920x1080p 25fps on our Canon EOS 5D Mark III.
We need to create a 1920x1080p 25fps output for Web Streaming
We need to create PAL DVDs from the same content
We are a Creative Cloud customer and have installed all the latest versions.
Noteworthy stuff:
- DVD subtitles in multiple languages (we are currently using Subtitle Edit 3.3 and export this to Encore TAB text format)
- Simple Graphical overlays for the video which will be phased in and out.
The questions I have are about best practices for the workflow:
My current understanding is that I should use Prelude for rough editing / trimming of the material and send it to Premiere Pro.
> Premiere Pro: Should I create a seperate sequence for each 'chapter'? (Reason: I can export the sequences individually. Also: Encore seems to take individual sequences well - I can easily create my DVD Flowchart.)
> Premiere Pro: Should I encode my material from Premiere Pro directly or should I do it in Encore (I need HD and DVD/MPEG-2; the Encore 'build' seems buggy as it runs forever and one does not really know what its doing. Is it beneficial to create MPEG-2 Video and Sound files in Premiere and import the sequences into Encore? Or should I pass the 1920x1080 source-Video over to Encore and have Encore 'build' and transcode the DVD?) What is the benefit over having a Premiere Pro Sequence linked compared to an MPEG-2 file?)
> In Encore: Should I import all Premiere Pro Sequences into ONE timeline or multiple timelines? Can I only create chapters when I use ONE timeline?
And finally: subtitles. This seems to be the weakest function I have found in Adobe Products yet:
> If I import subtitles into a timeline/linked Premiere Pro sequence and change the sequence later (lets say I delete 10 minutes) - will it 'clean up' the subtitles or will I have to go back and manually adjust all subtitle timings?
If anyone has a good source with best practices or answers to the above questions I would be one happy dood 
Kind regards from Berlin,
Michael