COMPRESSOR COMPRESSION CHOICE

Question

Finalizing a low-budg film. Got about a 100 minutes of 10 bit uncompressed vid divided into 5 reels. Color corrected in FCP5 using Magic Bullet and exported 10bit, each Reel approx. 20 minutes/35 gigs each. About to deartifact, deinterlace in AE6 w/Magic Bullet then export again. I think I then end up RGB color space, but whatever.
Question 1. Should I export out of AE6/MB 10 bit uncompressed for Compressor? (YUV or RGB if I have the choice)
Question 2. What compress rate is the best in Compressor for each reel? I plan to import each Compressor compressed reel (combining the 5 reels) into DVD Pro to burn a 4.5 DVD of the whole thing. Each Reel needs to be compressed to about 1 gig each for it to fit in other words.
I thought about compressing the whole thing, but figure the computer would be down for a couple, three days and 1 glitch and the whole thing has to be started again.
I'd like to do a dual layer, but consumer external brands like La Cie seem not to work well with DVD pro. This is not a master. Just a sales tool at this point. But the time it takes to do this is painful and want to end up with the best product possible.
Any advice will be helpful.
G5 2.5   Mac OS X (10.4.6)   FCP5, AE6, DVDPro, Magic Bullet

Answer 1

Hey Bad Baby Post,
if i had a choice between YUV vs. RGB, i would go totally YUV 10-bit, not 12 or 16-bit, since the file sizes would be HUGE!
if you wanted a DVD-5, then your compressed 100 minutes of video with Dolby *.ac3 audio (stereo) then you would be lookign at a bit-rate of about 5.8 mbps average, maximum of 7 mbps and minimum of 3.5 mbps. of course this is assuming that it only has 100 minutes of the feature, and NO OTHER VIDEO. if it had menus, then a few static (still menus would be cool).
if you would go with a DVD-9, then with the same 100 minutes of video, you can have a CBR of 8 mbps with Dolby *.ac3 Stereo (@ 192 kbps).
also, keep in mind, for the DVD-9's, the burners are just fine, you can get an internal Pioneer DVR-11D that is AWESOME, but you would have to download Batchburn to make the OS see the drive as a super drive (like this, you can burn from iDVD, DVD SP, iTunes, etc). if not, you can just use a third party disc burner like Roxio's Toast Titanium (i use this all the time) or Dragon Burn (another i use all the time). where you might have problems is not the nurning liek i said, but the actual playback. remember, the majority of DVD DL discs are +R, not -R. some older players have trouble playing such discs. DVD-roms' (like in a lot of compters) have no trouble with this media.
i would go with a DVD-5, just for maximum compatibility with the DVD ste top players out there.
Mikey M.