Encoding settings for fast preview

Is there any suggestions for the encoding settings in adobe media encoder to produce fast preview of Premiere CS4 project? I have done about 40 minutes long project with lots of effects and I just wanted to view the result on big screen, the quality can be very poor - all I wanted to do is to check the whole movie before exporting it to high quality Blu-ray.

Launching uncompressed transcoding will produce huge file. I wonder, if there are some kind of draft transcoding settings/codecs which can be used to just preview final material. I already know, that when transcoding 1080p material with lots of effects will consume huge amount of processor resources. For example ~30min long project was transcoded to 1080p format in 5h. Regular DVD format needs only 3h to complete in AME-CS4. Is this time can be even shorter, with very low quality material (only for preview)?

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