Export legal video levels

Quick question — does Premiere CC automatically scale full range levels to legal (16-235) when exporting, and does it depend on the output codec?
I thought that it does, but when watching a test DVD, I'm seeing some flicker in the whites.
Premiere's YC waveform monitor shows my levels going up to 100. That includes both graphics which were designed 0-255 and video.
I export ProRes, then compress that for DVD with Media Encoder. Is this the right process? Or do I need so manually scale all the levels in Premiere to 235 before export?

I should have worded that better.
My graphics are designed up to 255, but in Premiere's waveform monitor they are maximum 100 IRE (actually it kind of looks like 101). So I think that means the levels are scaled upon import. If I import a test image with known RGB values, and look at it on external scopes, I see that 255 measures as 237, and 235 measures as 219.
For video, my levels are already legal when rendered by the colorist. They also never go above 100 in Premire's waveform. So why am I seeing mild flicker in the highglights when played on a set-top DVD player on a plasma screen?

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As a new Premiere CS6 user I'm a bit confused about the way it handles video levels when compared to Sony Vegas.
In Sony Vegas I'm used to 16 RGB being video black (0 IRE) and 235 RGB being video white (100 IRE). This is what I understand as studio levels which is the range most professional video cameras like my EX1 record in when properly exposed. During editing if I design a graphic either in Photoshop or Sony Vegas I input 16 RGB for pure black and 235 RGB for pure white. This graphic will display between 0-100IRE on the waveform monitor. I keep my entire color correction workflow within this range (16-235 RGB / 0-100 IRE) and the resulting videos look proper on youtube (since the youtube player stretches the video out to full RGB levels during playback) and DVDs since the player seems to also expect studio levels (16-235 RGB).
In Premiere however certain things appear to work differently. Video seems to be handled in the same way as in Sony Vegas. I came to this conclusion by comparing the same EX1 clip in both programs and it displayed identical on the waveform monitors. However when I create a graphic in Photoshop or using the Premiere titler or solid color I find that I must use 0 RGB to get 0 IRE and 255 RGB to get 100 IRE on the Premiere waveform monitor.
So my question is should I create a white graphic as 235,235,235 or 255,255,255? Is Premiere actually converting my graphics to legal video levels automatically or is it just showing up falsely in the waveform monitor? Are there any pitfalls I need to be aware during exporting to stay in the legal video range of 16-235 RGB?
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Many thanks, Marc

Ok, I think I figured it out. When I bring a full range (0-255) RGB photo or graphic into Premiere it maps the image to studio levels (16-235) automatically. In Sony Vegas it does not so you end up with superwhites and superblacks and have to do it manually. In Sony Vegas even the default video background (if you fade to black) is superblack so you have to put a solid color and set it to 16,16,16 RGB in order to stay within the studio Levels legal range. You have to be really careful about levels or they will be illegal and cause problems downstream.
When I make a graphic in Premiere I no longer need to worry about the graphic being 16-235 (studio levels) as I do in Sony Vegas. Premiere considers black as 0 RGB and white as 255 RGB. On output everything will be studio levels. I tested an upload of a H264 file exported from Premiere which had a white background of 235,235,235 and it was not full white on youtube. If I do the same from Sony Vegas it would be fully white.
Hopefully this will help someone in the future who migrates over to Premiere from Vegas or vice versa. I prefer the way Premiere handles things.

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Why should it take over an hour to export a video that is less than 2 minutes long?

The short clip I have is only 1;51 long, but Media Encoder has been slaving away at it for over 20 minutes and still says over an hour remaining. The only thing I am doing differently with this clip is I have sped up the action x10 to give it a "Keystone Kops" effect. (The duration of the raw video totals about 17 minutes.) I've also added about three titles and an MP3 sound file. Tried to export first to F4V, then gave up and am now trying export to plain AVI, but it is taking forever!
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OK, well... where to start...
First, as to Windows 7, I appreciate your admonishment, but I have had no problems yet that I attribute to the OS. The main reason I switched to W7 is not for bonus points, but because Explorer will natively show thumbnails of the AVCHD files from my cameras. Vista would not do that. I am sure you'd agree that this is an important and very helpful feature. No other add-in program for Vista have I found would do that for me. It may be out there, but we haven't crossed paths yet.
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This particular video I tried first in F4V, but when it seemed to be drawing out so long, I canceled and restarted it as an AVI. And that one went on for well over an hour before it finished. The main thing that is different from this video, as I explained in my original post, is that the raw video was 17 minutes long, sped up by PPro x10 for fast action (you can see it here: http://www.topographic.com/video/booth_setup.html - I am the guy in the dark blue shirt).
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