Moving a project from Premiere Elements

I have just created -- successfully, for the most part -- a nice video in
Premiere Elements, commemorating my daughter's bat mitzvah, with two camera
angles, creative integration of many still images, and multiple audio
tracks. I was pleased with how smoothly it went...until it came time to burn
the DVD.
At that point, I found a disappointingly small number of layout choices and
virtually no ability to customize the ones that were there. I don't need a
template; I just want to be able to choose a background image and round up
the DVD markers that I carefully inserted. That modest desire appears
outside of the range of the program's templates.
Turning my attention to Encore, it appears as if this is the app that I
should have turned to for DVD creation in the first place. Before I traverse
this program's learning curve, I need to know if it will be able to start
with my PREL file, including the DVD markers that I created.
Thanks...
Rick A.
Pleasanton CA

You won't be able to import the Premiere Elements file.
What you will need to do is export the video file as you have edited it f5rom Premiere as either a movie file, or (if Premiere Elements has the option) an MPEG-2 file where the sequence markers you have created will turn into chapter markers.
However, I would personally recommend using the export as an AVCI type movie even if Prem El does support direct to MPEG-2.
This is for a couple of pretty good reasons:
1 - when you import an AVI file into Encore, you get precise control over exactly where the chapter points go. With MPEG-2 files, you do not have as much control.
2 - And this is the most important reason - it saves you having to do a "bit budget" & work out just how much bitrate you need to assign to the video so that it fits onto the DVD.
Encore will take care of this automatically, and it does a pretty good job of it.

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