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This question was posted in response to the following article: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/premiereelements/using/WS59402903-7957-4335-BFEB-BC8980510ABA. html

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As Steve points out, one will have much more control with a full-featured authoring program, such as Sony's DVD Architect. In that case, the user would output that "master" Project's combined Timeline to the necessary format (assume MPEG-2 DV, but Steve can give you the exact and best settings). That output file would then be Imported into the authoring app., for the navigation and Menus.
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