as the title of this topic suggests, what is the usual methood or step by step way you actually make a fan edit? obviously you rip your source, load it into whatever editing software you are using and make your edits. but after that, what. do you output uncompressed and then encode?

for example, i am planning an edit of AOTC, using a copy of adobe premiere cs3 and adobe after effects. now, ive not done much work with adobe premiere, i actually havent even installed it yet, do i have a option to output to mpeg or whatever or should i use an external encoder? how do i go about doing that?

also i am going to do some audio editing, what are the best programs for ac3 audio editing?