I've been tinkering with some editing ideas for a long while now (i.e., a few years of stops and starts), and I've made a number of dry-runs in Premiere, slowly gaining some proficiency in the nuts-and-bolts of editing, but I've never gotten a clear understanding of how i should approach a feature-length edit.

So far I have minimal experience with rendering and exporting (so much so that I think I need a better understanding of the distinction between the two), and I think this is where my problem lies.

Should I be doing my editing in small chunks, one scene at a time, and then cobbling those bits together into a full-length film and rendering/exporting from there? Or would it be best to create an entire 90 minute+ edit and then finalize the thing?

Is there a "gold standard" guide to fan editing in Premiere? One that might offer a step-by-step, soup-to-nuts breakdown of the process? I'd like to share some of my edits eventually, but I think I'd do well to find a thorough guide I can follow in order to get there.

Thanks all!