Rendering a project

I am using Premiere Pro 1.5, When I finish editing I plan on sending it to a
company to have them encode it for better quality bitrarte for viewing on big
screen televisions. I am working on a project and will be stopping in between,
was curious if I would push enter and render it before I close it out or just
click close and tell it to save the changes?
 If I do render it, can it still be encoded or does this set the bitrate and
it's quality?

You do not need to render. The purpose of rendering is purely to improve
playback performance on your computer. It will not affect the final export.

There are links to many free tutorials in the PremiereProPedia that will quickly
show you how things are done in PPro:
 <http://ppro.wikia.com/wiki/Category%3aTutorials> :)

Cheers
Eddie

You're welcome. Happy editing. :)

Cheers
Eddie

hi
P Pro doesn't allow export option for an unrendered project - or does it? How
can you save to avi file without rendering..? I'm having issues with PPro so may
go back to 7.0 - but want to take a project from PPro with me ...