I have multiple video streams all rendered in Vegas with the DVDA 24p NTSC standard setting. Each is accompanied by it's own separate sound AC3 sound stream (also created with Vegas). What I want to do is create a typical "Hollywood style" DVD with these clips as if they were all one movie, i.e. so that the menu contains both scene selection and "play movie" options.

The only way I see to do this with DVDA is:

1) Insert each individual clip using "Insert > Media..." thereby creating the scene selection menu by default.

2) Insert a "music compilation playlist" that contains the same clips in the order they appear in the menu on the page.

The problem with this is disk space. I can't see any way to do it without including each video clip twice: once as a scene, and once as a part of the compilation.

Is it possible to include resources in a DVDA project that the program then "points to" rather than having to create duplicate resources to accomplish what I need to do? Common sense tells me this must be possible, but then, this stuff usually has very little to do with "common sense."

(BTW: I understand that I could theoretically simply render all the clips as one big movie in Vegas with a scene selection menu inserted, but the footage is coming at me too fast, and I don't have time to render it twice.)

Alternatively: is there a way to "Join" 24p + AC3 clips without having to re-render them?

Do any of you DVDA aficionados have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.