"Fit to Disc" is an option with the reservations Steve G mentions.
If you don't use "Make Movie" you can lower the bitrate of the rendering template in Movie Studio Platinum.
Something on the subject e.g. in these threads.
File size too big?
Formula for finding exact bit rate to Render
burning to DVD

You are very close to making it with the default bitrate you used.

I suggest you Prepare your folder anyway, ignoring any message, when done close and re-open your project, and see if it will burn without re-rendering.

If it's still a bit too large, use these custom render settings in Vegas.
-- 2 pass VBR
-- 2,000,000 minimum
-- 5,950,000 average
-- 9,500,000 maximum

Should fit easily at that point. Remember, DVD Architect always overcalculates used disc space.
Rendering a second time in Architect is time-consuming, and produces suboptimal results.

Thanks to all for the suggestions.

When I go to Fit to Disc I get a message "consider making more media assets available for recompressing or remove some media assets..." It does not offer any other action.

Thanks to musicvid; I followed the recommendation and this rendered the timeline to mpg2 when I sent this to DVD Studio I was surprised that it again rendered and came out once again 4,8 GB.

Any more suggestions?

Thanks

ned c

thanks

ned c

Is the prepared dvd folder actually 4.8GB, or does DVD Architect just say it will be 4.8GB?

Did you close and re-open the program between the Prepare phase and Burn phase as instructed?

Are you giving DVD Architect separate MPEG-2 video and AC3 audio files as you should?

Following the numbers I gave, the prepared dvd will be no larger than 4.12 GB, I promise. Very conservative.

I've noticed a weird Vegas bug that rears it's ugly head now and then regarding MPEG2 rendering. If you render again to the same file name with settings that should produce a smaller file, Vegas seems to use the header from the previous render and maintains the larger file size. I've found it best to delete the previous .mpg file, or at least use a different file name, when rendering another try.

This could explain why the second render resulted in a 4.8GB file just like the first one.

Oh yeah, safest thing is to write to a newly-named prepare folder each time, not overwrite the folder, even if from the same project.

Yes, I know... It's an old version. But it has served me well. My only problem is that I use it so infrequently I forget how to use it.

Here is my problem. I have created my menu based DVD and I have saved and prepared it for burning. But once I have finished preparing it and select BURN, when I select Next it takes me to the next page where I am supposed to write in the Volume name, but that's as far as I can go.

All of the boxes are greyed out and I cannot put in the volume name or select Next, or Finish, it just sits there.

Please help me get to the next step.