(also posted in vegas forum .. thx for any help..)

Maybe one of you Vegas whizzes can help me out with this predicament I've got...

Bottom line: How can I make DVDs using techsmith camtasia avis? What's the right workflow, and compression settings, to use camtasia avis and vegas and DVDA2?

Here's the story:

-I'm creating a DVD with DVDA2 that features 2 gigs of Camtasia-produced avis ... (encoded with the techsmith codec).. they look beatiful, and are at 720x480, sharp and clear..

-The avis only add up to 2 gigs total, but when I try to put them in DVDA2, they show up as 6+ gigs, and encoding down at 3 gps (?) bitrate produces a 2-gig DVD with blurry vobs.. even though I set the bitrate to produce a 4.1 gig DVD..

Question: How can I correctly encode 2 gigs of camtasia avis so that it's lossless and makes a sharp DVD.... eg high resolution vs blurry, as the post-DVDA2 authoring makes?

Here's what I think is going on:
-DVDA2 thinks a 200 meg techsmith avi is the same as say a 900 meg vob/mpg, in it's compression estimates
-When I fit to disc, eg choose a bit rate that's supposed to produce say a 4.1 gig DVD, it actually rendered only 2 gigs of vobs ...
-I'm currently trying to 'overclock', eg making what DVDA2 will initially estimate as a 5.3 gig DVD (though the actual will end up being less)...

-Should I take the techsmith avis and render them out as either mpgs or full size avis uncompressed in Vegas, before importing into DVDA2 for authoring?

How can I best take my nice sharp 2 gigs of camtasia 720x480 avis and author them cleanly in DVDA2?

I'd sure appreciate any tips any of you have ...

thanks!

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